Yes same ☹️ And I think it was me that talked you out of it soz

@kirahopkins.bsky.social too good not to add here too 😆

[shakes head sadly] There is nothing I can do :(

Well done you lot, that's fab - here's to another 17 🍾

Thanks Christoph, yes sorry I meant if you knew why the OA version had gone. Have a copy of the T&F corporate explanation on the acquisition already, but thanks!

@christophsorg.bsky.social are you able to share any details on this, how you found out, why it happened etc? My colleagues and I at @copim.bsky.social are very interested in developments like this in schol comms, including researching an article on T&F's takeover of AUP.

I wonder what happened here then? Did T&F pull the plug on the official OA version? If so, how is that possible and for what reasons?

Hair looks good though so swings and roundabouts

The one conspiracy theory I allow myself is that he faked his own death and is living happily on an island somewhere, sipping Mai Tais.

Fair enough yep I'm sure it's tricky.

but the headline is very frustrating: making it sound like OA is the problem whereas the article does a good job of explaining that it's the publishers and their APC & transformative agreement models that are the problem

Yeah this is great to see it written out like this "Any hope that [universities are] going to pay more into a publishing system… looks extractive" 🔥🙌

WHOOP WHOOP! That's fantastic! 🥳 Well deserved my friend ✒️❤️