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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 15d

AGREE furiously with @samuelmoore.org (Radical Open Access) the 2012 Finch report was a very destructive document for OA. The commercialisation of OA: journals need quick processing, publish as many as possible, little intervention of humans. This is an anathema to scholar led publishing #OASPA2025

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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 15d

Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social telling a room full of publishers that the lack of good faith in R&P agreements has to stop. What planet are commercial publishers living on? Constant grind for library staff to deal with what she describes as this “garbage”. #OASPA2025

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Wendy Patterson @wendypatterson.bsky.social · 17d

Join us on October 21st to chat about "Data Standards in Chemistry"
Free webinar organized by ChemSpider @rsc.org

rsc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#FAIRchemistry #openstandards #datastandards #chemistrystandards

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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 17d

Prof. Demmy. Verbeke explaining that KU Leuven Library has made a stand & spends zero budget on APCs or TAs. Instead, the library invests in nonprofit #openaccess publishing & infrastructure #OASPA2025

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Beilstein-Institut @beilstein-institut.bsky.social · 18d

Coming up on Thursday 📅 Sept 25, 2025 🕒 3–4 pm CEST
Join the FREE online #BeilsteinTalk “Single or double? A radical approach to frustrated Lewis pairs” with Rebecca L. Melen @rebeccamelen.bsky.social from Cardiff University.
Just register🔗 https://tinyurl.com/25df8v5p
#MainGroupChem #BeilsteinTalks

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Beilstein-Institut @beilstein-institut.bsky.social · 20d

The video 🎥 of the #BeilsteinTalk “Computational approaches in improving spermine-based RNA #nanocarriers" with Olivia Merkel, LMU München @lmumuenchen.bsky.social , is NOW available 🔓 in the video portal of the TIB Hannover:
🔗 https://av.tib.eu/media/71537
#DrugDelivery #siRNA #BeilsteinTalks

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Wendy Patterson @wendypatterson.bsky.social · 20d

just had this convo with my colleage @barbarahissa.bsky.social - we have too many examples of wonderful, open infrastructures that unfortunately are not being used by researchers - how to engage them?

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 21d

I haven't seen too much on author engagement in the discussions around the construction of European Diamond OA infrastructures. I would love to know the organic appetite for all of these services and/or any incentives that are being used to 'drive' their uptake.

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Simon @simonxix.com · 21d

Same with commercial proprietary software when we could have been investing in people and building our own infrastructures.

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 21d

Interesting times have happened over the last twenty years while we have wasted millions of pounds in public resources pursuing commercialised forms of open access publishing.

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Wendy Patterson @wendypatterson.bsky.social · 24d

And here I was all ready to blame good ol' research assessment again 😅

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Wendy Patterson @wendypatterson.bsky.social · 24d

Chemistry: It is impossible to have equitable no-apc open access for high quality journals.

High Energy Physics: Hold my bosons..

Sara Rouhi @rouhiroo.bsky.social · 24d

SCOAP3 in a nutshell. The effort is collaborative - not just shared funds. Used particle physics agreements as basis for the #OpenScience governance.

#OSfair2025

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 25d

Check out my new op-ed urging NIH to disallow taxpayer dollars towards journal publication fees — something both publishers and scientists have played a role in perpetuating.
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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.bsky.social · 28d

It's so saddening to see how a movement with such good intentions has been co-opted and commercialised to such an extent that it's effectively now just a means for channelling public money in corporate pockets. For me, if it's not Diamond I don't want to know. #OpenAccess

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 28d

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Make academic publishing a commons, not a market - Research Professional News

Commercialisation has thwarted the promise of openness—it’s time for new priorities, says Samuel Moore

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Wendy Patterson @wendypatterson.bsky.social · 28d

Yes. hiking + audiobook + sweet doggo 😍

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Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social · Sep 8

What might seem like a small announcement—it’s just one institution—actually carries substantial weight and has a strong symbolic meaning.

@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, has taken another bold step: it won't renew its Web of Science license. www.uu.nl/en/news/acce...

Access to Web of Science will end on 1 January 2026

The university library has decided not to renew the licence for access to the Web of Science citation database (including Journal Citation Reports).

www.uu.nl

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Beilstein-Institut @beilstein-institut.bsky.social · Sep 8

Final spots are still open to present at the 6th #EnzymeML Workshop! Got research on how to better share and standardize enzymatic data? This is your chance to share your work with the community.
Submit your abstract today and secure your spot! 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/4va7ay75
#EnzymeML2025 #STRENDA

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · Sep 4

DM: Incentivized reviewers had slightly higher positive response, and were a bit faster in sending in reviews.
The incentivized manuscript surprisingly had a slightly longer time-to-acceptance. The peer review time, however, is just a small fraction of the total editorial time.
#PRC10

Results day with a table with percentages.

Conclusion slide with a photo of a painting of the Venice Arsenale.

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Wendy Patterson @wendypatterson.bsky.social · Sep 5

Yes, exactly what I was getting at. Abbreviations that are standardized are great. But these examples here in this thread highlight the need for a common language - thus the importantance of the work that IUPAC and others do! Great discussions (and examples) here!

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NFDI4Chem @nfdi4chem.de · Sep 5

#Stammtisch is coming up.⠀
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"Feeding Open Databases with AI-powered Literature Extraction Tools: The COCONUT–MARCUS Pipeline"

Don't hesitate to register:⠀
26.9.2025 14 CET⠀
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https://www.nfdi4chem.de/event/stammtisch/
⠀##chemistry #rdm #fdm #research data #research data #fairdata #workshop

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Wendy Patterson @wendypatterson.bsky.social · Sep 5

In today's episode of Why Standards Matter - chemists vent frustration about the lack of standards for abbreviation.
#chemicalstandards #openstandards

Nathan Hawkins @nathhawkins.bsky.social · Aug 21

Anyone else have a particular bugbear about the use of ambiguous abbreviations in the organic and biochemistry lab.
ACN: one person’s acrylonitrile is another one’s acetonitrile
IAA: iodoacetamide or auxin?
I’ve seen enough near-misses through ambiguous labelling to last a lifetime.
#ChemSky

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Wendy Patterson @wendypatterson.bsky.social · Sep 5

YES. We were so frustrated that we started a curated list here github.com/Beilstein-In... Feel free to fork/add!

GitHub - Beilstein-Institut/BChemLookup: An Open Science Initiative for Mapping Common Chemical Abbreviations

An Open Science Initiative for Mapping Common Chemical Abbreviations - Beilstein-Institut/BChemLookup

github.com

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RSC-CICAG @rsc-cicag.bsky.social · Sep 4

We are pleased to welcome nominations for our annual Lectureship, which celebrates early career researchers, either in academia or industry, who have made significant contributions in the fields of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery.

👉 Details here: www.rsc.org/standards-an...

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Beilstein-Institut @beilstein-institut.bsky.social · Sep 4

Coming up next week: Invitation to join the FREE livestream 🎥 of the Beilstein Enzymology Symposium 2025 “Natural and synthetic evolution of catalysis” in Rüdesheim 🇩🇪, 📅 Sept 9–11, 2025.
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/y37jc353
#BeilsteinEnzymology2025 #biocatalysis
@mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social‬

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 4

@brembs @ERC_Research
Yes, in brief:
- transparent, equitable, and open access to scholarly publications
- not-for-profit, open access and multi-format, with no costs for authors or readers (Diamond OA)
- encourage Member States to support the pilot programme Open Research Europe (to create a […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 3

This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]

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Beilstein-Institut @beilsteininstitut.hessen.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 3

Registration is OPEN!

The preliminary agenda for the 4th Ontologies4Chem Workshop 2025 in Limburg an der Lahn is online. The workshop will take place on 📅 11–13 November, 2025 and is jointly organized by
,@NFDI4Chem, @NFDI4Cat, Physical Sciences Data […]

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