@globalmuseum i want one!

📢 New Version of BORIS Theses 🥳
On 2 February 2026, a new version of BORIS Theses will go live. The major change will be that from then on, doctoral students can submit their dissertation directly via the platform to have it published in open access. This replaces the previous process of sending files by email or on physical data-carriers to the University Library.
👉 https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/home
#openaccess #openscience #dspace

🤗 Heute, am 1. Februar ist der zweite #DigitalIndependenceDay 2026.

Die #Volkshochschule|n im Land bieten viele Kurse für deine digitale Unabhängigkeit an. Ob #Linux, #GIMP, #Blender, #Python oder #Godot 👉 im vhs Kursfinder unter https://www.volkshochschule.de/ kannst du nach Open Source Kursen suchen.

ℹ️ Alternativ und direkt für #Berlin☺️, ist die Suche über das Dachportal der Berliner Volkshochschulen möglich unter https://www.berlin.de/vhs/.

Wir freuen uns auf dich und mehr Digital Independence! ❤️
➡️ https://di.day/

#VHS #Bildung #OpenSource #DID #DUTgemacht #DIDay #DUD #DIDit #Weiterbildung @volkshochschule @digitalcourage @CCC @marcuwekling @kaschmir

France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom

https://itsfoss.com/news/france-ditches-microsoft-teams-and-zoom/

#tech #technology #news #technews #politics #france #microsoft #security #privacy

An interview/case study with @kfitz about @hello ! In it, she talks about some of the absolute key issues for open infrastructure, such as scholar governance, sustainability, and total openness as an unnegotiable principle.

Building the Commons: How Knowledge Commons is navigating challenges through community and collaboration
https://investinopen.org/blog/building-the-commons-how-knowledge-commons-is-navigating-challenges-through-community-and-collaboration/

@herrgruenkocht

A selection of images created in 2025.
i. Paint sketches

#art

So cool. If you zoom in on the upper right, you see a little crescent. That's the Martian moon Phobos.

Zoom in again and you'll see a star next to Phobos. That's Earth! That's home.

Seen from Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover.

https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/curiosity-views-earth-setting-phobos-rising/ #science #space #astronomy

The exploitative character of academic publishing in a single cartoon.

#publishing #universities #research #academics

h/t Alexandra Kupferberg/LinkedIn

original illustration: Thailand by Tawan Chuntra.

https://www.irancartoon.com/site/artists/tawan-chuntra#&gid=1&pid=30 #TawanChuntra #Thailand

RE: https://openbiblio.social/@stabihh/115773097901643423

The beautiful #advent calendar made by the generous colleagues in Hamburg comes to a close: behind this door is another lovely treasure. Take a look! #library #openaccess #bibliophile #christmas2025 #gifts

@stabihh vielen Dank für den fantastischen Adventskalender - was für ein schönes Geschenk! Frohes Fest nach Hamburg und einen guten Rutsch!

@Richard_Littler :ablobcatwave:

Vor über drei Jahrzehnten forderte die EU mit dem Vertrag von Maastricht und dem Weissbuch von Edith Cresson ihre Bürgerinnen und Bürger dazu auf, #Mehrsprachigkeit zu leben – aus der Überzeugung, dass dauerhafter Frieden nur durch Kommunikation entsteht. Heute jedoch erleben wir Rückschritte: Weniger Engagement für Mehrsprachigkeit und weniger Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Mehr dazu in der neusten Ausgabe von Linguistik online
👉 https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/index
#Linguistik #daf #openaccess #openscience

#AmazingWorld
In #Alaska, nature sculpted this lone tree into a frozen wave at sunrise.
Relentless wind, drifting snow, and rime ice stacked layer by layer until the branches looked like feathers made of frost.
That soft golden glow is the sun catching every icy strand, turning the whole scene into a winter sculpture for a few brief moments.
Bent by the storm, but still standing. Still reaching.

📢 The new issue of *Manazir Journal* examines #Lebanon 's art world during the 1980s, a decade shaped by civil war yet marked by artistic adaptation and innovation.
This issue reconsiders conventional periodizations of Lebanese history by analysing how artists and institutions negotiated conflict, migration, and transformation. It also situates Lebanon within broader art-historical debates.
👉 https://bop.unibe.ch/manazir/issue/view/1535
#arthistory #civilwar #modernart #openscience #openaccess

@Richard_Littler

@postausddorf @avatter adorable

Reasonably sure Mastodon peeps like libraries and might like a peek at this wowzer I stepped into today.

#DasCDMX

@Richard_Littler

Fantastic Mr. #Fox. Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390. Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 143, fol. 168r.
#medieval #MedievalArt