This week, we've been working on some final touches before launching the OSCU Publishing platform. We're setting up features that are quite significant for digital scholarly publishing, including new ways to read and cite work. Looking forward to showing it to you soon.

A bit further afield, researchers are talking about Horizon Europe's recent postdoctoral funding call that received a staggering 21,627 proposals. Maastricht researcher Bart Penders estimates that the proposals alone represent 3600 years of research work while the results of the call with fund 3200 years of research work. A moment to question whether our grant funding systems are capable of sustaining our work.

Elsewhere, Leiden University rector published Six principles for supporting academic freedom in universities. Do you agree?