Samuel Moore
Researcher at Cambridge University Library/Cambridge Digital Humanities/King's College
PI: Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences (MORPHSS)
Book out soon on OA publishing and the commons
https://www.samuelmoore.org
- New report where I explore the impossible question of how to govern AI across the research lifeycle.
- Great to hear @judegreen.bsky.social, @markhusk.bsky.social and a bunch of other cool people discussing community-led publishing today in Cambridge. Thanks everyone!
- Reposted by Samuel Moore"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
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- Reposted by Samuel MooreReally incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!
- Reposted by Samuel MooreIf you've been feeling depressed about how the world is descending into dystopia, I'm really excited to share with you the latest episode of the Anti-Dystopians with @danmcquillan.bsky.social in which we talk about decomputing and why we should abolish AI. alinautrata.substack.com/p/abolish-ai...
- HPS seminar in Cambridge this week with Felipe Romero (University of Groningen) on: 'The emergence of metascience: risks and opportunities' www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
- Reposted by Samuel MooreIf you don’t see a purposeful government campaign to destroy universities in this interview, I really can’t help you. It’s not that we’re being neglected by Labour: they are actively seeking to destroy academia. It’ll be up there with Brexit as the biggest self-harm in modern British history.
- “I think had they rung the bell we would have let them in, obviously … They didn’t have to raid us. It’s six young women in a room, in a place that we hired, that we publicly advertised, and they could have just sat in and listened to us. I don’t really see any conspiracy in that.”
- I always like the idea of reinvigorating society publishing for a more ethical approach to open access, but this also means weaning society publishing off commercial revenues and developing less hierarchical forms of governance within academic societies.
- As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...
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- “Not everyone that is pursuing either an arts and humanities degree, or is taking other humanities content in other programmes, is going to end up in academia. Actually, most of them will not. There brings the question, are we ready [for them] to work in Deloitte?" Not sure that's the question.
- Reposted by Samuel MooreWhen the Sycamore Gap tree was cut down in 2023 it felt inevitable that the Daily Telegraph would publish this headline. You can publish anything if you add ‘locals say.’
- Actual local news
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- One hard thing about getting researchers on board with journal cancellations is the fact that it's difficult for them to see the upside. We're telling researchers that journals are no longer affordable or acting against the interests of research, but there's no obvious solution that we can point to.
- "At the root of our problems with social media is instead a deeper but less noticed mistake: that we delegated to profit-seeking businesses what I call “the space of the world”. That is, the spaces where, for much of our time, we carry on our social life." Nice post by @couldrynick.bsky.social
- ‘Since the infrastructure to support this change is already in place and there is a free pathway to comply, NIH decided to accelerate the timeline.’ Yes but all the rights retention support will fall on already stretched library workers. www.chemistryworld.com/news/nationa...
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- Quite a funny trend of big publishers acquiring dodgy journals then being forced to retract their articles while taking the flack for it all. The original owners no doubt sitting on a beach somewhere.
- Reposted by Samuel MooreMy most explicit attempt to think through ways of approaching the labor situation I'm pointing to was my report for @investinopen.bsky.social on how to approach the analogous situation of the labor necessary for open infrastructure projects. hackmd.io/@investinope...
- Reposted by Samuel MooreThe 200 year old chestnut tree on Kings Parade is blooming with candles.
- Reposted by Samuel MooreWe are pleased to announce we have a shiny new website with @kcommons.bsky.social and fresh new logo! MORPHSS is ready to roll. Please share. 😊 @theul.bsky.social @camdighum.bsky.social morphss.hcommons.org
- "In the discussions we have had with various publishers, not one has given more than token recognition to the value of the unpaid labour that underpins our kind of journal publishing (which also, of course, constitutes the raw material that they seek to monetise)".
- Sad news. Our 20th year will be our last. But we will be going out on a high wolg.wordpress.com
- Reposted by Samuel MooreNational Library of Australia should be absolutely ashamed. They have basically forced out a great researcher. But Tim's post also highlights the personal mental damage this has caused, when you have devoted your everything to research on a platform. updates.timsherratt.org/2025/05/07/f...
- Reminder that you can still register to attend our event on community-led publishing next week in Cambridge (v limited tickets) and online. osc.cam.ac.uk/outreach/eve...
- “I just very much love the journal”: Understanding the community-led publishing landscape at the University of Cambridge New article by me and Mandy Wigdorowitz. f1000research.com/articles/14-...
- When open access was in its infancy there were so many editorials on the problem of predatory publishers, a problem that never really materialised given the fear around it. But even now there are comparatively few editorials on the very real problem of paper mills targeting 'legitimate' journals.
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- Excellent news that Duke University Press will be using the Direct2Open model to make their books open access. mitpress.mit.edu/duke-univers...
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- Reposted by Samuel MooreLibrary staff on strike and picketing the library this week with @sheffielducu.bsky.social
- Reposted by Samuel MooreSo…racial profiling?
- This Friday Jack Halberstam is giving the @crasshlive.bsky.social annual lecture: "Anarchitecture after everything" www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45684/
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- Quite the pivot away from "open science"
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- If you want to know what this Sunday is like each year in Cambridge, I went out for my run at 9 this morning and lots of students had already started drinking and they're all still going strong now.
- Reposted by Samuel MooreRaymond Chandler, letter to a friend, January 1948. Seems relevant beyond the specific Hollywood context.
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- I do this all the time as I seem to read lots of chapters in edited volumes that cost £200+ and people are usually more than happy to send a copy.
- So this is the lesson they've learned from yesterday www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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- Reposted by Samuel Moore«When locally salient artefacts, attitudes, ideas, and vocabulary are highlighted, a more nuanced picture emerges, changing the relevance of Descartes for environmental thinking.»
- Reposted by Samuel MooreCongratulations to Peter Rees elected to the Cambridgeshire County Council! Among his achievements is a PhD in Cambridge HPS with a thesis entitled "The science of science and the social order in public debates in Britain 1935-1959" #histsci #sts
- 🚀 Green BREAKTHROUGH WE WON! Peter Rees has been elected in Newnham (Cambridgeshire) Now join the party: join.greenparty.org.uk
- 'The editors made the decision to halt acceptance of studies because of a “lack of confidence” that contracts for critical expenses like copy-editing and editorial software would be renewed after their impending expiration dates' Long-standing diamond OA journal under threat due to NIH cuts.
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- Reposted by Samuel MooreUK media coverage of Reform winning a non zero amount of seats is predictable.
- Scholarly Programs Research Manager position at the amazing National Humanities Center in North Carolina. nationalhumanitiescenter.org/careers/
- Reposted by Samuel MooreSTATEMENT FROM ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY
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- Reposted by Samuel MooreInscription issue 5 has landed! It's all about CONTAINERS, and it has articles, artworks, and STUFF. Snap up a copy before they are all gone ... inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/
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- Reposted by Samuel MooreYou’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.
- I'd say that we were sleepwalking into this hellscape but it would betray the fact that Labour are actively encouraging it.
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- "Huws said she had received offers from other larger publishers keen to acquire the journal but only on condition that it massively increase the volume of articles published and the frequency of publication." This sounds like real problem here, not Diamond OA.
