Stuart
@unitygain.bsky.social
anti-work library worker. formerly @lawsonstu on xoxo
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This Wednesday I'm giving an online talk about my new book. It's at 4pm UK time and you can register here:
opendivide.hypotheses.org/625
opendivide.hypotheses.org/625
Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons
In the seventh lecture of the Open Divide Series, Samuel Moore will present “Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons”. In his talk on November 26, 2025, at 5:00 PM CET, Samuel...
opendivide.hypotheses.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This Wednesday I'm giving an online talk about my new book. It's at 4pm UK time and you can register here:
opendivide.hypotheses.org/625
opendivide.hypotheses.org/625
ACM flipping to 100% open access www.acm.org/publications... (financed via a combination of institutional agreements & APCs)
Open Access Publication & ACM
Open Access Publication & ACM
www.acm.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
ACM flipping to 100% open access www.acm.org/publications... (financed via a combination of institutional agreements & APCs)
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In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
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It’s spooky season… 🧟♂️
Don’t feed the zombies. Support diamond open access!
The zombie poster is back!
#DiamondOA #OpenAccess #Halloween
Don’t feed the zombies. Support diamond open access!
The zombie poster is back!
#DiamondOA #OpenAccess #Halloween
October 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
It’s spooky season… 🧟♂️
Don’t feed the zombies. Support diamond open access!
The zombie poster is back!
#DiamondOA #OpenAccess #Halloween
Don’t feed the zombies. Support diamond open access!
The zombie poster is back!
#DiamondOA #OpenAccess #Halloween
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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The risible wages are well-known in the wider field of the library, museum, gallery and archive world. I’d like to think public opinion is with the people who make the place click day-in-day-out; they deserve better.
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
October 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The risible wages are well-known in the wider field of the library, museum, gallery and archive world. I’d like to think public opinion is with the people who make the place click day-in-day-out; they deserve better.
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
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Out today!
One of the best things I have done this year is to edit, with @laurajwilkinson.bsky.social, a book-length festschrift for @gbilder.com.
The book is available to buy at Blurb (www.blurb.co.uk/b/12575812) but also, of course, OA at zenodo.org/records/1737...
Let me tell you about it...
One of the best things I have done this year is to edit, with @laurajwilkinson.bsky.social, a book-length festschrift for @gbilder.com.
The book is available to buy at Blurb (www.blurb.co.uk/b/12575812) but also, of course, OA at zenodo.org/records/1737...
Let me tell you about it...
Bowdoin, Brown, Browsers, Back-ends, Boards, Beards, and a Bibliography, Volume I by Wilkinson and Eve | Blurb Books UK
Find Bowdoin, Brown, Browsers, Back-ends, Boards, Beards, and a Bibliography, Volume I by Wilkinson and Eve at Blurb Books. This book celebrates the life and wor...
www.blurb.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Out today!
One of the best things I have done this year is to edit, with @laurajwilkinson.bsky.social, a book-length festschrift for @gbilder.com.
The book is available to buy at Blurb (www.blurb.co.uk/b/12575812) but also, of course, OA at zenodo.org/records/1737...
Let me tell you about it...
One of the best things I have done this year is to edit, with @laurajwilkinson.bsky.social, a book-length festschrift for @gbilder.com.
The book is available to buy at Blurb (www.blurb.co.uk/b/12575812) but also, of course, OA at zenodo.org/records/1737...
Let me tell you about it...
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You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)
September 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)
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When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.
Universities doubling down as public sentiment shifts away from dependence upon AI. This is the problem with the buy-in.
The University of Michigan is now claiming that students have an ‘ethical responsibility’ to use AI.
August 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.
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Our colleagues @simonxix.com and @kjsanders.bsky.social express some of Copim's concerns around the UK's Online Safety Act 2023, with particular consideration of how the Act creates barriers to scholar-led open access publishing (and for their readers): doi.org/10.21428/785... @copim.bsky.social
copim.pubpub.org
August 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Our colleagues @simonxix.com and @kjsanders.bsky.social express some of Copim's concerns around the UK's Online Safety Act 2023, with particular consideration of how the Act creates barriers to scholar-led open access publishing (and for their readers): doi.org/10.21428/785... @copim.bsky.social
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We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
July 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
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A timely reminder and there's a handy webpage to find your nearest UK blood and plasma donation centres: my.blood.co.uk/where-to-don...
July 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
A timely reminder and there's a handy webpage to find your nearest UK blood and plasma donation centres: my.blood.co.uk/where-to-don...
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Our pamphlet 'Publishing Activism within/without a Toxic University' is now live on the @openhumanities.bsky.social site:
www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...
www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...
June 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Our pamphlet 'Publishing Activism within/without a Toxic University' is now live on the @openhumanities.bsky.social site:
www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...
www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...
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What is a University Press?
On the acquisition of AUP by T&F (and my anger at it), the governance link between universities and university presses, and putting one's labour where one's values are.
eve.gd/2025/06/08/w...
On the acquisition of AUP by T&F (and my anger at it), the governance link between universities and university presses, and putting one's labour where one's values are.
eve.gd/2025/06/08/w...
What is a University Press?
I was having a pretty good week last week, until we got to the closing minutes of play. At that point, I learned that Amsterdam University Press (AUP) had been acquired by the for-profit corporate pub...
eve.gd
June 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
What is a University Press?
On the acquisition of AUP by T&F (and my anger at it), the governance link between universities and university presses, and putting one's labour where one's values are.
eve.gd/2025/06/08/w...
On the acquisition of AUP by T&F (and my anger at it), the governance link between universities and university presses, and putting one's labour where one's values are.
eve.gd/2025/06/08/w...
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It brings me no joy to share this, but here's an open letter to the leadership of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) on what is to me a very serious issue with it's autonomy and political scope. (Note: I've worked for and with PKP for decades).
ahemnason.notion.site/open-letter-...
ahemnason.notion.site/open-letter-...
An Open Letter to the Leadership of the Public Knowledge Project | Notion
Hey. My name is Mike Nason, Open Scholarship & Publishing Librarian at the University of New Brunswick and the Open Scholarly Infrastructure Advisor with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). I owe a si...
ahemnason.notion.site
May 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It brings me no joy to share this, but here's an open letter to the leadership of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) on what is to me a very serious issue with it's autonomy and political scope. (Note: I've worked for and with PKP for decades).
ahemnason.notion.site/open-letter-...
ahemnason.notion.site/open-letter-...
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🤖 How can academic communities regain control over AI in knowledge production? New report by Open Future fellow @samuelmoore.org explores governance strategies for the "scholarly commons".
Read more ⬇️
openfuture.eu/publication/...
Read more ⬇️
openfuture.eu/publication/...
May 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
🤖 How can academic communities regain control over AI in knowledge production? New report by Open Future fellow @samuelmoore.org explores governance strategies for the "scholarly commons".
Read more ⬇️
openfuture.eu/publication/...
Read more ⬇️
openfuture.eu/publication/...
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May 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Essentially *all* research and expert assessments show that this does not work. It will not counter Farage, but literally push votes towards Reform.
It genuinely is impossible to overstate how profoundly stupid and strategically illiterate this decision is.
You cannot out-Reform Reform.
It genuinely is impossible to overstate how profoundly stupid and strategically illiterate this decision is.
You cannot out-Reform Reform.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is preparing tougher measures on immigration to stem a record flow of arrivals across the English Channel and stave off the threat posed by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party after it made sweeping gains in this week’s local elections.
Starmer Plots Harder Line on Migration to Counter Farage Threat
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is preparing tougher measures on immigration to stem a record flow of arrivals across the English Channel and stave off the threat posed by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party after it made sweeping gains in this week’s local elections.
bloom.bg
May 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Essentially *all* research and expert assessments show that this does not work. It will not counter Farage, but literally push votes towards Reform.
It genuinely is impossible to overstate how profoundly stupid and strategically illiterate this decision is.
You cannot out-Reform Reform.
It genuinely is impossible to overstate how profoundly stupid and strategically illiterate this decision is.
You cannot out-Reform Reform.
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This is exactly why we need decentralized, distributed platform governance in multiple national jurisdictions backed by open content that cannot be removed.
This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
mississippitoday.org
April 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
This is exactly why we need decentralized, distributed platform governance in multiple national jurisdictions backed by open content that cannot be removed.
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This should be in the email inbox of everyone in Scotland. They should know what kind of man Anas Sarwar is.
It's, somehow, real.
Looking forward to him losing his seat next year. No one who cosies up to Trump deserves a seat in our parliament.
It's, somehow, real.
Looking forward to him losing his seat next year. No one who cosies up to Trump deserves a seat in our parliament.
April 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This should be in the email inbox of everyone in Scotland. They should know what kind of man Anas Sarwar is.
It's, somehow, real.
Looking forward to him losing his seat next year. No one who cosies up to Trump deserves a seat in our parliament.
It's, somehow, real.
Looking forward to him losing his seat next year. No one who cosies up to Trump deserves a seat in our parliament.
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Hello world! We’re a new nonprofit that brings together academic, libraries & university-based publishers. We’ll be launching a large collection of hundreds of HSS diamond #openaccess journals in Jan. 2026.
March 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Hello world! We’re a new nonprofit that brings together academic, libraries & university-based publishers. We’ll be launching a large collection of hundreds of HSS diamond #openaccess journals in Jan. 2026.
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The promise of AI in education is it will save educators time. That's rubbish. It's sapping all our time already in working groups, committees, workshops, and marking anxiety. It's the most time-sapping, exhausting and frankly boring thing I've ever encountered in HE - and it's in my research area.
March 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The promise of AI in education is it will save educators time. That's rubbish. It's sapping all our time already in working groups, committees, workshops, and marking anxiety. It's the most time-sapping, exhausting and frankly boring thing I've ever encountered in HE - and it's in my research area.
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I wonder if there's any link between this private company having extra money and most UK universities having no money.
At least Springer Nature is doing well while higher education is collapsing all over the place.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
March 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I wonder if there's any link between this private company having extra money and most UK universities having no money.
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One fifth. ONE FIFTH.
Dear God! Dundee University to cut 632 jobs, *one fifth* of its workforce. The tsunami has been coming in for years. Now it's hit and nothing - nothing - has been done. Britain really is the stupid country. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dundee University to cut 632 jobs
The university said it faced a £35m deficit in this financial year
www.bbc.co.uk
March 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
One fifth. ONE FIFTH.