#open-access — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #open-access, aggregated by home.social.
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Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics 22/08/2026
Later than usual, it’s time once more for another Saturday update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further six papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 177 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 625.
I continue to include the posts made on our Mastodon account (on Fediscience); these announcements also show the DOI for each paper. In the past on these posts I have included the article keywords as tags, but this is quite a lot of effort to do for little benefit so I’ve decided just to tag the arXiv category (i.e. folder) and arXiv ID for each paper.
The first one up this week was published on Tuesday 18th August in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. The article “Ghostly DLAs in SDSS DR16” by Patrick Petitjean (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, France). This study revisits the origin of proximate damped Lyman-alpha absorbers (PDLAs), associating most with the AGN or quasar host galaxy environment..
You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here and the announcement on Fediverse here:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/117115214327443735
The second paper for this week, also published on Tuesday 18th August in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies is “Dust in the Average Galaxy: Attenuation, Emission, and Opacity from 0<z<7” by Caitlin M. Casey (University of California Santa Barbara, USA) and an international cast of 45 others. This study analyzes over 500,000 galaxies to understand dust emission and attenuation properties. Findings reveal UV/optical attenuation underestimates IR luminosity, and dust constraints are crucial for understanding star-forming galaxies.
The overlay looks like this:
The official version of the paper can be found on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement here:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/117115391277711646
The third paper of the week, yet another one published on Tuesday 18th August Astrophysics of Galaxies, is “First Light And Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XXI: The UV Indices of Galaxies in the Early Universe” by Connor Sant Fournier (University of Malta, Malta) and 7 others based in Malta and the UK. This study uses synthetic spectral modelling and cosmological simulations to assess UV absorption line indices as reliable tracers of stellar metallicity in high-redshift galaxies.
The overlay is here:
The official version of the paper can be found on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement here:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/117115462297167216
The fourth paper of the week is “White dwarf + M dwarf Detached Binaries in Long Period Radio Transients: Observed Binary Parameters, Evolution, and Population Constraints” by Antonio Rodriguez (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, USA), Kareem El-Badry (Caltech, USA), Iris de Ruiter (U. Sydney, Australia), Kaustubh Rajwade (U. Oxford, UK), Edo Berger & Liam Connor (CfA) and Natasha Hurley-Walker (Curtin U., Australia). This was published on Wednesday 19th August in the folder Solar and Stellar Astrophysics. This article presents new findings on long period radio transients (LPTs), slow-pulsing radio sources, associated with M dwarf-white dwarf systems., suggests these systems are part of a significant Galactic population of such objects.
The overlay is here:
The officially-accepted version of the paper can be found on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement here:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/117121022550941129
The fifth paper of the week is “Cosmological Dynamics of Multi-Axion Quintessence” by Supakorn Katewongveerachart (Mahidol U., Thailand) and David J. E. Marsh, King’s College London, UK). This was published on Thursday 20th August 2026 in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics. This study explores dark energy dynamics, and their potential observational consequences, for a cosmological model with two, three or four axion fields.
The overlay is here:
The officially-accepted version of the paper can be found on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement here:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/117126567320691855
Finally for this week, the sixth paper of the week is “How can we finally see the first light? Status and perspective in the search for Population III stars” by Alessandra Venditti (U. Texas Austin, USA) and 28 others from around the world. This was published on Thursday August 20th in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. This review article discusses the ongoing search for the first stars (Population III), their formation, and characteristics. It highlights various observational strategies and the role of advanced technology in this quest. This can perhaps act as a reminder that we do publish review articles, as long as the Editorial Board and the reviewers consider them a useful contribution to the literature.
The overlay is here:
You can find the officially-accepted version of the paper on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement here:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/117126631513103035
And that’s all for this week. We’re starting to clear the backlog of papers accepted through the summer but yet to be published, but it will probably take a few weeks to do so completely.
#arXiv260200820v2 #arXiv260418688v2 #arXiv260513472v2 #arXiv260606270v2 #arXiv260617270v2 #arXiv260700167v2 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #SolarAndStellarAstrophysics -
Bioarchaeological reassessment of Dahshur royal skeletal remains from the Late Middle Kingdom (c. 1850–1700 BCE)
#Egypt's #princesses who lived nearly 4,000 years ago were skilled archers and likely handled other deadly #weapons, including maces and daggers, according to a new study that revisits their mummified bones and upends expectations about gender in the ancient world.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-archaeology/articles/10.3389/fearc.2026.1844402/full #OpenAccess -
Human experience draws on many strands of psychology: Clinical to organisational, cognitive to environmental, and more. #JPsyExp welcomes rigorous work across every sub-discipline.
See the scope: https://jpsyexp.org/about/
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CatchOfTheDay
#OpenAccess
#MENAdoc:"Raccolta di scritti editi e inediti" by Carlo Alfonso Nallino
[Roma: Istituto per l'Oriente, 1939-]
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ACM DL is 100% #OpenAccess.
What's the difference between DL Basic and DL Premium?
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Can electronic quantum criticality drive phonon-induced linear-in-temperature resistivity?
Haoyu Guo, Debanjan Chowdhury
SciPost Phys. 21, 047 (2026)
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics #Codebases
Enabling stable preservation of ML algorithms in high-energy physics with petrifyML
Andy Buckley, Louie Corpe, Martin Habedank, Tomasz Procter
Paper:
SciPost Phys. Codebases 78 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCodeb.78petrifyML-v2.1:
SciPost Phys. Codebases 78-r2.1 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCodeb.78-r2.1#GlasgowUniversity #UCA #LPCA #JagiellonianUniversity
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🎬 What can academic research look, and sound, like?
The new peer-reviewed Audio/Visual (A/V) Section of Mediální studia / Media Studies invites submissions for its inaugural 2027 issue.
We welcome rigorous scholarly work in audiovisual and sonic formats:
🎥 Film essays
📹 Video essays
🎬 Audiovisual essays
🎧 Sound essays📅 Deadline: 15 September 2026
🔗 A/V Section: https://lnkd.in/e97ps3ZR
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📄 New publication: "Deciphering Hominin-Carnivore alternations at Les Auzières (Méthamis, Vaucluse), a Middle Palaeolithic site in south-eastern France" #OpenAccess
Known since the 1970s, the archaeological and palaeontological site known as Les Auzières (Méthamis, Vaucluse, south-eastern France) presents a sequence from the Middle Palaeolithic attesting to successive occupations and interactions between Neanderthal communitie (...)
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Since they are all #OpenAccess, all three finalists' books can be read freely online (or you can buy a copy!)
Rudy: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0145
Page: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0339
Sommer: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0396Happy reading!
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'10 Ways Open Access Books Promote High-Quality, Innovative Scholarship': Hear from the finalists of the 2026 ACLS #OpenAccess Book Prizes & Arcadia #OpenAccess Publishing Awards, including OBP's Kathryn Rudy!
Kathryn is shortlisted for her book, 'Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print':
https://www.acls.org/news/10-ways-open-access-books-promote-high-quality-innovative-scholarship/
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Turned down a referee request from an Elsevier journal, mainly because no longer research active, but took the opportunity to state that as an #OpenAccess advocate I would also have issues with refereeing for Elsevier.
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RNA structures regulate norovirus life cycle & enable rational attenuation in vivo
Conserved #norovirus RNA structures control replication & #immunity, enabling design of a stable, protective attenuated virus.
#OpenAccess #virology #microbiology
https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/08/rna-structures-control-norovirus.html
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To celebrate our journal’s 50th anniversary, we are delighted to share some exciting news.
1. You can now submit articles and essays to our journal also in Finnish!
Artikkeleita ja esseitä voi tarjota Suomen antropologiin nyt myös suomeksi!2. Starting from our next issue, all essays published in Suomen antropologi will be peer reviewed!
3. Suomen antropologi will start to publish peer-reviewed texts, i.e. articles and essays, as "online first" when the texts are ready for publication, after which they will be assigned to the next issue to be published.
4. Finally, on Wednesday 26.08.2026 there is an online Special issue launch and discussion event by the guest-editors of our current issue "(Un)relating and (Un)learning with More-Than-Humans during Ethnographic Practice"
Date: Wednesday, 26th August, 2026
Time: 5:00–6:30 PM (EEST, UTC+3)
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Three millennia of lizard and snake consumption by Natufian foragers
"Our results demonstrate that reptile exploitation was an established and persistent dietary practice and that squamate consumption intensity is linked to site occupation intensity and emerging sedentism."
M. Lev, M. Weinstein-Evron, & R. Yeshurun, Three millennia of lizard and snake consumption by Natufian foragers, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 123 (35) e2609354123, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2609354123.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Anthropology #Archaeology #Paleolithic #Diet #Natufian #Snake #Lizard #Academia