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The complete lack of understanding about what it means to establish research, data, and scientific sovereignty amongst senior members of the UK's research community and government is frankly shocking. The belief that they 'own' their knowledge and are protecting it from future AI and big tech threats. Not fulling understanding that they ceded that sovereignty to multinational publishers a long time ago and no longer 'own' that research or have free access to that information and data. It's scary

Husk é Son Feb 23

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PublicKnowledgeProject/115980619055888490

Starting in 5 minutes.
A recording will be made available later this week if you can't make it to the webinar today.

Husk é Son Feb 23

RE: https://mastodon.social/@markhusk/116119273059384230

A free and open source academic editor able to export JATS XML and HTML has been a long time coming.
Today's update on the @PublicKnowledgeProject roadmap includes the introduction of end-to-end production workflows within the journal environment for OJS3.6 🙌 [8amPST/4pm GMT/ 5pm CST]. Register at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/pkps-development-news-webinar-february-2026-tickets-1975856243212

Husk é Son Feb 23

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PublicKnowledgeProject/115980619055888490

Coming up later today. Looking at the OJS3.6 release that will include updates on JATS, open-peer review workflow, and the inline XML text editor tool – including a demo and update from SciFlow's own Frederik Eichler (@os_aps)

Husk é Son Jan 29

Madhura Amdekar from @crossref launches the Crossref day in Bangkok, Thailand. A lot to get through today, with Amanda Bartell up next with the importance of quality metadata and how the information automatically flows throughout the scholcomms ecosystem. Already lots of questions and comments from the community.

Husk é Son Jan 29

On my way to the Crossref event in Bangkok. The air quality may be declining rapidly and it may be a little too hot (even at 7am) for the average oversized North European like me, but I'm really looking forward to spending the day with the Thai librarians and @crossref colleagues on behalf of @PublicKnowledgeProject

Husk é Son Jan 20

I received a job description for a role a recruiter would like me to consider. It's a senior leadership role (insert fake blush emoji for a self deprecating LinkedIn style humblebrag) and a main quality required is, "Must be comfortable using Excel and Powerpoint." Maybe for the first time ever, I feel qualified.

Husk é Son Jan 12

The last OPERAS Conference in 2024 was excellent. I am therefore delighted that the organisers have forgotten how painful it is to host a conference and have decided to do another one, this time in Warsaw this May. The OPERAS Research Infrastructure is a place of real community, full of innovative ideas that is hard to rival or find anywhere else in European scholarly communication and I recommend this event wholeheartedly.

Husk é Son Jul 12, 2025

This piece by Ian Dunt is well worth your time this Saturday morning. A fascinating look at comics as an outsider's medium, designed by and produced by outsiders. Superman is such an outsider, but a different kind of outsider with the hidden heroism of the socially anxious, "Created by two Jewish nerds from Cleveland, they imagined a nebbish man – nervous, clumsy, overlooked – who was secretly a being of pure agency, able to do almost anything you could imagine." https://iandunt.substack.com/p/immigrant-superman-will-save-the-af1

Husk é Son Jul 3, 2025

The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers. This blog examines how the fundamental economics of publishing on the web are being disrupted as the LLMs extract data and consume content without attribution or redirection. An update to Cloudflare's Radar data introduces the crawl-to-referral ratio that shows AI bots consume content at an enormous scale without credit or attribution to the content origins. Post can be found at: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-search-crawl-refer-ratio-on-radar/

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