COS Exec Director @briannosek.bsky.social is featured as an expert voice in the #StateofOpenData 10th anniv. report. “Fundamental research is on a very long timescale. How did we get to GPS today? We couldn't have anticipated it 60 years ago. I put open science into that same frame." ⬇️ Read more

Want to weigh in on UKRIO's next strategy? Join our Connect with UKRIO session on 11 February to learn how you can contribute to a consultation that will shape how we support researchers in upholding the highest standards of research integrity. 🔗 Learn more & register: ukrio.org/connect-with...

💻 One week to go until our next Code Anxiety Club session! This free session will be dedicated to debugging, with helpful tips on how to find and fix errors in your code. Follow the link below to join: 📅 3 February 2026 ⏰ 13:30-14:00 📍 Online 🧷 ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/code-...

Did you know you can apply for an all expenses paid trip to #UKSG2026 This year @uksg.bsky.social is sponsoring TEN places PLUS JoVe is sponsoring an additional place for an early career library professional! Find out more 👉 www.uksg.org/sponsored-pl...

📣 Our introduction to structural causal models in science studies is now published: doi.org/10.1162/QSS.... @tklebel.bsky.social and I tried to make our introduction as accessible as possible. We illustrate the theory by three case studies based on a simulated model of Open Science. 🧵(1/6)

Are you in a public sector, education or research organisation wanting to innovate securely and achieve more with your cloud investment? Join this free webinar to explore how OGVA can help you derive greater value from AWS, including first-hand experiences and an expert Q&A. #EduSky #UKHE

We're launching a new video series: Real World Data Science Big Questions! In each video, members of our data science community answer one key question. Watch the first video and read our analysis here: bit.ly/data-science... www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WgC...

Coming up! iRISE (improving Reproducibility In SciencE) is hosting 3 free virtual train-the-trainer workshops: 2/4: Intro to Reproducibility 🔗 forms.office.com/e/D... 2/18: Preregistration 🔗 forms.office.com/e/r... 3/4: Equity, Diversity & Inclusion in Research 🔗 forms.office.com/e/j...

The Irish Reproducibility Network will have our official launch next week! Really looking forward to this 😊 #irishResearch #openResearch #openScience

@forrt.bsky.social and the Münster Center for Open Science are organizing a Love Replications Week this year. Get in touch if you would like to contribute with tutorials, case studies, or discussions surrounding #reproductions and #replications! The full program will be announced soon!

And so it begins... 3 UK universities (Essex, Sussex & Kent) have just gone public about walking away from their Elsevier Read & Publish deals, despite Jisc's recently announced agreement. Expect to see more of these over the coming months. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m... #OpenAccess

Interested in discussing how Artificial Intelligence can be helpful or hurtful to academia? 🤖 As a newly minted UKRN (@ukrepro.bsky.social) Local Network Lead, I'm co-organizing a hybrid event about this next Friday (30th January) Join us at @livunipsyc.bsky.social or online via Teams!

"There is an asymmetry in the study of trust in science: instead of examining the full spectrum from extreme distrust to extreme trust, it is heavily skewed towards the distrust end." By Petar Lukić and @iriszez.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s111...

📽️ "Increasing computational reproducibility or how to share your research code" / with Camille Maumet @cmaumet.bsky.social youtu.be/FjHTtCeFm0g?... The event was organised by ReproducibiliTea UniBasel

The official launch of the Irish Reproducibility Network. It's all happening, which is very exciting. Join us! irishrn.org/events/ (Though they've made a grave error in giving a statistician the last word) cc @dermotlynott.bsky.social

Here ya go!

I am intrigued by people who complain a lot, but do nothing to improve things. Some people complain about the same things for years. It seems to me that if they would spend that energy into something productive, they would be happier, and the world would be a bit better.

This is an excellent group, and look at all those videos you can find online 👀 So much stuff to learn! cls-data.github.io/CIIG/

We welcome the Government’s International Education Strategy 2026 and its ambitions for strengthening the UK's global partnerships. Our international support enables providers to operate confidently overseas, and ensure high‑quality, secure, and scalable global education delivery.

Looking for data that the government is pulling down? We may have it backed up for you. Check our portal: portal.datarescueproject.org Know of data being taken down or worried about a data source? Let us know: baserow.datarescueproject.org/form/r7V1c44...

To everyone organizing a metascience/open science/research integrity event: You know you are allowed to choose your keynote speakers from a pool greater than the same five people? Give early- and mid-career scientists a chance to shine (so you don't have to listen to the same narratives forever).

💡 Did you know? Methods are among the most cited research outputs. For #LoveMethods26, join experts for interactive sessions: 👉 Jan 21: @protocolsio.bsky.social Hackathon 👉 Jan 22: Methods Mythbusting Panel spklr.io/633288eAVM#LoveMethods26 #OpenScience

📽️ "Taboo topics we can no longer avoid: negligence, tampering, and fraud" / with Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io youtu.be/sdRRafephyM?... The event was organised by ReproducibiliTea UniBasel @swissrn.bsky.social

📣 Big news from RoSE! We’re launching a new RoSE × FORRT collaborative research project 🎉 With @rosenetwork.bsky.social and @forrt.bsky.social, we’re starting a Big Team Science review on evidence for using statistical packages in teaching & learning. Watch this space 👀 #statsed #openscience

New Open Research Event 🎓📆 - Webinar: What's the use of preregistration for Big Team Science? [EN] held Online on 27/01/2026. For more info, view the event in our calendar.

There's still time to get your nominations in the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize to celebrate early career researchers! Nominations close this Sunday, 18 January 2026.

I've just updated my preprint on short personal reviews of novels on #ResearchIntegrity , which now covers 35 titles. bit.ly/409E5ff Please attend me to novels which you believe to belong to this list, but are not yet included.

Strengthen your ability to teach reproducible and open research practices by joining @irise-eu.bsky.social Train-the-Trainer workshops this February! Live online, interactive, small-group activities and discussion. Free to attend. Places are limited. #Training #Reproducibility #Preregistration

📽️ “Claims about scientific rigour require rigour” / with Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social youtu.be/qNJ8xqaObR8?... The event was organised by ReproducibiliTea UniBasel

💻 One week to go until our next Code anxiety club session! This session is on all things version control, including how to install Git and master basic commands. Book your place at the link below: 📅 20 January 2026 ⏰ 13:30-14:00 📍 Online

Think fast! Places are limited for the @n8cir.bsky.social Digital Research Infrastructure Retreat 2026 supported by @ukri.org , taking place in Manchester from 23-27 March. Register your interest ASAP, and volunteer if you can! n8cir.org.uk/training-and...

New Open Research Event 🎓📆 - Love Data Week 2026 at the University of Southampton [EN] held Online from 10/02/2026 to 13/02/2026. For more info, view the event in our calendar.

#dataviz #rstats #ggplot What are people's thoughts on UpSet plots? Easier way to show multiple comparisons in one plot? Or just more plot clutter? share.google/ggr8YOogsnBt...

Explainers & tutorials are a great way to criticize current practices with a positive twist. Tailoring them to a specific substantive (!) subfield can greatly increase uptake. Forget about novelty; if some statistican said sth in the 70s but no one was around to hear it, say it again.>

✨ We're delighted to announce a new online workshop on using agent-based models as a simulation tool to generate synthetic data. 📅 18 February 2026 ⏰ 14:00-16:00 📍 Online 🧷 ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/using...

We've got our 2025 statistics now, and it's clear just how well-read publications on Octopus are - it's a fast-growing platform. (Bots removed from the data) Lots of new features in 2025 - such as being able to find UK government research priorities and link your work to them. More features soon!

One of the best ways for early-career researchers to create community within their department and effect change towards doing open and thoughtful research is to start a ReproducibiliTea journal club. We've distilled our network's experience into a set of simple rules to follow and get started!

Can AI be used to evaluate open science practices? 🤖🔎 Join us to find out from Dr Daryl Lee at the next ReproducibiliTea! 🫖 📅 Jan 13th, 3pm GMT www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/evaluating... @tabeasch.bsky.social @uclopenscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social @reproducibilitea.org @ukrepro.bsky.social

Nominations for the Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026 are closing soon! Remember to nominate before 18 January 2026. #AcademicSky #Research

🚀 We want to give a big shoutout to our friends at @prereview.bsky.social who work tirelessly to promote the constructive and open peer review of prepints! 👏 PREreview works with many like-minded organizations and preprint servers to "bring more equity and transparency to scholarly peer review."👏

⏰ There's one week to go until our next computational social science drop-in. If you're interested in discussing data skills with like-minded individuals then please book your place at the link below: 📅 13 January 2026 ⏰ 13:00-14:00 📍 Online 🧷 ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/compu...

Applying for an Academy Starter Grant? You can also apply for our PPI Fund and receive up to £2.5K to directly remunerate PPI contributors who help shape your application. 📅 Starter Grants open this month - stay tuned! 👉 Learn more on how to apply: bit.ly/4poPHoJ #PatientInvolvement

Join us Jan 20 as Prof. Edward Waddell explores dietary preferences in black soldier flies. His research shows adults live an average of 4-6 days longer and mate more frequently when given their preferred diet—revealing practical pathways to improve welfare for trillions farmed annually. Register:

The NHS takes FOI requests very seriously. When I joined, the training on getting answers to FOIs was rigorous. FOI answers are routinely openly published: www.gov.scot/publications... www.nss.nhs.scot/publications...

From strategic vision to intelligent infrastructure and empowered people, Data Matters 2026 will equip you with the insight, connections and confidence to lead with clarity and impact. Registrations close next week, have you got your ticket yet? #academicsky

'UK universities must evolve to deliver the brighter future people want' Prof. Malcolm Press CBE, President of UUK, sets out some of the key challenges for the sector in 2026, as well as introducing a new project connecting businesses and communities🤝 The full piece⬇️ https://loom.ly/AMt3Sn0

Happy New Year! To get 2026 off to a good start, why not join the first ReproducibiliTea session of the year from 10-11:30AM (online) on Wednesday 7th? Our theme is "how to work openly?" and we'll be hearing from 3 wonderful speakers – Dr Mahesh Karnani, Dr Emma Ganley, and Dr Danny Schnitzler

2026 is continuing where 2025 left off with a focus on alternatives to animal use in research and testing. Today the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology published a POSTnote on this topic highlighting the opportunities and challenges: post.parliament.uk/research-bri...

"The most ambitious thing we could do... is to meaningfully invest in metascientific research" Hopefully more metascience funding will come from @ukri.org that isn't tied to narrow aims or definitions of metascience.

Very happy to have received a replication grant from NWO! We will be reproducing power analyses of large scale replication projects, to learn how to improve power analyses, and increase quality control in large team Science projects! www.openscience.nl/en/news/27-s...