It's here! Today's the launch party for our exhibit A Radical Re-imagining 16:00-18:00 🥳 Celebrate with us tonight, or visit anytime until 28 June. Timeline designed by LJMU Graphics student Abi Reynolds. #archive #exhibit #museum #liverpool #theatre #liverpoolhistory #history #socialisthistory #art

This. Proudly helping you find/solve/do/share/create/and get your research out into the world.

We were delighted to see our latest open journal/zine launched at yesterday's wonderful PGR Festival. Welcome to the world: Ethnography is Dead. It featured the beautiful hard copies, linked to our open version online, too! openjournals.ljmu.ac.uk/EiD

Time for a Friday break.

And here it is! Come to Liverpool in July next year. We have a fantastic [insert appropriate collective noun here] of keynotes: @bkadams.bsky.social, @dnmcinnis.bsky.social, @lucycmunro.bsky.social, Perry Mills & Deborah Payne!

Take a break, watch some puffins.

Our wonderful colleagues Emily and Megan spoke about this project as part of our Open Research Week 2026. You can learn more generally about the Unity Theatre but also the challenges of making these archives open:

Work by Liverpool's Unity Theatre and the John Moores University to preserve more than 200 boxes of archive material is revealed at a special exhibition, show and other events in May and June. @unitytheatre.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social #archive www.theatrereviewsnorth.com/post/radical...

Your friendly reminder that the Open Research Team is always happy to help you better understand research metrics: not just in the context of how it can demonstrate what you do but also to know you what it cannot demonstrate about you and your work. Always happy to poke that bear.

I'm recruiting! Super excited to talk to people about the little ways they cope with dysphoria, feel free to email or DM with questions 😀

Are cognitive tests keeping up with Alzheimer’s biomarkers. Join @davidebrunophd.bsky.social for this Research Showcase. communities.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/c/events/res...

📢 There's still time to register for your free spot on this #OpenAccess session, which includes a panel of authors and publishers sharing their advice and experiences. Might be helpful for some @oipassoc.bsky.social members and authors! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-acces...

Librarians and information professionals – please join one of our focus groups to help us better understand how to develop tools and guidance that support you and your researchers. bit.ly/4sK3kje

Blog post I co-authored for @betterresearch.bsky.social with @andrewk-phd.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social @ljmuresearch.bsky.social @ljmuimpact.bsky.social www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-why-nor...

Only two weeks until our LJMU Drug Related Deaths Conference 2026. We have lots of great speakers planned! The event is online, on Thursday 23rd April, and it's free to register: ims.ljmu.ac.uk/DRDconference #DRDevent

@academiclibsnorth.bsky.social are offering 10 sponsored places for both presenters and delegates at this years conference, "Reimagining Openness in Academic Libraries". The deadline to apply if the 29th of April. academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/conference/a...

Listening to Lynda Kellam speak about her work with the @datarescueproject.org Inspired and in awe of the collective work to save public data by this group! This American in the USA is grateful for you and what you do! #RLUK26

This topic was discussed as part of our Open Research Week 2026 session on making archives open (see link attached.) Amongst other things-the ongoing preservation of things once they are made open!

I absolutely loved Small Prophets and had no idea colleagues at LJMU were involved in parts of making it. Now I love it even more!! www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

For some reason, I started reading this lovely piece by @joemoransblog.bsky.social and felt compelled to listen to Erland Cooper's song he did for 6Music during Covid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIGc... Beautiful song to accompany such beautiful words.

🌍 Knowledge Equity & Open Scholarship Week | 19-21 May 2026 We’re asking: How can we bridge the Opens? Join partners from North Africa, Europe & South Africa, and colleagues globally. Want to collaborate in our global co‑creation experiment? 👉 Info here: knowledgeequitynetwork.org/casestudies/...

Hard same from the repository corner.

There's still time to sign up for this free training session on Thursday! 🔗 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... @sas-news.bsky.social #Training #Journals #Publishing

‼️ On this week's podcast, I've returned to one of my first historical fascinations - Rudolf Hess and his bonkers "peace" flight to Scotland in 1941. @ww2tv.bsky.social joined me to explore Hess' life, the flight and the conspiracy theories. #history #ww2 ⬇️ 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Kathleen - practicing open research is more than just knowing how and having the skills, but see a relational view which sits within context local and national (international) #ORW2026

Kathleen - what does this mean for open research? thinking about relationships is also thinking like a business - this is not a bad thing. Sustainability is a systemic issue - consider how to reconfigure (or end) relationships #ORW2026

Kathleen - positioning relationships involved working out how to work with people, competition, collaboration or coopetition? Working with competitors to develop standards. Partnership with other providers helps to ensure researchers don't select proprietory platforms #ORW2026

Kathleen - different types of relationships are needed to support and sustain open infrastructure: reinforcing relationships with publishers, forging relationships with institutions and positioning relationships with infrastructures (e.g. other services like institutional or subject repos) #ORW2026

Kathleen - Sustaining services like Dryad datadryad.org requires reconfiguring relationships and funding/business models #ORW2026

Kathleen - Open infrastructures are not as stable as we may think and they are not free to operate investinopen.org/data-room/st... #ORW2026

Kathleen - could we think of ways to encourage future relationships with data, need flexibility and diversity in data sharing, so not one size fits all. Talk about responsibility and care rather than "management" of data #ORW2026

Kathleen - tensions with usability of data and systems and the reality of transient academic contracts. Concern about letting data our of their care #ORW2026

Kathleen - care for their data by caring for the maintenance and infrastructure that stores the data #ORW2026

Kathleen - their care for the research participants and want their data to accurately reflect their partipants contributed. #ORW2026

Kathleen - data work is emotion work - feelings of guilt, shame, vulnerability which came from tensions with personal visibility but emotions are not a bug but a feature - they are taking it seriously and taking responsbility for their data #ORW2026

Kathleen - it gave deep insights into local practices - looked at why data sharing might not happen within this group. Looked at how we build relationships with our data that changes over the course of the research processes #ORW2026

Kathleen - research culture is a big topic but the focus here is local - example of Autoethnography of data practices with a group of researchers - anaylsed their own research practices publicera.kb.se/ir/article/v... #ORW2026

Kathleen - a relational view provides insight into how to progress open research - epistemic diversity and funding models and from local to systemic concerns #ORW2026

Kathleen - relational persepectives foregrounds context, practices and diversity. Not just about putting content online. It is a matter of considered relationships #ORW2026

Kathleen - a more relational perspective of openness starts with consideration of inclusion - how can we make research more inclusive, more just? It's relational, social, diverse, situation, equitable, focussed on processes rather than objects #ORW2026

Kathleen - traditional perspective to openness as sharing objects, articles, data, code etc - tends to be thought of as being unlimited (immediate), digital with good outcomes - this has a directional orientation - tranparency then concern about quality and focus on inclusion #ORW2026

Kathleen - there are sociotechnical challenges, local contexts within broader systems and relational way of thinking about open research all come into play #ORW2026

Kathleen - there are still points of friction - disciplinary and epistemic diversity, unequal access to tools, assessment cultures, funding models, sustainability and resilience, knowledge security and AI concerns #ORW2026

Kathleen - there has been broader progess in terms of the increase in available open content, development of local and international policies and changes in researchers' attitude #ORW2026

Helen - not enough to open up our research but we need to be open - open to other methodologies, other processes - changing research culture is paramount #ORW2026

Helen - its important to articulate our art and our practice research to the wider community #ORW2026

Professor Helen Newall from Edge Hill Univesrity is officially closing open research week for us and introducing our keynote speaker #ORW2026

Getting ready for our closing keynote session of Open Research Week "Doing open research is more than just knowing how. Changing research culture and sustaining open infrastructures are crucial too" with Dr Kathleen Gregory from University of Leiden #ORW2026

Carol - Alliance initiatives - impact study on country connector program, subject guides starting with subjects not covered by existing programmes, develop organisational structure of the academic alliance - please consider joining docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #ORW2026

Carol - R4L Academic Alliance - collaboration of academic libraries and info profs to advance the mission and vision of the partnership to develop and enable diverse and rich scholarly exchange between researchers, librarians, authors and students in higher and lower income countires #ORW2026