Mark Huskisson
@markhusk.bsky.social
All opinions are mine (sometimes I do not agree and are subject to change without notification). Scholarly Publishing Technology | Open Infrastructure | Consultant | Dive Bar Enthusiast | Open Science
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The inaugural article of Reviews of Economic Literature is fittingly titled
"It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community"
It argues that open access crucially needs to be coupled with a new non-profit publishing model
rel.journals.sup.org/index.php/re...
"It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community"
It argues that open access crucially needs to be coupled with a new non-profit publishing model
rel.journals.sup.org/index.php/re...
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The inaugural article of Reviews of Economic Literature is fittingly titled
"It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community"
It argues that open access crucially needs to be coupled with a new non-profit publishing model
rel.journals.sup.org/index.php/re...
"It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community"
It argues that open access crucially needs to be coupled with a new non-profit publishing model
rel.journals.sup.org/index.php/re...
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Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it’s far more likely that autism causes vaccines.
November 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it’s far more likely that autism causes vaccines.
Is Zoom just terrible for everyone this past month or two, or just me? I'm on a fully paid-up plan and running 128mbps/23mbps minimums on fully up-to-date versions of Mac OS and Zoom. But the image is laggy and about 4fps. Incoming sound is good but it is broken when I'm speaking. Just shocking.
October 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Is Zoom just terrible for everyone this past month or two, or just me? I'm on a fully paid-up plan and running 128mbps/23mbps minimums on fully up-to-date versions of Mac OS and Zoom. But the image is laggy and about 4fps. Incoming sound is good but it is broken when I'm speaking. Just shocking.
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"Geoffrey Bilder has made immense contributions to scholarly communications infrastructure over many decades, and his career shows no signs of slowing down. This volume is a collection of writings by a wide range of contributors to showcase the range and diversity of his enduring legacy."
Brown, Browsers, Back-ends, Boards, Beards, and a Bibliography: A Festschrift in Honour of Geoffrey Bilder
Geoffrey Bilder has made immense contributions to scholarly communications infrastructure over many decades, and his career shows no signs of slowing down. This volume is a collection of writings by a...
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October 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"Geoffrey Bilder has made immense contributions to scholarly communications infrastructure over many decades, and his career shows no signs of slowing down. This volume is a collection of writings by a wide range of contributors to showcase the range and diversity of his enduring legacy."
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Very excited for @craft-oa.bsky.social #CRAFT_OA2025 Tuesday Plenary highlights on #OpenJournalSystems Diamond Plugins & OJS Core Feature Development: #GDPR, #Multilingualism and Better #Metadata - & so much more!
Program: www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-con...
Streaming: www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-con...
Program: www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-con...
Streaming: www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-con...
October 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Very excited for @craft-oa.bsky.social #CRAFT_OA2025 Tuesday Plenary highlights on #OpenJournalSystems Diamond Plugins & OJS Core Feature Development: #GDPR, #Multilingualism and Better #Metadata - & so much more!
Program: www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-con...
Streaming: www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-con...
Program: www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-con...
Streaming: www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-con...
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JOB OPPORTUNITY: @pkp.sfu.ca is looking for a Managing Director! This is a rare opportunity to lead a highly impactful #scholcomm organization. Role works closely with me (Scientific Director) to provide strategic and operational leadership. Help us spread the word!
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
PKP is hiring a Managing Director - Public Knowledge Project
The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director
pkp.sfu.ca
September 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
JOB OPPORTUNITY: @pkp.sfu.ca is looking for a Managing Director! This is a rare opportunity to lead a highly impactful #scholcomm organization. Role works closely with me (Scientific Director) to provide strategic and operational leadership. Help us spread the word!
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
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Very much appreciate @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca's reminder to us, at the start of what promises to be a dynamic post-lunch panel at #OASPA2025 that @pkp.sfu.ca is, at root, a scholar and research led initiative
September 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Very much appreciate @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca's reminder to us, at the start of what promises to be a dynamic post-lunch panel at #OASPA2025 that @pkp.sfu.ca is, at root, a scholar and research led initiative
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I couldn't agree more. This is the top leadership role at **humble brag** one of the most impactful organizations in #scholcomm. Reach out if you have questions! (cc #OASPA2025)
Probably the best role in open scholarly publishing.
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
September 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I couldn't agree more. This is the top leadership role at **humble brag** one of the most impactful organizations in #scholcomm. Reach out if you have questions! (cc #OASPA2025)
Probably the best role in open scholarly publishing.
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
September 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Probably the best role in open scholarly publishing.
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
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📢Employment opportunity at PKP!
PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact.
If you are interested, learn more at:
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact.
If you are interested, learn more at:
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
PKP is hiring a Managing Director - Public Knowledge Project
The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director
pkp.sfu.ca
September 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
📢Employment opportunity at PKP!
PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact.
If you are interested, learn more at:
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact.
If you are interested, learn more at:
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
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Kevin Stranack announces his retirement -- As Director of Operations and open access champion, Kevin’s impact has been profound!
“This marks the end of a deeply fulfilling chapter... one filled with purpose, collaboration, and a shared commitment…"
Read more from Kevin: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/08/07/r...
“This marks the end of a deeply fulfilling chapter... one filled with purpose, collaboration, and a shared commitment…"
Read more from Kevin: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/08/07/r...
Retirement Announcement from Kevin Stranack, PKP Director of Operations
Kevin Stranack, Director of Operations, announces his retirement by the end of 2025, expressing his gratitude to the PKP Community and team.
pkp.sfu.ca
August 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Kevin Stranack announces his retirement -- As Director of Operations and open access champion, Kevin’s impact has been profound!
“This marks the end of a deeply fulfilling chapter... one filled with purpose, collaboration, and a shared commitment…"
Read more from Kevin: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/08/07/r...
“This marks the end of a deeply fulfilling chapter... one filled with purpose, collaboration, and a shared commitment…"
Read more from Kevin: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/08/07/r...
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🗓️ 29 August 2025 @craft-oa.bsky.social, 2pm CET: Meet the Experts Webinar – #OJS 3.x to 3.5 release upgrade tutorial
Designed for systems administrators and journal managers #OpenJournalSystems - get a walk-through, requirements checklist, and answers!
Register: www.craft-oa.eu/29-august-20...
Designed for systems administrators and journal managers #OpenJournalSystems - get a walk-through, requirements checklist, and answers!
Register: www.craft-oa.eu/29-august-20...
August 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
🗓️ 29 August 2025 @craft-oa.bsky.social, 2pm CET: Meet the Experts Webinar – #OJS 3.x to 3.5 release upgrade tutorial
Designed for systems administrators and journal managers #OpenJournalSystems - get a walk-through, requirements checklist, and answers!
Register: www.craft-oa.eu/29-august-20...
Designed for systems administrators and journal managers #OpenJournalSystems - get a walk-through, requirements checklist, and answers!
Register: www.craft-oa.eu/29-august-20...
This piece by Ian Dunt is well worth your time. A fascinating look at comics as an outsider's medium, designed by and produced by outsiders. Superman is such an outsider, but a different kind of outsider with the hidden heroism of the socially anxious.
iandunt.substack.com/p/immigrant-...
iandunt.substack.com/p/immigrant-...
July 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This piece by Ian Dunt is well worth your time. A fascinating look at comics as an outsider's medium, designed by and produced by outsiders. Superman is such an outsider, but a different kind of outsider with the hidden heroism of the socially anxious.
iandunt.substack.com/p/immigrant-...
iandunt.substack.com/p/immigrant-...
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🚀 OJS, OMP, and OPS 3.3.0-21 and 3.4.0-9 released -- it's time to update!
Head over to the PKP Community Forum to learn more and join to get announcements like this one as soon as they are posted:
forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/ojs-omp-an...
#OpenJournalSystems #OJS #OpenMonographPress #OpenPreprintSystems
Head over to the PKP Community Forum to learn more and join to get announcements like this one as soon as they are posted:
forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/ojs-omp-an...
#OpenJournalSystems #OJS #OpenMonographPress #OpenPreprintSystems
July 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
🚀 OJS, OMP, and OPS 3.3.0-21 and 3.4.0-9 released -- it's time to update!
Head over to the PKP Community Forum to learn more and join to get announcements like this one as soon as they are posted:
forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/ojs-omp-an...
#OpenJournalSystems #OJS #OpenMonographPress #OpenPreprintSystems
Head over to the PKP Community Forum to learn more and join to get announcements like this one as soon as they are posted:
forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/ojs-omp-an...
#OpenJournalSystems #OJS #OpenMonographPress #OpenPreprintSystems
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With today's sad news about PubPub, is it time to roll out the much-overused infrastructure image? A reminder that funders, agencies, ministries, and institutions continue to fund outputs and new projects that sit precariously atop software, projects, and community initiatives that go un(der)funded.
June 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
With today's sad news about PubPub, is it time to roll out the much-overused infrastructure image? A reminder that funders, agencies, ministries, and institutions continue to fund outputs and new projects that sit precariously atop software, projects, and community initiatives that go un(der)funded.
Extractive and not reciprocal. Findings from Cloudflare's latest Radar data, "The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers", show that AI bots crawl sites as many as 70,000 times for every single referral click. blog.cloudflare.com/ai-search-cr...
July 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Extractive and not reciprocal. Findings from Cloudflare's latest Radar data, "The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers", show that AI bots crawl sites as many as 70,000 times for every single referral click. blog.cloudflare.com/ai-search-cr...
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Updates are coming to PKP software. This post outlines changes in OJS 3.5 & 3.6 that lower costs, increase accessibility, and support new publishing models. Updates also apply to OMP & OPS 👉 https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/06/30/production-changes-plans/
July 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Updates are coming to PKP software. This post outlines changes in OJS 3.5 & 3.6 that lower costs, increase accessibility, and support new publishing models. Updates also apply to OMP & OPS 👉 https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/06/30/production-changes-plans/
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This new study, Scholarly Publishing’s Hidden Diversity (published at @plosone.org), reveals that the academic publishing oligopoly is under pressure from the rise of independent, OA publishers, signalling a shift toward greater global plurality in the scholarly record. doi.org/10.1371/jour...
June 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This new study, Scholarly Publishing’s Hidden Diversity (published at @plosone.org), reveals that the academic publishing oligopoly is under pressure from the rise of independent, OA publishers, signalling a shift toward greater global plurality in the scholarly record. doi.org/10.1371/jour...
This new study, Scholarly Publishing’s Hidden Diversity (published at @plosone.org), reveals that the academic publishing oligopoly is under pressure from the rise of independent, OA publishers, signalling a shift toward greater global plurality in the scholarly record. doi.org/10.1371/jour...
June 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This new study, Scholarly Publishing’s Hidden Diversity (published at @plosone.org), reveals that the academic publishing oligopoly is under pressure from the rise of independent, OA publishers, signalling a shift toward greater global plurality in the scholarly record. doi.org/10.1371/jour...
With today's sad news about PubPub, is it time to roll out the much-overused infrastructure image? A reminder that funders, agencies, ministries, and institutions continue to fund outputs and new projects that sit precariously atop software, projects, and community initiatives that go un(der)funded.
June 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
With today's sad news about PubPub, is it time to roll out the much-overused infrastructure image? A reminder that funders, agencies, ministries, and institutions continue to fund outputs and new projects that sit precariously atop software, projects, and community initiatives that go un(der)funded.
This is deeply sad news, especially for all the staff who have been immediately laid off. Please get in contact, and we'll all do our best to share your stories and try to help get you placed in a new role. PubPub had many exciting ideas and still... funding.
www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2025...
www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2025...
June 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is deeply sad news, especially for all the staff who have been immediately laid off. Please get in contact, and we'll all do our best to share your stories and try to help get you placed in a new role. PubPub had many exciting ideas and still... funding.
www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2025...
www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2025...
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This interesting new preprint on SocArXiv shows that "The landscape of academic journals is beyond the oligopoly: it is diverse and often grounded in public, academic-driven initiatives rather than market imperatives." osf.io/preprints/so...
📢 Our new study challenges the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing! Read the preprint: Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe. doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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June 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This interesting new preprint on SocArXiv shows that "The landscape of academic journals is beyond the oligopoly: it is diverse and often grounded in public, academic-driven initiatives rather than market imperatives." osf.io/preprints/so...
Remember the language of the recent Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. acquisition by Sage? “With this acquisition, we will honor and build upon Mary Ann Liebert’s legacy while growing the portfolio’s reach and impact”? Sadly, we hear that many of the Mary Ann Liebert staff have been 'let go' by Sage yesterday.
June 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Remember the language of the recent Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. acquisition by Sage? “With this acquisition, we will honor and build upon Mary Ann Liebert’s legacy while growing the portfolio’s reach and impact”? Sadly, we hear that many of the Mary Ann Liebert staff have been 'let go' by Sage yesterday.
The impending acquisition of Amsterdam UP (@amsterdamupress.bsky.social) by Tnf (@tandfresearch.bsky.social) is a stark reminder that almost everything within a commodified publishing industry is susceptible and vulnerable to the unquenchable demand for growth of the commercially imperative.
June 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The impending acquisition of Amsterdam UP (@amsterdamupress.bsky.social) by Tnf (@tandfresearch.bsky.social) is a stark reminder that almost everything within a commodified publishing industry is susceptible and vulnerable to the unquenchable demand for growth of the commercially imperative.