Free Our Knowledge ✊

A collective action platform to kickstart #OpenScience practices in academia. Tweets by @coopsmout and @wimpouw.

@freeourknowledge.bsky.social

[Free Our Knowledge ✊ @projectFOK]

Do you see problems with the for-profit academic publishing system? Take action with us! Publish with diamond open access in 5 years after the pledge activates. Activation happens when a critical mass is reached. https://t.co/Ya1YECebl4 https://t.co/j8CUx1r7aK @projectFOK

[Open Heart + Mind @OHMcollective]

🌱 Tomorrow: OHM Root Council — Participatory Democracy

Turning shared values into shared governance.

🗣 Jonathan Sri, participatory democracy expert
📊 Results of our value-mapping experiment
🗳 Electing OHM's incoming board

🗓️ 8pm AEST / 10pm UTC
🔗 https://t.co/aiGoN5emRz

[Free Our Knowledge ✊ @projectFOK]

Come explore a radically inclusive, open peer-review system designed for academia — and generalised to help ANY community self-organise around what they find valuable.

For all project & community builders, #openscience & #metaresearch advocates, and revolutionaries at heart 🔥

[Open Heart + Mind @OHMcollective]

🌱 This Monday 12 May: Seed Council continues!

We’ll review the list of nominated values and start rating them using the #WisdomSystem.

🗓️ Mon 12 May · 8pm AEST / 10am UTC
🔗 https://t.co/hm5tDDP1rP

Come share what you care about — and help grow OHM's 2025 Value Map. 💜

[Free Our Knowledge ✊ @projectFOK]

For people who believe that communities can determine their own values, better than the journals and other institutions they operate under

[Open Heart + Mind @OHMcollective]

🌱 Seed Council begins Monday!

We’re launching a participatory experiment to define the values that will guide OHM in the year ahead.

Open to anyone who joined OHM Council #1 or watches the recording. 🌍💜

🗓️ Mon 5 May · 10am UTC
🔗 https://t.co/umpHLSLKty

#OpenScience #DeSci

[Cooper Smout @DrCooperSmout]

🌱 Huge thanks to everyone who helped launch our new OHM Council Series! 🙏

It was great to share space with such a diverse group, across different backgrounds and locations.

I’m beyond excited for this next phase — launching a hands-on experiment to collectively define OHM’s values for the year ahead.

We’re growing OHM from the ground up — embedding our shared values into its core. 💠

This is an open call for anyone who wants to be part of that process. Beginning this Monday 10am UTC.

👇 Details in the video

Let’s grow the future we want to see — together. 💜🌱

[Open Heart + Mind @OHMcollective]

37 OHM-azing humans kicked off our new Council Series this week!

We met, shared, and outlined plans for the year.

Missed it? Here's the recording:
📷 https://t.co/H99aElR0DW

Next up: a hands-on experiment to choose our collective values for OHM (Monday).

Link in shownotes 👇

[Daniël Lakens @lakens]

People, just stop doing Frontiers special issues. Find a nice diamond open access journal, and self-publish and collaboratively peer review the set of papers you all want to write. Do not give Frontiers money. If anything, they hurt your reputation. MDPI is
even worse.

[Cooper Smout @DrCooperSmout]

It’s been a huge year for @OHMcollective and the #WisdomSystem!

Collaborations, global travel, app dev breakthroughs, and more. Ready for the highlights and a glimpse of what's next? Check out our 2024 wrap-up on the blog!

https://t.co/3rf21XwEcT

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Honourable mentions to these amazing communities creating spaces to connect, share, and build a more open, fair and regenerative future 🙏

@aimos_inc @vibecamp_ @EmbassyNetwork @AsteraInstitute @_zanzalu @improvingpsych @ZuBerlinCity @JoinEdgeCity @FelizzyS @z_ayub @shanhaiwoo @themu_xyz @FundingCommons @IPFS @SingularityNET @oceanprotocol @foresightinst @EFDevcon @regensunite

#OpenScience #DeSci

[VoxNieuws @VoxNieuws]

In tijden van bezuiniging kan de academische wereld veel geld besparen door commerciële uitgevers links te laten liggen en over te stappen op Diamond Open Access. Nederland zou hierin een voortrekkersrol moeten pakken, vinden Wim Pouw en Bert Bakker.

https://t.co/8LI01jqDPH

[Fred Bordignon @freddie2310]

This invitation from MDPI to publish in their new journal called Metrics, after they carefully reviewed my "impressive" work about narrative CVs... which are intended to fight against the misuse of metrics... 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
Acceptance to publication in 5.8 days 🤷‍♀️

[Radboud University Press @RadboudUniPress]

📢 Excited to announce 📚 ‘The Discovery of Mind: From Wundt to Neuroimaging’ by Ardi Roelofs! Explore the history of psychology from Wundt’s groundbreaking work to modern neuroimaging. Free via @RadboudUP👉 https://t.co/yzm2DG9qqS #OpenAccess #Psychology #Neuroscience #Mind

[The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social @mitpress]

Open Mind provides a venue for the highest quality, most innovative work in cognitive science. We are proud to collaborate with @mitlibraries & @HarvardLibrary to fund this journal and champion open and equitable scholarly publishing: https://t.co/o1CIupLUP5 #OAWeek @LanguageMIT

[Elvisha Dhamala @elvisha9]

Wow, NeuroImage must be really struggling to get submissions…

[Micah G. Allen @micahgallen]

After following a few starter packs, and the latest influx of twitter refugees, my blue sky activity has exploded. You love to see it!

[Free Our Knowledge ✊ @projectFOK]

Academics, what makes you still stay here with this app riddled with mysogyny and right wing propaganda? What makes you publish with journals that are known to extract extreme profits from little value added? We really have a problem of collective (in)action

[Paolo Crosetto @PaoloCrosetto]

And *that* is the trick.
One journal keeps very high standards & reputation high. The rest of the franchise free rides on that reputation to get $ in.

And as scientists we fall for it like flies -- because it gives us the possibility of free riding on that reputation too.

🤷

[Free Our Knowledge ✊ @projectFOK]

Do you see problems with the for-profit academic publishing system? Take action with us! Publish with diamond open access in 5 years after the pledge activates. Activation happens when a critical mass is reached. https://t.co/Ya1YECebl4 https://t.co/j8CUx1r7aK @projectFOK

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

Publishing science in an effective, reliable and fair way costs money. But the world would be better off if we stopped treating publishing as a transaction and instead treated it as a centrally funded resource with no financial barriers ever for either publishing or reading.

[Predatory Journals @PredatoryReport]

@aemonten PLOS Biology:

Research Article $5,500
Short Reports $5,500
Update Article $3,150

PLOS Medicine:

Research Article $6,300

Do you believe they spend that money to publish a PDF online? Plus, they had almost $26 million in assets in 2022...

[Predatory Journals @PredatoryReport]

About Plos One being a "non-profit"

PLOS Biology:
Research Article $5,500
Short Reports $5,500
Update Article $3,150 🤡

PLOS Medicine:
Research Article $6,300

Do you believe they spend that money to publish a PDF online? Plus, they had almost $26 million in assets in 2022. 🤑

[Marianne Noel @MNoel75]

"When researchers pay to publish: results from a survey on APCs in four countries".
Delighted to see this output from the GRIP project and honored to be part of the journey w/ so many talented researchers!
https://t.co/iQ0JdPSy0G