Kaitlin (Kay) Thaney

When to act: Building a financial risk monitoring framework How IOI moved from financial reporting to financial decision-making, and what we learned.

Most nonprofits have financial reporting. Far fewer have a framework to know when to act on what it's telling them.

We built one. Here's what we learned — and what surprised us most.
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Investing in resilient infrastructure to safeguard scientific knowledge Political threats to scientific data demand coordinated, resilient open infrastructure — IOI is helping build it.

Scientific datasets built over decades can vanish when access has a single point of failure. IOI secured funding from Global Impact to help coordinate resilient open infrastructure solutions.

More on this project:
investinopen.org/blog/investi...

Kaitlin Thaney on Open Access We had the opportunity to speak with Kaitlin Thaney at the ALPSP Manchester Conference, where she shared her inspiring journey into the world of open access, open infrastructure, and scholarly comm…

We had the opportunity to interview @kaythaney.bsky.social on the importance of #OpenAccess in research. Her insights highlight how open access can drive innovation and collaboration.

Read the full interview: spkl.io/63329AgP65

#Research #AcademicPublishing #Innovation

What we achieved together in 2025: IOI’s year in review Our 2025 Impact Report is live! Read about what we've achieved and how we can work together in the coming year.

Our end-of-year report is here! Read about what we've achieved and how we can work together in the coming year.

Explore the full report: investinopen.org/blog/what-we...

Beyond funding: Building the capacity for sustainable and resilient open infrastructure A deeper dive into IOI’s unique approach to grantmaking that couples long-term funding with targeted strategic guidance and operational support.

At IOI, we believe lasting open infrastructure needs more than funding — it needs strategy, governance, and collaboration. Through the IOI Fund for Network Adoption, we’re partnering with LA Referencia and UbuntuNet Alliance to strengthen open research.

Learn more investinopen.org/blog/beyond-...

The best guide to spotting AI writing comes from Wikipedia | TechCrunch Wikipedia's guide to “Signs of AI writing” is a great resource for learning to spot LLM-generated prose.

The best guide to spotting AI writing comes from @wikipedia.org techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/t... via @techcrunch

poster on IOI Fund inaugural grantees

Exciting news! LA Referencia and UbuntuNet Alliance have been selected as the first grantees of the IOI Fund for Network Adoption, with each receiving up to $1.5M in funding to expand open infrastructure for research across 35+ countries. Learn more: investinopen.org/blog/empower...

🌟 Exciting news: The inaugural grantees of the Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) Fund for Network Adoption are: LA Referencia (Latin America) & UbuntuNet Alliance (Africa).

Digital Science is proud to be a founding contributor to the IOI Fund.

🔗 See more: https://ow.ly/jIua50XsX0j

How library consortia are building resilient open infrastructure in times of crisis New research reveals how US library consortia are evolving from service providers to critical bulwarks, using collective action and open infrastructure to help members navigate unprecedented…

Library consortia are key architects of resilient scholarly infrastructure.

Our latest ORBIT report explores how US consortia are shaping the future of open infrastructure — from hosting shared systems to coordinating funding and building collective capacity.

More investinopen.org/blog/how-lib...

Finding common ground: When commercial and non-commercial meet in open science We moderated a panel at Open Science FAIR 2025 to explore pragmatic collaboration between commercial and non-commercial actors in open science.

Open and commercial don’t have to be at odds.

At the recent #OSFair2025, IOI’s Emma Green led a panel exploring how bridging open and commercial perspectives can create more sustainable research infrastructure.

Read the recap

If you’re not on @openstreetmap.bsky.social do you even exist? 😆 Well, now the Internet Archive Europe is officially on and off line! 🙌 Come visit us when we have reading room hours and open events. Stay tuned for more into about that later on.

Colbert nailed Brendan Carr right between the eyes.

Scaling Small; Or How to Envision New Relationalities for Knowledge Production Within the field of open access (OA) publishing, community-led publishing projects are experimenting increasingly with new forms of collaboration and organisation. They do so by focusing on setting up...

At this #ALPSP2025 session on community engagement in academic publishing, @samuelmoore.org & @copim.bsky.social's work on 'scaling small' raised by @kaythaney.bsky.social in response to a question about how to 'scale' community engagement 👏

Find out more: www.westminsterpapers.org/article/id/9...

"It suggests that developing a commons-based, scholar-led publishing landscape through [presses] managed by working academics cld offer a productive counterpoint to marketised systems of open access + subscription publishing [—] a counter-hegemonic project based on mutual reliance and care"

Researchers are resurrecting billion-dollar-disaster tool Trump killed The database that tracked the financial toll of big weather events is set to return this fall from nonprofit Climate Central. The database is a key tool for insurance companies.

Welcome news.
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I tested it in Primo Research Assistant, not surprising, I got similar results since Summon Research Assistant is sister product and both work the same by using LLM to generate Boolean search strategy. Gaza war shows no results. Tusla Race riots get a scary error message but does generate answer(1)

“We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question” - ACRLog Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...

Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t.

And the blocking of content…

This.

Do not let any LLM serve as a form of epistemic grounding for society.

Science philanthropy faces a new reality As the ground under American science shifts in troubling and unpredictable ways, questions have arisen as to how philanthropies should respond. Having recently led a private foundation that supports s...

“In 2021, basic science funding from the US federal government was almost $50 billion. By contrast, philanthropy provided approximately $5 billion each to universities + to nonprofit research institutes.”

More from Adam Falk, recent pres of the Sloan Foundation 👇

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A bar chart from 2015 of the annual economic cost of different things in the universe, ranging from malnutrition (highest cost) to bathroom breaks and Facebook.

Just found an AMAZING mystery 2015 spreadsheet in my files: "Productivity Loss for Anything in the Universe," WITH citations.

I could not for the life of me figure out why I had this data. AND THEN I saw it: a sadly incomplete project w/ @kaythaney.bsky.social on the economic cost of mansplaining

Ha! Oh man, that was the best calculation/collab! :)

Tonight NYC recorded two inches of rain in less than an hour — for only the 6th time in city history. (Central Park records begin in 1869.)

The city's drainage system is built to handle just 1.75"/hour.

Increasing rainfall intensity is one of the most damaging aspects of climate change.

Highlighting the importance of cultural preservation in Chile: The Mapuche women case study An overview of how open infrastructure is helping in the preservation of ancient cultural practices and traditions by Mapuche women in Chile

CoRAMM is a new open-source repository co-created with Mapuche women in Chile, preserving their stories, history, and ancestral knowledge.

Powered by IOI's Open Infrastructure Fund, this project blends tech and tradition to serve generations to come.

Read more: investinopen.org/blog/highlig...

Dr. Carla Hayden has landed w/ @mellon.org as a Senior Fellow ... www.mellon.org/news/mellon-...

Debunking All the B.S. About Zohran Mamdani Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, is facing a wave of Islamophobic misinformation attacking his character and politics

If you're looking to counter a friend or family member's misconceptions about Zohran Mamdani, we did a convenient rundown debunking all the smears (so far):

When canceling hundreds of grants in an anti-"DEI" crusade, NIH officials couldn't even define the acronym, a federal judge found.

It was just a "boogeyman."

That and more in my legal roundup @AllRiseNews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/trump-inva...

Exclusive: NIH still screens grants in process a judge ruled illegal Directives by the Trump administration are still being applied to grant applications despite court order.

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has not yet rescinded directives that led to the cancellation of more than 2,400 research projects it funded, NIH staff members say, even though a US judge last week ruled the directives illegal.

https://go.nature.com/46jAe2u