Mark Huskisson

Opinions are entirely mine (sometimes I do not agree).

Scholarly Publishing Technology | Open Infrastructure Advocate | Consultant | Dive Bar Enthusiast

[Mark Huskisson @MHuski]

Do not use @LinkedIn on #Safari on your #Apple Mac. When constructing a post, the image edit function is totally broken. Leading to me just losing over an hour's worth of work writing and preparing a post – lost. Like in the bad old days before autosave. Choose a proper browser.

[Mark Huskisson @MHuski]

I saw that Marjane Satrapi died aged only 56. I only know her as the author of the Persepolis graphic novel (and the subsequent film). So I searched for more over lunch, and her family said that she had "died of sadness" over her husband's death. What a world.

[Mark Huskisson @MHuski]

@bbctms Is there a test on? Who knew? The way that cricket has become so cut off from the average person in the UK is remarkable. I genuinely had no idea that a test was happening.

[Mark Huskisson @MHuski]

@harshjegadeesan It's a really good question for everyone in scholarly publishing, a rentier industry.

[Mark Huskisson @MHuski]

Representations from:
@OPERASEU – https://t.co/jSj3HO9GJ6...
@ScienceEurope – https://t.co/4mIxGOlLs9...
@LIBEReurope – https://t.co/cbpbeqGDqA...
@SPARC_EU – https://t.co/1HAI1lYxP5
@ESFRI_eu – https://t.co/W2pxvrCn4R – https://t.co/GFfH3Ca5x6...
ERAAct: https://t.co/TWlVZxaRnq

[Mark Huskisson @MHuski]

The European Research Area (ERA) Act will create a European framework that will transform copyright, research assessment, and data-sharing. It will govern how research is published, accessed, and evaluated. If you're in scholarly communications, you need to give it your attention

[Mark Huskisson @MHuski]

The politics of knowledge infrastructure is no longer an abstract concern; it is policy. Infrastructure dependency is a strategic vulnerability. Digital sovereignty is not met with 'just OA' if the infrastructure layer is dependent on commercial platforms. https://t.co/OkHdH47XpD

[Mark Huskisson @MHuski]

@Callum_SR I'm not sure they were going ftom the start. Probably the worst performance by a team at Wembley.

[Open Access Tracking Project @[email protected] @oatp]

Morepress platform: Advancing Open Access Publishing at the University of Zadar – Open Access Books Network https://t.co/f6yaLuVqLu

[Mads @europemaxxed]

European reaction to the "economic output"

[Mark Huskisson @MHuski]

Just doing my monthly accounts using Sage Accounting Software and the @Copilot 'assistant' is an absolute nightmare. Oh, it's horrible. I don't know whether to blame Sage's poor implementation of Copilot or the fact that wherever I use Copilot it adds about 400% effort or failure

[Mark Huskisson @MHuski]

@researchinfo @tandfonline @Jisc Interesting to know what @Jisc and #CAUL provided a commercial publisher to publish six #DiamondOA journals when neither invests in the 55,000 strong Diamond OA community infrastructure, the majority of which is based in institutional libraries. There's always money for the #Big5

[Mark Huskisson @MHuski]

@fayecurran99 @NewStatesman It was terrible in Season 1, so you're telling me it gets worse?

[Mark Huskisson @MHuski]

They seem to completely misunderstand that they ceded that data and sovereignty to multinational publishers a long time ago and no longer 'own' that research or have free access to that information and data. The naïeveté of this myopic view is frankly shocking and disturbing.

[Mark Huskisson @MHuski]

The complete lack of understanding about what it means to establish research, data, and scientific sovereignty amongst senior members of the UK's research community and government is shocking. Their belief is that they own that knowledge and are protecting it from AI and big tech

[Mark Huskisson @MHuski]

@seatsixtyone Solution (for anyone interested) is to buy a ticket from Warsaw to Vilnius (7.5 hours at 08:57 or 14:57 for €24) where you will have to stay overnight (Man at @seatsixtyone provides a simple solution). Then get the daily Vilnius to Riga train at 07:01 (4.5 hours also for €24).

[Mark Huskisson @MHuski]

Enjoying the task of trying to plan a trip from Warsaw to Riga on the newly joined up Baltics lines as described by our man in @seatsixtyone. The route may now be joined up but it is made complicated by a lack of a joined up ticketing system. Probably due to journey's night break

[Mark Huskisson @MHuski]

I'll be attending the Scholarly Social in London ahead of the COPIM Conference and to celebrate the end of the Researcher to Reader Conference. See you at Mable's if you're attending either event or just in the neighbourhood. @Copim_community @R2RConf https://t.co/HN05S3MpAa

[Mark Huskisson @MHuski]

"Every client wants 0 bugs. Every vendor wishes they could deliver it. Yet if I offered you completely bug-free software, I can almost guarantee you wouldn't want it; it would be so simple, so limited, that it wouldn't be worth much, or...prohibitively expensive" @silverchairnews