Samuel Moore
LightNews LightNews
samuelmoore.org
Samuel Moore
@samuelmoore.org
2.5K followers 530 following 1.7K posts
Researcher at Cambridge University Library / Cambridge Digital Humanities

PI: @morphss.bsky.social

New book: Publishing Beyond the Market https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market

https://www.samuelmoore.org
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
samuelmoore.org
Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · Sep 1
You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)
Reposted by Samuel Moore
demonicgrounds.bsky.social
Experimenting with Error: Dan Charnas and I talk about Dilla Time, Detroit, and black geographies. Thank you @antipodeonline.bsky.social for publishing our conversation!

antipodeonline.org/2025/11/25/c...
Author Interview—“Experimenting with Error: A Conversation with Dan Charnas” - Antipode Online
Katherine McKittrick, Canada Research Chair in Black Studies, Queen’s University This conversation took place on March 28th at the 2025 AAG annual meeting in Detroit. Many thanks from everyone here at...
antipodeonline.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Reposted by Samuel Moore
archive.org
📢 Upcoming #booktalk! 📖
Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph for PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET, reimagining open access through scholar-led, non-commercial publishing.

📆 Thurs Dec 4th
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951...

@SamuelMoore.org @HJoseph.bsky.social
A promotional graphic titled “Publishing Beyond the Market.” The top half has a gray textured background with the event title in large white text and a vertical label reading “Book Talk.” To the right is an illustration of a tall, uneven stack of books. The bottom half shows two headshots: on the left, Samuel Moore; on the right, Heather Joseph. Text below reads “with Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph.”
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Reposted by Samuel Moore
eve.gd
I basically think this is the edge of a pretty bad storm of copyright conservatism and a reopening of the license wars (which may make no difference due to transformative use). However, if you put up a paywall to acquire, AI companies have to acquire legally in current court rulings. Problematic.
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
samuelmoore.org
I wish articles would stop setting up a dichotomy between the extractive commercial publishers and the scrappy diamond journals. Community-led journals are obviously not a magic solution to commercial publishing -- nothing is -- and I assume people wanting to build capacity for this space know that.
We Need to Talk About the Billion-Dollar Industry Holding Science Hostage
Your tax dollars fund the research. You pay again to read it.
www.zmescience.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
samuelmoore.org
Nice exploration of Clarivate's "commons washing"
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Reposted by Samuel Moore
samuelmoore.org
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
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
Reposted by Samuel Moore
ncdominie.bsky.social
I'm sure those poorer British students will benefit greatly from grants to attend the universities that no longer exist because Labour have bankrupted them.
sgfmann.bsky.social George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 2d
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
samuelmoore.org
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
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
Reposted by Samuel Moore
sadiahqureshi.bsky.social
Some history of science jobs to share.

An assistant professorship in Environmental History at the Uni of Warwick, FT, open-ended/Permanent, £46-57k, deadline 5 Jan. I know some great people in that department, including historians of science.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
November 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
samuelmoore.org
"Should a country that is no longer a signatory to the global recommendation on open science have the power to decide who and what gets to be involved? If not, how do we safeguard international support for open science against the growing storm?"
US Unesco withdrawal puts open science at risk - Research Professional News
Concentration of digital infrastructure in America creates global fragilities, say Louise Bezuidenhout and Jon Verriet
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
samuelmoore.org
Pretty sad that they've gotten rid of the books about books section in G David's bookshop. The guy said too many people laughed at it so they filtered it into the literature section.
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Reposted by Samuel Moore
openfuture.bsky.social
📬 New newsletter: European Books Data Commons, CommonsDB Explorer launch, AI copyright rulings, and more on making cultural heritage work for AI while keeping control public. Not subscribed yet? Read the full issue and sign up here: mailchi.mp/openfuture/b...
📚 Building a European Books Data Commons - Newsletter #50
European Books Data Commons: a public-interest model for opening cultural heritage to AI training and computational research.
mailchi.mp
November 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Reposted by Samuel Moore
eve.gd
It is SUCH a pain to encounter pavement-parked vehicles when in my wheelchair. Drives me round the bend.
betterstreetsforbirmingham.org Better Streets for Birmingham @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org · 5d
Pavement parking impacts everyone and is a major barrier to walking and wheeling local journeys.

The result of the national pavement parking consultation is long overdue and we cannot afford to wait, so want to see marked bays and measures on a street-by-street basis.
Woman calls for pavement parking ban after falling out wheelchair on school run
Aideen Blackborough was left lying in the road after being forced to manoeuvre her way around a vehicle blocking the pavement in Great Barr
www.birminghammail.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
samuelmoore.org
"In addition to a captive market, academic publishers also enjoy a sizable cost savings particular to their industry. Publishers have various operational costs, but they don’t pay researchers who write the papers, editors who revise them [...], and academic peer-reviewers."
How the Avalanche of Academic Papers Threatens Scientific Research
This is the third part of a series on academic publishing. Read part one here and part two here. For many years, the prestigious journal Philosophy & Public Affairs published about
www.realclearinvestigations.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
samuelmoore.org
I'm going to this! Don't do like I did and look for hotels in Loughborough because you'll be about 100 miles north of where you need to be.
copim.bsky.social Copim @copim.bsky.social · 7d
Join us next year (26-27 February 2026) to explore the future of community-led open access book publishing 🔮

📍 Loughborough University | London or online
🥳 Registration is now open!
🎫 Get your ticket now! buff.ly/DhtaOAJ

#CopimConference
November 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Reposted by Samuel Moore
nicholasguyatt.bsky.social
Surreal to see the media architects of Starmerism, the guys who cheered every one of Starmer's deceptions and assaults on the left, now scratching their heads about why he's become a terrible and reviled prime minister who stands for nothing www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer’s squandering of a historic election victory is a tragedy nearing its finale | Rafael Behr
The tactics that gave Labour its huge majority in 2024 were no preparation for government – and the prime minister has proved he has nothing more to offer, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM
samuelmoore.org
Nice in these troubling times to see a good old fashioned funny publishing story.
November 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Reposted by Samuel Moore
anactualwolf.bsky.social
I was a debate kid and what I learned is that the best people at arguing do not believe or care about what they’re saying.
marawilson.bsky.social Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · Oct 2
People love to talk about how awful theater kids are, and they’re not wrong, but let’s be real, debate kids have made this country a lot worse
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reposted by Samuel Moore
aj-boston.bsky.social
"...ethicality will always be a matter of dispute between people operating from different assumptions about what is right and wrong. Because these assumptions can’t be adjudicated on a purely objective basis, a healthy scholarly communication ecosystem must make space for a variety of opinions, ideologies, and perspectives with regard to right and wrong..." @dril: "the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron" "
November 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
samuelmoore.org
"Maybe the intelligence we most need is the capacity to see beyond the hierarchies that determine which knowledge counts. Without that foundation, regardless of the hundreds of billions we pour into developing superintelligence, we’ll keep erasing knowledge systems that took generations to develop."
anavaldi.bsky.social ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 7d
🤖 "Holes in the web: Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, GenAI is shockingly ignorant too."

Excellent essay on algorithmic epistemological knowledge and the collapse of knowledge throughout mean-driven data machines.

aeon.co/essays/gener...
Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays
Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too
aeon.co
November 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
samuelmoore.org
Haven't done a dad music post in a while, but there's an incredible documentary from 1985 on the iPlayer in which Jools Holland tours New Orleans and meets people like Fats Domino, Dr John and a bunch of others. It's really fun and weird and exactly the kind of telly that wouldn't get made today.
Jools Holland’s New Orleans Jukebox
Programme celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Tube special Walking to New Orleans. The original film is repeated, and Jools Holland reveals the stories behind its making.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
samuelmoore.org
Shabana Mahmood is looking for the Shabana Mahmood that did this.
Two stories side by side: The first: Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister The second: Shabana Mahmood warns Labour MPs ‘dark forces are stirring up anger’ over migration
November 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Reposted by Samuel Moore
mctd.bsky.social
How are novelists and publishers experiencing AI’s impacts❓

Join us next week (20 Nov) for the launch of a new report on how GenAI is impacting the publishing industry. Hear from @clemicollett.bsky.social, @katemossewriter.bsky.social, and @alcs.co.uk.

Book now ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/events/gener...
November 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
samuelmoore.org
Just found a leak on my dehumidifier so for three days it was sucking water out of the air and then immediately distributing it to the rug below fml
November 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Reposted by Samuel Moore
eve.gd
I think this is *the* licensing issue of our time.

Whether it's prohibiting fascist uses or stopping AI training, liberal open licenses are falling down.

I still like CC BY-SA, forcing to share derivatives, but am not sure a license change is the technical solution to this social problem.
samuelmoore.org Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 9d
"That's a problem for me. You see, I wanna make my software freely available to everyone in the world except those guys specifically. That very particular bunch of autocratic corpo-states are actively destroying the world I'm trying to pro-socially enrich as a commoner."
Open Source Power
We have to talk about open source licensing.
blog.muni.town
November 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM