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Peter Suber @petersuber.bsky.social · 2d

Re-upping this from The Onion, 2018.
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#USPol #USPolitics

Man With 20 Rifles Can’t Remember If His Goal To Start Or Stop Violent Overthrow Of Government

BILLINGS, MO—Finding himself increasingly uncertain as to the purpose of his substantial cache of military-grade firearms, Billings resident Greg Carnes admitted Tuesday that he was unable to remember...

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 5d

Donald Trump is offering nine universities funding if they sign a compact that’s a “complete adoption of the MAGA high-education agenda,” Kevin Carey writes. The document is “shot through with the tensions that mark Trumpism in its latest form”:

A Deal That Would End Universities’ Independence

The free-speech provisions of the so-called compact are an exercise in contradiction.

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Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 5d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 5d

The Trump Action Tracker is a British academic’s answer to Trump “flooding the zone” with anti-democratic and anti- rule of law behaviours.

It’s a one-stop-shop for logging thd lot. And the neta-analysis of what is happening is very enlightening… darkly.

See TrumpActionTracker.info

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American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) @aacu.org · 6d

AAC&U Statement on the Trump Administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” https://bit.ly/3VOEJvx

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 8d

New proof of "you can just do things" just dropped

Bluesky @bsky.app · 8d

Bluesky runs on open protocols with open source code. Today we’re taking an additional step and making a patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everyone can build confidently on our work.

Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Bluesky's Patent Non-Aggression Pledge - Bluesky

Bluesky develops open protocols. We're taking a short and simple patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everybody feels confident building on them.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 9d

Thought it might be useful to make a new starter pack - this is one of a somewhat eclectic accounts I follow for US politics

go.bsky.app/N2Z5aMJ

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 9d

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Peter Suber @petersuber.bsky.social · 12d

The old (2006) OAI-ORE standard was designed to support references to clusters of online works, like chapters of a book or different versions of an article. It was to be the sequel to OAI-PMH but never achieved the same level of uptake.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_...

Object Reuse and Exchange - Wikipedia

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EUI Library @euilibrary.bsky.social · 13d

🌟The Library Open Science Office has organised a travelling poster exhibition titled ‘Who Owns Our Knowledge? Exploring Open Access through Voices of Change’ which will coincide with International Open Access Week 2025. See it first at Villa Salviati:29 Sep – 5 Oct! ℹ️ loom.ly/yG5c6r4 #OAWeek2025

Online exhibition: Who Owns Our Knowledge? Exploring Open Access through Voices of Change - The EUI Library Blog

This exhibition is organised by the Library Open Science Office for International Open Access Week 2025, and marks the 15th EUI edition of a global event first held in 2007. This is the extended onlin...

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Peter Suber @petersuber.bsky.social · 13d

I'm proud to be counted one of the "Voices of Change" by the European University Institute, along with so many close friends and allies.
blogs.eui.eu/library/onli...

#EUI #OpenAccess
@eui-eu.bsky.social

Online exhibition: Who Owns Our Knowledge? Exploring Open Access through Voices of Change - The EUI Library Blog

This exhibition is organised by the Library Open Science Office for International Open Access Week 2025, and marks the 15th EUI edition of a global event first held in 2007. This is the extended onlin...

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DORA @dorassessment.bsky.social · 16d

🔛 We're co-creating a Practical Guide for Responsible Research Assessment (RRA) for Research Funding Organizations, in partnership with the Global Research Council RRA Working Group and @scienceeurope.org !
📘 Learn more about the guide and our co-creation meetings 👉 sfdora.org/2025/09/23/p...

Co-creating a Practical Guide for Research Funding Organizations | DORA

Our Funders Group Q3 meetings focused on special co-creation sessions focused on a new resource: “A Practical Guide for Implementing RRA for Research Funding Organizations”.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 16d

RESPONSES to the questions about the biggest unsolved themes at #OASPA2025

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 17d

@gelliottmorris.com: "many people fundamentally underestimate how unpopular Trump is."

Trump is currently underwater on all key issues, something our corporate elites should consider before capitulating to him.

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Kristen Ratan @kristenratan.bsky.social · 23d

Rapid Science, Stratos, and ICOR response to the NIH RFI on publishing costs. "It is only through convergence of ideas and collective action that we will achieve a dynamic paradigm that will accelerate the benefits of our collective investment in science." incentivizingopen.org/2025/09/rapi...

Rapid Science/ICOR Response to NIH RFI | ICOR

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 22d

Glad I had deleted my account ages ago.. this is just 🤯

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 22d

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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SPARC @sparcopen.bsky.social · 22d

Learn more about automatic textbook billing or so-called inclusive access: www.inclusiveaccess.org. And read the fine print on agreements universities have with vendors in our textbook billing contract library: sparcopen.org/our-work/aut...

InclusiveAccess.org – The Facts on Affordable Access Textbooks

Inclusive Access and Affordable Access programs add the cost of textbooks into college tuition and fees. Do the advertised benefits outweigh the costs and challenges? Get the facts.

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Open Research Funders Group @orfg.bsky.social · 22d

@txtbks.bsky.social of @sparcopen.bsky.social and Cailyn Nagle of Michelson 20MM Foundation talked with @thelever.bsky.social about automatic textbook billing. Great to see this problem getting news coverage. AND awesome to see funders doing something about it. #OpenAccess #OER #OpenFunder

How Wall Street Broke The College Bookstore | Open Research Funders Group

Shoutout to Nicole Allen of SPARC and Cailyn Nagle of Michelson 20MM Foundation who spoke to The Lever about the problems at university bookstores, particularly the use of automatic textbook billing. ...

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Boxer Dog Dad @boxerdogdad.bsky.social · Apr 21

This is an interesting way to view election data…

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26d

In a shocking on-air moment, a “Fox and Friends” co-host said homeless people suffering from mental health issues who refuse help should be killed

'Just Kill 'Em': Fox Host Makes Shocking Comment On Homeless People

"Fox and Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade made a jaw-dropping remark while discussing homelessness and mental health.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 28d

if i get killed, you can quote stuff i wrote. that's why i wrote it

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · Sep 7

The comment period for a sham “climate science” report commissioned by the DOE closed earlier this week, and the verdict is in: the scientific community has overwhelmingly and resoundingly rejected the report. UCS submitted comments on the report, and here are the four key points we made:

A Resounding Rejection of the US DOE’s Sham “Climate Science” Report

It is rife with inaccuracies and disinformation.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Sep 3

Big news: California, Oregon and Washington State just announced a joint "West Coast Health Alliance" to counter Trump/RFK destruction of our public health system.

As I argued last week (see below), this is becoming a new frontier in Dem Gov resistance to Trump.

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Daniel S. Katz @danielskatz.org · Sep 2

Scientific Open-Source Software Is Less Likely to Become Abandoned Than One Might Think! Lessons from Curating a Catalog of Maintained Scientific Software
by Addi Malviya Thakur, Reed Milewicz, Mahmoud Jahanshahi, Lavínia Paganini, Bogdan Vasilescu, Audris Mockus
doi.org/10.1145/3729...

Scientific Open-Source Software Is Less Likely to Become Abandoned Than One Might Think! Lessons from Curating a Catalog of Maintained Scientific Software | Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineer...

Scientific software is essential to scientific innovation and in many ways it is distinct from other types of software. Abandoned (or unmaintained), buggy, and hard to use software, a perception often...

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Peter Suber @petersuber.bsky.social · Aug 28

I wish you success. But if you're hoping to foster philosophical dialog on Bluesky, I'm not optimistic. The limit on post size creates severe pressure to oversimplify, which is the opposite of what you want in philosophical dialog.

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