Kaitlin (Kay) Thaney
@kaythaney.bsky.social
executive director, Invest in Open. cares a lot about governance + infrastructure. makes things out of clay.
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If you’re not on @openstreetmap.bsky.social do you even exist? 😆 Well, now the Internet Archive Europe is officially on and off line! 🙌 Come visit us when we have reading room hours and open events. Stay tuned for more into about that later on.
September 20, 2025 at 7:15 AM
If you’re not on @openstreetmap.bsky.social do you even exist? 😆 Well, now the Internet Archive Europe is officially on and off line! 🙌 Come visit us when we have reading room hours and open events. Stay tuned for more into about that later on.
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Colbert nailed Brendan Carr right between the eyes.
September 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Colbert nailed Brendan Carr right between the eyes.
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At this #ALPSP2025 session on community engagement in academic publishing, @samuelmoore.org & @copim.bsky.social's work on 'scaling small' raised by @kaythaney.bsky.social in response to a question about how to 'scale' community engagement 👏
Find out more: www.westminsterpapers.org/article/id/9...
Find out more: www.westminsterpapers.org/article/id/9...
Scaling Small; Or How to Envision New Relationalities for Knowledge Production
Within the field of open access (OA) publishing, community-led publishing projects are experimenting increasingly with new forms of collaboration and organisation. They do so by focusing on setting up...
www.westminsterpapers.org
September 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
At this #ALPSP2025 session on community engagement in academic publishing, @samuelmoore.org & @copim.bsky.social's work on 'scaling small' raised by @kaythaney.bsky.social in response to a question about how to 'scale' community engagement 👏
Find out more: www.westminsterpapers.org/article/id/9...
Find out more: www.westminsterpapers.org/article/id/9...
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"It suggests that developing a commons-based, scholar-led publishing landscape through [presses] managed by working academics cld offer a productive counterpoint to marketised systems of open access + subscription publishing [—] a counter-hegemonic project based on mutual reliance and care"
You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)
September 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
"It suggests that developing a commons-based, scholar-led publishing landscape through [presses] managed by working academics cld offer a productive counterpoint to marketised systems of open access + subscription publishing [—] a counter-hegemonic project based on mutual reliance and care"
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Welcome news.
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Researchers are resurrecting billion-dollar-disaster tool Trump killed
The database that tracked the financial toll of big weather events is set to return this fall from nonprofit Climate Central. The database is a key tool for insurance companies.
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August 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Welcome news.
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I tested it in Primo Research Assistant, not surprising, I got similar results since Summon Research Assistant is sister product and both work the same by using LLM to generate Boolean search strategy. Gaza war shows no results. Tusla Race riots get a scary error message but does generate answer(1)
July 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I tested it in Primo Research Assistant, not surprising, I got similar results since Summon Research Assistant is sister product and both work the same by using LLM to generate Boolean search strategy. Gaza war shows no results. Tusla Race riots get a scary error message but does generate answer(1)
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Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t.
And the blocking of content…
And the blocking of content…
“We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question” - ACRLog
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...
acrlog.org
July 22, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t.
And the blocking of content…
And the blocking of content…
This.
One man cannot, overnight, change a fact as written in thousands of copies of hundreds of different books across the world's libraries.
But under pressure from the politicians or guided by his own depravity, he can rewrite history overnight by altering the output of the LLM he owns.
But under pressure from the politicians or guided by his own depravity, he can rewrite history overnight by altering the output of the LLM he owns.
July 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This.
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Do not let any LLM serve as a form of epistemic grounding for society.
New Trump EO: "when ideological biases or social agendas are built into AI models, they can distort the quality and accuracy of the output"
...so henceforth the US government won't do business with you unless your LLM is built to echo our ideological bias and promote our social agenda.
...so henceforth the US government won't do business with you unless your LLM is built to echo our ideological bias and promote our social agenda.
Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
July 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Do not let any LLM serve as a form of epistemic grounding for society.
“In 2021, basic science funding from the US federal government was almost $50 billion. By contrast, philanthropy provided approximately $5 billion each to universities + to nonprofit research institutes.”
More from Adam Falk, recent pres of the Sloan Foundation 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
More from Adam Falk, recent pres of the Sloan Foundation 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Science philanthropy faces a new reality
As the ground under American science shifts in troubling and unpredictable ways, questions have arisen as to how philanthropies should respond. Having recently led a private foundation that supports s...
www.science.org
July 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
“In 2021, basic science funding from the US federal government was almost $50 billion. By contrast, philanthropy provided approximately $5 billion each to universities + to nonprofit research institutes.”
More from Adam Falk, recent pres of the Sloan Foundation 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
More from Adam Falk, recent pres of the Sloan Foundation 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Just found an AMAZING mystery 2015 spreadsheet in my files: "Productivity Loss for Anything in the Universe," WITH citations.
I could not for the life of me figure out why I had this data. AND THEN I saw it: a sadly incomplete project w/ @kaythaney.bsky.social on the economic cost of mansplaining
I could not for the life of me figure out why I had this data. AND THEN I saw it: a sadly incomplete project w/ @kaythaney.bsky.social on the economic cost of mansplaining
July 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Just found an AMAZING mystery 2015 spreadsheet in my files: "Productivity Loss for Anything in the Universe," WITH citations.
I could not for the life of me figure out why I had this data. AND THEN I saw it: a sadly incomplete project w/ @kaythaney.bsky.social on the economic cost of mansplaining
I could not for the life of me figure out why I had this data. AND THEN I saw it: a sadly incomplete project w/ @kaythaney.bsky.social on the economic cost of mansplaining
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Tonight NYC recorded two inches of rain in less than an hour — for only the 6th time in city history. (Central Park records begin in 1869.)
The city's drainage system is built to handle just 1.75"/hour.
Increasing rainfall intensity is one of the most damaging aspects of climate change.
The city's drainage system is built to handle just 1.75"/hour.
Increasing rainfall intensity is one of the most damaging aspects of climate change.
July 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Tonight NYC recorded two inches of rain in less than an hour — for only the 6th time in city history. (Central Park records begin in 1869.)
The city's drainage system is built to handle just 1.75"/hour.
Increasing rainfall intensity is one of the most damaging aspects of climate change.
The city's drainage system is built to handle just 1.75"/hour.
Increasing rainfall intensity is one of the most damaging aspects of climate change.
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CoRAMM is a new open-source repository co-created with Mapuche women in Chile, preserving their stories, history, and ancestral knowledge.
Powered by IOI's Open Infrastructure Fund, this project blends tech and tradition to serve generations to come.
Read more: investinopen.org/blog/highlig...
Powered by IOI's Open Infrastructure Fund, this project blends tech and tradition to serve generations to come.
Read more: investinopen.org/blog/highlig...
Highlighting the importance of cultural preservation in Chile: The Mapuche women case study
An overview of how open infrastructure is helping in the preservation of ancient cultural practices and traditions by Mapuche women in Chile
investinopen.org
July 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
CoRAMM is a new open-source repository co-created with Mapuche women in Chile, preserving their stories, history, and ancestral knowledge.
Powered by IOI's Open Infrastructure Fund, this project blends tech and tradition to serve generations to come.
Read more: investinopen.org/blog/highlig...
Powered by IOI's Open Infrastructure Fund, this project blends tech and tradition to serve generations to come.
Read more: investinopen.org/blog/highlig...
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Dr. Carla Hayden has landed w/ @mellon.org as a Senior Fellow ... www.mellon.org/news/mellon-...
July 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Dr. Carla Hayden has landed w/ @mellon.org as a Senior Fellow ... www.mellon.org/news/mellon-...
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If you're looking to counter a friend or family member's misconceptions about Zohran Mamdani, we did a convenient rundown debunking all the smears (so far):
Debunking All the B.S. About Zohran Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, is facing a wave of Islamophobic misinformation attacking his character and politics
www.rollingstone.com
July 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If you're looking to counter a friend or family member's misconceptions about Zohran Mamdani, we did a convenient rundown debunking all the smears (so far):
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When canceling hundreds of grants in an anti-"DEI" crusade, NIH officials couldn't even define the acronym, a federal judge found.
It was just a "boogeyman."
That and more in my legal roundup @AllRiseNews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/trump-inva...
It was just a "boogeyman."
That and more in my legal roundup @AllRiseNews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/trump-inva...
July 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
When canceling hundreds of grants in an anti-"DEI" crusade, NIH officials couldn't even define the acronym, a federal judge found.
It was just a "boogeyman."
That and more in my legal roundup @AllRiseNews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/trump-inva...
It was just a "boogeyman."
That and more in my legal roundup @AllRiseNews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/trump-inva...
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The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has not yet rescinded directives that led to the cancellation of more than 2,400 research projects it funded, NIH staff members say, even though a US judge last week ruled the directives illegal.
https://go.nature.com/46jAe2u
https://go.nature.com/46jAe2u
Exclusive: NIH still screens grants in process a judge ruled illegal
Directives by the Trump administration are still being applied to grant applications despite court order.
go.nature.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has not yet rescinded directives that led to the cancellation of more than 2,400 research projects it funded, NIH staff members say, even though a US judge last week ruled the directives illegal.
https://go.nature.com/46jAe2u
https://go.nature.com/46jAe2u
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"If the United States seeks faster breakthroughs, it must simultaneously consider ways to open the system to wider participation while ensuring that the public—as providers of research funding and data—benefits from research." - @alondra.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ten times faster is not 10 times better
As the Trump administration systematically defunds the American research ecosystem, while disingenuously promising a return to so-called “gold standard science,” hope can be drawn from the new biparti...
www.science.org
June 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"If the United States seeks faster breakthroughs, it must simultaneously consider ways to open the system to wider participation while ensuring that the public—as providers of research funding and data—benefits from research." - @alondra.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I am exhausted from these extractionary practices.
Push back: "Unfair publisher fees for deposit into repositories highlight the need for authors to exercise their rights" coar-repositories.org/news-updates... @coalitions-oa.bsky.social @sparcopen.bsky.social @sparc-eu.bsky.social @carl-abrc.bsky.social @libereurope.bsky.social @wacren.bsky.social
Unfair publisher fees for deposit into repositories highlight the need for authors to exercise their rights
Scientific knowledge is a public good Science and scholarship are about sharing and advancing knowledge, and many open access policies have been diligently designed in order to ensure that all thei…
coar-repositories.org
June 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I am exhausted from these extractionary practices.
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Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"
June 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"
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How are US research institutions preparing for public access?
We worked with 25 institutions & just published:
📄 Survey summary
🗺️ 25+ sponsored project workflows
📘 Full guide for institutions
Takeaways? Libraries lead, gaps persist, workflows matter.
Explore: investinopen.org/blog/reasona...
We worked with 25 institutions & just published:
📄 Survey summary
🗺️ 25+ sponsored project workflows
📘 Full guide for institutions
Takeaways? Libraries lead, gaps persist, workflows matter.
Explore: investinopen.org/blog/reasona...
How are US institutions putting public access into practice? Insights from our ‘Reasonable Costs’ institutional research
We are releasing three new outputs from our NSF-funded research into public access preparation at institutions in the United States, including survey results and workflows.
investinopen.org
June 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
How are US research institutions preparing for public access?
We worked with 25 institutions & just published:
📄 Survey summary
🗺️ 25+ sponsored project workflows
📘 Full guide for institutions
Takeaways? Libraries lead, gaps persist, workflows matter.
Explore: investinopen.org/blog/reasona...
We worked with 25 institutions & just published:
📄 Survey summary
🗺️ 25+ sponsored project workflows
📘 Full guide for institutions
Takeaways? Libraries lead, gaps persist, workflows matter.
Explore: investinopen.org/blog/reasona...
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Mamdani Mayor, Lander Senator. Let’s go.
Brad Lander has arrived at his election night party. "The ranked choice tabulations will take a few days, but this much is clear: We are sending Andrew Cuomo back to the suburbs," Lander said to applause. "With our help, Zohran Mamdani will be the Democratic nominee"
June 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Mamdani Mayor, Lander Senator. Let’s go.