👋 Let's connect at the @craft-oa.bsky.social Conference - Crafting the Future of #DiamondOpenAccess: Technical, Social & Political Perspectives of #ScholarlyPublishing

Urooj Nizami & @markhusk.bsky.social are there with many friends! @eudch.bsky.social

Check the thread for details 🧵

#CRAFT_OA2025

Just a few more days until the @craft-oa.bsky.social conference www.craft-oa.eu/conference/ starts. While some people are very busy in preparing, others seem to believe that looking cute is already sufficient.

VALUE QUESTION:
* Don’t think that commercial publishers needing to demonstrate value is the same as smaller publishers demonstrating value.
* Existing in the community is of value
* We are all having this crisis of identity, we have to coalesce around the needs. #OASPA2025

Counting down.
Another 13 days to go until our attendees to the CRAFT-OA final event @craft-oa.bsky.social start to arrive at @uni-goettingen.de
Inside the bags interesting information and of course cool little merch stuff. Support #DiamondOpenAccess!

@eduroam.bsky.social is proof of concept what science can achieve if stakeholders sit down and solve a lot of little obstacles together to achieve a common goal.
Could we please sit down and tackle our problematic system of research assessment and incentives in science? @coarassessment.bsky.social

#OAT25 One of the rare keynotes @excinequality.bsky.social I ever had the honour to hear that sparked an inspiring and thoughtful discussion. For example: if Diamond OA brings us just more outlets, more pressure on editors and reviewers, we don‘t solve problems.

@excinequality.bsky.social more information on Gabriele Spilker‘s background

#OAT25
My take fr Gabriele Spilker‘s talk of two conflicting dynamics in inequalities, self-enforcing and self-correcting feedback circles. It reminds me of transformative agreements that bring new inequalities (and problems) and #DiamondOpenAccess as an attempt to enforce self-correcting systems.

die #oat25 are about to start! und wir gehen gleich "all in": mit der gründungsversammlung vom open-access.network.
https://open-access.network/services/news/artikel/gruendungsversammlung-von-open-accessnetwork-e-v-am-17-september-in-konstanz
#openaccess #vernetzung #austausch #organisation

@dbeucke.bsky.social lässt korrigieren, korrektes Hashtag für @openaccessnetwork.bsky.social die Open-Access-Tage 2025 an der Universität Konstanz lautet

#OAT25

#OAT2025
Keynote about inequalities in research and scientific information systems, Gabriele Spilker from excellence cluster „The politics of inequality“

Our local bookshop‘s display. No idea if they ship to the US.

Would be interesting to know how much time the copy editors from large profit maximising publishers are allowed to spend on a given paper and how many articles they are supposed to process per workday. Every time I communicated with their 1st level support folks I sensed stress & anxiety. No fun job

Fully agree with Rebecca Lawrence that "the research assessment ecosystem hinders innovative publication models that address our biggest problems in research".

The other way around, I would argue that a failure to innovate scientific publishing also hinders reform of research assessment.

📢Registration is open for CRAFT‑OA’s final conference!
🗓️ Join us 6–8 Oct 2025 |Göttingen, Germany
Registration is mandatory, secure your spot: www.craft-oa.eu/conference/
💎Explore inspiring presentations, lightning talks, and discussions— all focused on Diamond OA.

#CRAFTOA #DiamondOA #OpenAccess

Because that’s not German food but a narrow and folkloristic interpretation. Maybe ask the 10% vegetarians in Germany what their meals look like.

Grill,
Du willst Grill,
also fette Oberhitze, um Deine Pizza übergangslos von schlaff zu
„oh, zu dunkel“ zu brutzeln

Information brought to you by @najko.bsky.social technical realisation by #SophiaDörner
the author is #StephanGlauch from bsky.app/profile/humb...

Interested in bibliometrics, open formats and innovative publishing based on @quarto.org and @github.com? Then check out bibliometrics-quick-notes.github.io, the author explains why he chose the format and how it‘s produced.
Btw, amazing content too.

Those were more epistemic arguments. The processural ones are a consequence of that and so manifold I just mention some in random order. Prioritising based on one single data point (peer review) paves the way to gaming, exploiting, frauding. PR clogs the system and creates costs and workload etc etc

4) we definitely get a skewed and incomplete picture of reality and science if we use the proxy “peer reviewed“ to prioritise meaningfulness and importance
-> positive bias, output aligned to hegemonial structures, neglecting innovative ideas or diverging claims.

preprints & that many of them receive little change once turned into formal peer-reviewed publications
3) there are strong measures in place to infuse trust-potential into science, we don‘t need to fully rely on gate keepers -> open science, clear processes, established protocols, PID, standards
and

1) assumptions that are backed up with strong anecdotal narratives from medical science ”we based a vacc policy on a preprint and it turned out wrong“ don‘t become a truth. -> Assumption is over-generalising
2) there is evidence around that rightfully challenges the assumption, esp from afterlife of