Juan Pablo Alperin

1/ In 2024, I filed a false claims act lawsuit against Elsevier, Springer, Wiley & Informa alleging they systematically overcharged US federal grants for article processing. The gov declined to intervene and now it's public. Some thoughts on what this is, and what it isn't:

Doerkson just promised "certainty" in BC (signalling at his promise to repeal DRIPA). Great time to re-read @adampolsen.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

a pain felt by so many of us that build open source tools that are widely used. Take whatever money you'd spend on a night out and treat yourself to the satisfaction of contributing to an open source project today.

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

Are you running a journal using OJS and are considering open peer review? OJS 3.6 will make that possible! with some colleagues we are looking for journals that want to talk to us about their process and what they might expect. See this call for participants: pkp.sfu.ca/2026/10/05/c...

HUGE milestone! Nearly all journals using OJS are now indexed in OpenAlex. This is an enormous step in helping all this bibliodiversity COUNT. Read more: pkp.sfu.ca/2026/10/15/o...

Already planning on quoting it in my first talk of the week, coming up in 15 mins (in Spanish): www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BRn...

Kicking off #openaccessweek with a talk in Brazil! Currently listening to Barbara Riversa talk about the @barcelonadori.bsky.social and I'm following up with a talk on the high-cost of APCs and the need for #diamondOA. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BRn...

Last 24 hours three strangers have called out my name on the street, I’ve said “make sure you vote!” and they’ve said “I will!” it’s like being the mayor of a small town where people randomly burst into song

EVERYONE GET IN HERE!!⚡ Elect enough BC Greens, and in a minority we’ll have the leverage to get things done. With the ultrawealthy paying their fair share, we’ll deliver: Believe in better! #votegreen

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

More to be done, but this is a HUGE step for thousands of journals that have been discounted for years, because they could literally not be counted.

HUGE milestone! Nearly all journals using OJS are now indexed in OpenAlex. This is an enormous step in helping all this bibliodiversity COUNT. Read more: pkp.sfu.ca/2026/10/15/o...

Bertrand Russell knew how to debate and argue, but even he knew there was only one way for pacifists to defeat fascism: don't give them the respect they want by debating them.

Vancouver friends! Day 3 of advance voting for the civic election is today (Saturday, 8am-8pm). I share my recommendations in the piece below. Vancouver’s historic climate leadership hangs in the balance in this municipal election sethdklein.substack.com/p/vancouvers...

As Vancouver folks prepare to vote: great to see this detailed climate plan from OneCity. In particular, note these platform planks on getting gas out of buildings: 🧵... www.onecityvancouver.ca/platform/cli...

We have to acknowledge this tension in the #OpenScience movement. Scientific Culture is about how scientists understand science, but also how society understands and interfaces with the institution of science. Hard for OS to strengthen both. This blog explains: www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/10/21/t...

We were inspired by our SC member Leslie Chan in his keynote to the Global Research Council annual meeting this year: sfdora.org/2026/05/25/r...

Conversations of #openscience are waning, and I feel we missed boat of making OS about changing culture to one that truly opens science to society. Real shame OS has remained just about opening research outputs. I've argued against this framing for years now, but wish I'd articulated it better.

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

Huge thank you to Anna Johnston and @sethdklein.bsky.social for their help with this one! WATCH THE FULL VIDEO HERE: youtu.be/Vn048D3YrOs?...

Given all the announcements this week, thought I'd re-issue this piece from last week. The answer BTW is YES! Is Prime Minister Carney a climate denier? www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/25/o...

Running a metadata enrichment project in the open? COMET pilot teams refined a Project Doc Template to record objectives, collaborators, outputs and lessons learnt, so others can trust and reuse the work. Try it and tell us what you'd change. #ScholarlyMetadata #OpenResearchInformation

Sustainability is a term I want people to define when they use it. I really like how OBP addressed this in their 18th birthday celebration last week. Every time sustainability crops up, it fails to recognise that this question applies to commercial publishing, which is far less sustainable.

PERSPECTIVE: despite some crowing that this was 'inevitable' etc, the article covers the period 2009-2026. In 2021 the estimated number of Diamond OA was 29,000 journals. Over the 15 year period covered, 440 journals have flipped. As a proportion of the 2021 number, that's 1.5%. Hardly an exodus.

Thanks! Reaction has been interesting. Some diamond oa advocates don't like we're pointing to problems or enabling a narrative that it's unsustainable. But our intent was to name the phenomenon (Fractures!) and to call out that systemic supports are needed

if it didn't mean being a narc, I could (and want to) write a whole book about kids' creative evasions of surveillance tech. a potential volume 2 for @hypervisible.blacksky.app

La place des revues canadiennes dans les circuits internationaux de diffusion de la recherche. 🔗 À lire dans le Magazine l'@acfas.ca www.acfas.ca/publications... @caropradier.bsky.social @lucyces.bsky.social @simonvbellen.bsky.social @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @lariviev.bsky.social

Still looking for librarians to complete our survey on how your library actually makes the decision to support OA initiatives - any country, any initiative. 📚

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

stone cold classic

Want to learn more about the problem and the recommendations? Can you give us a few mins of feedback? Webinar coming up: blog.openalex.org/is-it-time-t...

Do people understand that this is just starting? The US Gov declining only means that we are now carrying this forward ourselves. I have had a few conversations with folks that thought this meant the case was over.

Out now! 📜 Where does Canadian research and journals sit in the local-global interplay of scholarly communications? Who publishes in national journals and what does "national" even mean? How are research topics distributed across institutions, journals and languages? Read all about it! #AcademicSky

Happy First Day of School/Classes to those that celebrate

An important milestone for spreading the impact of collaborative metadata enrichment! We’re very interested to see how the community makes use of these initial datatsets and getting feedback on future needs.