Jean-Sébastien Caux @jscaux@scipost.social

I was immensely saddened to learn of the recent passing of Bart van Tiggelen.

He was a great researcher, a wonderful human being, and an engaged scientist with his heart in the right place. I will miss our inspiring and (re)motivating conversations.

https://www.sfphysique.fr/hommage-a-bart-van-tiggelen-1965-2025/

Congratulations to the 45 grantees of the @OpenScienceNL infrastructure round! With 35M euros allocated, this is major news.

This post is however reaching out to candidate individuals and teams who did *not* submit to the final (second) round after submitting a preproposal.

Mastodon hive mind, can you help me trace them? I'd like to hear about those projects.

I have some thoughts on how allocation of resources to open science initiatives could be improved. https://jscaux.org/blog/post/2025/12/18/open-science-nl-art-of-retrospective-duping/

@telescoper I really admire all you've done with @ojastro.bsky.social.

Perhaps a fairer statement would have been "struggling financially because sponsorships don't match their level of activity"?

Perhaps also "switch to an arXiv overlay model and abandon their independent open infrastructure, open refereeing, recognized metadata facilities and uniquely complete and transparent financial information systems"?

Dunno, 🤔 just thinking out loud here.

In recent years, #SciPost has grown into an essential open science infrastructure.

Our sustainability is however under threat.

Only 147 out of 1351 (a mere 11%) benefitting organizations have supported us.

This ongoing level of freeriding means we are now at a crossroads.

Academic organizations urgently need to change tack and fulfil their promise to sustainably support scientists-led, not-for-profit publishing infrastructure.

Help us convince them to support us.

https://jscaux.org/blog/post/2025/05/13/scipost-at-a-crossroads/

@gleet Hi Paul, I dropped Mac years ago but when I used it, my disk was regularly getting clogged up by Spotlight's automatic indexing. It's very dumb (in particular it doesn't check for available space before indexing). If you block that and remove the associated files, it might solve your problem.

I don't want to offend anybody, but I think there is a need for more honesty regarding how it's all going with the reform of publishing.

I think it's not going well.

There is so much more good that could happen so rapidly. Instead, reform seems to be stuck in an illusory "tragedy of the commons", while a very real "treachery of the private" is happening. Academia is manifestly being outsmarted by corporate-directed forces.

I'd love to be proved wrong.

https://jscaux.org/blog/post/2024/03/07/reform-of-publishing/

@akohls nice to be in touch! Enjoy the (hopefully long-lasting) absence of manipulative algorithms here.

Just plunged the 🗡️ into my #birdsite account. Will keep/block the handle, but I'm now a 🧟‍♂️ there, so don't expect any 💓.

I've kept following 1 account though: #Mastodon 😉

The CEO's recent tweets did it for me. Anyway, I've always found their algorithms very biased, and thus not useful. It's only going to get (way) worse now.

Apologies to all those I used to follow there, I'll find you again somewhere in the #Fediverse!