📄 A reminder that we are seeking writers (£600) and reviewers (£210) to support the development of new guides on: - AI in research software - Green Computing - EDI in research software Application deadline: Friday 3 October 2025 Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/writers...

Absolutely delighted to invite applications from prospective HEI supervisors for four Collaborative Doctoral Partnership opportunities, to start October 2026. Deadline for applications Fri 28th Nov, 5pm. Further details below and here: www.bl.uk/services/res...

The guest does this in this prom ("that section was played a bit fast") and you can hear the host have no idea how to handle it www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Out of office on, Teams and work emails removed from my phone and 2 weeks of full-time PhD-ing ahead! Starting slightly late as I needed to do some peer reviewing this morning, but hoping to write up the 4th theme in my thematic analysis over the next 2.5 days #PhDSky

The Journal of Information Literacy has announced a new special issue on information literacy and censorship- please consider submitting your work! Given political tensions, we will be permitting pseudonymous submissions. Please contact me or @bookelf.bsky.social with questions- DMs open!

Exciting new role of Wikimedian in Residence & Research Visibility Champion at @lselibrary.bsky.social, working with me & @rosiehigman.bsky.social as well as colleagues across the School, including @lizstokoe.bsky.social. Closes 17 Aug 2025 - do take a look!

Exciting new role @lselibrary.bsky.social for a Wikimedian in Residence & Research Visibility Champion! Working with me & @rosiehigman.bsky.social, as well as colleagues across the School, including @lizstokoe.bsky.social. Closes 17 Aug 25 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

its funny cos Chloe Kelly kicked a ball harder than any man in the premier league last season and GCers are hella quiet about the limitations of the female body aren't they

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/...

We are excited to share a new opportunity to research with our unique archive collections. Our 3 Library Fellowships offer up to 6 weeks to conduct original research that will provide new perspectives on our collections. Applications open until 22 September. Read more www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

This is the end result of anti-trans bigotry: more harassment of girls and women, more policing of gender roles, more gender McCarthyism.

📣 We are recruiting for a fixed-term Research Data Steward in the University of Sheffield Library. Closing date 5 August, full details at the link below: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

💥New: What does “Open Research” mean for qualitative research? Jo Hemlatha & Thomas Graves (thomasgraves.bsky.social)‬ answer this qtn, exploring wh#opennessss looks different whe#researchch is context-dependent & involves marginalised communities ⁉️lselibrary.bsky.social‬

"Perhaps the most overlooked open research practice is interpersonal openness. This is an attitude of transparency about the aims and process of the research project, and about the researchers’ motivations and backgrounds – their positionality – when communicating with research participants."

Really interesting day of discussions at the UKRI research data policy consultation event in Birmingham, and I'm clearly fulfilling some kind of librarian stereotype as I'm across the aisle from @kirstywallis.com in the quiet coach

What is a University Press? On the acquisition of AUP by T&F (and my anger at it), the governance link between universities and university presses, and putting one's labour where one's values are. eve.gd/2025/06/08/w...

Carla Hayden speaks for the first time - with remarkable restraint, and her customary dry wit. m.youtube.com/watch?v=rme2...

This point really resonated as it came up yesterday in different guises in the sessions on sensitive data and open qual research. There's something about creating frameworks which are flexible enough to allow these differences but are still supportive/offer sufficient guidance

@eve.gd - do we need to rethink what #openaccess is for now that many reseachers/teachers really do not like where it has brought us. You can't "hide" from ANYTHING when everything is available. If you feel "at-risk" or targeted, is OA good? #academicsky #scisky #openscience @lselibrary.bsky.social

Still a few hours left to sign up for our (unfortunately still topical) Open Research in the Age of Populism event, today 4-5pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-resea... We have a stellar panel with @eve.gd @rouhiroo.bsky.social and Frances Pinter, expertly chaired by Jason Alexander

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...

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! :)

JOB KLAXON! Come and work with me - the role of Manager, Scholarly Communication and Research Outputs is open from now to 31 March 2027 Job details - careers.pageuppeople.com/949/cw/en/jo... Reach out if you want a confidential chat about the role.

Next month, on the 5th June at LSE/UCL, I will be speaking on the panel "Open Research in the Age of Populism". Online. Registration required! blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...

This year, Lorraine Estelle will be stepping down from her role as co-editor of Insights, the UKSG journal. As co-editor, you will be working with Steve Sharp, your fellow editor, and publications associate, Elaine Koster. More details here: dub.sh/2bzMEct

Thrilled that @lsepress.bsky.social has been involved in this - and very much recommend our panel on open research in an age of populism ft @eve.gd @rouhiroo.bsky.social & Frances Pinter, and chaired by Jason Alexander McKenzie @lsephilosophy.bsky.social. Sign up details below.

🎉 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

This - by an EHRC Commissioner - is a *defence* of the impact of the Supreme Court judgement. The impact is obviously, and quite deliberately, to exclude trans people from public spaces, and to claim that it's fine, legally, politically and morally. Absolutely shameful.

🧵For Women Scotland crowdfunded £230,000 for this trial. I am going to tell you as an actual feminist what £230000 pounds could have done for women in the UK. -Fund housing for women escaping gender violence for eg it could have paid two months of rent for about 160 women

🥁 Join us on Tue. 29 Apr. at 2pm BST for a #CHOSN webinar - Sharing #CulturalHeritage Images as Data: WorldFAIR Project Recommendations. Beth Knazook from @dri.ie will talk about #collectionsasdata and #FAIRdata practices in #GLAMs with practical examples. events.teams.microsoft.com/event/97f93d...

“Groups that want to limit the autonomy of women & LGBT+ people are bringing legal challenges to erode human rights… Whether it is the right to legal gender recognition, the recognition of LGBT+ families or the right to access healthcare & abortion services the arguments tend to be very similar.”

"Censorship by pupils in UK schools, including “vandalising library material, annotating library books with racist and homophobic slurs”, and damaging posters and displays" 😢 - research by @alisonhicks0.bsky.social quoted in this article www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

The UKRI has published a new draft research data policy. The policy will update and streamline UKRI's expectations for sharing and managing research data and other digital objects, such as software and code. Feedback on the draft can be made here engagementhub.ukri.org/ukri-openres...

Many thanks to all who attended @uksg.bsky.social last week! #UKSG02025 Our Head of Publishing, @philippagrand.bsky.social spoke alongside @rosiehigman.bsky.social, @gilliandaly.bsky.social, @paulakennedy.bsky.social Sarah Thompson @openbookcollective.bsky.social. 👋 ✨ 📖 Until next year!

We’re very excited @uolpress.bsky.social to be launching this new ‘Digital Cultural Heritage’ series: short-form, #OpenAccess books aimed at + written by academics and practitioners working in #GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) sector. Find out more below 👇 - and please do share!

Fantastic off the cuff remarks from @rupertgatti.bsky.social talking about how, more important than supporting any one particular #OpenAccess initiative, is supporting the ecosystem of open publishing that many of us are invested in developing #UKSG2025 @copim.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social

Our Head of Publishing @paulakennedy.bsky.social is at @uksg.bsky.social today, speaking about libraries and non-profit approaches to #OpenAccess publishing with @rosiehigman.bsky.social @gilliandaly.bsky.social Sarah Thompson & @philippagrand.bsky.social. 📍 Auditorium 1 today at 4.30pm #UKSG2025

Find out more about the Open Journal Collective model here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #UKSG2025

Nice to see @lsepress.bsky.social featured in @joedeville.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social presentation at #uksg2025

Thoughtful response from @kathleenor.bsky.social on the environmental cost of AI - we need standards for measuring the environmental costs of computational activities (not just AI) akin to those for the built environment #UKSG2025

Hello world! We’re a new nonprofit that brings together academic, libraries & university-based publishers. We’ll be launching a large collection of hundreds of HSS diamond #openaccess journals in Jan. 2026.

Mandatory seaside snap before #UKSG2025

I've put together a starter pack collating people who are going to or speaking at UKSG, mostly so I can make sure I'm connecting with people - but hopefully useful for others too. If you'd like to be added (or removed) please do let me know. go.bsky.app/Bq8Mmsp

Really looking forward to this, look out for individual session details coming soon!

We're particularly looking forward to sharing the good word about open protocols and methods - and we've invited @protocolsio.bsky.social back to help us do so. Watch out for when we open sign ups - it booked out quickly last time!

What can open institutional publishing offer? How is it making a difference, and why does it matter? 📖 💬 From bibliodiversity to author care; LSE Press's @philippagrand.bsky.social & @suzannetatham.bsky.social explore the overdue comeback of institutional publishing for @timeshighered.bsky.social.

We're advertising another postdoc on @morphss.bsky.social. This is a two-year position at Sheffield working on open research practices in the social sciences (particularly data sharing) with @stephenpinfield.bsky.social Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD201/r...

I'm speaking at the #UKSG2025 conference on a panel on libraries & non-profit #OpenAccess publishing w @paulakennedy.bsky.social @rosiehigman.bsky.social Sarah Thompson @uoylibrary.bsky.social & @gilliandaly.bsky.social Join us in Brighton: 📅 1/4 & 2/4 🕗16.30 & 11.30 📍Auditorium 1 & Syndicate Rm 4

If you bookmarked "Rankings are all bullsh*t anyway, why not do my own?" but did not get to read it yet, worry not, we've got you covered with a short blog post about it Bonus track: there is a video by one of our vloggers in it 🤩