This is your LAST CHANCE to book #UKSG2026.
I ♥️ this description from @bethanylogan.bsky.social -- "proper learning, proper connections, proper value", "the whole glorious menagerie that is scholarly comms"
**BOOK THIS WEEK** or you will miss it!
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The sexiest BlueSky post I've read in a while
Manchester Green Party graphic on a green background with hannah spencer. it’s a green win! the gorton and denton residents chose hope, not hate. here’s to change. thank you very much to all of our volunteers that helped elect hannah, our 5th Green MP and 1st in the north!
✅ Hope HAS WON!
💪 Only the GREENS can take on Farage
🇬🇧 Politics has changed forever
🪠 Hannah the Plumber is now Hannah Spencer the MP for Gorton and Denton!
🐝 The FIRST NORTHERN GREEN MP
🥀 Labour have been replaced
🚫 Reform's rise has been halted. Hate has been defeated.
I'm sure it'll be amazing! Looking forward to the recording
Ensure your content budget strategy makes ‘open’ a commitment, and is signed off at the highest level. Another great point from Pete Barr. There’s important ‘soft politics’ here. Do we have the diplomacy and leadership skills to be sure we can make this approach succeed? #CopimConference
The latest from #UKSGInsights Peter Barr (@tweeterbarr.bsky.social) re: @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social "The collections concept at the University of Sheffield: a varied approach to the role of research library collections" dub.sh/bKwiJWt
It's a _master's thesis_, it's not that deep. (And even if it wasn't, it's her work, she can dedicate it to whoever she likes.)
I'm pretty sure I put my cat in the "thanks and dedication" section of my MA.
I'm upgrading a bunch of OJS and OMP instances now I'm working as part of @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social and SCURL Open Hosting. Upgrading these applications is fiddly as heck so I've written scripts to make my life easier and maybe anyone else who regularly works on OJS/OMP.
Reckon we can charge the university a consultancy fee for saving them from further reputational damage.
Just casually ruminating how a certain VC backed this man like his life depended on it till @tristanoscars.bsky.social and I went on telly to suggest he cease that.
Not that I think there'll be a real consequence (for this, or his other alleged wrongdoings), but it's a start...
Congratulations to the Journal of Cultural Analytics 🎉
Princeton’s Center for Digital Humanities is now its publisher. JCA has migrated to @janewayolh.bsky.social and joined the @ojcollective.bsky.social launch collection!
Details: cdh.princeton.edu/news/2026/02...
"Python's PyPI registry bandwidth needs for shipping copies of its 700,000+ packages (amounting to 747PB annually at a sustained rate of 189 Gbps) are underwritten by Fastly, for instance. Otherwise, the project would have to pony up about $1.8 million a month."
www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/o...
CONTINUING www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o... joining the rejectors are London South Bank University and Sheffield Hallam University (apologies that all these stories are paywalled - the university websites have press releases)
me, 50 years from now, doing a Zoom lecture from a hospital bed:
“though other formats for encoding bibliographic data hold great promise, and MARC’s days are clearly numbered, it manages to hang on”
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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I absolutely burst out laughing
1/ I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit orgs to take over the Open Access Tracking Project ( #OATP, @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy ) and the open-source software on which it runs.
Details in this Google doc:
bit.ly/TransferOATP
#OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenSource #ScholComm
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Hello Bluesky. I am a cultural and media theorist working across the fields of (book) publishing and digital culture, researching the future of scholarly communications and experimental forms of knowledge production.
Very nice! Mine will be a slow process, I suspect.
So far, Morrisons limoncello reigns supreme here. Tesco's gingerbread I am not convinced by (too sweet), nor their chocolate (a bit too heavy). I am looking forward to my John Lewis once and the special ones from the Italian store!
I was on a video call with a friend, walking around my house, but had forgotten I bought (just over) my height in panettone this year.
I forgot that what I affectionately call "panettone mountain" is in fact a freak occurrence in most people's eyes 😅
Throw back to that one listserv email that had me wondering why we even bother with panels (and if literacy is dead).
I'm so sorry if you are here to read about libraries and publishing - especially if this is how you find out what all these words mean. But take solace in that you didn't get jumpscared with F1 RPF when you were looking for bread recipe inspiration.
Between being a nerd who reads the occasional manga and following Formula 1 since my partner is a fan, my Instagram algorithm has decided I must be an F1 fujoshi which feels deeply humiliating - despite this /not/ being the case. If anything, I'm confused as to what's going on.
You can read Jonathan Adams’ summary of the Clarivate report in Research Professional News (which Clarivate also owns) here: The US research empire is in retreat. Jonathan writes: Across the board, China appears to be a game-changer for the US’s place in global science. China’s annual research output of papers in journals indexed in Web of Science has grown from fewer than 30,000 in 2000 to more than 850,000 in 2024, passing the US in 2020. China’s citation impact is now also well above the world average. China is less internationally networked than other major research powers: only 20 per cent of its output is internationally co-authored. Once you’ve read the report, you may want to dip into: Why the world must wake up to China’s science leadership and also China accounts for more than half of leading output in the applied sciences.
"China’s citation impact is now also well above the world average."
Sinophobia is about to do more to de-emphasize focus on citation impact metrics than all 13 years of SF DORA combined...
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Can't believe we finally have a very good, accessible summary of the average librarian's job and this is how we got it. Oof.
Can't believe that in the space of a season I've gone from not caring about F1 to "I can't believe Verstappen needs to rely on a Ferrari driver to have a chance at the championship".
We're hiring! We have 2 jobs advertised: Library Engagement Lead and Operations Manager, deadline Tues 6 January 2026. Links:
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Come work for a major new international organisation funding #openaccess publishing!
It's burned into my brain because we had to rewind to see "where did they get "Manchester"?"
Henceforth known was "suprise Manchester".
I've considered starting a spreadsheet to track it, just to see which _are_ correct. I can probably go back through my recent watchlist and sent a DM?
That being said: we thought we'd finally see what Yuri on Ice was all about (I know, I know) and the intro has different captions every time.
I've got a new piece at @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today following on from my previous piece about the British Library cyberattack and arguing that, since the UK Government clearly doesn't care about the UK knowledge sector, we need to develop our own community-led tech and infrastructure solutions.
