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
Probably the best role in open scholarly publishing.
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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...
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-...
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...
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...
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.
The DIAMAS Project (@diamas.bsky.social) Final Conference begins at the KBR (Royal Library of Belgium). I am really looking forward to the conversations in this space, packed with European leaders and the wider global #DiamondOA community. Allez!
June 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The DIAMAS Project (@diamas.bsky.social) Final Conference begins at the KBR (Royal Library of Belgium). I am really looking forward to the conversations in this space, packed with European leaders and the wider global #DiamondOA community. Allez!
The #PKPOslo2025 Sprint has started at @uio.no. Groups have been established to work on metadata workflows for indexing books with @thoth-metadata.bsky.social, #CRAFT-OA plugins, workflow improvements, and multilingualism for citations, metadata translation, and machine translation. @pkp.sfu.ca
June 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The #PKPOslo2025 Sprint has started at @uio.no. Groups have been established to work on metadata workflows for indexing books with @thoth-metadata.bsky.social, #CRAFT-OA plugins, workflow improvements, and multilingualism for citations, metadata translation, and machine translation. @pkp.sfu.ca
"Multilingualism and discoverability of scientific content: the challenge of machine translation" assesses the promise of machine translation and how it could contribute to improving the discoverability of science in French. The tools struggle with nuance and complexity.
www.acfas.ca/publications...
www.acfas.ca/publications...
May 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"Multilingualism and discoverability of scientific content: the challenge of machine translation" assesses the promise of machine translation and how it could contribute to improving the discoverability of science in French. The tools struggle with nuance and complexity.
www.acfas.ca/publications...
www.acfas.ca/publications...
"True open access, managed by academics for academics, it follows our mass resignation from JES (Journal of Economic Surveys) ... [we] envision REL as part of a movement to restore scholarly publishing to the priorities & values of the academic community.” More details at pkp.sfu.ca/2025/04/25/s...
April 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
"True open access, managed by academics for academics, it follows our mass resignation from JES (Journal of Economic Surveys) ... [we] envision REL as part of a movement to restore scholarly publishing to the priorities & values of the academic community.” More details at pkp.sfu.ca/2025/04/25/s...
Reviews of Economic Literature has launched a year after the mass resignation of the Editorial Board from Wiley. Owned as a non-profit and published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social with @pkp.sfu.ca they "envision REL as part of a movement to restore scholarly publishing to ... the academic community."
April 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Reviews of Economic Literature has launched a year after the mass resignation of the Editorial Board from Wiley. Owned as a non-profit and published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social with @pkp.sfu.ca they "envision REL as part of a movement to restore scholarly publishing to ... the academic community."
"Eight NZ universities spend $67 million annually on journal subscriptions and read and publish agreements. This money is almost all spent offshore. A small portion of it redirected towards diamond journals would enable sustainable, equitable open infrastructure and service." doi.org/10.31274/jls...
April 10, 2025 at 6:59 AM
"Eight NZ universities spend $67 million annually on journal subscriptions and read and publish agreements. This money is almost all spent offshore. A small portion of it redirected towards diamond journals would enable sustainable, equitable open infrastructure and service." doi.org/10.31274/jls...
Good luck to all the small businesses, researchers, and consultants out there today. I am only a tiny cog in research and publishing, but I've had two contracts cancelled and an unpaid contract for $13,025 that will remain unrealised due to US action. These are difficult times. Good luck, everyone.
April 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Good luck to all the small businesses, researchers, and consultants out there today. I am only a tiny cog in research and publishing, but I've had two contracts cancelled and an unpaid contract for $13,025 that will remain unrealised due to US action. These are difficult times. Good luck, everyone.
Godwins Onwuchekwa from eLife engaging the #OxFOS25 audience at the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social this afternoon. Looking at the evolution of publishing, starting with the Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) model.
March 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Godwins Onwuchekwa from eLife engaging the #OxFOS25 audience at the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social this afternoon. Looking at the evolution of publishing, starting with the Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) model.
"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him." Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince.
February 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him." Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince.
From the Intellectualist on X: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
November 8, 2024 at 2:19 PM
From the Intellectualist on X: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
A longer answer to a question raised at #OASPA2024 about the danger of open infrastructure being acquired by commercial interests. This blog post was circulated in March and explains the situation. For a deeper, detailed, more fun conversation catch me at #OASPA in Lisbon. pkp.sfu.ca/2024/03/14/p...
September 17, 2024 at 2:33 PM
A longer answer to a question raised at #OASPA2024 about the danger of open infrastructure being acquired by commercial interests. This blog post was circulated in March and explains the situation. For a deeper, detailed, more fun conversation catch me at #OASPA in Lisbon. pkp.sfu.ca/2024/03/14/p...
A federal antitrust lawsuit has been filed on behalf of scientists and scholars who allege that six scholarly publishers conspired to unlawfully appropriate billions of dollars that would otherwise have funded scientific research. www.lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/ac... #Publishing #ScholComms
September 13, 2024 at 2:07 PM
A federal antitrust lawsuit has been filed on behalf of scientists and scholars who allege that six scholarly publishers conspired to unlawfully appropriate billions of dollars that would otherwise have funded scientific research. www.lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/ac... #Publishing #ScholComms
Job Opportunity: Open-Source-Application Support Engineer / System Administrator (m/f/d) with the German National Library of Science and Technology to work on TiB's publishing services, starting as soon as possible and based in or near Germany. See: www.tib.eu/en/tib/caree...
July 31, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Job Opportunity: Open-Source-Application Support Engineer / System Administrator (m/f/d) with the German National Library of Science and Technology to work on TiB's publishing services, starting as soon as possible and based in or near Germany. See: www.tib.eu/en/tib/caree...
The fabulous Circoli dei Lettori will be a place to share knowledge and collaborate on enhancing the technological advancements publishing software. Gathering the Diamond OA community, publishing services and technology, journal editors, and technical professionals. events.gwdg.de/event/834/ov...
July 10, 2024 at 11:25 AM
The fabulous Circoli dei Lettori will be a place to share knowledge and collaborate on enhancing the technological advancements publishing software. Gathering the Diamond OA community, publishing services and technology, journal editors, and technical professionals. events.gwdg.de/event/834/ov...
OJS from PKP has been shortlisted for the Global Impact Award by ALPSP in recognition of 25 years of making research a global public good. Free and open source software translated into 68 languages that supports more than 44,000 journals in 148 countries to publish 12m articles. www.alpsp.org/Awards
June 26, 2024 at 2:54 PM
OJS from PKP has been shortlisted for the Global Impact Award by ALPSP in recognition of 25 years of making research a global public good. Free and open source software translated into 68 languages that supports more than 44,000 journals in 148 countries to publish 12m articles. www.alpsp.org/Awards
New in Nature today: "...we want to show how closely journals and authors are adhering to the scholarly standards of publishing. We want to help readers, including researchers, the media, and the public, to decide whether an article is worth reporting on or citing."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
April 18, 2024 at 8:18 AM
New in Nature today: "...we want to show how closely journals and authors are adhering to the scholarly standards of publishing. We want to help readers, including researchers, the media, and the public, to decide whether an article is worth reporting on or citing."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Watching Roman Holiday this evening and Audrey Hepburn's Princess Ann utters this answer to a press question... I vote Audrey for President.
February 25, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Watching Roman Holiday this evening and Audrey Hepburn's Princess Ann utters this answer to a press question... I vote Audrey for President.