One week until this #LDNOpenFest26 session💡 Open Research: the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Perspective 🗓️Friday 24 April 🕑2-3:30pm 📍Online Discover how open research supports creative, non‑traditional outputs and hear about various initiatives in this area. Register: buff.ly/251ZKIH

This bumper special issue was an absolute joy to co-edit. Get stuck in!

Interesting new preprint: Cataloguing and theorising open research practices in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Problematising and diversifying ‘Open Science’ f1000research.com/articles/15-...

NEW preprint from the MORPHSS team (@jenniad.bsky.social, @mirandab-oa.bsky.social, @samuelmoore.org & @stephenpinfield.bsky.social): Cataloguing and theorising open research practices in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Problematising and diversifying ‘Open Science

NEW preprint from the MORPHSS team (@jenniad.bsky.social, @mirandab-oa.bsky.social, @samuelmoore.org & @stephenpinfield.bsky.social): Cataloguing and theorising open research practices in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Problematising and diversifying ‘Open Science

Practice #22 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Preprints and working papers "While AHSS disciplines do not have the long history of preprinting evident in some STEM subjects, a strong tradition of openly sharing working papers exists in the field of economics..."

Great to hear about @morphss.bsky.social in today’s Open Research Advisory Group meeting - check out their resources documenting open research practices in the arts, humanities, and social sciences bsky.app/profile/morp...

Very much looking forward to speaking more about @morphss.bsky.social with @jenniad.bsky.social on 21st April 11-12 BST & sharing the session with a great talk by Stephen Gray at Uni of Bristol. See the link to the whole programme below, and for our session, register here: gw4.ac.uk/events/the-v...

Practice #10 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Documenting & disseminating failure "..openly sharing aspects of a research project, or entire studies, that were unsuccessful, in order to present research experiences honestly & in a spirit of generosity to ongoing work..."

Session recording from #OxFoS2026 on the Future of Open Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences ⬇️ Many thanks to the organisers for the opportunity to speak at this event ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

Various of the MORPHSS team are attending this event today and tomorrow - looking forward to a fantastic programme of sessions

Practice #30 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Virtual exhibitions "Also called digital or online exhibitions, virtual exhibitions are those which take place online, accessible via the internet, and are various in format depending on the discipline..."

Practice #25 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Research-Practice Partnerships "Research-Practice Partnerships (RPPs) seek to bring research and practice closer together through sustained collaboration between researchers and practitioners..." #OpenResearch #OpenAHSS

Watch this conversation with Dr Jenni Adams, where she presents the initial results of the MORPHSS project youtu.be/pF-BRlq6efE?si…

Practice #4 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Collective, collaborative or communal authorship. "Collective authorship practices allow the demonstrably communal nature of authorship to manifest as an open and collaborative process..." #OpenResearch #AHSS

Work is underway on one of the next components of MORPHSS, which aims to develop and collate guidance around qualitative data sharing for researchers in the social sciences, including on situations where data sharing may not be possible or appropriate. Read our latest blogpost for more info⬇️

Practice #5 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Co-production "processes in which researchers collaborate with individuals, communities or organisations outside academia to conduct research that draws on and recognises the value of the knowledges those individuals hold..."

Check out these really helpful guides by the folks over at DANS, and well done to all involved, they will no doubt be really helpful, especially for those in social sciences and humanities. dans.knaw.nl/en/news/work...

How can you ensure that collaborations involving academic researchers and creative practitioners are as ethical and effective as possible? Navigate this terrain in our latest book: 'A Field Guide to Artist-Researcher Collaborations'! @thebinkshub.bsky.social books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di...

Thanks so much to everyone who attended the launch of the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS yesterday (catalogue.morphss.work) and to our fantastic panel members for a thought-provoking discussion on openness in AHSS. We'll be sharing the recording once it's ready.

Was at the launch for the @morphss.bsky.social catalogue, a really interesting initiative to surface the many different kinds of open practices researchers in the arts, humanities, & interpretive social sciences engage in. This launch was for the catalogue & accompanying report. morphss.hcommons.org

I attended the MORPHSS open research catalogue launch today (catalogue.morphss.work) and I really love this way of thinking about open research practices. Although MORPHSS has focused on AHSS disciplines, I do think there is a lot that STEM disciplines can learn from the project too.

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

Anyone sceptical of our claim (in @morphss.bsky.social) that podcasting can be seen as an open/collaborative research practice should listen to the American Vandal (especially this episode). It's a great illustration of collective knowledge production and experimental presentation at work.

Tomorrow!👀 Join us for this launch event and panel discussion on open research in the arts, humanities & qualitative social sciences. We're looking forward to sharing recent outputs from MORPHSS & hearing from a range of experts including @openreflections.bsky.social and @henrygonnet.bsky.social

Practice #11 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Experimental longform publishing "Experiments with more collaborative forms of book authoring and knowledge production highlight the myriad relationalities involved in the production of research..." #OpenResearch #AHSS

Join us next week for this launch event and panel discussion on open research in the arts, humanities & qualitative social sciences. We're looking forward to sharing recent outputs from MORPHSS & hearing from a range of experts including @openreflections.bsky.social and @henrygonnet.bsky.social

The online conference on experimental publishing practices is taking place over two afternoons on Wednesday 8 April (14:30–16:30 BST) and Thursday 9 April (14:00–17:30 BST). Please register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practicing... note that registration is for both days)

A major new Open Research report is out: MORPHSS. It identifies 30 AHSS‑specific open practices and shows how they enhance rigour, transparency and community‑grounded research. Read more here www.ukrn.org/2026/03/11/l...

Practice #3 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Applying the CARE principles to data from marginalised communities CARE emphasises "the need for ethical approaches to the collection, management and use of Indigenous data in ways that benefit communities themselves..."

Announcing the Hidden REF Competition 2026! hidden-ref.org/2026/03/05/h... 🎙️ Podcast Ep16. What the REF is the Hidden REF Competition?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nogk...

Practice #16 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Open longform scholarship "open longform publishing challenges the closed, hierarchical workflows of legacy academic presses, instead fostering community-driven, collaborative ecosystems..." #OpenResearch #AHSS

February issue of our Scholarly Communications Newsletter is out! Lots to read and catch up again incl. #MORPHSS catalogue, #UKrepo report, recent #AI guidelines, PRC model and more. mailchi.mp/f0f2902feb46...

Together w/ @susan-librarian.bsky.social at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social, we teamed up with @jennye.bsky.social to organise the "#OpenResearch: the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences perspective" online session. More details are coming soon. Here is the link to register! bit.ly/OpenResearch...

I'll be speaking in a panel with @eve.gd and @alittleroad.bsky.social on #OA books at the London Open Science & Scholarship festival in April. The event is online and can be booked now, see blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...

VERY excited for this event as part of the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026 (online, April 20th). We don’t talk enough about the patriarchal ideologies embedded in many dominant applications of “open science “

Practice #2 from the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS disciplines: Annotation for Transparent Inquiry. "ATI is a means of augmenting a publication with annotations that provide additional information about the evidence on which statements in the publication are based..."

A very good point, and something we are brewing on in @morphss.bsky.social! 🙂

Excellent point by @morphss.bsky.social 's @jenniad.bsky.social at #OxFos26 yesterday: how can we uplift the epistemic status and institutional support for a whole hemisphere of openness? Which open research practices are actively promoted in actions, not only in discourse, and which are not?

We're launching a new Research on Research seminar series for early career researchers! A space to share your work, brainstorm in-progress projects, or explore fresh ideas for advancing metascience. Stay updated or register to present: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I am really keen to follow the @morphss.bsky.social project as it progresses. It is really impressive in its approach, and also incredibly refreshing to see/hear its intentionalities around the communities and practices of scholars that spread across a vast array of disciplines.

The MORPHSS team are delighted to be presenting at #OxFOS26 today in the session on the future of open research in the humanities and social sciences. Details below:

And the #MORPHSS team will be presenting online on the future of open research in humanities and social sciences @samuelmoore.org @jenniad.bsky.social @mirandab-oa.bsky.social 📆 Tues 3 March ⏲️ 15.00–16.30 Register now 👉 buff.ly/PtkHdlg Find out more about the project 👉 buff.ly/6JgOYXA

@sabinaleonelli.bsky.social discussing what science more generally can learn from open AHSS research practices in terms of situated, reflexive approaches to open research... especially crucial in the context of AI's impact on approaches to open/research. #oxfos26 #OpenResearch #AHSS

Practice #23 from the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS disciplines: Public scholarship "Methods for public scholarship include academic blogs, journalistic essays, social media posts, media broadcasts (television and radio), podcasts, and public lectures..."

Coming up later this month:

Excellent keynote by Siddharth Soni linking the colonialism of genAI to the colonialism of knowledge production now and throughout history #CopimConference

Closing keynote: Scholarly Book and the Digital Commons - Dr Siddharth Soni of @unisouthampton.bsky.social considers the future of the scholarly book amid new digital cultures of writing and reading, and the role of the librarian #CopimConference

This is thought-provoking - talks about how openness in arts, hums and soc sci should be viewed as occurring 'in practices like experimental publishing, participatory research methods, and public scholarship', i.e. not just about OA publication or data.

💡 what a helpful articulation of the diversity of open research practices beyond open data! "Openness in AHSS occurs in practices like experimental publishing, participatory research methods, and public scholarship"