Thinking about this in the context of Research Culture and research misconduct cases too... www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/why-ar...

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The happiness I felt at seeing these first signs of spring was directly proportionate to the shittiness of the week. So it was immense 🤩 Getting outside is recommended...

Well this was major excitement for a Monday (to someone who lived in Swansea for 20+ years) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Excited to see how it progresses!

I used to blog my reading of papers on #ResearchIntegrity training and here's my little inexpert grumble (as a practitioner) about people who write about Research Integrity training (or possibly any sort of training!) researchintegritytraining.wordpress.com/2022/02/02/1...

Reading “The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing” theconversation.com/the-5-stages...

Been reading about "Questionable Research Practices" - this paper made me ponder if these should be differentiated from "honest yet unacceptable" practices? And how we might improve "cultures of indifference and tolerance"... pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #ResearchIntegrity #ResearchCulture

"Remember that peer review is not meant to crush souls" Really liked this constructive summary for improving peer reviews 👇

Just leaving this here... www.bbc.com/news/article... Im thinking about how I manage time and energy... definitely will be making adjustments in 2026!

Spread the joy! Like hope, it feels like a radical act right now...

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar Window 20 ‘Winter Sunrise’ Artist: SR Badmin

It's time ☺️

This is not ostensibly about "Research Integrity" but it got a massive "YES!!!" from me for encapsulating so many thoughts on it and I really like the "7 ways" as a set of pointers for research leaders theconversation.com/how-good-peo... #ResearchIntegrity #ResearchCulture

I like the idea of a simple transparency scale for use of #AI in HE: wonkhe.com/blogs/transp... Aligns neatly with #ResearchIntegrity principles!

It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The menhirs in the stone circles do more than pin our sense of the Long Neolithic to the moor. They pin legends to the land. Anchor generations of storytelling. Lithic libraries that endure in both physical place and the imagination. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

There are overwhelming resources on #ResearchIntegrity topics so the art of making something simple and useful is to be celebrated. I still really like "The Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science" by Andy Brunning www.compoundchem.com/2014/04/02/a...

Happy Advent! !!!🎄✨ Welcome to a new edition of the Research Integrity Advent Calendar. Each day brings a small challenge: spot the problem, detect inconsistencies, and sharpen your skills. Enjoy the season and the daily puzzles! Day 1. papermills.tilda.ws/advent2025

I love the moment on 1st Dec when the Xmas Playlists are dusted off. My first (and last) December song has been the same for many years = my absolute favourite Xmas track by @theagilmore.bsky.social youtu.be/iOrnyGBxh-8?... 🥰

Back from an incredible week in Europe and the crushing reality of UK coffee and pastries awaits me... And the trains. Jeez 😞

Today's very small gripe: "OneNote for the web can't currently search across all notebooks. Use OneNote for Windows 10 or OneNote for Mac to search across multiple notebooks." Always Microsoft products seem to have drawn lines slightly short of being truly useful...

Resurrecting playlists from the early 21st century 😅 It still works! The Philips dock is the dodgy part here...

Restored some calm yesterday with an autumnal lunchtime walk. Too easy to get overwhelmed with the monster 'to do' list these days...

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I'm sitting in on leadership training with the most excellent Daniela Bultoc today = sparking so many ideas and thoughts...and it's a real masterclass in how to facilitate a good session danielabultoc.com

It's been a good week for music for me: Gillian Welch & David Rawlings on Sat, Gogol Bordello on Tue and Fields of the Nephilim last night. PS If anyone else matches on all of those, we should definitely be friends! 😁#ElderGoth

The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This Christmas present 🤣 I didn't know the Russell Group had merch?!

Time to roll out the funniest thing ever (thank you @gralefrit.bsky.social & @jasonhazeley.bsky.social ) #LadyBirdBooksForAdults #Hootenanny

These days as we crawl towards midwinter...every year I forget how hard it is... Still beautiful out there, but hard...

Those government-type surveys where they want an institutional response but you have no way to extract or even see the questions without clicking through their clunky survey tool...do they imagine we all sit round a computer together? 😂

I liked this focus on creativity, not least because it references Frank Turner on songwriting 😊 www.nature.com/articles/d41... (part paywalled)

THANK YOU!!!! This has saved me from RSI and delirium = subtitletools.com Free tool to convert VTT subtitles to a plain text transcript without the timings...

In Dundee today for the Scottish #ResearchIntegrity network (SRIN) hearing about the work of UK CORI from @ralitsamadsen.bsky.social Always so useful to meet Scottish peers and get this kind of sector update!

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The Bluesky Swear Word Visualizer is absolutely amazing (and is that Matt Berry's voice?) swearsky.bagpuss.org

A whole load of good lists here! Ah the happiness of finding old friends have appeared here... 🥰

Lunchtime walk was a much-needed break today 🌞

This article is about websites but I think useful here too for key message "focus on meaning rather than visual description" "Does an image always require alt-text?" and other sections had me thinking about how to use this best for usefulness (and efficiency) www.nngroup.com/articles/alt...

Christmas shopping has started... and I have just supported Daydreams Bookshop via Hive www.hive.co.uk/Shops/Daydre... (our new local bookshop! Will go in there too, obvs 😁)

This is not Croydon...

The notebook sweet spot is so small. Like the chances of finding one that's nice enough to buy but not too nice to ruin by writing in it are basically zero. Madness. This world is absolute madness.

I am heading for Croydon. It's really hard to get enthusiastic 😆 Maybe Croydon will surprise me...

Great to see @zjayres.bsky.social on here! We use these fabulous resources in our #ResearchIntegrity training 👍🏻

I did not know there was a directory of Starter Packs so sharing in case you didn't know that either... blueskydirectory.com

My son and his fabulous pals played their first gig tonight at Ivory Blacks in #Glasgow. They rocked it! 🤘🏻 And I was the proudest mother EVER 🥰 #Jackpot

A librarian point of view based on the ways researchers get their literature. Read the comments to grasp the diversity of experiences (not mentioning the hidden continent of young colleagues that just use SciHub/LibGen, rather than getting on publishers/library platforms).

The panels discuss several drivers of misconduct: * Institutions/countries imposing publishing demands * Publishers that care more about revenue than about rejecting bad papers * Researchers that want to be at the top of metrics (h index). * Fierce competition for scarce grants. #CHSconf2024

Look who's just dropped in! 🙌 Great to see you here, Robert. And for you other Bluesky folks who have a thing for nature, landscape, and people and in the landscape (so, basically for everybody I guess) - this is a highly recommended follow! 👏