Also cool: @c21literature.bsky.social runs on the software I co-created with the mighty @ajrbyers.bsky.social and uses the funding/business model I co-designed and built with the excellent @theblochian.bsky.social, making it all free for readers to access, thanks to 300+ global libraries.
If anyone wants to know how my week is going I just stood on an upturned plug.
That's what you think.
Feeling quite emotional today - it's the OFFICIAL LAUNCH of @ojcollective.bsky.social! It's taken 14 months of hard work to get here & I'm incredibly proud of our brilliant team. This is just the beginning - more announcements coming soon from the collective! drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...
We've done it again! @openlibhums.org has flipped another flagship journal to #diamond #openaccess! This follows the mass resignation of the Journal of Philosophical Logic's editorial boards from Springer Nature. The JPL editors will launch Philosophical Logic: www.openlibhums.org/news/875/.
This is hilarious. Don’t people realise the floppy part is inside? The outside isn’t disk shaped.
Yup. Floppy disk. The disk inside is actually floppy.
Dear Simon Apologies for barging into your inbox like this but I'm a journalist with the Daily Telegraph and Ive been asked to write about the ongoing problems at the British Library. Partly it's about the staff discontent in light of the recent departure of Rebecca Lawrence and the strikes, but its also necessarily about the ongoing ramifications of the cyber attack. As someone who knows an awful lot more about IT systems in academic environments than I do, would you be willing to talk to me about what has happened at the BL, and what it means for the future of academic research in general? I realise its now Friday afternoon, but I'm around Monday for most of the day if you are willing and that time suits you. I'd be extremely grateful if so. Many thanks and best wishes Redacted
Hi Redacted, Thanks for getting in touch. I'm a great person to talk to about this but I have no interest in talking to someone writing for the Daily Telegraph nor do I trust your paper to represent the story accurately. Have a good weekend, Simon
We don't share our expertise with right-wing rags.
Our annual report 2024–2025 is OUT! It highlights collaborations, journal flips, latest dev work from @janewayolh.bsky.social, new staff and more!
Library memberships grew by 25%, an incredible achievement at such a difficult time for higher education!
Comic-style poster warning that commercial publishers are “eating your journal’s brains,” promoting the Open Library of Humanities.
It’s spooky season… 🧟♂️
Don’t feed the zombies. Support diamond open access!
The zombie poster is back!
#DiamondOA #OpenAccess #Halloween
Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
@aggrend.bsky.social any chance you know if they plan to fix the issue with the phase 8 weapon enchant procs?
The Lower Decks returns. We've launched our CFP for The Lower Decks 2.0. Check it out here: www.openlibhums.org/news/859/
@openlibhums.org @janewayolh.bsky.social
A Late Summer Secondment in the World of OLH Tech / @janewayolh.bsky.social: Read the blog post by Emily Gresham Beamer, CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership Intern: www.openlibhums.org/news/856/
I thought the red was harsh for sure.
Or at least announce when someone does it. So we can avoid griefers.
@aggrend.bsky.social I know Blizzard have dropped SoD... but please can someone allow us to reactivate the SE buff? It can't be that hard to add.
We’re tearing down the paywalls! 🚀🔓
The International Labour Review is going Open Access—100+ years of world-of-work research, now free for all.
No barriers 🚧, no limits 🚀, just knowledge 📚✨
Proud to team up with @openlibhums.bsky.social to make this happen!
👀 More: ow.ly/e41850VuqAV
38 known car brands
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An Open Source sustainability story in two slides. (for a coming talk of mine)
Slide 1: car brands using #curl
Slide 2: car brands sponsoring or paying for #curl support
So. Texas Republicans are actively trying to have Democrats arrested. Where have we seen that before?
New publication in Digital Studies/Le champ numérique > “Remediation and Spectral Bibliography: Ghost Hunting in Early Modern Books” by Laura DeLuca (@laurasdeluca.bsky.social): doi.org/10.16995/dsc...
@aggrend.bsky.social what are the chances we might get SoD server merges?
This insult to our institution will not stand sir! 🤣
To celebrate this (urp 🤢) exciting new journal series, we made a mini game!
Can YOU guess which journals are Discover, MDPI, or both? No cheating! There's even the challenge mode "APC Ladder."
Share your high score with the hashtag #ResearchIntegrity
pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/
FUN!! 🤮 6/n
Welcome to my life. AI in tech is worse. It's everywhere. And it sucks most of the time.
![2:41 p.m.: Four men are walked out in handcuffs by masked agents. One is Jaen, Ambar’s husband. Her 12-year-old daughter screams and runs after him.
Ambar wails in agony and collapses onto the sidewalk.
As the SUVs pull away Ambar leans over a nearby fence sobbing, “My love, my love,” she murmurs over and over again.
[photo of a woman on her hands and knees on the sidewalk, her face contorted in a grimace. The hand of another woman reaches down, touching her on her back.]
A woman falls to the ground after her husband was detained by ICE agents in Lower Manhattan, June 4, 2025. Credit: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2wyqv44lm72vasmddeqjgy72/bafkreif4gcvxiezdrnjnsjkou62osrrfxymczayzntfxwfdocknerr3k3i)
2:41 p.m.: Four men are walked out in handcuffs by masked agents. One is Jaen, Ambar’s husband. Her 12-year-old daughter screams and runs after him. Ambar wails in agony and collapses onto the sidewalk. As the SUVs pull away Ambar leans over a nearby fence sobbing, “My love, my love,” she murmurs over and over again. [photo of a woman on her hands and knees on the sidewalk, her face contorted in a grimace. The hand of another woman reaches down, touching her on her back.] A woman falls to the ground after her husband was detained by ICE agents in Lower Manhattan, June 4, 2025. Credit: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY
@gwynnefitz.bsky.social and Ben Fractenberg capture vignettes all day from the check-in at an ICE office in Manhattan.
@aggrend.bsky.social thanks to you and the team for SoD, dude. It brought me back to WoW and may be the last version of it I play but it was really fun.
We're HIRING an Editorial Officer to start in August 2025!
📅 Deadline for applications: 8 June 2025.
If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply.
Fully remote position!
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...
Its just a bloke hold your face in ice cold water.
