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I know I am supposed to be all excited/promotional about all the great posters, talks and articles I am planning in 2026, but, right now, I am mostly excited about getting tickets for Patti Smith coming to Ghent Jazz.

Demmy Verbeke Dec 10

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everythingisimportant Dec 6

Demmy Verbeke Nov 25

It even surprises me how much I’m struck by this but this feels like a massive/final shift which very few realize (which probably says all you need to know): https://www.zdfheute.de/panorama/vatikan-amtssprache-latein-100.html

Latein nicht mehr bevorzugte Amtssprache im Vatikan

Latein ist ab sofort nicht mehr die bevorzugte Amtssprache im Vatikan. Das geht aus dem in dieser Woche veröffentlichten neuen Regelwerk für die Römische Kurie hervor.

ZDFheute

Demmy Verbeke Nov 19

Is this how parents feel when their child becomes a teenager? https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17641186

Een blik op 10 jaar Artes: Een decennium van verhalen, vooruitgang & vertrouwen | A glance at 10 years Artes: A decade of dialogue, development & dependability

Deze poster viert 10 jaar Artes, een afdeling van KU Leuven Bibliotheken die collecties beheert en diensten organiseert voor de Faculteit Letteren en, samen met de faculteitsbibliotheken, voor de Groep Humane Wetenschappen. De afgelopen 10 jaar groeide Artes uit tot een dynamische bibliotheek met meer dan 1,4 miljoen items in 169 talen, honderden studieplekken en een sterke focus op innovatie. De poster toont 10 concrete manieren waarop Artes zijn visie in praktijk brengt: van digitale toegankelijkheid en nieuwe locaties tot vernieuwende dienstverlening en strategische collectievorming. Ontdek hoe Artes blijft evolueren om kennis en onderzoek toegankelijk te maken voor iedereen. This poster celebrates 10 years of Artes, a department within KU Leuven Libraries that manages collections and provides services for the Faculty of Arts and, together with faculty libraries, for the Humanities and Social Sciences Group. Over the past decade, Artes has grown into a dynamic library with more than 1.4 million items in 169 languages, hundreds of study spaces, and a strong focus on innovation. The poster highlights 10 concrete ways in which Artes puts its vision into practice: from digital accessibility and new locations to innovative services and strategic collection development. Discover how Artes continues to evolve to make knowledge and research accessible to everyone.

Zenodo

Demmy Verbeke Nov 18

Registrations for BiblioTech Hackaton 2026 now (yes NOW) open!
https://bib.kuleuven.be/english/research/digital-humanities/bibliotech-hackathon/2026

Demmy Verbeke Nov 16

Nando161 Nov 14

This is my new favorite #design #fail.

Demmy Verbeke Nov 15

"The futility of working with commercial publishers is clear from the multiple failed attempts to do so." https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.04820

The Drain of Scientific Publishing

The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and Universities, to lead the drive to re-communalise publishing to serve science not the market.

arXiv.org

Demmy Verbeke Oct 29

Open Access Tracking Project Oct 29

How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing | Katina Magazine https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/how-fanfiction-can-help-reimagine-scholarly-publishing

How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing

Archive of Our Own, a digital fanfiction repository, shows what’s possible when we design our infrastructures around the communities that use them, rather than around extractive logics.

Katina Magazine | Annual Reviews

Demmy Verbeke Oct 25

(2) Mainstream scholcomm is doomed, isn’t it?

Demmy Verbeke Oct 25

(1) A lot of these VI people high level in scholcomm seem very intelligent and very competent and a lot of them seem very interesting and genuinely nice people.