This blog post discusses recent events that reveal fragilities of the open research information ecosystem:
https://www.digital-science.com/blog/2026/02/no-shortcuts-to-research-information-citizenship/
"The most valuable work of the coming years will not be building, and investing in the curation of ever-larger mirrors of the research system, but finishing the foundational tasks we already know are necessary. That means complete, genuinely open metadata in @crossref@mastodon.online and @datacite@openbiblio.social , including affiliations with @ResearchOrgs@mastodon.social IDs."