New books!

"We have purposefully chosen a term which lays aside questions of epistemological inclusion or exclusion of contributions & instead embraces all ways of doing, knowing & understanding how research is practiced, produced & governed" Great to see this in the manifesto for this new r-o-r journal⬇️

Had a lovely time yesterday afternoon zine-making with @mirandab-oa.bsky.social , @domismithson.bsky.social & other fantastic researchers & research professionals. Can’t wait to share our collaborative zine on feminism and open research 📒

Lots going on next Wednesday: first, this amazing round table convened by @alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social : Humanities and Social Sciences Digital Research Infrastructure in Canada: Where Are We Now, and Where Could We Go?

One of the more unexpected things about working on @morphss.bsky.social is how often scientists say that the issues we've identified apply to STEM too. It was always our intention to focus only on AHSS but it seems there's a more general dissatisfaction with narrow understandings of open research.

(How) can pre-registration serve the needs of qualitative research communities? Check out our entry for Practice #21 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Pre-registering qualitative research ⬇️ #OpenAHSS #OpenResearch #Pre-reg

UK contemporary artists and printmaker Vanessa Lubach #womensart

Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak, Birds from the Sea (1960) #WomensArt

What does it take to champion humanities approaches in a changing world? Join this timely conversation about how we can defend and celebrate the arts, humanities and social sciences. 9 June | 13:30-14:45 | Online. Register Now: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

"When texts are accessed solely by digitized means, without experiential basis in the original volumes, organization and material contexts, the learner is cut off from the process, extent and relationships that ground and constitute human works and knowledge."

Going to the supermarket on the way home from work results in a disproportionate amount of cider and crisps.

📢 Join us online or in-person at the Edinburgh Open Research Conference on the 18th of June! Dr. Carlos Soler Montes is presenting ‘Fostering Multilingualism in Research and Science: Bridging Language Gaps in Global Research Communities’. Register here: library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...

When you are woken at 4:25 by the sound of bats’ wings against your window. In my dream state I pictured someone fluttering their eyelashes against the glass. I was relieved to see these wonderful little beings. #shropshire #sunrise #bats #dawnchorus

The recording from the MORPHSS catalogue launch event is available here: doi.org/10.17613/zm1... This event introduced the MORPHSS Report & Catalogue of open research practices in the arts, humanities & social sciences, & invited responses & discussion from a panel of experts across these fields.

If you’re working on digital cultural heritage and have an idea for a short-form monograph, we’d love to hear from you. The series is diamond open access too!

Hedgehog visitation, the first definite one of the year! 🦔

Now reading: chilling fictionalised history of the present technological moment’s destructive intellectual underpinnings…

Recordings from the #FOR2026 are now available! Our panel on Equity and Justice in Open Research Implementation is under Day 2: opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con... Thank you to the PHIL_OS project led by @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social for being such wonderful hosts. #OpenScience @abrir.bsky.social

So angry about this (the “sentences”, not the review)

Really enjoying this… it’s about the different paths a family’s lives might take after varying decisions re the naming of a child. I was worried it’d be gimmicky, but it’s not… a really thoughtful & sensitive exploration of the aftermaths of family trauma & abuse

Linocut by Olesya Dzhurayeva, contemporary Ukrainian printmaker #WomensArt

In the early stages of writing something at the moment, and the whole AI/academic writing thing is helping me to reflect on the process in ways that are more self-compassionate. 1/2

Published with some minor changes! Please share widely. 😊 Guest, O., Suarez, M., ... & van Rooij, I. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Journal: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162

House, 1993 by Rachel Whiteread #womensart

In every academic book there is a secret second book hiding in the footnotes. Sometimes it is the first draft that had migrated there to escape the revisions. Sometimes it is the author's tortured secret rebuttal of their own claims, and sometimes it is the incipient form of the their next book.

📢 OpenARC Conference | The Public Humanities in the 21st Century | 17 June 2026 - Save the date 💡 What is the role of the public humanities today? 📅 17 June 2026 🕤 Starting 9:30am 💻 Online | Free 🔗 fass.open.ac.uk/events/confe... #PublicHumanities #ArtsAndHumanities

Just finished: an exploration of technology, memory & loss in triptych… feels very Invention of Solitude era Paul Auster… loved it

#photography #BNWmacro #analog #shotonfilm #doubleexposure #flower #abstract #photographersofbluesky

You can read a two-part discussion of peer review surrounding the creation of Deep Maps: Blue Humanities here: Peer Review Under Review: https://copim.pub/peer-review-under-review/ Peer Review as Party: It’s Done in the Doing: https://copim.pub/peer-review-as-party-its-done-in-the-doing/ […]

"Open peer review in AHSS is often explored in terms of open participation and open interaction, in contrast to the dominant emphasis on open identities and reports within STEM disciplines..." Practice #18 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Open Peer Review

"With a particular focus on health data, this interdisciplinary essay examines how [open science] infrastructures perpetuate epistemic harms through the dominance of Eurocentric knowledge norms, legal regimes and corporate capture." datascience.codata.org/articles/10....

Resist fascism today - Don’t forget to vote 🗳️

Now reading: poised & puzzling

Counting down to publication day on Thursday uolpress.co.uk/book/explori...

Woodland walk in one of Sheffield’s secret parks

Artwork by contemporary artist Angela Smyth #Womensart

📢 ONLINE EVENT 📢 Interdisciplinary and Interoperable: Exploring the Wellcome Collection with IIIF 📅 Thursday, May 7, 2026 🕐 1:00pm - 🕑 2:00pm leeds.libcal.com/calendar/ope... @iiif.bsky.social @cgknowles.bsky.social @jsendall.bsky.social @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social

So looking forward to presenting at #FOR2026 next week! The programme looks phenomenal. See fellow attendees in Munich very soon! 😊🛫🇩🇪

We have a new preprint out on informed consent practices, led by Derek Robey & with a large group of interdisciplinary specialists. It's a very short 'statement' paper with more work to come, outlining 4 high-level principles w specific examples&recommendations. 🧵 osf.io/preprints/so...

What Experimental Books Make Possible: Reflections from the Experimental Publishing Group 2026 Retreat

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

The Open Research team at Cambridge is looking for an Open Access Service Manager. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRI653/o...

One week left to submit your suggestions for new or updated Hidden REF Competition categories. This early consultation phase is an important part of our mission, making sure the competition reflects what really matters across the research community. Find out more and share your ideas:

Good times at the car boot sale; I bought this giant pie dish (to use for garden purposes, not cookery!) for 50p!

star of the day

I haven’t slept properly for about 3 days and am giving a talk this afternoon. Really hoping I can maintain some level of coherence!