Toby Steiner

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Account age
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Generations of REF managers and admins, rejoice! Researchfish 🐟 is ceasing operations in mid-2027 ... so won't be around for the REF2029 cycle.... https://help.researchfish.com/en_US/researchers/information-for-researchers-regarding-researchfish-sunsetting3 views Generations of REF managers and admins, rejoice! Researchfish 🐟 is ceasing operations in mid-2027 ... so won't be around for the REF2029 cycle.... https://help.researchfish.com/en_US/researchers/information-for-researchers-regarding-researchfish-sunsetting Really looking forward to our #CopimConference to kick off later this week! On Day 2, I'll be chairing a session on Metadata, dissemination challenges & open community solutions for open access books and will be welcoming panelists @EmmaE_B , Edgar Garcia Valencia, and Harrison W. Inefuku. Emma, Edgar, and Harrison will be sharing perspectives of a library, an infrastructure researcher, and a l2 views Really looking forward to our #CopimConference to kick off later this week! On Day 2, I'll be chairing a session on Metadata, dissemination challenges & open community solutions for open access books and will be welcoming panelists @EmmaE_B , Edgar Garcia Valencia, and Harrison W. Inefuku. Emma, Edgar, and Harrison will be sharing perspectives of a library, an infrastructure researcher, and a l

📊 Post engagement

6
Avg engagement / post
0.9%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: The Emerald acquisition of Wiley is yet another stark reminder o · 27 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.43 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.3×
Follows 496 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post The Emerald acquisition of Wiley is yet another stark reminder of what really counts for those large publisher conglomerates: profits above everything else. We've all read this playbook again and again, seen this movie many times. To be clear, this is not how publishing needs t… ★ 27
@copim @openbookcollect @Thoth_metadata As community-led infrastructures, we rely on the support of all of you - the libraries, infrastructure provides, and publishers that are looking for more equitable ways to make #openaccess work. Alt… ★ 5 @copim @openbookcollect @Thoth_metadata [...] pit presses as well as other stakeholders in open publishing against one another in the pursuit of financial profit. Both initiatives have been set up from the get-go as non-profits to ensure… ★ 3 @Lambo this looks like it might be right up your alley 😃 https://hcommons.social/@mpe/116681617748009088 ★ 3 Really looking forward to our #CopimConference to kick off later this week! On Day 2, I'll be chairing a session on Metadata, dissemination challenges & open community solutions for open access books and will be welcoming panelists @Emma… ★ 2 a good, more in-depth read on this by Research Consulting's Rob Johnson in a recent LSE Impact piece "So long, and thanks for all the Researchfish" https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/02/02/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-re… Generations of REF managers and admins, rejoice! Researchfish 🐟 is ceasing operations in mid-2027 ... so won't be around for the REF2029 cycle.... https://help.researchfish.com/en_US/researchers/information-for-researchers-regarding-res… ★ 3 This, from #Waterfox, the non-AI and open alternative to Firefox > But what often gets overlooked is that many of these projects operate without any formal governance structure, privacy policies, or terms of service. There’s no legal entit… ★ 6 @copim @simonxix In case you haven't read it, make sure to also have a look at Simon's earlier post on the British Library hack, here https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/03/19/the-british-library-hack-is-a-warning-for-all-a… ★ 2 @copim @simonxix Simon's conclusion is on point - imagine the possibilities: "Using the same principles [as those guiding our work in the Copim community] of community ownership and investment in people rather than commercial providers, th… ★ 1 My @copim colleague @simonxix has a new contribution in the LSE Impact blog, and raises some excellent points: "Our knowledge sector is built on a foundation of software that is unreliable, not liked by users or staff, bloated with unteste… ★ 6 Must say I quite enjoyed reading Hiromi Kawakami's Under the Eye of the Big Bird (and spoiler alert: that book's got nothing at all to do with Sesame Street 😀 )

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
hcommons.social
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✅ Link-verified
Verified link
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On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 6 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.4× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

75/100 Good
  • Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Engagement (~0.9% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
92%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Many flavours of open, background in media/TV & cultural studies • working @ @Thoth_metadata previously project manager Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (@copim) project • co-editor @ CSTonline #fedi22 #OAbooks #openaccess #openeducation #openscholarship #scholcomm #hss #humanities #radicalOA #floss #opensource #openinfra #openinfrastructure #mediastudies #commodon

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Really looking forward to our #CopimConference to kick off later this week! On Day 2, I'll be chairing a session on Metadata, dissemination challenges & open community solutions for open access books and will be welcoming panelists @EmmaE_B , Edgar Garcia Valencia, and Harrison W. Inefuku. Emma, Edgar, and Harrison will be sharing perspectives of a library, an infrastructure researcher, and a l Generations of REF managers and admins, rejoice! Researchfish 🐟 is ceasing operations in mid-2027 ... so won't be around for the REF2029 cycle.... https://help.researchfish.com/en_US/researchers/information-for-researchers-regarding-researchfish-sunsetting Must say I quite enjoyed reading Hiromi Kawakami's Under the Eye of the Big Bird (and spoiler alert: that book's got nothing at all to do with Sesame Street 😀 )

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