Wendy Patterson

Expensive software licences are slowing down research. NFDI4Chem and FID Chemistry are committed to digital sovereignty through an open-source solution for chemistry structure editors. Help shape the future of drawing now!

👉 To the survey: https://t1p.de/p5b9p

#OpenScience #Chemistry #NFDI4Chem

💎 Diamond is the new Green 🟢
New article from Romain Vaucher and Camille Thomas - Diamond is the new Green—Why Green Open Access is not a sustainable long-term model for scientific publishing
Published in Sedimentologika #DiamondOA #OpenAccess doi.org/10.57035/jou...

Use as directed? A comparison of software tools intended to check rigor and transparency of published work The causes of the reproducibility crisis include lack of standardization and transparency in scientific reporting. Checklists such as ARRIVE and CONSORT seek to improve transparency, but they are not ...

Manuscript checks are a time-consuming and oft overlooked aspect of the publication process [no reviewers do not "do all the work"...]. Automating these should reduce costs, but how good is the software? doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Wenn Wissenschaft unsere Demokratie verteidigen will, braucht’s vor allem: Solidarität. Die wird aber durch Fehlanreize im Wissenschaftssystem strukturell verhindert, allen voran durch Wettbewerbisierung unter Institutionen & Individuen, die „alle gegen alle“ bedeutet. Was lässt daran ändern?

How do other fields "authenticate" - See art authentication - provenance, properties and professionals. Ppl copy what is valued and that's not the a bad thing. Scholarly authentication should be the same. @mcintold.bsky.social #R2R2026

👉Jetzt bewerben: Der 1. März 2026 ist Stichtag für den Preis für das beste #Forschungsumfeld 2026 von @jungeakademie.bsky.social und VolkswagenStiftung🏆

I was delighted to speak at the Symposium der Ombudspersonen für Gute Wissenschaftliche Praxis in Deutschland about the challenges posed by #papermills.

Commercialization of fraud threatens research integrity, undermines the reliability of data,& leads to significant losses of time & resources 1/3

We are thrilled to have Samuel S. Veroneau, @upenn.edu, join our #ECAB for #BJNANO 💎🔓.

🔗 https://tinyurl.com/2nufr2r4

Samuel specializes in designing electrochemical materials like metal–organic frameworks for sustainable energy, including green hydrogen and nitrogen-based fuels.

After decades of debating the “scientific publishing crisis”, the time as come to decide.

This is an English translation of my original German contribution to the Merkur Blog in response to the contributions by Gehring and Tautz. “Scientific publishing” may sound like a minor rung in the ivory […]

Registration is open for the Beilstein Dialogues Symposium “Representation and Reality: Rethinking Scientific Models”.
📍 Rüdesheim 🇩🇪
📅 June 23–25, 2026
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/yy24s738
Follow #BeilsteinDialogues2026 for updates on speakers, scientific program, etc.

Journals – DOAJ Find open access journals in DOAJ.

There are thousands (and thousands) of high quality diamond OA journals. In fact, >14,000 according to @doaj.bsky.social doaj.org/search/journ... And there are a lot of people working towards ensuring these are scholar-led (i.e. decisions made by scholars not for-profit companies).

Under legal pressure American Chemical Society ends diversity programme The society is replacing its 30-year-old Scholars Program for minorities with a larger one that does not consider race

And since 2020 (when the article was written) ACS unfortunately has chosen to make Black lives harder. www.chemistryworld.com/news/under-l...

Under legal pressure American Chemical Society ends diversity programme The society is replacing its 30-year-old Scholars Program for minorities with a larger one that does not consider race

"Views expressed on this page are those of the author and not necessarily those of ACS." Not really. Here is the status of ACS's diversity programs: www.chemistryworld.com/news/under-l...
But the message from c&e is still highly welcome!

How does POSI v2 work in practice?

Our team lead Melissa Harrison joins @crossref.bsky.social @datacite.org @doaj.bsky.social to explore how open infrastructure is applying POSI in real-world contexts.

Sign up details below 👇
@melissaharrison76.bsky.social #OpenSource #OpenData #OpenInfrastructure

📢 Reformation of Science Publishing: The Beilstein-Institut has signed The Stockholm Declaration! 
Together, we plea for reform to ensure that publishing serves science, not profit and metrics.
👉 https://sciii-it.org/stockholm-declaration/
#StockholmDeclaration #ScientificPublishing #BJOC #BJNANO 💎🔓

chemistry coloring books

one page from the coloring book

chemistry coloring books

chemistry coloring book in the lab

As some of you may know, I draw coloring books in my spare time for kids and adults. Last year, I did a series on Chemistry Nobel Prizes. ALL 117 of them :D

Now, for a series of very good reasons: F**k Amazon !!!

You can now buy them from Lulu bookstores: www.lulu.com/search?sortB...

So this "person" is related to this "publishing business" nistemr.com - they use throwaway Gmail accounts, but at least niresearchbts1@gmail.com and the domain @nistemr.com can be blocked
Apparently they've been at it for several years mjcce.org.mk/index.php/MJ...
Such a waste of time & resources..

A note to any editor/journal friends on here: a #papermill scammer, Bharathi Kannan, is looking to get rid of a load of articles. Shame on these scammers, who engage in and profit from #scientificmisconduct

▪️Do you work with #OpenAccess journals? Are you setting up a new journal? Are you training a team?

▪️The OA Journals Toolkit should be your start point: oajournals-toolkit.org

▪️A free resource from @doaj.bsky.social and @oaspa.bsky.social

Please share how you are using the Toolkit too!

An image reading the statement "The Future is Diamond" alongside the logo of the Open Journals Collective.

We've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...

Exciting news: the official launch of the @ojcollective.bsky.social Open Journals Collective! A global investment campaign to provide libraries an exit from commercial publisher "Deals" drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...

📣 Join us on Wed, 25 Mar 2026, 10 –16 h at #GESIS Mannheim.

We will explore:
✓ Research integrity & responsible #AI use
✓ Quality standards in AI-assisted publishing
✓ Future opportunities for the scholarly publishing system

📝 Register now: indico3-jsc.fz-juelich.de/event/262/

Three major research universities opt out of new Elsevier deal Complaints over ‘price increases’ and open access models spur UK institutions to walk away from offer from publishing giant, despite nationally negotiated agreement

And so it begins... 3 UK universities (Essex, Sussex & Kent) have just gone public about walking away from their Elsevier Read & Publish deals, despite Jisc's recently announced agreement. Expect to see more of these over the coming months. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m... #OpenAccess

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📢New video!
Watch to find out how to:

💪Compare Powder X-ray Diffraction patterns.
🔎Load a reference pattern and identify potential structure matches visually, and by the similarity score.
✔️Optimize the simulated PXRD pattern to fit the reference data.

🔗 ccdc-info.com/4r0nrci

#CompChemSky

Invitation to join the FREE online #BeilsteinTalk “Bioinspired redox catalysis for synthetic challenges and sustainable chemistry” with Marine Desage-El Murr @unistra.fr.
📅 Jan 29, 2026 🕒 3–4 pm CET 
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/yv3pz9ka 
#RedoxCatalysis #GreenChemistry #SustainableChem #BeilsteinTalks

Rising Publication Costs Strain Researchers Open access publishing has led to researchers paying thousands of dollars to publish their work, limiting funds for research and leaving scientists with hard choices.

A spokesperson for T&F said “Researchers should be free to communicate their work in the journal that best suits their research, and proposing to cap [open access] funding threatens that freedom to publish."

Bold move to set prices high and then complain about freedom when people can't pay.

The first articles of the thematic issue “Novel #macrocycles: from synthesis to #supramolecular function” ed. by Pablo Ballester, Konrad Tiefenbacher, Carmine Gaeta, Carmen Talotta, Margherita De Rosa and Paolo Della Sala in the #BJOC 💎🔓are online: 
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/2tcjfjum
More to come soon!

Why do researchers commit misconduct? - Research Information Shilpi Mehra of Cactus takes a look at the pressures beneath the surface in the world of scholarly communications

"instead of being rewarded for being right, researchers are rewarded for being first" pretty much sums it up. www.researchinformation.info/viewpoint/wh...

CRAFT-OA Developments in OJS: Metadata quality and multilingual publishing Join us to learn about OJS enhancements from the CRAFT-OA project.

🌟 ONLINE Webinar 9.2.🌟
OJS in Action: Latest Features & Live Demo! Discover how OJS 3.5–3.6 features make publishing easier, inclusive, and future-ready—register now : https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/craft-oa-developments-in-ojs-metadata-quality-and-multilingual-publishing-tickets-1977084302370

Call for Papers! Thematic issue “Shaping the future of nanotechnology” ed. by our Early Career Advisory Board (#ECAB) members Thies H. Büscher @tbuescher.bsky.social , Hao Lu and Yui Sasaki in the #BJNANO 💎🔓 is open for your submission:  
➡️ https://tinyurl.com/34vae3mf
#MaterialsDesign #biocatalysis