New research from Prof. Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social, Dr. Marina N. Cantarutti @marinanc.bsky.social, & Dr. Jürgen Trouvain investigates the phonetic structure of laughter in conversation. www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

PGR Induction: Introducing the Open Research Team Tue 30 September, 13:00-14:00, SLB/006 📆 This short session will introduce members of the Open Research team and their role working in partnership with postgraduate researchers at York. PGRs can book onto the session via SkillsForge 👇

The 2025-26 York Researcher Development Programme has been launched 🎉 The Programme PDF and booking links are available on the Research Staff and Postdocs webpage below, or directly via the LMS (york-ac.csod.com, login required)

Louise Richardson and @pfvelasco.bsky.social's paper 'Ecological Grief as a Shared Emotion' is now published in Emotion Review! The paper assesses (and ultimately endorses) the claim that grief felt in relation to ecological losses is a shared emotion. doi.org/10.1177/1754.... #philsky

“This debate should not be about whether wolves ought to be hunted or not; it should be about how we manage them fairly, responsibly, with the trust of the people most affected, and with the broader social-ecological system in mind.” @hannalp.bsky.social @anthropocenebio.bsky.social 🐺

Four #openaccess papers in this landmark special issue of @royalsociety.org Philosophical Transactions B feature academics from @uoysbs.bsky.social #FixOurFood, @sarahbridle.bsky.social, @mariabryant.bsky.social, Dr Alana Kluczkovski & Prof Bob Doherty royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... 🔓 📄

What do we mean when we say that carnivores and other wildlife are "habituating" to people? Who actually habituates to whom? Is this bad or god? Who decides? All of this and more in our new paper, expertly led by @ethanddoney.bsky.social, out now in @peopleandnature.bsky.social.

🎬 Today’s the Day! – Screening the Fleet Join us this evening for drinks, nibbles, and good conversation as we celebrate Screening the Fleet. Don’t miss out!

🏺New Blog Post Alert🏺 Have you noticed a change in some of our archive templates? In our latest blog post, Digital Archives Assistant Tasmin takes us through 'Project Facelift' and the migration of archives to our new templates. To find out more visit: buff.ly/pb7ylYI

“Only recently have archaeologists started taking an interest in plastics, and it is vital that they do... to help us understand and try to reduce our impacts” - Prof John Schofield (Dept of Archaeology) #OpenAccess paper in Cambridge Prisms: Plastics doi.org/10.1017/plc.... 🔓 📄

📢Researchers have found that articles with OASIS summaries were viewed, downloaded and cited more frequently!🥳 ✨ New OASIS Summary!✨ ▶️Do plain-language research summaries help articles reach more readers? www.oasis-database.org/details/t6kf...

Over 80 people gathered in York yesterday to address a key question: how can we maintain the UK’s climate leadership amid rising “greenlash”? Leaders from government, civil society, business, and academia joined SEI’s global team for an open discussion. 📖 Read their reflections: buff.ly/91e4JQ6

A study led by @cama-york.bsky.social has revealed new insights into Stone Age life and death, showing that stone tools were just as likely to be buried with women and children as with men Open access paper in @plosone.org doi.org/10.1371/jour... 🔓 📄

These open data sets have been receiving some interest in the York Research Database 👇

Very pleased that a thing I wrote is on the UNESCO think lab on AI and futures of education. Predictably, I wrote about accessibility but also about caution around gen AI and its promises to “fix” digital accessibility www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

Great to see most of these recent @igdc.bsky.social articles are published #openaccess 📄 🔓 For those that are behind a paywall, you should be able to find an OA manuscript version through the York Research Database (pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/) or White Rose Research Online (eprints.whiterose.ac.uk)

📣 We're excited to announce the launch of our No and Low Guide at @yorkbeerfestival.bsky.social on 17 September! The guide has been jointly developed with City of York Council, publicans and organisations, with the research exploring No and Low alcohol consumption: www.york.ac.uk/business-soc...

York Departments, Schools, Groups, academics etc - if you have the chance, please point incoming students towards the Library's Quick Start Guide to help get them up to speed with all we can offer them: www.york.ac.uk/library/visi... #UoYTips

Ever played a board game that could change how we plant trees in cities? 🌳 Urban Labor-a-tree is helping communities, planners + policy-makers rethink urban treescapes – turning research into play to inspire real-world change. Read more about this YESI Discipine Hopping project👉 buff.ly/J8xdkeu

We have a wealth of videos on our YouTube channel including the most recent webinars. Why not have a look? www.youtube.com/@interdiscip...

We're BACK! And what better way to celebrate than to share the recent (as in last half an hour) news which has academic Bluesky scratching their heads - a 3 month pause to the REF criteria setting process... (cc @uoyopenres.bsky.social) 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/pause-t...

Research led by Health Sciences @york.ac.uk and funded by @cancerresearchuk.org and @bloodcanceruk.bsky.social has found that median survival for people with myeloma rose from 2.4 years in 2005 to 4.5 years in 2019 🩸 #OpenAccess paper in Haematologica: doi.org/10.3324/haem... 🔓 📄

Research from @yorkpsychology.bsky.social, Durham, Leeds Beckett and UCL highlights the need for greater support to help parents get more quality me-time or at least breaks from childcare and chores 👶 #openaccess paper in British Journal of Psychology: doi.org/10.1111/bjop... 🔓 📄

⚓️ Event Alert: Screening the Fleet – 50 Years of the Navy on Screen How has the Royal Navy been portrayed on screen over the past 50 years? What can these depictions reveal about culture, politics, and national identity? Join us for an evening of discussion with Prof Jonathan Rayner & Chris Terrill.

What’s the difference between female and male Th cells? We have a new paper on this! The mighty Malat1 controls Th2 differentiation in female but not male cells. Work by Mags Gwynne and Katie West ‪@jimmunol.bsky.social‬ doi.org/10.1093/jimm... @york.ac.uk‬, @ybri-uoy.bsky.social‬, ‪@hyms.ac.uk‬

I just published my article Archaeology as Worldbuilding, an effort that grows out of 20+ years of digital (and analog) archaeological making. Adjacent to recent arguments about storytelling, I broaden our scope to make past worlds & tell stories in community with others. doi.org/10.1017/S095...

TODAY at 1pm - Riley Miladi explores artist-centric machine learning tools, balancing innovation and creativity in production at CoSTAR Live Lab’s public talk - in-person and online! Building Artist-Centric Tools: Machine learning in production

A review from Health Sciences @york.ac.uk and @lshtm.bsky.social reveals a link between vaping and cigarette smoking in young people, and potential links with a range of health issues, mental health concerns and drug use 🚭 #OpenAccess paper in @bmj.com Tobacco Control doi.org/10.1136/tc-2... 📄 🔓

Due to a recent influx of problematic submissions, PsyArXiv has switched to pre-moderating its content. If your submitted preprint had not yet been approved, it will be temporarily inaccessible to the public (you can still view your preprint when logged into your OSF account). #PsychSciSky

Accepted manuscript also now available via White Rose Research Online, for those without access to the published paper: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/22... 🔓 📄

🚨 New preprint!🚨We introduce a DNA-scaffold strategy for efficient dye labelling of structured RNAs, enabling #smFRET studies of freely-diffusing SARS-CoV-2 pseudoknots🧬 👉 biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #smFRET #RNA #biophysics #SARSCoV2 #singlemolecule #Covid

📢 Final funding call now open! Got an idea for a short-term, community-driven research project? We’re offering funding to explore everyday ecosystems for a sustainable digital society. Apply by 22 August 👉 www.sei.org/projects/eco... #FundingOpportunity #CitizenScience #EcologicalCitizenship

Researchers from @uoyenvironment.bsky.social applied full genome resequencing to 60 historic and 36 contemporary British nightjar DNA samples and found that more than a third had suffered a decline in genetic diversity 🪹 #openaccess paper in Molecular Ecology doi.org/10.1111/mec.17805 🔓 📄

Dear ReproducibiliTea Organisers (current and former): Do you write blogs? As journal clubs or as individual people? Let us know in the comments!

Politics Professor Monica Brito-Vieira has co-authored this article with Sean Fleming on ecological personhood: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🦋🌱 Have your say: a nature positive campus! Love the green spaces at @york.ac.uk? Want more wildflowers, birdsong, or spaces to connect with nature? 🌼🦜 Tell us what you'd like to see on campus to support biodiversity, sustainability + wellbeing. 📋 Survey closes 15 August:

Got a Burney-related piece of research on the back burner? Get it submitted!

🔎 It’s #EPMCTopTips Tuesday! Want to find articles you can reuse or text mine? Use the LICENSE: search field to filter by license type in #EuropePMC! Example: (LICENSE:"CC-BY") → finds articles with a Creative Commons Attribution license, perfect for reuse! 🔓 #OpenAccess #Medlib #PhDSky

Gowns, pride, and a pioneering spirit— this image captures York’s very first graduates stepping into history. As this year’s ceremonies begin, it’s a thrill to see a new generation pause to celebrate before taking their next steps. #YorkForLife #UniversityofOpportunity

Just realised that we've been doing Interviews With Authors on YouTube for a whole year! I'd really appreciate receiving comments about these, e.g. suggest a structural biologist you would like us to interview Here's a playlist with all the videos we've done so far: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Here's the total attention to 2025 publications on both X/Twitter and Bluesky. Bluesky has two thirds of Twitter's attention with >10 times fewer users.

A new study @uoyeducation.bsky.social has debunked the popular "Monday's Child" nursery rhyme, finding no evidence that the day a child is born influences their personality, appearance or future success #openaccess paper in Journal of Personality: doi.org/10.1111/jopy... 🔓 📄

Here's a thread of the most recent releases in Internet Archaeology: Stapley, D. 2025 Towards an Archaeology of Routeways: A case study from the North York Moors National Park, Internet Archaeology 69. doi.org/10.11141/ia....

There's a complex link between #inequality and the ability of a community to persist. This article led by @dl-arch.bsky.social uses #archaeology to reveals how investigating this link can help us better understand #sustainable future. inhttps://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2400696122

Interesting outputs from a project involving colleagues at @openresshef.bsky.social @knowledgeexchange.bsky.social and @researchconsulting.bsky.social Research rationale published on @octopus-ac.bsky.social, with links to underlying problems: doi.org/10.57874/m15...

Recording and slides now available from our discussion event 'Open minds: exploring Open Educational Resources at York and beyond' 📽️

A study conducted at Grow It York @sparkyorkcic.bsky.social with researchers at @biologyatyork.bsky.social has developed a model that could inform urban farmers of how light varies in different areas of a confined space 🌱 #openaccess paper in Quantitative Plant Biology: doi.org/10.1017/qpb.... 🔓 📄

(1/2) Recently researchers from the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) gave a behind the scenes insight to our plant growing facilities and the research that they support as part "Celebrating Spaces: Connecting Researchers"...

Scientists including a team at @york.ac.uk have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilised tooth from more than 20 million years ago #openaccess paper in @nature.com: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🔓 📄