Kathleen Fitzpatrick

I love this more than I can say.

If you missed our webinar last week for #OAWeek, we have a treat for you! 🍬 Watch a portion of the webinar where our lead developer on KCWorks, Ian Scott, discusses all the exciting new features we've added in our most recent upgrade. 😍

WTF is wrong with people. I was horrified already, but there is very clearly no bottom to this barrel.

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.

Apparently someone had the genius idea to make October Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Please tell whoever that was that WE ARE AWARE already, thank you.

Hooray!!! @miriamposner.com

The entire technical maintenance environment has changed, now. Vulnerabilities can no longer be patched "in a couple of days". They have to be done immediately because kids with AI agents will get hold of these known weaknesses and use them immediately.

And, lastly, make sure you check out our blog post to read the full specs of this upgrade! about.hcommons.org/2026/10/20/k... Now back to your regularly scheduled #OAWeek programming. 😊📺

Want to see the new upload form in action? View our Youtube walkthrough! 📽️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sri1TTO_CZM

It's a beautiful morning here at the Knowledge Commons! ☀️ We've launched a MAJOR upgrade to KCWorks with a whole host of new features you've asked for. 😍 ✅ More streamlined upload form ✅ Custom theming for collections ✅ Improved feeds to Google Scholar ✅ Extensive accessibility improvements

Who wants to hear about copyright? I'm heading up a Knowledge Commons webinar on The Basics of Copyright, Licensing, and Permissions on November 11th at 12PM Eastern Time (UTC -5). Register here: msu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Note: This talk will focus on US copyright as that's where KC is located.

This is a huge problem for securing the future of open research. If you're writing a grant, consider asking your open infrastructure provider how you can include them in your proposal. Love, Your friends at Knowledge Commons

🚨 Outage alert! 🚨 KCWorks is getting a major upgrade early next week. On Monday, October 19th beginning at 6:30am ET, KCWorks will undergo a short period of downtime. For approximately an hour, repository uploads will be paused and you won't be able to view items in KCWorks.

One reason among many that the humanities should reclaim leadership among its areas of study. My own LEADING GENEROUSLY is one place to start.

I feel this in my bones. Can't say more about it now, but someday soon.

We've got an open tenure stream position at Michigan State for an Assistant Professor specializing in syntax. Application review starts November 15. Please share this information widely! #linguistics careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

Crossposted from the Knowledge Commons team blog . Yesterday, we published a message to the Commons community explaining our recent downtime. In the interest of... (New post from kfitz.info: "In the Wake" https://kfitz.info/in-the-wake/)

All areas of Knowledge Commons and our network nodes are up and running again. ❤️ Late last week, Knowledge Commons experienced a cybersecurity incident. As soon as members of our team discovered evidence of intrusion, our team took the site offline and began emergency investigation and remediation.

Join us for the “Publish, Review, Curate (PRC): Shaping the future of scholarly publishing” launch event, where Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social, Scientific Director, Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University, will give a keynote talk.

I first wrote about the need to recognize peer reviews as acts of scholarship back in 2006. It's a dream deferred, but not a dream denied. We're going to make this happen.

Knowledge Commons is still undergoing maintenance as we work to implement enhanced security measures. KCWorks (works.hcommons.org) and Profiles (profile.hcommons.org) are currently working. If you are unable to access these, please try clearing your cache and cookies. 🍪

Happy Birthday, @zotero.org, strong and steady at 20!

🧵 (2/2) Our team is continuing to work diligently to restore all remaining areas of the Commons. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this outage has caused and appreciate your patience as we complete the remaining work.

I stg I had a moment earlier today when I said "I am about ready to gather up all our computers and throw them into the sea"

I have had "I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see" on loop in my head all day.

Yes yes. The Knowledge Commons is a fantastic resource, community, and network. HASTAC will abide there! Huge thanks for everything, Kathleen

Knowledge Commons has been honored to host HASTAC in recent years. I hope that everyone associated with HASTAC — HASTAC scholars, HASTAC fans, and more — know that you have a home for continued community-building and resource-sharing with us. hcommons.org

YES!!!

KC Champions help keep our network afloat, and ensure we're able to support global knowledge sharing. Plus, you can earn several awesome perks, like custom domains, merch, and so much more! about.hcommons.org/kc-champions/

OP is not kidding; I was 100% not prepared.

Knowledge Commons is a community-governed, academy-owned project that relies on the support of our user community to keep the lights on ❤️ Become one of our KC Champions now! You'll earn a badge on your profile and several other special perks: about.hcommons.org/kc-champions/

I am soooooo looking forward to reading this!

Halle-fucking-lujah. It's temporary but it's a start.

What an *amazing coincidence* that the moves to undermine public higher education by shifting its costs from the government to students and families begins in earnest in the 1970s.

My institution has a presidential initiative entitled "AI-Ready [MASCOT]s." And this is the very image I get every time I hear that phrase.

The PRC model of scholarly publishing can benefit not only researchers but also the library community! 🤝Community ownership and governance of publication infrastructures 💰Innovative models with reduced reliance on subscriptions and APCs 💧Participation in a transparent and trustworthy ecosystem

Maybe it's time for higher education institutions to build an alternative cloud.

So, say you have a big project for which you've been trying to find an ethical provider of compute/hosting infrastructure. In this landscape, where do you turn? Is our only option owning the metal ourselves? (Farewell, Digital Ocean; I never knew you.)