Look, mom. See what you did? I have officially starved to death. To DEATH.

(Context: cat dinner time is in 5 minutes)

An #ArtNouveau #gold, #opal and #diamond brooch, by Henri-Auguste Solie
By #ArtDecoAndArtNouveau
#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces
@SteveThompson

"Publishing #diamond #OpenAccess is a noblesse oblige for us. Let everyone benefit from research, so that we contribute together to appropriate care and improve the quality of life for people with #intellectual #disabilities."

Read the interview with Alain Dekker, editor of an open access book on #psychosocial #support #methods:

https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/blog/publishing-a-open-access-book-on-psychosocial-support-methods-for-people-with-intellectual-disabilit

The book, published in 2024, has been downloaded >10,000 times by now.

#research #care #psychology #SocialWork

by Silvio Zangarini

#dailysketchingworkout
Prompt what have you found

Story to this one. My dad lost a diamond from one of his gold rings. He was upset bc neither he nor my mom could find it after turning the apartment inside out. They gave it up for lost. a week or so later, my mom was combing my hair. I jumped up & pulled away bc I saw a twinkle in the dark blue carpet. I pulled the diamond out of the fibers. My parents were thrilled.

#diamond
#pencilsketch
#digitalart

#TimelineCleanse

#Henry had a rough day today. His sister #Diamond insisted on sharing his cat bed, leaving hardly any room* for him at all! Poor guy had no choice but to hang his head out the front of the bed. Truly tragic. Somewhere Sarah McLachlan is singing.

*there was SO much room, but where’s the drama in that?

Our university is now a subscribing member of White Horse Press, a family-run academic publisher specializing in #environmental #humanities & #SocialSciences!

Read more: https://www.rug.nl/library/news/250226-white-horse-press

Discover other #diamond #OpenAccess initiatives we support: https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/diamond-open-access-at-the-ug/open-access-initiatives/

break? #Guix #HPC activity report is out!

Check it out:

https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2025/02/guix-hpc-activity-report-2024/

The seventh report, time flies! Highlight of key achievements:

• More than 57,000 packages, Guix + related channels for scientific packages;
• Performance and portability: more about MPI;
• ROCm/HIP software stack for AMD GPUs upgrades;
• Migration of Guix-Science channel to Codeberg;
• New version of Guix-Jupyter;
• Common Workflow Language #CWL + Guix = : ccwl and ravanan;
• Ensuring Source Code Availability: #SoftwareHeritage rescue mode;
• Re-Deploying Software from the Past;
• Supporting Artifact Evaluation at SuperComputing 2024;
• “Package to Container image” conversion pipeline, #DIAMOND and #DIADEM;
• Digital Electronics Design;
• Reproducible Multiphysics Simulation and Workflows;
• Impact of Hardware Variability;
• Toward Guix on French Tier-1 and EuroHPC Tier-0 machines;
• Pangenome Genetics Research
• Supporting RISC-V
• List of articles, talks, tutorials, events, training sessions.
• … and more…

What a year, isn’t it?

Diamond Distribution is going Chapter 13, which means that some of the games you love may be harder to find, but they may end up cheaper for a little while. Plus, it may give WotC and Catalyst a black eye, and that never hurts my feelings.

https://grimtokens.garden/Thoughts/Diamond+Goes+Chapter+11%2C+See+Your+FLGS+For+Details

#Diamond, like most kitties, looooves a good box. However, she rarely ever lays or sleeps in them. Instead, she prefers tall boxes that she can sit in, peering over the top to survey her domain and occasionally bop unsuspecting passersby*.

*see #Henry.

The #Dutch #Diamond #OpenAccess Expertise Center is now live!

https://www.openaccess.nl/en/diamond-open-access/about

The center aims to reinforce and future-proof the Netherlands' #DiamondOA #publishing landscape.
It serves as a knowledge hub connecting #researchers, publishers, #librarians, #policymakers, and #funders.

We're excited to be a partner with our University of Groningen Press.

#Diamond #OpenAccess is a sustainable model for #scholar-led #publishing where research is freely accessible to all, with no author fees.

A comprehensive guide is now available for #journal #editors considering the transition from commercial publishers.

https://zenodo.org/records/14652446

Featuring:
funding options
transition steps
available routes (including subscribe-to-open models and university presses)

.@nwonieuws and @OpenScienceNL will organise an information and Q&A session for the CfP #Diamond #Openaccess.

Flipping your (closed/hybrid) journal to a DOA model? This is for you!

Please join the session on 21st of January 2025, 3-4pm CET.

More info here:
https://www.openscience.nl/en/meetings/qa-session-call-for-proposals-diamond-open-access

Any plans for your lunch break today? (12:00h -13:00h)

Head of our University of #Groningen #Press Margreet Nieborg will co-host a webinar on (#diamond) #openaccess book publishing, and new university presses in the #netherlands.

Info and registration: https://www.openaccess.nl/en/events/navigating-diamond-open-access-book-publishing-four-perspectives-on-how-why-and-where

#openscience #diamondopenaccess #webinar #books #publishing
 

We see #diamond #OpenAccess as a sustainable and fair model for #ScholarlyPublishing.

https://www.rug.nl/library/diamond

#DiamondOA initiatives are usually non-profit, run by and for academics.

These initiatives rely on external funding to remain operational, with funds mostly coming from university #libraries, academic institutions, #research funders or government grants.

We support various diamond open access infrastructures and initiatives.

It's international #OAweek again, with the same theme as last year: #Community over Commercialization.

Read the interview with our experts on diamond open access about how our #library supports community-driven #publishing:
https://www.rug.nl/library/news/meet-our-experts-on-diamond-open-access

“Diamond open access embodies the true and original spirit of the open access movement: to make the scholarly publishing industry more accessible, but also more affordable and #fair for everyone.”

Interested to 'flip' your scholarly journal to #openaccess? Today we are announcing that @NWOFunding has launched a new funding opportunity to support journal flips to #diamond open access.

https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/funding-for-flipping-journals-to-diamond-open-access

Fenêtres médiévales en losange

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #Photography
#Normandie #Monochrome #bw #Diamond
Photo is my own

We are delighted to have recently become a supporting member of the Open Book Collective (OBC)!

Thanks to support from members, the OBC is able to support a fairer and more bibliodiverse landscape for open access publishers.

Read more about what @openbookcollect stands for: https://openbookcollective.org/

We are committed to supporting trustworthy diamond open access initiatives. Other initiatives we support: https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/diamond-open-access-at-the-ug/open-access-initiatives/