It goes without saying that the neoliberal language of a higher education "market" from which providers will "exit" is bleak. No media organisation challenges it, though. They all just repeat the mantra, as though education could never be a public good.

Our article on researchers’ responses to a pilot data stewardship service at @sheffielduni.bsky.social has now been published in the International Journal of Digital Curation:

'The lines are busy' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Morgan #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

This is maybe the best news I’ve read today! A new journal on @openjournalsnl.bsky.social, and what’s particularly interesting is that this is a so-called data journal, in the humanities. #openscholarship Diamond #openaccess 💎 funded by @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social & @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social

Loving this despite the illegible 6pt font and horrible cover. Beautifully written & Southern gothic vibes all over

Glorious sofa bunny:

Great initiative... First issue of the Scottish Journal of Open Research: doi.org/10.36399/f74...

Annual reminder that if you are having a bonfire tonight please: - check for prickly hedgehog friends first - & light from one side Pic via @matchbloc.bsky.social

“These aren’t ‘soft’ alternatives to ‘hard’ research. They are different technologies of knowledge that can access realities other methods miss.” Excellent piece on the need for plural & inclusive visions of knowledge creation.

Today’s #1000postcard is the song thrush who sits singing his heart out to anyone who will listen. His liquid song like upward rain dripping over the wet woods in fluting refrain

When you warned the cat not to eat the giant spider, but she did eat the giant spider, then later vomited its remains on the landing carpet while you were trying to write a literature review…

Autumn is the season of rereading. I remember enjoying this first time round…

Rereading Frankenstein and enjoying past-me’s sarcastic abuse of the protagonist…

Lovely neighbour has just brought me these incredible massive mushrooms!

Clare Youngs, contemporary graphic and collage artist #womensart

Dues finestres. #Fotografia #Monochrome #ClassicMono #WindowsOnWednesday #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky

This #WorldMentalHealthDay it's crucial to remember that precarious, broken, or otherwise toxic environments cause or worsen mental distress. They also undermine our efforts to care for one-another. Although in challenging times that's exactly what we have to do. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Seasonal socks:

The existential dread of this time of year.

Can anyone recommend an academic audiobook that was well done? Looking for a good example of how to handle citations, footnotes, bibliography, etc. in audiobook format. Ideally an academic monograph. Please only recommend if you've read the audiobook and thought it was well done.

Recommended viewing: Storyville: The Librarians, BBC4, Tuesday, 7 October. Explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

English stained glass artist Tamsin Abbott, who is inspired by folklore and nature #WomensArt

Does anyone have Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend in an edition that doesn’t have ridiculously small text, and if so, what edition do you have? I can’t take 555 pages of this

Suzie MacKenzie, contemporary printmaker who lives and works in the northern highlands of Scotland #WomensArt

Feeling more strongly than ever that puppetry is the future of representation. It’s the Arts & Crafts movement of the AI age.

Ouija boards are now available to all staff and students, as part of the University's expanding ouija offer

'My Garden...' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary artist and printmaker #WomensArt

Time for our annual update of "Open Research across disciplines". pdf: www.ukrn.org/disciplines/ K Reproducibility Network (UKRN) webpages: www.ukrn.org/disciplines/ Resources to add, please use (by 30/09/25): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @camillakgilmore.bsky.social @priyasilverstein.com

Celebrating the first corduroy dress / big scarf day of the season 🍁🍂

EEDI in Open Research 🎧 You can now re-watch some of the #openfest25 sessions via our library webpages: libguides.shu.ac.uk/c.php?g=7091...

Every librarian’s weapon of choice

I have a sweet spot for online #archives, this digitised collection of 226 #LGBT badges is worth a little look if you've 5 mins to spare. From the archive at @lselibrary.bsky.social digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/... #Library #LGBTQ #Lesbian #Gay #Bisexual #Trans #Queer #GLAM

Looking forward to participating in this workshop. I’ll be talking about whether there’s a human right to participate in science.

Apple and pear cider is in progress!

The last of the online sessions for #OpenFest25 - on Changing and critiquing (open) research culture - is about to get underway, with talks on dependency theory, research environments under pressure and research culture.

If anyone missed our talk at #OpenFest25 but would like to find out more about MORPHSS - our new project to surface & support open research in the arts, humanities & social science, do take a look at our webpages, including planned project deliverables: morphss.hcommons.org/project-deli...

The four UK higher education funding bodies confirm the pause in the criteria setting and publication of final guidance for REF 2029 for a short period, as announced by the UK Science Minister Lord Vallance today at the Universities UK conference. 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/pause-t...

Beth Knazook of the Digital Repository of Ireland now speaking about the global Research Data Alliance ambassadors network #OpenFest25

Building diverse open research networks and communities session now underway at #OpenFest25 Rob Farrow, Beck Pitt & Carina Bossu are speaking about the Global OER Graduate Network, which has special interests in amplifying research from the global South.

Just about to start our 3rd day of #OpenFest25 The recipe for an #EEDI open research approach is still in the making, more ingredients from yesterday pictured below👇

Need to reintroduce care and cooperation into the book publishing process, e.g via scholar/library-led OA book publishing- @samuelmoore.org #OpenFest25

The history of open access has focused too much on outputs, and not on the forms of production that go into them - @samuelmoore.org at #OpenFest25

Next up: Hannah Hillel of @thoth-metadata.bsky.social on not-for-profit open infrastructures for OA books #OpenFest25

@kjsanders.bsky.social and @simonxix.com on the need to return open book publishing to its original radical and DIY ethos, bypassing commercial & neoliberal co-optations of openness #OpenFest25

Talking this morning about experimentation in open access through experimental publishing and community-led initiatives for libraries like @openbookcollective.bsky.social. #OpenFest25

We at @jepub.bsky.social are excited to announce the publication of our new special issue on Publishing and Climate Justice, edited by Janneke Adema! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/38... [1/n]

@domismithson.bsky.social is doing an incredible job of chairing this event - hats off to her! 🤠 #OpenFest25

Now starting @ #OpenFest25 - panel discussion on Building Inclusive Relationships with Research Participants, led by Julia Taibi-Voigts and Monty Mountford