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Ross Mounce
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Open knowledge enthusiast. Creates and maintains. Director of Open Access Programmes at Arcadia Fund.

Recognises that access to knowledge is a human right […]

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No Adobe! I don't need you to cryptographically verify all the signatures contained in this PDF before you load it. Just show me the bloody document. Arghhhh!

#softwarebloat
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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📝 Wikimedia blog: Unifying our mobile and desktop domains

Reduced mobile response times by 20% worldwide and un-broke Google indexing.

https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/

#wikimedia #mediawiki #wikipedia
Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
How we achieved 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO, and reduced infrastructure load.
techblog.wikimedia.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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New Horizons Diamond https://www.horizondiamond.nl/
New Horizons Diamond
www.horizondiamond.nl
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Ah Microsoft Outlook... is email really that hard?
November 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Lyrasis, Big Ten Academic Alliance Libraries, and California Digital Library Receive Grant to Advance Diamond Open Access in the United States

great to see this work happening […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Great to see the society journal 'European Societies' moving away from Taylor & Francis and now being published with MIT Press under a diamond open access model (no paywall for readers and no fees for authors either) […]
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mastodon.social
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Wow... I was just pointed to this paper
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2024.104081
and its retraction
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2024.104081

Want to read the first sentence of the introduction together with me?
"Certainly, here is a possible […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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New diamond open access journal Replication Research welcomes reports of replication of previous works. #academicchatter
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/replicationresearch/index
Replication Research
Replication Research is a diamond open-access and researcher-led journal that publishes reproductions, replications, and conceptual articles on repetitive research
www.uni-muenster.de
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Oxford and Harvard libraries now publishing their own diamond open access journals. Love it. ❤️

Paying hundreds of millions to big commercial publishers isn't the only way of supporting researchers to publish their research.

Oxford: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox#collapse5381526

Harvard […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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It is with great pride that I can now post this:

Our Shortform hosting service (SHOx) is now live! Go and check it out: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox

Spread the news - The Bodleian is doing diamond OA!
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
anyone good at reporting wikipedia user accounts for undisclosed conflict-of-interest editing?

This IP address has one edit of puffery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/185.76.164.237

If one does a WHOIS on the IP address it traces to a German "communications and PR" company […]
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mastodon.social
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Anyone good at getting Android phones to do slightly unusual things?

Read on...

When I attach this to my Nothing 3a Pro phone, it kinda works... the USB-A for instance works - I can read&write to a thumb drive.

But I can’t get it to use Internet via RJ45 […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Great to see the inclusivity & recognition of @OpenAlex improve with the recent 'Walden' (codename) data update.

You can compare old vs. new data at the OREO site (OpenAlex Rewrite Eval Overview) https://oreo.openalex.org/

The screenshot I'm looking at here […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
anyone else having trouble reaching Zenodo today?

I got a:

"504 Gateway Time-out
The server didn't respond in time."

when trying to access a community page https://zenodo.org/communities/sfdora/

#aibots #bandwidthissues
Search DORA - San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
zenodo.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Rogue Scholar is becoming a German Non-Profit Organization
The science blog archive Rogue Scholar started the process of becoming a German non-profit organization in 2026. This blog post summarizes the reasoning and the main steps needed to achieve this. Two weeks ago, I published a self-assessment of how Rogue Scholar adheres to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). Major gaps were identified in the areas of _governance_ and _sustainability_. To address these gaps, a major step forward would be to start a non-profit membership organization. The need to take this step at some point was obvious to me since I launched Rogue Scholar in April 2023. With the basic service operating and on a good path forward with 50,000 science blog posts archived by the end of the year, the time has arrived to make this step. Starting a non-profit membership organization in Germany means starting a _Verein_ , or registered association. The steps involved to formally register the association are clearly laid out and mainly involve the following: * at least seven founding members, * drafting statutes (_Satzung_), * founding general assembly with members approving statutes and electing a founding board, * registration at a local court, * registration for charitable status with the tax authorities. It helps that I have worked for non-profit organizations most of my professional life. Not only public universities, but also a non-profit publisher (PLOS), and two membership organizations (ORCID and DataCite), with the latter also being a German Verein. Interestingly, Research Organization Registry (ROR), an initiative that I helped launch in early 2019, is not a membership organization. Running a non-profit organization in Germany requires more paperwork compared to, for example, Belgium or the Netherlands, mainly to obtain and keep charitable status. This means a good amount of work for the founding board, especially the president and treasurer. One important question is the rights and responsibilities of members. As individuals or groups of people, rather than formal organizations, run many science blogs, membership has to be open to all legal entities, individuals and organizations. Membership fees should differentiate between individuals and organizations, and include at least two tiers for small and large organizations, for example: * individual 25 EUR/year * small organization 250 EUR/year * supporting organization 2500 EUR/year Rogue Scholar is a Diamond Open Access infrastructure with no fees to readers or authors. This means that membership can't be a requirement for a science blog to be archived in Rogue Scholar, but rather that membership comes with other benefits. Members not only help support a unique open scholarly infrastructure but also have a say in the governance of the organization via the general assembly, participation in the board, and potentially working groups going forward. For Rogue Scholar to achieve sustainability, membership fees are an important element. Two other aspects are also important: * **Volunteer labor** , particularly in the areas of outreach, support, and software development, becomes easier once Rogue Scholar has formal members * **Grant funding** , which becomes easier once Rogue Scholar obtains charitable status Please use Slack, email, Mastodon, or Bluesky if you have any questions or comments regarding Rogue Scholar becoming a non-profit membership organization. Rogue Scholar is a scholarly infrastructure that is free for all authors and readers. You can support Rogue Scholar with a one-time or recurring donation, by becoming a sponsor, or soon by becoming a member. ## References 1. Fenner, M. (2025, October 20). Rogue Scholar follows the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). _Front Matter_. https://doi.org/10.53731/m65a8-6sm21 2. POSI Adopters. (2025). _The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure v2.0_. https://doi.org/10.14454/G8WV-VM65 3. Fenner, M. (2023, April 4). The Rogue Scholar is now open for business. _Front Matter_. https://doi.org/10.53731/z9v2s-bh329 4. California Digital Library, DataCite, Crossref, & Digital Science (United Kingdom). (2018). _The ROR of the crowd: Get involved!_. https://doi.org/10.71938/SNA1-ZC49
blog.front-matter.io
November 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Another exciting tech question for the Masto massive.

I need advice for Wordpress[com] assistance. I have a friend who is locked out of their site - theyve had it for a long time but recently got locked out and cant recover it bc they dont have any proof its their account. Does any Wordpress […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
eyeballing the new CWTS Leiden university rankings from an open access perspective...

Indonesian universities dominate the top 100 (of most OA universities), with >95% open access.

It goes to show that when a country system isn't embroiled in the […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
October 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I understand that people in some countries and some organisations need a certificate of attendance to prove they've been to a meeting...

...but can we please ensure that those certificate of attendance files aren't 10MB!

Not a fun surprise in my inbox this morning!!
October 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Doing some light "research" on Grokipedia.

It's not enough to just laugh it. I've gotta try it out to see it for myself...

So I looked up the article on Cheese.
https://grokipedia.com/page/Cheese

Lots of immediately obvious errors/issues including:

* […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
October 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Greenland Ditches Starlink for French Satellite Service: Greenland Strengthens Internet Links Without U.S. Help

https://www.dagens.com/technology/greenland-ditches-starlink-for-french-satellite-service
Greenland Ditches Starlink for French Satellite Service
Greenland Strengthens Internet Links Without U.S. Help
www.dagens.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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It's International Smug Self-Hosters Day! Best wishes to all who celebrate.
October 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
any major academic publishers with a critical reliance on AWS? I guess we'll find out today... 👀
October 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM