Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cC6Vu_CAtgxSck8S9be_hmzSu-w2DsaJ02Nw5oeayAg/edit?usp=sharing

Reminder: Applications are open for a fully-funded PhD studentship at The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) and its @PostPublishing research strand!

We invite proposals that explore alternative publishing practices and formats and discuss their potential to cultivate more supportive, diverse, and equitable publishing futures.

Full details on the project, eligibility, and how to apply are available here: https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-opportunities/research-students/research-studentships/practicing-post-publishing/

📢 We are really excited to announce the speakers, journals, and presses participating in this year's ROAC conference “Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism”, happening on 10 and 11 April 2025 online and at the Milstein Room, Cambridge University Library (UK).

Speakers: Élisabeth Arsenault, Sarah-Anne Arsenault, Lucy Barnes, Simon Batterbury, Marc Herbst, Rupert Gatti, Angela Okune, Charmaine Pereira, Jeff Pooley, Ela Przybyło, Magalí Rabasa, Ash Sharma, Stevphen Shukaitis, Lauren Smith, Alessandra Tosi, Vincent van Gerven Oei

Journals & Presses: darkmatter, ÉSBC, Feral Feminisms, Feminist Africa, Journal of Political Ecology, Journal of Radical Librarianship, mediastudies.press, Minor Compositions, Open Book Publishers, punctum books, The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest.

@journalofpoliticalecology @mediadotpress @OpenBookPublish

More details, and registration via https://radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org/conferences/radicaloa3/

We are very happy to announce that Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) researchers Janneke Adema @openreflections and Rebekka Kiesewetter @Rebekka_Kie will be collaborating on the project Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences (MORPHSS), which has been awarded over £800,000 to encourage and embed innovative open research practices within humanities and social science (HSS) disciplines.

Led by Dr Samuel Moore @Samuelmoore (Communication Specialist, Cambridge University Library) as part of a collaboration with Cambridge Digital Humanities, Coventry University, the University of Sheffield and the University of Southampton, MORPHSS is Funded by the Research England Development (RED) Fund, the Wellcome Trust, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

More information: https://postpublishing.postdigitalcultures.org/2025/01/22/coventry-university-to-play-key-role-in-research-project-that-will-explore-openness-in-the-humanities-and-social-sciences/

“Why can’t #Fediverse software simplify the onboarding process by piling everyone onto one server – much like #Bluesky does?”

The simple reason: money.

Bluesky is able to support 20M users because it has VC money to support that scale. Put simply, #Bluesky has $28M in funding, and therefore can afford the server infrastructure.

In contrast, #Pixelfed is subsisting on $1,419/month. No, I didn’t forget some zeros. It’s literally making do with $1,419. Which is why @dansup is having a tough time with pixelfed.social – he works with what he has.

But in the event he doesn’t have enough resources, thankfully 600 other servers can pick up the slack, which allows Pixelfed some horizontal scale. No, pixelfed.social cannot meet the demand for all Pixelfed registrations, but other servers can meet the demand.

This, by the way, is also what happened in November 2022. Lots of people wanted a mastodon.social account. However, because Mastodon only had a few thousand dollars in funding – not millions – it had to close registrations for a short period. Thankfully, other servers were able to pick up the slack.

And this was not a negative thing. It’s what helped grow decentralization.

Now if you want your favourite server to have more scale, they need funding. So be sure to give your admin a donation to help grow your communities.

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/users/ajsadauskas/statuses/113864784052786396

The Open Book Collective has just launched their second call for applications for funding from their Collective Development Fund

Read more about the 2025 Call & Guidance

🔗 https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/obc-collective-development-fund-grant-programme-2025-call--guidance/

Available in multiple languages

👉 French https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/programme-de-subventions-du-fonds-de-developpement-collectif-de-lobc--appel-et-conseils-pour-2025/

👉 Spanish https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/cbo-collective-development-fund-grant-program-call-and-guidance-2025/

👉 Portuguese https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/obc-collective-development-fund-grant-program-2025-call-for-proposals-and-guidance/

The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) and its Post-Publishing research strand invite applications to a fully-funded PhD studentship that explores alternative publishing practices and formats and discusses their potential to cultivate more supportive, diverse, and equitable publishing futures.

➡️ Full details on the project, eligibility, and how to apply are available here:

https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-opportunities/research-students/research-studentships/practicing-post-publishing/

Save the date for the 'Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism' conference on 10 and 11 April 2025, online and at the Milstone Room, Cambridge University Library.

How can social justice activism be promoted or unfolded through academic publishing? What is the value of collectivising through publishing projects? What are the dynamics, challenges, and opportunities that arise when individuals and communities from diverse backgrounds come together to work on shared radical publishing projects?

More info and registration details in January.

Feeling lucky to have had my first journal peer review experience with such a wonderful and generous team of researchers and practitioners across the fields of #publishing #digitalculture #opensource and more.

Loved being part of the reviewer's team and having the chance not only to read more about research topics close to my heart but also collectively explore what forms open peer review might take in a future that is #openaccess & #opensource.

🔖 Check out #CultureMachine Vol. 23 special issue ‘Publishing after Progress’ here: https://culturemachine.net/archives/vol-23-publishing-after-progress/

Special thanks for the invitation to guest-editor @Rebekka_Kie!

I am happy to announce the release of #CultureMachine Vol. 23 special issue ‘Publishing after Progress’ that I guest edited: https://culturemachine.net/archives/vol-23-publishing-after-progress/.

A big thank you to Sarah Kember, @jpooley, @glshei & Eduardo Aguado-López, Lucie Kolb, @openreflections, Roger Magazine & Gabriela Méndez Cota, @Femke@postlurk & Eva Weinmayr, Anja Groten, Valeria Mussio, & Carlos Ramírez Kobra for their brilliant contributions; thank you to all the peer reviewer who generously committed to exploring the possibilities of #openpeerreview with us; and the co-editors of #CultureMachine for enabling and supporting this collaborative effort!

Rebekka Kiesewetter (@Rebekka_Kie) considers the internationalization of scholarship in her article ‘Reframing the “International” in UK International Scholarship,’ with a focus on transient, multilingual, discursive communities: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5383 [5/18]

Post-Publishing Winter Newsletter: https://postpublishing.postdigitalcultures.org/2024/02/22/post-publishing-winter-newsletter/

NEW: Copim is celebrating the official launch of the #ExperimentalPublishingCompendium with a festive calendar highlighting 24 experimental publishing tools, practices & books from the compendium!

🔗https://compendium.copim.ac.uk

@rmounce well spotted. it‘s a mix up actually :(... so sorry and thanks for pointing it out.

My PhD thesis Reading Differently: Expanding Open Access Definitions Towards Greater Knowledge Equity is finally out! https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/reading-differently
Writing this thesis was a shared undertaking that I cannot fully claim credit for. During this PhD, I have written, have been written and unwritten, in profound co-authorship(s) without a clear beginning or end. This PhD has taken shape through the struggles, love, sufferings, labours, dedication, joys, and insights of many others to whom I am incredibly thankful.
A special thanks to @openreflections and @Samuelmoore for all their wisdom, support, and generosity

😡 Frustrated by the limitations of academic publishing?

📚 We offer support and funding to help realise three experimental book proposals.

📝 Submit your proposal by 22 November 2023:
https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/expub-pilot-call/

📢 NEW: The Open Book Futures project and @Copim_community are inviting authors, publishers, platform and tool providers to submit proposals for experimental, long-form scholarly book projects (we accept applications from individuals and project teams).

💰 We offer support and funding to help realise 3 experimental book pilot projects.

📅 Apply by 22 November 2023.

📝 https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/expub-pilot-call/

#OAbooks #OpenAccess