Happy Halloween, punks! Let's all take a moment to remember the year I made my confused husband dress up as a paywall so I could be Open Access Hero.

#OpenAccess #OA #OER #libraryLife #HigherEd #Elsevier #library #Halloween #AcademicHumor

Happy Halloween, punks! Let's all take a moment to remember the year I made my confused husband dress up as a paywall so I could be Open Access Hero.

#OpenAccess #OA #OER #libraryLife #HigherEd #Elsevier #library #Halloween #AcademicHumor

🚨 NEW ARTICLE ALERT 🚨 from me, Victoria Simon & Nathaniel Laywine

"What’s with All the Tapestries?
Intersectionality and the Discursive Vacuum of Generative AI”

We use methods called “kibbitzing” and “futzing” to critique the representation of intersectional identity in ChatGPT & MidJourney.

https://criticalai.org/2025/10/30/sneak-preview-article-victoria-simon-nathaniel-laywine-and-aram-sinnreichs-whats-with-all-the-tapestries-intersectionality-and-the-discursive-vacuum-of-generative-ai/

#academia #commodon #academicChatter #amWriting #Jewish #intersectionality #AI #race #identity #article #openAccess

🚨 NEW ARTICLE ALERT 🚨 from me, Victoria Simon & Nathaniel Laywine

"What’s with All the Tapestries?
Intersectionality and the Discursive Vacuum of Generative AI”

We use methods called “kibbitzing” and “futzing” to critique the representation of intersectional identity in ChatGPT & MidJourney.

https://criticalai.org/2025/10/30/sneak-preview-article-victoria-simon-nathaniel-laywine-and-aram-sinnreichs-whats-with-all-the-tapestries-intersectionality-and-the-discursive-vacuum-of-generative-ai/

#academia #commodon #academicChatter #amWriting #Jewish #intersectionality #AI #race #identity #article #openAccess

Dive into the European research ecosystem with the #EOSCEUNode Resource Catalogue.

Navigating Europe's vast #research landscape just got easier. The #EOSC EU Node Resource Catalogue brings together millions of trusted research resources, from #datasets and #publications to software and services, all in one place, and makes them accessible via the EOSC EU Node Resource Hub.

🔗 Read the article to learn more: https://go.egi.eu/Aq3AC

#OpenScience #OpenAIRE #OpenAccess

Dive into the European research ecosystem with the #EOSCEUNode Resource Catalogue.

Navigating Europe's vast #research landscape just got easier. The #EOSC EU Node Resource Catalogue brings together millions of trusted research resources, from #datasets and #publications to software and services, all in one place, and makes them accessible via the EOSC EU Node Resource Hub.

🔗 Read the article to learn more: https://go.egi.eu/Aq3AC

#OpenScience #OpenAIRE #OpenAccess

Applications are OPEN for the 8th OpenAIRE Open Science Train-the-Trainer Bootcamp!

Empower yourself to train others in #OpenScience, #RDM, #FAIRdata & #OpenAccess and join a vibrant network of trainers worldwide.

🗓 Bootcamp: 15–19 Dec 2025

Read more & Apply: https://www.openaire.eu/8th-openaire-open-science-train-the-trainer-bootcamp

🕒 Apply by 16 Nov

#OpenAIRE #Training #Openscience

To achieve 100% #OpenAccess, you need to engage with issues on repositories and #GreenOpenAccess route. This is where libraries can support #OA100. 👇

To achieve 100% #OpenAccess, you need to engage with issues on repositories and #GreenOpenAccess route. This is where libraries can support #OA100. 👇

Thinking about #AI, Paul Ford (@ftrain) proposes a quirky but plausible test to distinguish bubble technologies from normal technologies.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-normal-after-ai-plateaus/
(#paywalled)

"The metric I use is the C/B ratio: conferences to blogging. If people are steadily attending conferences about a subject, it is not normal yet. If they’re mostly blogging about it, it is. I made this up, but I assure you it’s predictive."

By this test, he concludes that AI is a bubble technology.

I bring this up because it seems that this test also makes #OpenAccess a bubble something, even if not a technology. But I'd call OA normal -- here to stay, wanted for good reasons, widely accepted, widely implemented, and growing, though previously novel and still overcoming obstacles.

Now I'm wondering: Is Ford's test bogus? Is it valid in some domains but not for something like OA? If it applies to OA, am I applying it too loosely? Or is OA still not normal?

#HalfSerious

🚨 Join the @openbookcollect next week at #chsconf2025 for the Vendor Showcase on Tuesday 4 November!

You'll find them at booth no 29 - they'd love to chat about #OpenAccess books and equitable #Publishing 📚

List of exhibitors 👉 https://buff.ly/Ybquein

Find out more about the OBC - watch this short video filmed last year at the 2024 Conference 📽️

Members & supporters explain why we need a fairer and more sustainable future for scholarly books 📚

👉 https://buff.ly/M0LeOFk

🚨 Join the @openbookcollect next week at #chsconf2025 for the Vendor Showcase on Tuesday 4 November!

You'll find them at booth no 29 - they'd love to chat about #OpenAccess books and equitable #Publishing 📚

List of exhibitors 👉 https://buff.ly/Ybquein

Find out more about the OBC - watch this short video filmed last year at the 2024 Conference 📽️

Members & supporters explain why we need a fairer and more sustainable future for scholarly books 📚

👉 https://buff.ly/M0LeOFk

New in our electronic #collection:

➡️ Democratic Commitment: Why Citizens Tolerate Democratic Backsliding

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198902768.001.0001

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #Books #Bookstodon #Democracy #Politics #SocialSciences

Join CNRS research engineer Jaime Arias for a hands-on workshop on Software Heritage on Nov 4. Part of #OpenAccess Week 2025 at Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Online or in person. Details: https://www.ip-paris.fr/en/news/open-access-week-2025

📆 Upcoming free webinar - #OpenPublishing professional development opportunity October 30 9 AM PT

Open around the world!

For #JournalEditors, managers, #Educators, learners, and anyone interested in furthering their knowledge of community-led open publishing

If you don’t want to register via Eventbrite, email commpkp[at]sfu[dot]ca re subject line “Open Publishing Courses webinar link request” to get the joining link.

Register via Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/shaping-the-future-of-open-publishing-introducing-new-online-courses-tickets-1708545528669?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

#OpenAccess

New @universityofgroningen #OpenAccess #publication highlight:

➡️ #AI as #moral cover: How algorithmic #bias exploits #psychological mechanisms to perpetuate social #inequality

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.70031

Read our interview with corresponding author Islam Borinca:

🔗 https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/blog/open-access-publication-in-the-spotlight-ai-as-moral-cover-how-algorithmic-bias-exploits-psychol

#OpenScience #psychology #ethics #sociology

On Nov. 4, our CSO @zacchiro will give a talk titled "Software Heritage: Building the Software Pillar of #OpenScience" as part of #OpenAccess Week 2025 at Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Online or in person. Details: https://www.ip-paris.fr/en/news/open-access-week-2025