📰 New news blog post: "Why Metadata Enrichment Matters for the Public Knowledge Project" by PKP Scientific Director and Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) Co-Organizer Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander

Learn how and why PKP is deeply involved in efforts, such as COMET, to improve the completeness and accuracy of metadata:

https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/07/11/metadata-enrichment-initiative/

#Metadata #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing #Discoverability #AcademicChatter

Postdoctoral Fellowship on #Preprints and #OpenPeerReview with the #ScholCommLab at Simon Fraser University #SFU!

Co-directed by @juancommander and @stefhaustein

"This position will support the lab’s broader goal of advancing more equitable, transparent, and sustainable forms of knowledge dissemination..."

International applicants are welcome. Visa sponsorship is available.

This lab does incredible work! Check it out and join this fabulous team:

https://www.scholcommlab.ca/join-us/hiring-postdoctoral-fellow-on-preprints-and-open-peer-review/

#AcademicChatter

Postdoc position to work on Preprints and Open Peer Review:

2-3 year full position at the ScholCommLab at SFU (Vancouver, Canada) (co-directed by @juancommander & @stefhaustein)

Note: "International applicants are welcome. Visa sponsorship is available."

https://www.scholcommlab.ca/join-us/hiring-postdoctoral-fellow-on-preprints-and-open-peer-review/

#GetFediHired #OpenAccess #Preprints #OpenPeerReview

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see

1. The data it was trained and evaluated on

2. The code

3. The model architecture

4. The model weights.

DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

My dear friends from the US. On this inauguration day, you should take steps to protect your privacy and to make sure you can communicate safely with friends and people you care about going forward.

My advice: Make today your #SwitchToSignal day.

https://signal.org

(And to all the folks that want to reply saying that you should use something else for $REASONS, please start your own thread. This is a message from me to my followers, not a flamewar invitation.)

As @pluralistic advised a few days ago, Canada has a PERFECT weapon at its disposal to fight back against Trump tariffs:

Punish the "intellectual property" cartel by giving people a way to jailbreak everything.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/#its-the-only-war-the-yankees-lost-except-for-vietnam-and-also-the-alamo-and-the-bay-of-ham

PKP is in Madrid, and thrilled about the Public Launch of the European Diamond Capacity Hub (#EDCH)!

Don't miss @juancommander's presentation at the Public Launch of the Aligning and Mutualizing Nonprofit Open Access Publishing Services Internationally (#ALMASI) project which happened alongside the EDCH launch.

Streamed live on: https://www.youtube.com/live/uxOHBaVF1c8

#OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOA #ScholarlyPublishing #ScholComm

We're starting out 2025 with over 100 signatory organizatios and 45 supporting organizations.

Thank you to our latest signatories: ScholCommLab (@juancommander and @stefhaustein), Simon Fraser University @sfu and our latest supporter, MoreBrains Cooperative @morebrains

More updates soon!

Thanks so much for your interest in the Publication Facts Label #PFLabel! We've had community feedback and made some improvements:

a) The label will now only be applied to articles that are in the journal’s peer-reviewed section.
b) You can set the date range for applying the label, if you have articles that were not peer-reviewed in OJS.
c) The label now appears immediately below the abstract and above the references on the article landing page.

Install: https://scribehow.com/shared/Installing_the_Publication_Facts_Label_PFL_Plugin__NmJnYGtCSAq7mCujT0dW4A