FORCE11

From Promise to Precarity: The Plight of International Postdocs — When Will Academia Act? Postdocs often relocate globally, facing cultural barriers, visa issues, and discrimination alone. Without strong support networks, they're treated as disposable despite being vital to research. We mu...

New on @upstreamblog.bsky.social : From Promise to Precarity: The Plight of International Postdocs - When Will Academia Act?

International postdocs are essential to research, yet too often face insecurity & systemic inequities. It’s time for collective action: doi.org/10.54900/w8z...

The COMET Model — COMET

Explore the COMET Model. Read our article ‘The COMET Model: Transitioning to Community-Curated PID Metadata Enrichment’ - a deep dive into the background, principles, and elements of the model in demonstration.
www.cometadata.org/the-comet-mo...

Implications, there are a few. Trying to make sense of all of this How do we make sense of the implications of current geopolitical, financial and technological volatility? What impact will all of this have on the relationship between libraries and publishers, and li...

“Implications, there are a few. Trying to make sense of all of this" New @upstreamblog.bsky.social l post from @dannykay68.bsky.social - Recent shifts across the scholarly information ecosystem & what means for libraries, infrastructure providers, and open science advocates: doi.org/10.54900/6hp...

Infrastructure is a collective responsibility – lessons from scholarly publishing and metadata - Impact of Social Sciences Improving research metadata quality requires shared stewardship. The authors show how community-led models like COMET are building a more inclusive research infrastructure.

💥New: Better #metadata needs collective stewardship. John Chodacki (@chodacki.bsky.social), Adam Buttrick, Juan Pablo Alperin (‪@juancommander.scholcommlab.ca‬), Clare Dean & Dione Mentis show how community-led models like COMET can boost quality, consistency & trust in research #infrastructure 🤝

The resilience of open science in times of crisis The increasingly hostile attitude of the new U.S. government towards science and academia leaves many of us deeply concerned— if not outright alarmed. In an effort to better understand the unfolding s...

How does open science hold up in times of crisis?
@jeroenbosman.bsky.social & @jeroenson.bsky.social explore this in a sharp post on Upstream: doi.org/10.54900/pqr...
They outline threats, map types of resilience, and remind us: open science isn’t just at risk…it’s also part of the solution.

The Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) releases their Community Call to Action The Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) has released a Community Call to Action, inviting organizations and individuals to contribute resources (funding, expertise, metadata, and infra...

Upstream Blog: Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) releases Community Call to Action, inviting organizations and individuals to support community-driven infrastructure for making PID metadata better. Informational Webinar tomorrow, March 5, 2025 - upstream.force11.org/the-collabor...

Dear all,

We're excited to announce the theme for #OSFair2025: "Fusing Forces - Accelerating Open Science through
Collaboration". This year we will highlight the power of global, international, and cross-regional partnerships in shaping the future of #OpenScience. Stay tuned for announcements!

Upcoming Webinar (March 5, 2025) COMET (Collaborative #Metadata Enrichment) Community Call to Action www.cometadata.org/blog/call-to... #PID #scholcomm #libraries

Call to Action from the Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) — COMET Through extensive stakeholder consultation, COMET has identified the critical need for improving PID metadata through community-driven enrichment… COMET now looks to transition this work into a develo...

Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) has launched a Community Call to Action to transform how we enrich & maintain PID metadata. Now, this FORCE11 WG needs your help to make it happen! Read the Call to Action & join the webinar on March 5 at 3pm UTC! www.cometadata.org/blog/call-to...

I am working with @samteplitzky.bsky.social on a working group in @force11.bsky.social for:

Preserving Executable Research Content

If you are interested in joining or following along, learn more here:
curvenote.com/blog/force11...

Science is Under Siege: The Open Science Community Must Act and Lead by Example Worldwide, science is under attack by anti-scientific movements. The new US administration has thrown the entire academy into chaos, threatening global health. This article is a call for the open scie...

Science is Under Siege: The Open Science Community Must Act and Lead by Example. Worldwide, science is under attack by anti-scientific movements. This new post on Upstream is a call for the open science community to lead by example in defending science: doi.org/10.54900/ehe...

The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) are being updated. Read more and join the conversation before March 5, 2025: https://tinyurl.com/3d4zvmdw

#crossref #scholarlycommunity #scholcomms

The time is now! Vertical interoperability between research tools: an essential enabler for the FAIRification of data In recent years, interoperability has become an important concept in the field of research data management.  Discussions about interoperability have taken place in published articles and numerous pres...

The time is now! Vertical interoperability between research tools: an essential enabler for the FAIRification of data New post on the Upstream blog: doi.org/10.54900/8m9...

Criteria for Bibliographic Databases in a Well-Functioning Scholarly Communication and Research Assessment Ecosystem - New post on Upstream: doi.org/10.54900/d3c...

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