Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage. Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...

Be a good chap and don’t gawp at the first class passengers.

#OA wonks - can anyone point me to a list of medicine-ish journals that partially offer gold OA - e.g. ones that have full OA now but paywalled archives? Doesn’t have to be comprehensive, I’m just trying to design an in-class exercise.

If the 264 million students enrolled in higher education around the globe were a country, it would be the fifth most populous in the world go.nature.com/46jJHGK

on 2nd October I'll give an LSE lecture on the future of social media based on my recent book The Space of the World www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b.... Baroness Beeban Kidron will respond and Myria Georgiou will be chairing. Do come: there'll be a live stream too! www.lse.ac.uk/events/the-s...

@figshare.com How can I delete an item (in my free account) that is public (not private). It seems from the help guide that you have to do this? It's a duplicate item. Thanks.

We have added our Housing and Public Health Knowledge Interactive Evidence Map created by @niftyfoxcreative.bsky.social to our @figshare.com as an interactive PDF. figshare.com/articles/pre... The web version is here view.genially.com/67ea72e2301c...

I've had hiccups now for two hours and quite frankly that is two hours too long.

Read the entire three posts for context and concern.

Happy Derbyshire Day! The only other Derbyshire person I know on here (that I can think of) is @seismatters.bsky.social - so Happy Derbyshire Day!

If you are on LinkedIn, then feel free to follow and connect with us there as well as here. linkedin.com/company/know-ph-knowledge-for-public-health/

@bsky.app need to add a 'remove follower' option as the block function is a bit too heavy. I'm getting followers who are hard to fathom out as to their motives for following me. A mix of political activists from the U.S., veterans or those just wanting re-follows. The remove function would help.

If you go down to the woods today…

Shocked to find that my institution has blocked access to the @archive.org this morning. Lodging an IT ticket and very, very curious to know the justification. @archive.org is essential for my research and teaching, and I cannot be the only person at @openresleeds.bsky.social affected by this.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

This is entirely overdue. It was already a vanity fellowship and the royal societies (including historical) have summarily ejected fellows for far less.

🗃️ From the August: "in today’s rapidly changing landscape of scientific communication, the decision feels less like a visionary leap and more like an uninspired nod to the status quo" #PRW25 #PeerReview

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

Join me and @lizzysuch.bsky.social on the 1st October to hear about our work around Creating Sustainable Knowledge Mobilisation Outputs for the @nihr.bsky.social funded @know-ph.bsky.social project.

I met up with a few old ex-Sheffield colleagues for tea last week and was gifted something very special from my old colleague Prof Simon Dixon. For over 6 years we ran a secret art exhibition in the department - called SCHARRT. He had compiled the works into a book. 1/2

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

If @mcintold.bsky.social ever invites you to a game of hide and seek, decline. She will find you. open.substack.com/pub/fosci/p/...

Back at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School to talk about alternative indicators of scholarly interest, AKA Altmetrics. Going to discuss how to navigate and critique the data, what it tells us and about @altmetric.com @overton.io and how it can be used to make research more open and communicated.

One of the main goals of Altmetric, @policycommons.bsky.social and @overton.io include policy sources in our various services is to increase consumption, awareness and readership of policy documents themselves. www.splinter.com/un-report-no...

If you'd like to dip your toes into the world of research communications via blogs and podcasts, then join me online on the 30th September. I'm delivering another online workshop for @ukeig.bsky.social from 12-2 and you've got plenty of time to sign up. www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...

I'm getting a few odd followers on here. Not bots, but businesses who clearly want follow backs. Always remove these followers, it's about the quality of your network, not the quantity.

While Twitter was once the platform of choice for a majority of science communicators, those same people have since abandoned it in droves. And of the alternatives available, Bluesky seems to be their new platform of choice. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

'Publishers are also increasingly adding AI features to academic papers and textbooks. Oxford University Press recently introduced an “AI Study Assistant” to its “Law Trove” online archive of law textbooks.' 1/3

More post Sheffield fun. A marvellous weekend in the woods at a small but perfectly formed festival in The Strines watching Gruff Rhys et al

A nice way to spend my first day post Sheffield Uni. Hopefully a win for Derbyshire

Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reviewers are more likely to approve a manuscript if their own work is cited go.nature.com/3UEdlzP

Is BMI the best way to measure obesity, or do other tools give a more accurate view of health? Dr Laura Gray joins the Communicable Research podcast to explore how we measure obesity and what that means for public health. Listen here: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/how-d... #ObesityResearch

REF halts panel announcements as rumours swirl over changes. Universities ordered to cease communication around Research Excellence Framework panel members. Announcements were expected today. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

👀 ICYMI: "These channels lack the visibility of social media, but offer a sense of control, community and relevance that many now prefer." #AcademicSky #AcademicSocialMedia

The BBC and other sites are very active at fact checking fake AI content, especially images. It's a cat and mouse game & at some point that mouse will get very big and we all might struggle to detect fact from fiction. More information literacy, libraries and responsibility from the tech giants.

This week we reached 10M Yearly Active Researchers 🎉 This means 10M researchers are actively engaged with their ORCID records. If you haven't signed into your ORCID record in a while, take a minute to sign in now and check out the record summary: https://orcid.org/signin #ORCID #Researchsky

Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of 'AI psychosis' 'Examples include believing to have unlocked a secret aspect of the tool, or forming a romantic relationship with it, or coming to the conclusion that they have god-like superpowers.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Feeling a tad emotional and sentimental today. Last actual day working for the University of Sheffield and SCHARR at Regent Court. A journey that really started in 1997 when I was a journalism student in Minalloy House, just located next door to the place I spent the last 24 years. 1/3

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

@altmetric.com just found a paper with 80% strong negative sentiment analysis (4.2k posts). What's the record? No need to share the paper, we can save their blushes.

REQUEST What YouTube accounts should we add to our monitoring? We manually follow YouTube accounts in order to detect research linked in their description fields. So we don't follow everything, you see. Send us your suggestions! #AltmetricThis

This is the definition of a failed social media platform.

Any clever Github/library people able to shine any light onto this site 0mfum9m3.scispace.co It has a Github icon at the bottom of the page but I can't see any links or ownership. Thanks

The 5th webinar in our @know-ph.bsky.social series explores the importance of health impact assessments for housing developers, communities and key decision makers in England. This draws on workshops we hosted with Local Authorities where NIHR research evidence & experience of HIAs were discussed.

👀 ICYMI: "in today’s rapidly changing landscape of scientific communication, the decision feels less like a visionary leap and more like an uninspired nod to the status quo" #Nature #PeerReview #ScholComm

The perfect way to spend a Friday, watching my Derbyshire try and knock the leather off Worcestershire’s ball at Repton.

The guest on our final Communicable Research podcast in this series is the much respected Professor in Evidence Synthesis @andrewb007h.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @unishefplayer.bsky.social player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/evolu... Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/1JdX... 1/2

Funny how many institutions that self-refer as “leading” have a wait-and-see approach to decision making…

Refusing to "trust the experts" is meant to be a brave, responsible position. But (as Carl explains in the thread) there is too much knowledge in the world. You have to trust *somebody*, much of the time. If you have no trust in experts, you end up trusting the idiots.