Wendy Patterson
@wendypatterson.bsky.social
By day: Aiming to help researchers better communicate and disseminate their work in the chemical sciences. Beilstein-Institut Scientific Director supporting #openscience #diamondOA #openinfrastructure
Otherwise: rescue dogs, hiking, spicy food
Otherwise: rescue dogs, hiking, spicy food
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And it's a wrap! #Ontologies4Chem Workshop took place in Limburg, Germany.
Thank you NFDI4Chem, Beilstein-Institut and NFDI for Catalysis-Related Sciences - NFDI4Cat for making this event a success.
Picture credit: Oliver Koepler
Thank you NFDI4Chem, Beilstein-Institut and NFDI for Catalysis-Related Sciences - NFDI4Cat for making this event a success.
Picture credit: Oliver Koepler
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
And it's a wrap! #Ontologies4Chem Workshop took place in Limburg, Germany.
Thank you NFDI4Chem, Beilstein-Institut and NFDI for Catalysis-Related Sciences - NFDI4Cat for making this event a success.
Picture credit: Oliver Koepler
Thank you NFDI4Chem, Beilstein-Institut and NFDI for Catalysis-Related Sciences - NFDI4Cat for making this event a success.
Picture credit: Oliver Koepler
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From #marialeptin, president of the European Research Council (#erc, @ERC_Research). There are two threats to #academicfreedom. One is the kind of direct ideological pressure from heads of state like Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump. The other is a more insidious "web of incentives" self-imposed by […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
From #marialeptin, president of the European Research Council (#erc, @ERC_Research). There are two threats to #academicfreedom. One is the kind of direct ideological pressure from heads of state like Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump. The other is a more insidious "web of incentives" self-imposed by […]
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What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
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Excellent new paper.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
"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 […]
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
"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 […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Excellent new paper.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
"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 […]
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
"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 […]
Oooh I like this... let's print and hand out at conferences!
November 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Oooh I like this... let's print and hand out at conferences!
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Applying a license to your research data is essential to clarify how it can be used, shared, and reused. This video guides you through defining usage rights and aligning with FAIR principles and funder mandates. youtu.be/8-R1psZbOpc?...
5. Tools to Help You Choose the Right License
YouTube video by ELIXIR Czech Republic (ELIXIR-CZ)
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Applying a license to your research data is essential to clarify how it can be used, shared, and reused. This video guides you through defining usage rights and aligning with FAIR principles and funder mandates. youtu.be/8-R1psZbOpc?...
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Invitation to join the online #BeilsteinTalk “Micro- and nanoscale adaptations in insect-attachment pads: Evolutionary insights from stick and leaf insects” with Thies H. Büscher @tbuescher.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de on 📅 Nov 14, 2025 🕒 3–4 pm CET:
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/327fvxum
#BeilsteinTalks
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/327fvxum
#BeilsteinTalks
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Invitation to join the online #BeilsteinTalk “Micro- and nanoscale adaptations in insect-attachment pads: Evolutionary insights from stick and leaf insects” with Thies H. Büscher @tbuescher.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de on 📅 Nov 14, 2025 🕒 3–4 pm CET:
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/327fvxum
#BeilsteinTalks
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/327fvxum
#BeilsteinTalks
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🤯 Electronics that disappear? Forget e-waste and risky long-term implants. Transient electronics are here, built to dissolve when you're done ♻️
➡️ https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/articles/16/109?B=y
#TransientElectronics #bioelectronics #sustainability #TechInnovation
#BJNANO 💎🔓
➡️ https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/articles/16/109?B=y
#TransientElectronics #bioelectronics #sustainability #TechInnovation
#BJNANO 💎🔓
November 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
🤯 Electronics that disappear? Forget e-waste and risky long-term implants. Transient electronics are here, built to dissolve when you're done ♻️
➡️ https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/articles/16/109?B=y
#TransientElectronics #bioelectronics #sustainability #TechInnovation
#BJNANO 💎🔓
➡️ https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/articles/16/109?B=y
#TransientElectronics #bioelectronics #sustainability #TechInnovation
#BJNANO 💎🔓
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Recording now available - Mainstreaming Diamond: Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpnt...
🔸 @kirahopkins.bsky.social
🔸 @rupertgatti.bsky.social
🔸 @joedeville.bsky.social
🔸 @joannaball.bsky.social
🔸 @theblochian.bsky.social
Chaired by @paulaclemente.bsky.social
🔸 @kirahopkins.bsky.social
🔸 @rupertgatti.bsky.social
🔸 @joedeville.bsky.social
🔸 @joannaball.bsky.social
🔸 @theblochian.bsky.social
Chaired by @paulaclemente.bsky.social
Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond Regional perspectives, Shared Futures
YouTube video by Open Library of Humanities
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Recording now available - Mainstreaming Diamond: Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpnt...
🔸 @kirahopkins.bsky.social
🔸 @rupertgatti.bsky.social
🔸 @joedeville.bsky.social
🔸 @joannaball.bsky.social
🔸 @theblochian.bsky.social
Chaired by @paulaclemente.bsky.social
🔸 @kirahopkins.bsky.social
🔸 @rupertgatti.bsky.social
🔸 @joedeville.bsky.social
🔸 @joannaball.bsky.social
🔸 @theblochian.bsky.social
Chaired by @paulaclemente.bsky.social
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Last drawing for the 2025 Nobel prize in #chemsky done. And last book of the series submitted. Next week it should be available online :)
October 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Last drawing for the 2025 Nobel prize in #chemsky done. And last book of the series submitted. Next week it should be available online :)
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#OAWeek is coming up!
Don’t miss our webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures
With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social & @joannaball.bsky.social
🗓️ 24 Oct | 🕐 1 pm BST
🔗 www.openlibhums.org/...
Don’t miss our webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures
With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social & @joannaball.bsky.social
🗓️ 24 Oct | 🕐 1 pm BST
🔗 www.openlibhums.org/...
October 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
#OAWeek is coming up!
Don’t miss our webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures
With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social & @joannaball.bsky.social
🗓️ 24 Oct | 🕐 1 pm BST
🔗 www.openlibhums.org/...
Don’t miss our webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures
With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social & @joannaball.bsky.social
🗓️ 24 Oct | 🕐 1 pm BST
🔗 www.openlibhums.org/...
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Wei Zhang (Zhejiang University, previous head of NSFC, UNESCO OS) declares 4 hurdles to #OpenAccess adoption #OASPA2025: 1) JIF (cf. @DORAassessment.bsky.social); 2) publisher double dipping; 3) non-transparent pricing; 4) one size fits all models/ignoring global south
September 24, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Wei Zhang (Zhejiang University, previous head of NSFC, UNESCO OS) declares 4 hurdles to #OpenAccess adoption #OASPA2025: 1) JIF (cf. @DORAassessment.bsky.social); 2) publisher double dipping; 3) non-transparent pricing; 4) one size fits all models/ignoring global south
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It's time for @buchmesse.de 📚
You'll find @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social in Hall 4.0 #fbm2025
📅 15-19 October
📌 Frankfurter Buchmesse
🔗 buff.ly/KKVI5ro
It's your chance to talk about #OAbook publishing, open infrastructures, bibliodiversity and more!
You'll find @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social in Hall 4.0 #fbm2025
📅 15-19 October
📌 Frankfurter Buchmesse
🔗 buff.ly/KKVI5ro
It's your chance to talk about #OAbook publishing, open infrastructures, bibliodiversity and more!
October 15, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Invitation to join the FREE online #BeilsteinTalk “Tungsten aldehyde #oxidoreductase – a new type #hydrogenase” w/ Maciej Szaleniec from @polskaakademianauk.bsky.social 🇵🇱 on Oct 23, 2025 🕒 3–4 pm CEST.
Just register 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/25e8vpyt
#biochemistry #biocatalysis #enzymes #BeilsteinTalks
Just register 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/25e8vpyt
#biochemistry #biocatalysis #enzymes #BeilsteinTalks
October 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Invitation to join the FREE online #BeilsteinTalk “Tungsten aldehyde #oxidoreductase – a new type #hydrogenase” w/ Maciej Szaleniec from @polskaakademianauk.bsky.social 🇵🇱 on Oct 23, 2025 🕒 3–4 pm CEST.
Just register 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/25e8vpyt
#biochemistry #biocatalysis #enzymes #BeilsteinTalks
Just register 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/25e8vpyt
#biochemistry #biocatalysis #enzymes #BeilsteinTalks
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DataCite #Metadata is Now Integrated in #OpenAlex datacite.org/blog/datacit... @datacite.org #libraries #scholcomm
October 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
DataCite #Metadata is Now Integrated in #OpenAlex datacite.org/blog/datacit... @datacite.org #libraries #scholcomm
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AGREE furiously with @samuelmoore.org (Radical Open Access) the 2012 Finch report was a very destructive document for OA. The commercialisation of OA: journals need quick processing, publish as many as possible, little intervention of humans. This is an anathema to scholar led publishing #OASPA2025
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
AGREE furiously with @samuelmoore.org (Radical Open Access) the 2012 Finch report was a very destructive document for OA. The commercialisation of OA: journals need quick processing, publish as many as possible, little intervention of humans. This is an anathema to scholar led publishing #OASPA2025
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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social telling a room full of publishers that the lack of good faith in R&P agreements has to stop. What planet are commercial publishers living on? Constant grind for library staff to deal with what she describes as this “garbage”. #OASPA2025
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social telling a room full of publishers that the lack of good faith in R&P agreements has to stop. What planet are commercial publishers living on? Constant grind for library staff to deal with what she describes as this “garbage”. #OASPA2025
Join us on October 21st to chat about "Data Standards in Chemistry"
Free webinar organized by ChemSpider @rsc.org
rsc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#FAIRchemistry #openstandards #datastandards #chemistrystandards
Free webinar organized by ChemSpider @rsc.org
rsc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#FAIRchemistry #openstandards #datastandards #chemistrystandards
September 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Join us on October 21st to chat about "Data Standards in Chemistry"
Free webinar organized by ChemSpider @rsc.org
rsc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#FAIRchemistry #openstandards #datastandards #chemistrystandards
Free webinar organized by ChemSpider @rsc.org
rsc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#FAIRchemistry #openstandards #datastandards #chemistrystandards
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Prof. Demmy. Verbeke explaining that KU Leuven Library has made a stand & spends zero budget on APCs or TAs. Instead, the library invests in nonprofit #openaccess publishing & infrastructure #OASPA2025
September 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Prof. Demmy. Verbeke explaining that KU Leuven Library has made a stand & spends zero budget on APCs or TAs. Instead, the library invests in nonprofit #openaccess publishing & infrastructure #OASPA2025
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Coming up on Thursday 📅 Sept 25, 2025 🕒 3–4 pm CEST
Join the FREE online #BeilsteinTalk “Single or double? A radical approach to frustrated Lewis pairs” with Rebecca L. Melen @rebeccamelen.bsky.social from Cardiff University.
Just register🔗 https://tinyurl.com/25df8v5p
#MainGroupChem #BeilsteinTalks
Join the FREE online #BeilsteinTalk “Single or double? A radical approach to frustrated Lewis pairs” with Rebecca L. Melen @rebeccamelen.bsky.social from Cardiff University.
Just register🔗 https://tinyurl.com/25df8v5p
#MainGroupChem #BeilsteinTalks
September 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Coming up on Thursday 📅 Sept 25, 2025 🕒 3–4 pm CEST
Join the FREE online #BeilsteinTalk “Single or double? A radical approach to frustrated Lewis pairs” with Rebecca L. Melen @rebeccamelen.bsky.social from Cardiff University.
Just register🔗 https://tinyurl.com/25df8v5p
#MainGroupChem #BeilsteinTalks
Join the FREE online #BeilsteinTalk “Single or double? A radical approach to frustrated Lewis pairs” with Rebecca L. Melen @rebeccamelen.bsky.social from Cardiff University.
Just register🔗 https://tinyurl.com/25df8v5p
#MainGroupChem #BeilsteinTalks
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The video 🎥 of the #BeilsteinTalk “Computational approaches in improving spermine-based RNA #nanocarriers" with Olivia Merkel, LMU München @lmumuenchen.bsky.social , is NOW available 🔓 in the video portal of the TIB Hannover:
🔗 https://av.tib.eu/media/71537
#DrugDelivery #siRNA #BeilsteinTalks
🔗 https://av.tib.eu/media/71537
#DrugDelivery #siRNA #BeilsteinTalks
September 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The video 🎥 of the #BeilsteinTalk “Computational approaches in improving spermine-based RNA #nanocarriers" with Olivia Merkel, LMU München @lmumuenchen.bsky.social , is NOW available 🔓 in the video portal of the TIB Hannover:
🔗 https://av.tib.eu/media/71537
#DrugDelivery #siRNA #BeilsteinTalks
🔗 https://av.tib.eu/media/71537
#DrugDelivery #siRNA #BeilsteinTalks
just had this convo with my colleage @barbarahissa.bsky.social - we have too many examples of wonderful, open infrastructures that unfortunately are not being used by researchers - how to engage them?
I haven't seen too much on author engagement in the discussions around the construction of European Diamond OA infrastructures. I would love to know the organic appetite for all of these services and/or any incentives that are being used to 'drive' their uptake.
September 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
just had this convo with my colleage @barbarahissa.bsky.social - we have too many examples of wonderful, open infrastructures that unfortunately are not being used by researchers - how to engage them?
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Same with commercial proprietary software when we could have been investing in people and building our own infrastructures.
Interesting times have happened over the last twenty years while we have wasted millions of pounds in public resources pursuing commercialised forms of open access publishing.
September 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Same with commercial proprietary software when we could have been investing in people and building our own infrastructures.
Chemistry: It is impossible to have equitable no-apc open access for high quality journals.
High Energy Physics: Hold my bosons..
High Energy Physics: Hold my bosons..
SCOAP3 in a nutshell. The effort is collaborative - not just shared funds. Used particle physics agreements as basis for the #OpenScience governance.
#OSfair2025
#OSfair2025
September 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Chemistry: It is impossible to have equitable no-apc open access for high quality journals.
High Energy Physics: Hold my bosons..
High Energy Physics: Hold my bosons..
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Check out my new op-ed urging NIH to disallow taxpayer dollars towards journal publication fees — something both publishers and scientists have played a role in perpetuating.
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September 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Check out my new op-ed urging NIH to disallow taxpayer dollars towards journal publication fees — something both publishers and scientists have played a role in perpetuating.
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