Day three of #OAWeek is a busy one for us 🔓 Webinar 👩💻 buff.ly/E8FeEzd Open Science & Scholarship Awards ceremony 🏆https://buff.ly/dq4eWkX Plus, the next instalment on our blog from Catherine Sharp, Head of UCL Open Access Services 👉 buff.ly/EiGpUrC (Photo by Mary Hinckley, UCL Digital Media)

It's not too late to register for the UCL #OAWeek Webinar 🔓 buff.ly/E8FeEzd 22 October, 11am - 12:30pm 🗓️ MS Teams📍 Four UCL speakers will consider the question, 'Who Owns Our Knowledge?' through the lens of their various expertise💡 (Graphic from openaccessweek.org, photo by Greg Rakozy)

💥New Post | A practical blueprint for legal and ethical AI research ✍️ @drsbrooke.bsky.social & Nick Oh #AIResearch #SocialMediaResearch #ResearchEthics

ICYMI, UCL's Open Science & Scholarship award winners were announced last week🏆 buff.ly/bIPG9T9 Join us at UCL Bloomsbury Campus to celebrate the winners and hear about their outstanding work in Open Science🔬📔 Wednesday 22 October, 3pm - 4:30pm Register here 👉 buff.ly/dq4eWkX

@ucl.ac.uk Staff and Students - join us for an Open Access Week webinar in which four speakers will consider the question: Who Owns Our Knowledge? Wednesday 22 October, 11am - 12:30pm 📆 We hope you can make it! 👉 buff.ly/g0vGFc8 (Graphic from Open Access Week website, photo by Greg Rakozy)

Happy #OAWeek! ✨ This year's theme is 'Who Owns Our Knowledge?', which we'll be exploring through our blog this week📝 Have a read of today's blog post which discusses the theme and some of our thoughts on it 👉 buff.ly/xUYiSc4 (Image: Lucia Obst (WMDE), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Everyone with the internet has access: it's free to read.

Another exciting milestone 📢 UCL Research Data Repository has reached over 1 million downloads 🎉 A fantastic achievement - huge congratulations to the staff and research students who have published and shared their research outputs. The repository team are very proud! 👏

New blog post ✨ Ever wondered about platforms available for Citizen Science projects? Wonder no more. Our latest blog post explores several platforms and spotlights one in particular - iNaturalist - with reflections from Professor Muki Haklay @mhaklay.bsky.social Have a read 👉 buff.ly/ycjW0TT

Come and work with brilliant @lselibrary.bsky.social colleagues @rosiehigman.bsky.social @helskrw.bsky.social @niamhtumelty.bsky.social and me (in my #impact role) as our Wikimedian in Residence and Research Visibility Champion! Closing 17th Aug 2025 #OpenResearch jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

My cartoon for this week’s Books pages in @theguardian.com

A more accurate headline would be "... but find it difficult to get them published". I try to publish every null result that I am sure is robust (e.g., not due to me making a stupid mistake in the method) and it is always harder than with positive results.

A few months ago, UCL hosted its first ever Replication Games📝 💡Three teams working together to reproduce the results of a published paper in one day - how hard could it be? Read on to find out how it went 👉 buff.ly/OpHgiTk #Reproducibility #OpenScience #ResearchData

@constntdreamer.bsky.social she has arrived!!! Welcome to Bluesky my friend!! 💜💜💜

Happy 16th Wedding Anniversary to my partner in crime and greatest support @archwubs.bsky.social - thanks for putting up with me! Pics of then and now, time flies!

Couldn’t resist this really weird Kandinsky inspired double serving moka pot when I saw it while ordering my usual coffee beans! Look at it!!

Don't forget to submit your presentation idea for #UKSG2026 in Glasgow! dub.sh/lGMfvyz

So this past week or so I have been experimenting with body doubling and co-working while working from home. How you say? Using Twitch. It might not be for everyone but it is actually helping me focus and get stuff done. Recommended for my @nlisn.bsky.social friends especially.

🏆 Applications and nominations are open for the UCL Open Science & Scholarship Awards! 🏆 Celebrating exceptional areas of Open Science practice across the university, all UCL students, PhD candidates and staff can apply buff.ly/CbTEhoS You have until 22 August - spread the word and get applying!

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Those journal articles, ebooks, bits of data you found? The uni library paid hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions for all that, depending on size of uni. Then we hooked it all up mostly seamlessly so you didn't notice.

It’s too hot. That is all.🔥🥵

If you're involved in your unit's or university's REF2029 submission, you'll be interested in Contributions to Knowledge and Understanding (CKU) policy guidance, released today: 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/cku-cop...

Surprising number of slogans that are cropping up at the UKRI data policy meeting. So far - "DMPs now!!!" and "Comply or Explain!!!"

In Birmingham today for a UKRI workshop about their in-development research data policy. I know that @rosiehigman.bsky.social is going to be here, and I have spotted a @hughshanahan.bsky.social across breakfast… the coffee is good, let’s go!

📚 Reminder: UCL Library Services Research Data Drop-in on 18 June, 2–4 PM. Get expert advice. 🔗 buff.ly/G6NjbqB #UCL #ARC

Happy Anniversary @uclpress.bsky.social! Thank you for the invite to your celebration, the panel you have assembled looks amazing! Going to be a fun time…

Sharpen your #knitting needles and join us for Craft Thing on 10 June, an afternoon of #crafting explored through UCL's Special Collections. Free and open to all but only a few tickets remain: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/craft-thin...

“Researchers will need to develop a raft of new techniques to adjust to censored information environments. These include becoming more deliberate about search strategies, as the list of words banned by federal agencies works to obscure the many ways in which human life is lived.”

Still time to grab a ticket - this exciting panel is TODAY!

Hey IL folks! If you thought censorship was just impacting school librarians, take a look at my new article in @timeshighered.bsky.social exploring what challenges to intellectual freedom mean for HE teaching librarians, too. How do we shift our work from overload to absence?

And now for something completely different! Back to campus today for the UCL DIS Information Studies Book Forum, and a day as a PhD student. Looking forward to it!

The thing I most enjoyed in today's #OSF25 panel was listening to researchers who were really keen on Open Science even though its difficult for them. So often we're just dealing with folks who aren't keen, and it's hard to remember all the champions!

Really enjoyed attending my first two #OSFest25 events today - some really practical discussions around sensitive data and big methodological issues in the session on open qual research. There's still time to sign up to the rest of the events in the festival: doi.org/10.5522/04/2...

We’re halfway through #OSFest25 and there’s already been so much to take away and think about! 💭 There are two more sessions to go, one considering Open Research in the Age of Populism and the other Authorship in the era of AI – and they both promise to be excellent. Find out more:

Follow @drbeth.bsky.social who is doing a great job posting from this afternoon’s event #OSFest25

From panellist to signpost :) it’s a busy day at the festival! Ready for the data sharing panel! #OSFest25

An early train up to LSE this morning for our panel on replication in qualitative methods with Matthew Hanchard, @kirstywallis.com and @maddipow.bsky.social ! Still time to sign up to attend in person or online here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/should-rep...

Less than a week to go until #OSFest25! Join @uclspeccoll.bsky.social on day two, as they share their experience of collaborating with communities through their Prejudice in Power project. Find more information here:

Join us next week for this online talk 'Co-producing research with Special Collections: Prejudice and Power case study' (Tue 3rd June 10-11:30am). Free and open to all!

It just keeps getting better! It’s been such fun to collab with @drbeth.bsky.social from the Crick and @rosiehigman.bsky.social and Lucy from LSE, not long until the Festival kicks off and I can’t wait! Check out the program and get involved! :)

New t-shirt alert! I love @thesparkdotcompany.bsky.social and couldn’t resist adding this one to my collection! :)

Did a lunch and learn about my PhD research-in-progress for @cilip.bsky.social ARLG today. Not many questions but I think it went well, it’s nice to try to find ways to take something complex and translate it to different audiences. Thanks to @craigmartinucl.bsky.social for setting it up! #PhDSky

Very much looking forward to attending #CALC25 this week, such a great array of topics across the three days. I’ve never been great at live posting so I’ll leave that to others but I wanted to get the hashtag out there :)

🎉 Announcement 🎉 Bookings are now open for the Open Science and Scholarship Festival 2025! In conjunction with our friends @crick.ac.uk, @lselibrary.bsky.social, @lsepress.bsky.social and @uclpress.bsky.social we have prepared a packed programme across the week of 2-6 June. buff.ly/fOm7KHZ

I am very excited to annouce that #Icepops2025 will be taking place in the UK, 9-10 September at the University of Manchester. The call for speakers is now open but love this theme of copyright, safe spaces and sanctuary

If you need a good laugh (before you cry), read this thread.

I had a great day yesterday at the #inclusiveresearch event yesterday with @uclbrainscience.bsky.social - there are so many amazing projects going on and I’m so pleased to have been able to share the ways that we at @uclopenscience.bsky.social can support their brilliant work. Thanks for having me!

Lately, we’ve been thinking a lot about the future of open and what that looks like, especially in this uncertain age of AI⚡️. How can we best protect and defend the commons?

[NEW BLOG] Good metadata practice for Open Access books ⭐ What makes good #OpenAccess book metadata? ⭐ How can @thoth-metadata.bsky.social help with OA metadata management? 🔗 buff.ly/pAilsKM @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social @oipassoc.bsky.social

Scientists to gather in London for the Bring Science to Politics demo at Parliament on May 13: