This Nov & Dec, @universityofleeds.bsky.social hosts Act! - a 3-part trans-led series on the fight for trans liberation in the UK. Each session brings lived experience, research insight & policy expertise to the stage. 🔗 www.eventbrite.com/cc/act-for-t...

If you like insightful takes on the Hidden REF from others and immense vocal fry from me, why not listen to Sarah's most recent episode of the Hidden REF podcast?

FANTASTIC piece on research culture and what needs to change here:

📢 New Blog: “Why My Success Is Your Success” - A Personal Vision on Research Culture 🔗 Read the full piece: researchculture.leeds.ac.uk/why-my-succe...

Open to Collaboration: Supporting Open Research at the University of Leeds leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/o... @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social @researchcultureuol.bsky.social @unileedsodpl.bsky.social

“Positive action funds like REDI matter… but they are not substitutes for structural reform.” 💡 Soo has written a bold and timely reflection on our REDI Fund at Leeds, not just what we did, but why it matters now more than ever ‼️🔥 📰 Read the full piece here and join the conversation:

🗣️Speakers: 🗽Melanie Chambliss, Assistant Professor of History (Rochester) 💂‍♂️Bridget Bennett, Professor of American Literature and Culture (Leeds) 🗽Autumn Haag, Assistant Director, Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (Rochester) 💂‍♂️Kate Dossett, Professor of American History (Leeds)

🎉 Happy International Research Software Engineers Day! 🎉 Today we celebrate the incredible work of Research Software Engineers (RSEs) who empower researchers through expert coding support, collaboration, and training.

🎉 Happy International Research Software Engineers Day! 🎉 Today we celebrate the incredible work of Research Software Engineers (RSEs) who empower researchers through expert coding support, collaboration, and training.

🔩 Are you a member of research staff or academic staff at the University of Leeds? Join the ‘Navigating your role and responsibilities as a Principal Investigator’ (PI) workshop to reflect on the real-world issues of a PI. ✅ Register now uolr3.leeds.ac.uk/temcatsearch... @unileedsodpl.bsky.social

I found this an excellent way to end #HiddenREF2025 yesterday. While it's important we get diverse roles and outputs the recognition they deserve - i.e. through the REF - often the REF itself can feel anti-research culture. For me, REF is a competition, but research culture is about community.

#HiddenREF #ResearchCulture #FieldNotesFromTheFront @researchcultureuol.bsky.social

🪂 Our very own intrepid research culture wrangler and correspondent @emilyennis.bsky.social has parachuted into Hidden REF armed with nothing but a lanyard, a sharp eye for research culture, and a dangerously well-organised notebook. Follow along for live sightings of academic value in the wild...

Day 2 of ##Hiddenref2025 and a reminder that people are as important as outputs.

AND: UKRN Train the Trainer: accelerating the uptake of open research practices across academic disciplines research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/ukrn...

Quick plug for a couple of relevant podcasts: Valuing Diverse Research Outputs: The Hidden REF and the 5% Manifesto with Simon Hettrick research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/valu...

Good morning from the Festival of the Hidden REF! We'll be looking at the future of non-traditional outputs and research culture. What better place to discuss the future than ThinkTank Birmingham? Here's a singing robot to get you started.

🎉Happy #InternationalPodcastDay! We asked the #ResearchCultureUncovered team: What’s the last podcast you listened to? 🕛Ged: Midnight at the Casablanca 🧪Heledd: Zoe Science & Nutrition 🏃‍♀️Katie: Running Commentary ⏳Taryn: This is History 🎧Share yours, we’d love to hear what you’re tuning into!

💥 Today is the day 💥 🎉 Join us at our Leeds Institute for Societal Futures launch event - we want to know what YOU think are the biggest challenges to address in our 4 challenge areas. 🕒 3–5pm | 📍Great Hall, University of Leeds 🎫 Register bit.ly/46dcU54 @universityofleeds.bsky.social

🥟 How is it dumpling day already?! Time is flying… speaking of tasty morsels: here’s one you may have missed but definitely worth savouring: Leeds will be brilliantly represented on the REF 2029 panels shaping how UK research quality is assessed. 🎉

Reposting a day late. Mostly because the rejection sensitive dysphoria played me hard yesterday and I wanted to see how people felt about the piece first. Thank you to so many of the wonderful comments and emails so far! ☺️

🛋️ We’ve refurbished & redecorated… and our blog’s back! A new home for big ideas in Research Culture 🎉 First through the door is our very own @emilyennis.bsky.social . Her first post for Celebrate Bisexuality Day 🩷💜💙 explores what research culture can learn from living in the in-between…

You can take the @researchcultureuol.bsky.social team out of Yorkshire, but you can’t take the Yorkshire out of the research culture team. 🫖

📢Open Lunch is back🍕🌮🍰 Open to collaboration: supporting #OpenResearch at the University of Leeds leeds.libcal.com/calendar/ope... All welcome, though this event will mostly be relevant to staff and students at the University of Leeds.

We are Leeds Institute for Societal Futures – find out what we do at societal.leeds.ac.uk #Leeds #InstituteForSocietalFutures #LISF #HealthInequality #Polarisation #Trust #SocialCohesion

📢 We are Leeds Institute for Societal Futures – connect with us at our launch event. 🗓️29/9/25 ⏲️ 3-5pm 🚩@universityofleeds.bsky.social 🔗http://bit.ly/3Ie3ka1 - please register Society needs to change - let's change it together. societal.leeds.ac.uk #Leeds #InstituteForSocietalFutures #LISF

I had a great time at the International Research Culture Conference at Warwick yesterday seeing the great work happening across the sector. But there were two things I did for the first time that I wanted to chat about in the context of research culture: I skipped a session and I took a nap.

Soo! Soo! Soo!

💪 Collective Action Against Employment Precarity 💪 Just had an amazing session with Mx Ash Collins (Nottingham) - feeling inspired, empowered, and buzzing with solidarity! ✨✊ Keep your eyes peeled for the working group… big things coming. #ResearchCulture #EndPrecariousEmployment #IRCC25

The Leeds research culture crew spotted at #IRCC25 👀 we’re friendly, we just look like we’re buffering sometimes… come say hi and rescue us from standing in a weird circle 🙃 #ResearchCulture @emilyennis.bsky.social @tomflint.bsky.social @soofougere.bsky.social

Society needs to change - let's change it together We’re evolving. LSSI has expanded its remit, focus and priorities and become Leeds Institute for Societal Futures. We’re here to change society for the better, but we need your help. Find out who we are at societal.leeds.ac.uk

🚀 Leeds has been shortlisted for TWO @timeshighered.bsky.social Awards! 🌐 HELIX – our £3.2m digital innovation hub – is up for Technological or Digital Innovation of the Year. 🔬 Helena Brown, a brilliant technician driving equality & outreach, is up for Outstanding Technician of the Year.

Health inequality. Migration. Mobility. Belonging. A new institute is coming soon to Leeds to tackle society’s biggest questions. Stay tuned. #Leeds #InstituteForSocietalFutures #UniversityOfLeeds #LISF #HealthInequality #Migration #Mobility #Belonging

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day - a reminder that small conversations can save lives. Let's keep building spaces where it's we discuss mental health, and feel okay asking for help 💛 📌 Staff support at Leeds: hr.leeds.ac.uk/info/6/suppo...

🔗With news of the REF 'pause' we want to remind you that we're here to support + strengthen research cultures. This matters because: 1. Positive research cultures enable research excellence and impact. 2. “Excellence” is too often defined in narrow, traditional terms, and can be deeply exclusionary.

At the FORRT Replication Hub, our mission is to support researchers who want to replicate previous findings. We have now published a big new component with which we want to fulfill this mission: An open access handbook for reproduction and replication studies: forrt.org/replication_...

CRediT can be valuable but "by recording and measuring the productivity of a narrow range of research outputs we are not going far enough in addressing the roots of academic inequity, such as the perceptions of what it means to be a researcher and participate in research" #OpenFest25

Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences (MORPHS) @morphss.bsky.social morphss.hcommons.org #OpenFest25

🎊 Confetti’s gone, but the buzz from Research Culture Community of Practice Event is still electric⚡ Talks, big ideas, brilliant projects… and yes, one emotional breakdance finale 🤸🪩✨ Recap here 👉 researchculture.leeds.ac.uk/research-cul... Same time next year? We're gonna need a bigger tent! 🎪❤️

Our fab colleagues in the Research & Innovation service have launched a new home for Leeds research stories 📚 researchatleeds.leeds.ac.uk Follow for more: 🔹 LinkedIn – www.linkedin.com/showcase/res... 🔹 Bluesky – @researchleeds.bsky.social #ResearchCulture #ResearchAtLeeds #LeedsUni #OpenResearch

Excellent, insightful conversation on the What the REF podcast between @simonhettrick.bsky.social and Marcus Munafo (@ukrepro.bsky.social) covering REF, open and transparent research and research culture (also rowing) youtu.be/uHRQjNqY6CY

Happy #YorkshireDay! Whether you’re a student, staff member, alum, or visitor, we hope Yorkshire has found a place in your heart, just as it has in ours❤️ Take a moment today to enjoy a Yorkshire brew and reflect on your favourite memories here!

🎉 Final call! Today’s your last chance to register for the 2025 Research Culture Community of Practice event! 📅 Mon 14 July | 📍 Nexus, Leeds 📝 Register by the end of TODAY – 4 July! Expect keynotes, films, lightning talks, and workshops, focused on building a better, inclusive research culture.

Last week to grab your tickets for the Research Culture CoP event! 🎟️ Big brains, good vibes, real talk about making research better. Don’t get stuck watching from the window 😬

This Pride Month, we’ve been spotlighting projects we’ve funded and initiatives we’ve taken to improve research culture for LGBTQ+ colleagues. From fieldwork guidance to postgraduate belonging programmes and equity-driven funding, we’re proud of the steps we’ve taken ...

This Pride Month, we’re spotlighting the REDI Fund - an initiative that advances equity in research careers through an intersectional lens.

Excited to see our LGBTQ+ inclusive fieldwork resources being shared again 🏳️‍🌈 Full videos and written info at inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk

This Pride Month, we’re spotlighting projects we’ve funded to strengthen the research culture and working environment for LGBTQ+ colleagues.

As part of our Pride Month reflections, we’re spotlighting projects and initiatives we've funded and supported that work to build a positive and inclusive Research Culture - especially for our LGBTQ+ staff and students. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Reminder! our 2025 Community of Practice event! 📍 Nexus, Leeds | 🗓️ Mon 14 July | 10am–4pm 📝 Sign up by 4 July! A day of talks, films, workshops & celebration — all about building a better, more inclusive research culture. Researchers, techs, postgrads, PS staff, academics & more: this is for you.