I've started a @wikipedia.org article about Leeds Quaker Thomas Harvey en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_... He and his business partner Richard Reynolds manufactured the first commercially available clinical thermometer developed by Clifford Allbutt in 1867 #400for400 #Leeds

📢 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

Still time to register for tomorrow⤵️

A new episode of my Under Review podcast is out. I spoke to Professor @scurry.bsky.social about 'The high cost of hiding negative and null results.' How can it be fixed, what incentives are needed and what needs to go into the Under Review bin? YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Ps... 1/3

🎧 New episode of the #ResearchCultureUncovered podcast is out now! Emily Goodall @dremilygoodall.bsky.social speaks with Karen Glerum Brooks & Lucy Cheseldine about Valuing Voices - a Wellcome funded project rethinking equitable, responsible research.

Online event next week 👇 @pci-regreports.bsky.social

We are delighted to announce the programme for the inaugural Knowledge Equity and Open Scholarship week taking place online from Tuesday 19th May – Thursday 21st May 2026: knowledgeequitynetwork.org/casestudies/...

Was moved/overjoyed/inspired to talk to @elainagmamaril.bsky.social about disability, podcasting, and who gets to determine what constitutes knowledge. I am even recommending this to my non-RC friends and colleagues as an episode on how to be an excellent human being.

Event recap and full recording: 📽️https://leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/bridging-knowledge-gaps-through-collaboration-wikimedia-in-south-africa-and-the-uk/

Peer Community In (PCI): Leaving Publishers Out of the Peer Review Process (online🌐, April 29📆, 1pm🕐) leeds.libcal.com/event/4495806 With Prof Chris Chambers (Cardiff University) and @maddipow.bsky.social Cc: @cardiffunilib.bsky.social @pci-regreports.bsky.social

"The guide explains why reproducing results using the same data and analysis isn’t always as straightforward as it sounds. Missing code, unclear methods, software changes, and hidden dependencies can all make analyses difficult or impossible for others to rerun."👇

Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration (2025) doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Mostly online and open to all…so HS2 not required for Leeds colleagues to attend👇

Still time to book for this lunchtime 12pm GMT👇

Creative Dilemmas: Balancing open access and integrity (2025) doi.org/10.31273/eir...

Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM (A MORPHSS Project Report) works.hcommons.org/records/h10r...

A Typology of Openness: 🔓 Openness as access/ible dissemination 📖 Openness as the rich realisation of research 🌏 Openness as equitable and inclusive knowledge creation Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences (MORPHSS) @morphss.bsky.social

Currently comprises 30 practices (Certainly not exhaustive says @jenniad.bsky.social)

🌍 Bridging Knowledge Gaps: Wikimedia in South Africa & the UK 📅 Tue 24 Mar ⏰ 12h GMT | 14h SAST 🎤 With Herschal Jackson (@wikimediaza.bsky.social), Lucy Crompton-Reid (@wikimediauk.bsky.social) & Chaired by @yclepit.bsky.social (@openresleeds.bsky.social) Register: leeds.libcal.com/event/4499551

Design choices for productive, secure, data-intensive re search at scale in the cloud (2019) arxiv.org/pdf/1908.08737

Community of Practice 2026 - Open Call for Contributions Our research culture isn’t perfect, but it is a collage we’re creating together. Help shape what it looks like next: researchculture.leeds.ac.uk/get-involved...

Response somewhat dismissive: "UK Biobank rejected the concerns, saying that no identifying data, such as names and addresses, were provided to researchers." We're doing a lot of work around data governance. Read more here library.leeds.ac.uk/info/14062/r...

🌍 Nueva serie 2026 sobre Equidad en Conocimiento y Ciencia Abierta. Una colaboración entre @knowledgeen.bsky.social, OELATAM y la Universidad Nacional del Sur. Sesiones en español de marzo a junio para conectar la comunidad hispanohablante.

Inspired by @sparc-eu.bsky.social Case for Connecting the Opens sparceurope.org/the-case-for... Hold the date👇

Also see: hoverboards, flying cars

Consider donating to support the important work of R4L friendsofresearch4life.org

Daniel - R4L is having an impact across the globe and are aiming to bridge the transition form access to open access including working on best practice for waivers for authors www.research4life.org/apc-waivers/ #ORW2026

Nick - empowerment - wikimedia can be a bridge between academic and global communities and between open research and open education. Can be powerful in terms of human curated knowledge and hopefully inform ethical AI, information and digital literacy. #ORW2026

Research Professional Futures Project (ARMA) arma.ac.uk/summary-of-t...

Report on the EOSC* Winter School 2026 zenodo.org/records/1883... *European Open Science Cloud research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/str...

Small European publishers and the transition to #OpenAccess publishing: a 2025 snapshot doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Demystifying Data Journals: Experiences of data journal editors (@n8research.bsky.social event, online - Tue, 10 March, 1-2:30pm) www.eventbrite.com/e/demystifyi...

Only Good Antibodies; different players coming together in an open initiative (Wednesday 4 March, 14:00 - 15:00) libcal.essex.ac.uk/event/4465347

In 2026, the city of Leeds celebrates 400 years since it received the first royal charter, giving the city the right to self-governance. To celebrate this occasion, the Libraries are taking to Wikipedia. And we need your help.

"How do we reduce all barriers, such as financial, technical, and cognitive, so that more people can access, understand, rerun, and build on research?"👇

Some great events next week, all online and open to all👇 See below for individual session links👇👇

We at White Rose University Press are equally delighted to congratulate the winners and look forward to guiding them through the publication process. Their achievement marks an exciting milestone in their academic careers, and we are thrilled to support them as their work reaches a wider audience.

Catalogue of #OpenResearch Practices in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences catalogue.morphss.work @morphss.bsky.social

Success for Leeds alumni in Early Career Publishing Prize The Libraries extends huge congratulations to the three alumni named as prize winners: library.leeds.ac.uk/news/article... @wrunipress.bsky.social @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social

Librarians can be key research partners who help to scour the literature, manage data and make science open www.nature.com/articles/d41... @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social

Quick, just one place left for this afternoon👇

"UKRN Publishes Findings from Pilot Projects on Automating Open Research Indicators". This was a fantastic collaboration, working w excellent colleagues at University of Leeds (@nickshepp.bsky.social, @sallydalton.bsky.social) and partner universities. Read more below: www.ukrn.org/2026/02/12/u...

In 2026, the city of Leeds celebrates 400 years since it received the first royal charter, giving the city the right to self-governance. To celebrate this occasion, the Libraries are taking to Wikipedia. And we need your help.

400 for 400 Leeds Wiki Campaign The Libraries need you to celebrate a city-wide celebration! library.leeds.ac.uk/news/article... @wikimediauk.bsky.social

Transatlantic Anti-Slavery Wiki Edit-a-thon (Workshop) leeds.libcal.com/calendar/ope... THIS Friday. Everybody welcome 😀 In partnership with @urochester.bsky.social and @wikimediauk.bsky.social Facilitated by @yclepit.bsky.social, with an intro from @jsendall.bsky.social

This webinar focuses on advancing knowledge equity through Wikimedia initiatives and open education, with a particular emphasis on South African and UK perspectives 👇

🚨 Last call! Join our next Building Impact Momentum programme to develop concrete ideas for research impact which can be applied to research projects or in grant applications. ⏰ Deadline: 9 February 🗓️ Runs: March – June 2026 ➡️ Find out more: researchersupport.leeds.ac.uk/research-imp...

Every university should have a Wikimedian in Residence. Today we've got loads!