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Juan Pablo Alperin
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Latin American extraordinaire; scholar; father; publishing revolutionary; self-declared king of bocce; #openscience #scholcommlab #pkp #SFU
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stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca
Excited to join @braccolaetitia.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gy & team at Open Science Monitoring Inititative (OSMI) as steering board member. Looking forward to work w/ Cécile Coulibaly, Moumita Koley, @susannanykyri.bsky.social & @jeroenson.bsky.social
open-science-monitoring.org/meet-the-fiv...
December 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
juancommander.scholcommlab.ca
Ha! Just thought: "ooh, that sounds interesting! and super related to that work we did!" only to realize that this is a link to our paper
oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11d
Towards an inclusive Open Science: examining EDI and public participation in policy documents across Europe and the Americas | Royal Society Open Science | The Royal Society […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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avilewis.ca
1/ The Carney government has fallen hard for AI hype, and it's endangering us all.

This unprecedented invitation of data-hungry tech execs inside our house (where all our confidential data is stored) is a disturbing betrayal of public trust.

dub.link/NDYvJU0
Ottawa hands corporate leaders 50 roles in government
Ottawa plans to embed the private sector workers after adopting a business group's proposal — even naming the program after them, a briefing note reveals.
dub.link
December 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Reposted by Juan Pablo Alperin
pressprogress.ca
Simon Fraser University wants only non-union faculty at its new medical school.

SFU contends that it's so new and different that the existing collective agreement with university faculty doesn't apply.

pressprogress.ca/sfu-medical-...
SFU Wants Only Non-Union Faculty at New Medical School
Simon Fraser contends that the med school is so new and different that its existing collective agreement with university faculty doesn't apply
pressprogress.ca
December 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Reposted by Juan Pablo Alperin
pkp.sfu.ca
📣 Our friends at the #ScholCommLab have published a preprint, "The Drain of #ScientificPublishing", and are calling for #research communities, funders, governments, and #universities to "re-communalise publishing to serve #science not the market"

doi.org/10.48550/arX...

#ScholComm #AcademicSky
Infographic titled “The Drain of Scientific Publishing,” describing four problems in scholarly publishing: Money, Time, Trust, and Control. Money: Illustration of flying dollar bills and buildings beside a bank. Text explains that for-profit publishers charge unreasonable reading and publishing fees disconnected from production costs, noting that Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis made $US 12 billion profit from 2019–2024. Time: Illustration of a stressed researcher surrounded by stacks of papers and a clock. Text states researchers spend enormous time as authors, reviewers, and editors, maintaining a system that prioritizes quantity over quality, causing burnout and reduced rigor. Trust: Illustration of a magnifying glass over retracted papers. Text describes commercial pressures to publish quickly, enabling low-quality and fraudulent papers, eroding public confidence. Control: Illustration of a person with medals labeled with journal metrics. Text explains that rankings like journal impact factor and h-index dictate success, with infrastructures biased toward English journals and controlled by for-profit companies. At the bottom, a stop-sign graphic reads “Stop the Drain.” Additional text calls for altering incentives and ownership of publishing, re-communalizing scholarly publishing, building community-led systems, preventing unreasonable profits, and using existing open models and infrastructures (e.g., preprints, diamond journals, OJS, SciELO). A final statement urges aligning research assessment with open, community-led publishing.
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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barcelonadori.bsky.social
🚀 Big news for open research information!

From 2026, @cnrs.fr will no longer have institutional access to Web of Science.

This move aligns with the vision of the Barcelona Declaration and shows how institutions can operationalise the transition to open systems.

🔗 www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...
Le CNRS s’émancipe du Web of Science
À partir du 1er janvier 2026, le CNRS coupera l’accès à l’une des plus importantes bases bibliométriques commerciales : le
www.cnrs.fr
December 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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dannykay68.bsky.social
COMPREHENSIVE and excellent set of slides here - explaining why WoS and Scopus are no longer fit for purpose, describing the changing nature of publishing globally. Relevant for OJS work and diamond OA as well. From @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca scholarworks.uni.edu/cgi/viewcont...
December 5, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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pkp.sfu.ca
"This new release of OJS (3.5) improves the backend experience of the site, making publishing operations easier and increasing the overall security of the software."

Thank you for sharing, and for updating, @archimedeict.bsky.social. We hope you will enjoy 3.5 :D

#OpenJournalSystems #OJS
December 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Reposted by Juan Pablo Alperin
nikostratis.com
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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pkp.sfu.ca
📚 PUB 611 – Making Knowledge Public: January 4 – April 26 2026 with Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca
📚 PUB 604 – Technology and Infrastructure: January 4 – April 26 2026 with Alison Moore
📚 PUB 603 – Journal Management and Editing: May 11 – August 23 2026 with Jennifer Zerkee

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November 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Reposted by Juan Pablo Alperin
pkp.sfu.ca
🚀 Ready to launch into the future of #OpenPublishing and endless opportunities? Your cutting edge professional development chance is here!

PKP + SFU are offering 3 new courses that will help set you up for success in today's growing #ScholarlyPublishing world:

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/10/01/r...
Register Now for PKP + SFU Open Publishing Courses! - Public Knowledge Project
Registration is open for PKP + SFU Open Publishing courses. Check this post to meet the instructors. Welcome to the future of Open Publishing!
pkp.sfu.ca
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
juancommander.scholcommlab.ca
Register now for our new courses on Public Knowledge, on Scholarly Infrastructures, and on Journal Management! pkp.sfu.ca/2025/10/01/r...
Register Now for PKP + SFU Open Publishing Courses! - Public Knowledge Project
The Open Publishing Series registration for an info webinar and the courses are open. Join the webinar on October 30 to meet the instructors.
pkp.sfu.ca
November 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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pkp.sfu.ca
🎉 PKP has launched its 2026 - 2030 Strategic Plan!

Check out our mission, mission, values, and key priorities:

🔗 Get the full plan here: pkp.sfu.ca/2026-2030-st...

#OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOA #FOSS #OpenInfrastructure #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #ScholComm
We're working toward a world where everyone can access and meaningfully contribute to open knowledge, for the benefit of all.
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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copevancouver.bsky.social
Ken Sim hopes you don't see this screenshot from the City's 2026 Budget Feedback report.

By a more than 4-to-1 margin, residents of Vancouver preferred a tax rate that maintained public services to ABC's reckless 0% tax gimmick.

#vanpoli #StopTheCuts #Budget2026 #FightForVancouver
Preferred Property Tax Scenarios (based on June 2025 direction) Shows percentage results: 42% for a 5% tax increase that maintains the current levels of service 16% for a 2.5% increase with some reductions in services 12% for a 1.5% increaes with moderate reductions in services 10% for a 0% increase with the most reductions in services
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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craft-oa.bsky.social
Who owns our knowledge? And how is CRAFT-OA helping communities reassert control over their knowledge production? Hint: It has to do with developing Open-Source software. @pkp.sfu.ca 's recent blog post is a great read: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/10/16/o...
Who Owns Our Knowledge? How Communities Power the Future of Open Publishing with PKP - Public Knowledge Project
PKP takes the time to answer the Open Access Week 2025 theme question, "Who Owns Our Knowledge?" and invites communities to join in.
pkp.sfu.ca
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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tedunderwood.com
Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Information, Culture & Society - School of Information Science
Duties & Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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jmcelroy.bsky.social
Here’s my humble pitch: we stop calling Vancouver’s housing market a “slowdown” or “slump”, implying that it was a great time before.

And instead, consider that after three years of similar numbers, acknowledge a new reality that everyone should adjust to.
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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mjmbca.bsky.social
NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis is meeting the moment.
avilewis.ca Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · Nov 5
New Yorkers just proved bold socialist ideas can win. Ottawa just proposed the most harmful climate and care budget since Harper.

Bold ideas win and we need to rebuild that kind of NDP.

www.youtube.com/live/NnM_RgL...
WATCH LIVE: Zohran Mamdani addresses supporters after winning 2025 NYC mayoral race
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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kathleenogradyca.bsky.social
Gifted article

Stop the anti-DEI campaign against Canadian researchers — what amounts to a hunt for personal information that could enable individuals be targeted, bullied and harassed #cdnpse #cdnpoli #research #SSHRC #CIHR

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/836f94c...
How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think
A parliamentary committee is asking for academics’ private information on a strange anti-DEI crusade
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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phrenologyhead.bsky.social
If the idea of Musk’s empire crashing and burning makes you happy, find a Tesla Takedown near you! 🔥🔥🔥

@teslatakedown.com @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social @everyonehateselon.bsky.social @tesla-takedown.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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danielskatz.org
Thanks for writing/highlighting this. I agree with the thinking. It also reminds me of something I wrote about 9 years ago: danielskatzblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/25/c... where I think I was trying to get at some of the same points, though likely not as clearly
Clash of cultures: Why all science isn’t open science
Open Science is a great concept (and recently described really nicely by Titus Brown, who said in part, “scientific progress relies on the sharing of both scientific ideas and scientific met…
danielskatzblog.wordpress.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
juancommander.scholcommlab.ca
Worth highlighting this post, which communicates a key tension in the #OpenSciene movement.
juancommander.scholcommlab.ca Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · Oct 21
The #OpenScience movement aims to transform how scientists work with each other and with society. These shifts pull in different directions — and “scientific cultures” helps make sense of the tension.

NEW BLOG: Tensions in Open Science and Scientific Culture
www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/10/21/t...
Tensions in Open Science and Scientific Culture
Open Science (OS) holds a powerful promise: to serve society by providing universal public access to knowledge. But, as we continue to see OS be adopted across the world, it becomes increasingly cl…
www.scholcommlab.ca
October 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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pmccut.bsky.social
The wealthy have benefited far too long from a tax code that favours wealth and penalizes work. This is upside down. Great societies are built by its working population. Create a tax code that reflects this.
#taxwealthnotwork
October 31, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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fleerackers.bsky.social
Such a pleasure to speak with INCT-CPCT about our recent research on how science journalists navigate predatory publishing

study w/ @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca & @lauramoorhead.bsky.social available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
juancommander.scholcommlab.ca
LAST CHANCE! Only a few days left to throw your hat in the ring for this amazing job opportunity at @pkp.sfu.ca . Come work with me!
juancommander.scholcommlab.ca Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · Sep 29
JOB OPPORTUNITY: @pkp.sfu.ca is looking for a Managing Director! This is a rare opportunity to lead a highly impactful #scholcomm organization. Role works closely with me (Scientific Director) to provide strategic and operational leadership. Help us spread the word!

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
PKP is hiring a Managing Director - Public Knowledge Project
The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director
pkp.sfu.ca
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM