Jean-Sébastien Caux @jscaux@scipost.social

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.