Mélanie Marcon from @cnrs-inist.bsky.social was the clear winner of the informal @countermetrics.bsky.social Advisory Committee costume contest last week, at our Halloween meeting. Lucky for me she's a fellow knitter so over the weekend I spun up a skein of fluff as a prize!

Quizbit!

Your regular reminder that while total spend by libraries is increasing, that's a slower rate of increase than article output. We should be looking at spend per article for a fair discussion.
#uksg2025

Cheese toastie and a quad espresso to start day 3 at #uksg2025

The @uksg.bsky.social team gave me the most beautiful flowers for hosting the #uksg2025 quiz! Sat next to my big spinning wheel to illustrate why I asked *that* question, and the cats because where else would they be?

Brighton is getting ready for @uksg.bsky.social with plenty of sunshine and just a touch of sea haze... Should still be like this next week

I talk about this a lot with my consulting hat on. The financial pressures on libraries to cover the costs of the ever-increasing article output, and the drivers of research misconduct, are driven in large part by the way we incentivise and measure researchers (1)

Today in #ThingsICouldDoWithout: breaking two toes by tripping over trailing laundry as I was loading it into the washing machine.

Currently sat with my foot inside a wine chiller, propped on the windowsill.

I'm more of a coffee person, but yes... lots of it today, I think.

This is the first day in the last 14 weeks where there's no construction in my house. Instead there's a chimney coming down in the house next door, and my other half is live streaming a DJ set right behind me. Thank goodness for military-surplus ear-defenders

Join me, Joanna Ball, Yvonne Campfens and Ádám Dér at the UKSG Conference in a couple of weeks to find out why you really should be supporting small infrastructure and standards bodies in the knowledge space!