A sad day for parasitologists, vector biologists, and fungal researchers. After 20 yrs of service, VEuPathDB went dark 2day 😭. Removing funding from this *extremely* popular and globally used resource is a major self-inflicted wound by @NIAIDFunding bit.ly/3MINbb0

Reminder: UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 is seeking feedback on its Principles for #OpenScience Monitoring. Send comments to [email protected]. before Nov. 30. See draft principles here: docs.google.com/document/d/1ee…

Imagine if you woke up this morning and found that the NIH-funded database that holds all of the data that you and thousands of other scientists around the world consult every day was turned off. Gone. Despite many efforts by a community of scientists to lobby NIH NIH Director

How are open science policies impacting open infrastructure investment and adoption in North America, Latin America, Europe, & Africa? 🌎 Hear from experts at our next community conversation on Oct 10 at 3 PM UTC! 🌐 Register now: buff.ly/4djpb9w

The belief that Open Access is in opposition to increasing funding for libraries, nonprofit publishers, and labor compensation is... a false dichotomy that fails to take into account the wide array of models in practice??

Thank you to the many thousands of people across the whole of the NHS & social care who helped deliver the care during the pandemic. Has been a strange and difficult day. But felt it was important to give witness to some small part of the enormity of the challenge we all faced.

We've worked really hard on this scoping report to research and then analyse the HUGE number of resources, guidelines, and toolkits for #OpenAccess monographs out there ... 🔎 Read our findings and share any feedback 👀

🔍UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 invites input for the Consultation on a Global Diamond Open Access Framework via a survey (15 - 20 min). Responses will directly influence future strategies for advancing #DiamondOpenAccess. Fill in the survey: surveys.unesco.org/696125?lang=en #OpenAccess #DiamondOA

This is going to be fun. ✨ Join us! Details below 👇 #openscience #OpenAccess #openinfra

Have you checked out the cool new features on Infra Finder, our tool to help decision makers learn more about, compare, and select #openinfra tools for research and scholarship? Check out the latest updates below, led by Chrys Wu.

(And if you’re at #egi2024, be in the lookout for our Senior Researcher Sarah’s presentation ✨✨✨)

I am pleased to announce the establishment of an African Bioinformatics Institute thanks to funding from Wellcome Trust and CZI. We seek stakeholder input to shape the ABI to meet the needs of the bioinformatics and user communities. Join us for engagement sessions to contribute.

From World Bank to ICTP, @investinopen is on the move this #OAWeek24! 🚀 With ICTP, WACREN, WASCAL - Climate Change Centre of Excellence, AfriGEO, GÉANT (@[email protected]) + African researchers to explore climate data infra needs, esp in 💡 of the 💰 from the European Commission AfricaConnect3. indico.wacren.net/event/220/#b-1…

🟢 #RLUKDSF |🗓️ 30 Oct Join us next week to hear Kaitlin Thaney share findings from @investinopen State of Open Infrastructure report inc. trends, issues, & gaps in investment + adoption of open infrastructure for research. 🎟️ for this free virtual event @ bit.ly/RLUKDSF

Join us this Wednesday! 👇

The side activities of #UC2024 have already started! The #AfricaConnect3 Project Management Meeting took place in Dar Es Salaam🇹🇿 with the objective of drawing strategic conclusions and review results at the end of the project's 3rd phase. UbuntuNet Alliance WACREN ASREN #GEANT 🇪🇺

This was such a blast! Huge thanks to William J Nixon @williamjnixon.bsky.social and the RLUK Research Libraries UK team for the opportunity to talk about Infra Finder, the State of #openinfra report, + opportunities to Invest in Open Infrastructure. #rlukdsf 🔹 infrafinder.investinopen.org/solutions 🔸 investinopen.org/state-of-open-… 🔹 investinopen.org/blog/announcin…

“We already have a million dollars of funding ready to go” Kyle Daigle announcing the new Secure OSS Fund! So excited to see this initiative pairing funding for maintainers with programmatic support to secure the open source ecosystem #githubuniverse

Thanks to Kaitlin Thaney for speaking to William J Nixon @williamjnixon.bsky.social #RLUKDSF today on findings from @investinopen State of Open Infrastructure report inc. trends, issues & gaps in investment + adoption of open infrastructure for research. 📺 You can watch her talk at bit.ly/DSFonD

We are committed to building a robust infrastructure to support climate research across the region through initiatives like AfricaConnect3. Sustaining these efforts requires collaboration, innovation, and long-term investment. Together, we can empower research for a sustainable