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LibLynx LLC @liblynxllc.bsky.social · 17d

We achieved ISO 27001 certification! The international gold standard for info security! Not a milestone reached by very many in the #scholarly community. Read more about what it means for clients & what we learned along the way. #infosecurity #iso27001 #scholcomms
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LibLynx achieves ISO 27001 Certification - LibLynx

LibLynx achieves ISO 27001 certification, the international standard for information security management systems

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Lettie Y. Conrad, PhD @lyconrad.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you, @npr.org, for being a steady channel of #fact-based #journalism. This sort of calm, clear, and unbiased reporting on #painkillers and #acetaminophen is a light in today's darkness! www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...

How does acetaminophen work? Over-the-counter Painkillers 101

The president and his deputies tied autism to acetaminophen use during pregnancy. Refresh your knowledge on safe and effective use of common painkillers with these tips from health professionals.

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Lettie Y. Conrad, PhD @lyconrad.bsky.social · 23d

Don't miss this year's New Directions Seminar -- an oasis of thoughtfulness in the chaos of fall conference season.
See you all there s👀n! #SSPND2025

Society for Scholarly Publishing @scholarlypub.bsky.social · 28d

New Directions in Scholarly Publishing: What We’re Looking Forward to This Year - The Scholarly Kitchen

What can you expect from this fall’s New Directions in Scholarly Publishing Seminar in Washington, DC?

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Lettie Y. Conrad, PhD @lyconrad.bsky.social · Sep 10

"I didn’t plan to work in #scholarly #publishing. But now that I’m here, I’m all in." —Deja Forte 👇 must read!!

The Scholarly Kitchen @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social · Sep 10

Guest Post – Where Do We All Fit In? Reflections on Belonging, Purpose, and Progress in Scholarly Publishing scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/10/g...

Guest Post – Where Do We All Fit In? Reflections on Belonging, Purpose, and Progress in Scholarly Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today's guest post by Deja Forte declares: Publishing isn’t just about systems and standards; it’s about people. Each of us has the power to build bridges between knowledge and the lives it’s meant to...

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LibLynx LLC @liblynxllc.bsky.social · Sep 10

Join us at next week's @nisoinfo.bsky.social Plus Global event! @michelleurberg.bsky.social will speak to standardizing #usage reporting from aggregators, and Tim Lloyd will address the challenge of leveraging emerging digital #identity infrastructures. Don't miss it! www.liblynx.com/news/liblynx...

LibLynx presenting on Analytics, Identity & Access at NISO Plus 2025 Global - LibLynx

Tim Lloyd and Michelle Urberg on presenting on Identity, Access, and Analytics at next week's 2025 NISO Plus Global conference

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Lettie Y. Conrad, PhD @lyconrad.bsky.social · Sep 8

📢Call to action! Tell Congress: Don’t Allow Nuclear Weapons Regulatory Process Loopholes! @ucs.org #resist #scicomm #science secure.ucs.org/a/2025-congr...

Tell Congress: Don’t Allow Nuclear Weapons Regulatory Process Loopholes

Tell your member of Congress that the National Nuclear Security Administration must go through the proper regulatory channels for the production of nuclear weapons to ensure the safety and integrity o...

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Lettie Y. Conrad, PhD @lyconrad.bsky.social · Aug 30

#bugsky #bloomscrolling
#monarchbutterfly
This fella brings us to 170 healthy monarchs released this year in SoCal 🦋😎

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · Aug 25

Guys, I have a special & unusual request today. My cousin Sean is a union bus driver here in Los Angeles who was just FIRED in retaliation for saying he would not let masked ICE agents onto his bus to abduct riders. The fight is on to get his job back, you can help: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...

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Lettie Y. Conrad, PhD @lyconrad.bsky.social · Aug 20

So appreciate @dacrotty.bsky.social "showing his math" on the tricky analytical gymnastics required to analyze the #scholcomms market!

The Scholarly Kitchen @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social · Aug 20

2025 Update: Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/20/2...

2025 Update: Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market - The Scholarly Kitchen

Catching up with the ongoing consolidation of the journals market -- what has happened in the two years since this was last examined? And how does the market look if you add in a large number of relat...

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Lettie Y. Conrad, PhD @lyconrad.bsky.social · Aug 19

Some eloquent and insightful discussion today about achieving full #accessibility in #scholcomms 👇 @loupeck.bsky.social

The Scholarly Kitchen @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social · Aug 19

Guest Post — Beyond Open Access, Part 1: Make Academic Content Truly Accessible for All scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/19/g...

Guest Post — Beyond Open Access, Part 1: Make Academic Content Truly Accessible for All - The Scholarly Kitchen

Open access has revolutionized how research reaches readers — yet, true accessibility is an ethical imperative for institutions, publishers, and service providers to create genuinely inclusive scholar...

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Lettie Y. Conrad, PhD @lyconrad.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thank you @rickanderson.bsky.social for putting these thoughts together so clearly and fairly. I appreciate your balanced and expert view on the tricky journey to increase #openaccess publications!

Rick Anderson @rickanderson.bsky.social · Aug 18

I've got a new piece up in the @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social today, explaining my deep pessimism about the future of the subscribe-to-open OA publishing model. Comments are coming in thick and fast and the discussion has been really good so far, I think.

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Subscribe-to-Open Is Doomed. Here's Why. - The Scholarly Kitchen

A scholarly communication ecosystem that relies on voluntary support rather than charging for access to content becomes radically less capable of keeping money in the system.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · Aug 16

I’m begging, PLEADING, with people - please, please, please do not just assume that because an LLM “cites its sources” that what it says is right.

In addition to the well-known (I thought) problem where they make up sources entirely, they often “cite” sources that don’t contain the supposed info.

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LibLynx LLC @liblynxllc.bsky.social · Jul 15

“...a community is only as strong as its next generation of leaders,” and we're proud to have played our part in meeting SSP's Generations Fund goals! #GenerationsFund www.liblynx.com/news/ssp-gen... @mdolechek.bsky.social @michelleurberg.bsky.social
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SSP Generations Fund: Partly Powered by LibLynx - LibLynx

We’re proud to support the SSP Generations Fund, which is now partly powered by LibLynx thanks to our $5,000 contribution.

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David Crotty @dacrotty.bsky.social · Jun 11

This is a really good and clear explanation for authors and institutions of their obligations under the new NIH Public Access Policy: www.authorsalliance.org/2025/06/06/t...

The NIH Public Access Policy: Q&A for Authors

We’ve received many questions from authors, librarians, and research administrators about the NIH decision to accelerate implementation of its public access plan, going into effect on July 1, 2025.…

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CHORUS @chorusaccess.bsky.social · Jun 5

🎤 Meet the speakers:

Judith Russell - UF
Caroline Coward - NASA
@lyconrad.bsky.social - Independent Researcher and Consultant
Simon Holt - @elsevierconnect.bsky.social

🗓️ June 18 | 11 AM EDT

🔗 Register now: www.chorusaccess.org/events/choru...

#Accessibility #OpenResearch #ScholComm

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Lettie Y. Conrad, PhD @lyconrad.bsky.social · May 30

I’d love to help 😊 you know where to find me when you’re ready to publish! ✏️

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Lettie Y. Conrad, PhD @lyconrad.bsky.social · May 30

Love this (and that it’s “old” from 2020!) 😊 We gotta get you writing for @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social William!

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Lettie Y. Conrad, PhD @lyconrad.bsky.social · May 30

The “invisible work” of editing is key to good writing (and thinking)!

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · May 28

Amazing new discovery: Oldest full human fingerprint discovered. A Neanderthal is believed to have dipped a finger in red pigment to paint a nose on a pebble around 43,000 years ago. The rock was discovered in the San Lázaro rock shelter in Segovia, Spain

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On the left picture the red dot, on the right one a fingerprint.
Multi-spectrum analysis led to the identification of a fingerprint from the red dot

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Lettie Y. Conrad, PhD @lyconrad.bsky.social · May 27

Packing some pink so @jenniferaregala.bsky.social will be able to spot me at #ssp2025!!!! 😍💗🧳✈️

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Lettie Y. Conrad, PhD @lyconrad.bsky.social · May 27

So excited to see everyone in Baltimore! #ssp2025

LibLynx LLC @liblynxllc.bsky.social · May 26

Meet us at #SSP2025 in Baltimore this week! We’ll be chatting about innovations in usage data & measuring with your heart. Come find Tim, John, @michelleurberg.bsky.social & @lyconrad.bsky.social at the Previews Session, Poster Preview & networking events – or slide into our DMs!

LibLynx staff headshots against the backdrop for the May 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing: Lettie Conrad, John Corkery, Michelle Urberg and Tim Lloyd.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · May 22

This development is welcome news - but it is limited and temporary. We will not rest until IMLS and its funding are fully restored. #ForOurLibraries (2/2)

"These wins are temporary and only as good as the extent to which they are upheld throughout the appeals process... Library advocates will not rest until libraries in every state receive the funding promised and IMLS is back in full" - ALA President Cindy Hohl.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · May 22

"Academic freedom-the ability to pursue the truth wherever it might lead, and to make publicly available what one believes is true ...[is] not the arcane privilege of an... intellectual guild, but a prerogative essential to the functioning of our Republic and the education of its citizenry."

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · May 22

This, UVA’s 200th Commencement Address from Michael J. Suarez, SJ, University Professor and Director of the @rarebookschool, is very very good and something that needs more saying. Astonishing that we have to remind our higher ed leaders of that at this very moment. news.virginia.edu/content/fina...

“Academic freedom-the ability to pursue the truth wherever it might lead, and to make publicly available what one believes is true without interference or reprisal-is thus not the arcane privilege of an unworldly intellectual guild, but a prerogative essential to the functioning of our Republic and the education of its citizenry. As a producer of knowledge, teacher of skills and judgment, and caretaker of cultures and learning, the American university is entrusted with the work that helps guide and guard the full exercise of democratic freedom.”

“On our 200th anniversary, you may be certain of this: Our ability to pursue the truth and communicate it freely is a national asset. The American university must compromise neither its moral position
nor its vision, lest the Republic and its citizens lose one of its most essential ways of learning about and understanding the world.
"Knowledge is power," said the first rector of this university, "and," he added, "... ignorance is weakness."”

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David Crotty @dacrotty.bsky.social · May 19

Fantastic post today in @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social by Alexa Pearce, looking at the pact set up by Vannevar Bush and FDR to drive scientific innovation in America, and where things stand today with both the dismantling of that enterprise and the new mandates for public access to research results

Guest Post - Public Access to the Endless Frontier - The Scholarly Kitchen

Vannevar Bush's Endless Frontier has served as a blueprint for public investments in science for 80 years--a concept now facing great risk.

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