Actual living proof that the grass is greener on the other side.

What’s that they say about ‘all work and no play’? When I worked for Sheffield I never really gave myself the breaks when I needed them, it came at a cost. Now I am a freelancer I take time out when the sun shines (today) and work when it rains. So we went to Chatsworth Xmas Market for cheese

Sorry if the answer is obvious, but is there any way to see all of the views, downloads and citation stats in one place as part of a @figshare.com collection?

How ‘altmetrics’ measure the reach of business school research - interesting to see the FT covering @altmetric.com in this piece. I have long been an advocate and would say that the potential of altmetrics remains huge. www.ft.com/content/12aa... 1/4

Good news, but sets an interesting precedent given the sheer volume of this sort of discourse on X.

REF 2029 branding ban baffles research offices. Instruction to remove Research Excellence Framework logo from university materials prompts confusion. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

The House of Commons Library Open Day returns in 2026! Come and learn about what we do to inform democracy and take advantage of a rare chance to tour the Commons Library space. Full details are on our website and applications close 24th November commonslibrary.parliament.uk/training-and...

We’ve added 4 new countries to RoRI’s Atlas of Assessment: Latvia 🇱🇻, Portugal 🇵🇹, the Czech Republic 🇨🇿 and Namibia 🇳🇦. The Atlas is designed to help compare national approaches, understand emerging trends, and support responsible assessment reform: researchonresearch.org/atlas/

Scientists feel that the pressure to publish is rising, but that the time and resources they have to do the necessary research are falling, according to a survey of 3,200 researchers go.nature.com/4hNDvuN

The glorious colours on this morning’s walk to the village cafe. The shades of brown, green, amber, orange and of course the red.

More useful material for the @royalsociety.org’s bio of their esteemed fellow. Though I’m still struggling to understand how a society that claims to value scientific rigour continues to honour someone who spreads so much disinformation.

Yet mainstream parties and policy-makers are still there. 🤷🏼‍♂️ (also, re-read @drjennings.bsky.social’s piece observer.co.uk/news/opinion...)

Full Programme for #R2RConf (London, 24-25 Feb) available r2rconf.com/r2r-conferen... Keynote, Debate, Presentations, Panels, Roundtables, Case Study and Workshops Plenary: 8½ hrs, Workshops: 3 hrs, Networking: 5½ hours crammed into 2 days! Discounts & 50 free tickets for Academics & Librarians

New episode: Join me at the Festival of Hidden REF in Birmingham on 8 October. I meet Simon Hettrick, James Baker, Elisa Collado, Lorraine van Blerk, Laura Henderson, Alix Brodie-Wray, Dr Emily Ennis, Jo Williams and Nick Sheppard about hidden roles and non-traditional outputs buff.ly/skpJuUR

Here is the recording from the live videocast I recorded with @kargerpublishers.bsky.social on the Power of Scientific Storytelling, why academics should be engaging online, overcoming challenges and how to maximise your impact and manage your reputation. www.youtube.com/live/lgq6COx...

I found this old photo of myself and I don't know what I find more astonishing, that I could do these kind of moves or the sheer amount of brown in my parent's living room.

New Policy Sources for October 2025 Altmetric continues to expand its coverage of where research has been used or talked about. We routinely add new policy organisations, think tanks and NGOs who cite all kinds of stuff. Here are some new sources for October, now all findable in the Explorer 1/6

In Grok we don’t trust: academics assess Elon Musk’s AI-powered encyclopedia www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is something I have thought about a lot over the last couple of years, especially since 2022. The Great Pullback: Why Academic Social Media’s Fragmentation Matters @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/29/g... 1/12

How does research move beyond academic journals to influence policy, practice, and public understanding? I'll be chatting with Francesca Brazzorotto from @kargerpublishers.bsky.social on Tuesday 4th Nov as part of their People & Science Live series. Register Free www.linkedin.com/events/73834...

Due to unforeseen circumstances we have had to postpone our next @know-ph.bsky.social webinar. The new date for this event is Tuesday January 20th at 1pm. We really hope you can still join us in the new year. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlighti...

"What this means for humanists is stark. The very articles and books we painstakingly produce are being fed, legally and lucratively, into AI systems that will soon replicate, and perhaps replace, our intellectual labour." www.abc.net.au/religion/how...

"Relying on LLMs for literature summaries without independent verification could lead to the unknowing citation and perpetuation of false information." #AcWri #SciComm

The joy of taking my daughter - now she is 18 - to the yearly fantastic horror fest that is Celluloid Screams comes at a price. It now costs me twice as much to go 😂 #Halloween

Our Housing and Public Health Knowledge Interactive Evidence Map highlights @nihr.bsky.social research that connects housing with people's health. Explore the map yourself and delve into the evidence relating to this very important issue. view.genially.com/67ea72e2301c...

45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Spent some of today digitising old photos I’d borrowed from my adopted sister. This is me and one of my older birth brothers - not long after this I was taken from my family and it was half a century before I saw him again. Life throws those curve balls at you.

“It is important that academic scientists be where conversations are really happening, not just in paywalled journals and conferences.” www.science20.com/hank_campbel...

It takes me leaving an organisation to find out that I was classed as an academic - according to their website. I'd long thought of myself as a hybrid, an all-rounder, a boundary spanner, or what we would have called 'academic-related' which my contract many moons ago stated. 1/5

“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers. www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

It's good to see the @altmetric.com Podcast tracking working well. I just searched for a podcast I hosted & recorded with my ex-Sheffield colleague Diana Papaioannou on a paper she lead on recording harms in randomised controlled trials, and hey presto! It's in the🍩 bmj.altmetric.com/details/1688...

I'm going to be discussing the power of communication and how scientific storytelling drives real-world impact as a guest on @kargerpublishers.bsky.social online event on 4th November via LinkedIn Live Register for your free place here www.linkedin.com/events/73834...

We recently collaborated with @hertscc.bsky.social to explore how community champion roles (in this case, Clean Air Champions) could make a difference to and improve the lives of local residents. You can find out more via our mini website view.genially.com/68595c40c8df... 1/9

PODCASTS Altmetric now tracks podcasts mentioning research In 2018 there were roughly 500,000 podcasts in existence. Just 3 years later that number was 2 million. Today it's around 4 million. Amid all the Squarespace ads there's citations to research. Let's go 1/7

Intriguing result in the 'should AI be used in the REF' debate: GenAI tools outperform citation data on matching expert quality assessments @mikethelwall.bsky.social says his research gets “very strongly positive reactions and also a very strong negative reaction” Quelle suprise!

After 24 years of working in university research, I’m going out on my own as a research communications consultant. My mission: helping researchers and institutions share their work clearly, compellingly, and with impact. In case you don't know who I am, watch this short video. bit.ly/477I51S

I've attended the excellent @socmedhe.bsky.social Conference a few times over the past decade. It's a real honour to deliver the keynote at this year's iteration at @lancasteruni.bsky.social #AcademicTwitter Is Dead — What Died, What Survived, What’s Next? socmedhe25.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/k...

Pretty much most web tools right now....

The govt is making much of the promise of AI-powered science (there's a strategy incoming) but will it primarily benefit the most research-intensive universities? Great piece from @sophieatrpn.bsky.social

🧵Netscape Navigator brought the web to millions. 🌐 It was the first browser to achieve mass-market adoption & introduced bookmarks, cookies, & JavaScript. See its website on the #WaybackMachine. 1 in a Trillion pages saved ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19961101... #Wayback1T

As I've said before, no software should be released without asking "what's the worst thing that someone can do with this technology?" and it's totally believable that never occurred to anyone at OpenAI.

At Overton, we work with a lot of policy citation data. Along the way, we’ve noticed some interesting patterns about the type of research that gets cited in policy. Check out the video below to hear what our very own founder and director @mrstew.bsky.social has to say about those patterns!

The programme’s live, the momentum is building, and there’s still time to book your place. Join us at #ALTC25 on 23 - 24 October. With 60+ sessions, ALTC Radio, Group Fest & the Gala Awards Dinner, it’s shaping up to be an inspiring few days. Register now: altc.alt.ac.uk/altc #EdTech #HigherEd #altc

Whereas stealing artists’ work is killing their industry, so…

It’s a fact that when someone starts a sentence with the words ‘it’s a fact’ that it’s rarely a fact. 😉

💥New: Banning Sci-Hub highlights India’s unequal access to knowledge ✍️Rituparna Patgiri #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #SciHub

💥New: Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities ✍️ @niamhtumelty.bsky.social & @heroicendeavour.bsky.social #OpenResearch #AcademicSky #HigherEducation (@lsepress.bsky.social)

The call for abstracts for sessions at this year's #socmedhe25 conference is out now! Me and @kathymchandler.bsky.social look forward to seeing you in Lancaster in December :-)