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/

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/