Wendy Patterson

YouTube video by Open Library of Humanities Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond Regional perspectives, Shared Futures

Recording now available - Mainstreaming Diamond: Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpnt...

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🔸 @rupertgatti.bsky.social
🔸 @joedeville.bsky.social
🔸 @joannaball.bsky.social
🔸 @theblochian.bsky.social

Chaired by @paulaclemente.bsky.social

A coloring page for nobels in chemistry

Last drawing for the 2025 Nobel prize in #chemsky done. And last book of the series submitted. Next week it should be available online :)

Webinar poster for “Mainstreaming Diamond: Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures,” dated 24 October 2025.

#OAWeek is coming up!

Don’t miss our webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures

With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social & @joannaball.bsky.social

🗓️ 24 Oct | 🕐 1 pm BST
🔗 www.openlibhums.org/...

Wei Zhang (Zhejiang University, previous head of NSFC, UNESCO OS) declares 4 hurdles to #OpenAccess adoption #OASPA2025: 1) JIF (cf. @DORAassessment.bsky.social); 2) publisher double dipping; 3) non-transparent pricing; 4) one size fits all models/ignoring global south

Find out more about @thoth-metadata.bsky.social on their website

🔗 thoth.pub

Invitation to join the FREE online #BeilsteinTalk “Tungsten aldehyde #oxidoreductase – a new type #hydrogenase” w/ Maciej Szaleniec from @polskaakademianauk.bsky.social 🇵🇱 on Oct 23, 2025 🕒 3–4 pm CEST.
Just register 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/25e8vpyt
#biochemistry #biocatalysis #enzymes #BeilsteinTalks

DataCite #Metadata is Now Integrated in #OpenAlex datacite.org/blog/datacit... @datacite.org #libraries #scholcomm

AGREE furiously with @samuelmoore.org (Radical Open Access) the 2012 Finch report was a very destructive document for OA. The commercialisation of OA: journals need quick processing, publish as many as possible, little intervention of humans. This is an anathema to scholar led publishing #OASPA2025

Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social telling a room full of publishers that the lack of good faith in R&P agreements has to stop. What planet are commercial publishers living on? Constant grind for library staff to deal with what she describes as this “garbage”. #OASPA2025

Join us on October 21st to chat about "Data Standards in Chemistry"
Free webinar organized by ChemSpider @rsc.org

rsc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#FAIRchemistry #openstandards #datastandards #chemistrystandards

Prof. Demmy. Verbeke explaining that KU Leuven Library has made a stand & spends zero budget on APCs or TAs. Instead, the library invests in nonprofit #openaccess publishing & infrastructure #OASPA2025

Coming up on Thursday 📅 Sept 25, 2025 🕒 3–4 pm CEST
Join the FREE online #BeilsteinTalk “Single or double? A radical approach to frustrated Lewis pairs” with Rebecca L. Melen @rebeccamelen.bsky.social from Cardiff University.
Just register🔗 https://tinyurl.com/25df8v5p
#MainGroupChem #BeilsteinTalks

The video 🎥 of the #BeilsteinTalk “Computational approaches in improving spermine-based RNA #nanocarriers" with Olivia Merkel, LMU München @lmumuenchen.bsky.social , is NOW available 🔓 in the video portal of the TIB Hannover:
🔗 https://av.tib.eu/media/71537
#DrugDelivery #siRNA #BeilsteinTalks

just had this convo with my colleage @barbarahissa.bsky.social - we have too many examples of wonderful, open infrastructures that unfortunately are not being used by researchers - how to engage them?

Same with commercial proprietary software when we could have been investing in people and building our own infrastructures.

And here I was all ready to blame good ol' research assessment again 😅

Chemistry: It is impossible to have equitable no-apc open access for high quality journals.

High Energy Physics: Hold my bosons..

Check out my new op-ed urging NIH to disallow taxpayer dollars towards journal publication fees — something both publishers and scientists have played a role in perpetuating.
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It's so saddening to see how a movement with such good intentions has been co-opted and commercialised to such an extent that it's effectively now just a means for channelling public money in corporate pockets. For me, if it's not Diamond I don't want to know. #OpenAccess

Yes. hiking + audiobook + sweet doggo 😍

Access to Web of Science will end on 1 January 2026 The university library has decided not to renew the licence for access to the Web of Science citation database (including Journal Citation Reports).

What might seem like a small announcement—it’s just one institution—actually carries substantial weight and has a strong symbolic meaning.

@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, has taken another bold step: it won't renew its Web of Science license. www.uu.nl/en/news/acce...

Final spots are still open to present at the 6th #EnzymeML Workshop! Got research on how to better share and standardize enzymatic data? This is your chance to share your work with the community. 
Submit your abstract today and secure your spot! 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/4va7ay75
#EnzymeML2025 #STRENDA

Results day with a table with percentages.

Conclusion slide with a photo of a painting of the Venice Arsenale.

DM: Incentivized reviewers had slightly higher positive response, and were a bit faster in sending in reviews.
The incentivized manuscript surprisingly had a slightly longer time-to-acceptance. The peer review time, however, is just a small fraction of the total editorial time.
#PRC10

Yes, exactly what I was getting at. Abbreviations that are standardized are great. But these examples here in this thread highlight the need for a common language - thus the importantance of the work that IUPAC and others do! Great discussions (and examples) here!

#Stammtisch is coming up.⠀
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"Feeding Open Databases with AI-powered Literature Extraction Tools: The COCONUT–MARCUS Pipeline"

Don't hesitate to register:⠀
26.9.2025 14 CET⠀
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https://www.nfdi4chem.de/event/stammtisch/
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#chemistry #rdm #fdm #research data #research data #fairdata #workshop

In today's episode of Why Standards Matter - chemists vent frustration about the lack of standards for abbreviation.
#chemicalstandards #openstandards

YES. We were so frustrated that we started a curated list here github.com/Beilstein-In... Feel free to fork/add!

We are pleased to welcome nominations for our annual Lectureship, which celebrates early career researchers, either in academia or industry, who have made significant contributions in the fields of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery.

👉 Details here: www.rsc.org/standards-an...

Coming up next week: Invitation to join the FREE livestream 🎥 of the Beilstein Enzymology Symposium 2025 “Natural and synthetic evolution of catalysis” in Rüdesheim 🇩🇪, 📅 Sept 9–11, 2025.
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/y37jc353
#BeilsteinEnzymology2025 #biocatalysis 
@mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social‬

@brembs @ERC_Research
Yes, in brief:
- transparent, equitable, and open access to scholarly publications
- not-for-profit, open access and multi-format, with no costs for authors or readers (Diamond OA)
- encourage Member States to support the pilot programme Open Research Europe (to create a […]