Sobering session at #OAI14 about challenges to research integrity including Ivan Oransky (@retractionwatch.com) @deevybee.bsky.social on paper mills and Ophélie Fraisier-Vannier on the increasing use of LLMs and AI 😨

"We’re entering uncertain times; a chaotic transition is coming as universities shift away from commercial models to cheaper, more sustainable, non-profit alternatives. As with any publishing revolution, there will be winners and losers."

Talking of Wikipedia and Academic Libraries👇 @yclepit.bsky.social is running an event next Monday @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social as part of @leedscitylanguages.bsky.social Workshop: World in Translation: beyond English Wikipedia: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/world... All welcome😀

Perhaps part of the solution is rewarding and incentivising more diverse research outputs? i.e. @hiddenref.bsky.social research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/valu... researchadjacent.com/recognising-... www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6u9...

Great initiative... First issue of the Scottish Journal of Open Research: doi.org/10.36399/f74...

Event recording now available on @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social blog: Archives Across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black Histories leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/a...

@earthowned.bsky.social featured in a dream last night...I was visiting Edinburgh and saw you receive an award. Not sure what for...and you were only 21 🤷

Add your two penn'orth: www.linkedin.com/posts/peterw...

Magic

Open Access for All: What Is Rights Retention and Why Should You Care? leeds.libcal.com/event/4436818 Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 1pm - 2pm With Thom Blake @uoyopenres.bsky.social and Professor Stephen Eglen, Universty of Cambridge @akadidymus.bsky.social

Still time to book for this event tomorrow 👇👇👇 More than 150 colleagues registered to attend, from both sides of the Atlantic 🌊 #BlackHiatoryMonth

🗣️Speakers: 🗽Melanie Chambliss, Assistant Professor of History (Rochester) 💂‍♂️Bridget Bennett, Professor of American Literature and Culture (Leeds) 🗽Autumn Haag, Assistant Director, Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (Rochester) 💂‍♂️Kate Dossett, Professor of American History (Leeds)

🆕 New #ResearchCultureUncovered podcast episode! 🏛️@richardnevell.bsky.social and "Wikimedian in Residence" @yclepit.bsky.social join host @nickshepp.bsky.social to discuss @wikipedia.org and the importance of human curated knowledge in the age of Artificial Intelligence. 🤖

Join us for this special online event that brings together a panel from two universitiess, separated by the Atlantic Ocean while joined by a common history. We’ll hear from academics and archivists with an interest Black history and how libraries and archives support these histories 👇

Exciting trans-Atlantic collaboration between the libraries at Universities of Rochester and Leeds: 🌎 Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History. A conversation with the University of Rochester ( 🗓️ Thursday 23 October at 🕓 4pm BST / 🕚 11am EDT) leeds.libcal.com/calendar/ope...

Embedding Trust in Evaluation (E-TIE) is the funded project behind the Hidden REF Competition and Hidden REF Festival. It is funded by Research England from 2025 to 2030 hidden-ref.org/e-tie/

Tim Fellows talking now about @octopus-ac.bsky.social at the Festival of the @hiddenref.bsky.social REF. Planning to do more promotion of this innovative platform @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Me too…as discussed with “one of you” on the #ResearchCultureUncovered podcast research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/ukrn...

En route to the Festival of Hidden REF in Birmingham. Anyone else? Think you’re speaking @themauvedesert.bsky.social ?

*sobs epistemological tears*

Don’t worry everyone, Elon and grok gonna fix info bias

🔊 Vacancy: Open Research Manager, University of Sheffield Library (full-time, open-ended). The role will involve supporting projects across Sheffield and nationally with the @ukrepro.bsky.social to accelerate open research practices. Closing date 22 October: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Open-Res...

This event is a bit different from usual and instead of just one or two speakers, we've got...loads! Through a series of lightning talks we hope to give you a sense of the teams and services available across the University of Leeds to support your open practice👇

🆕#ResearchCultureUncovered episode with @nickshepp.bsky.social explores open research across disciplines at @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The @ukrepro.bsky.social Train the Trainer programme's open for applications: FREE training for researchers, PIs & professional services staff.

Just frightened myself with Facebook memory from 2023 @katefoneill.bsky.social

As an 80’s era metal head it’s a bit ridiculous I’ve only just discovered Queensryche’s Operation Mindcrime. What an album! (In my defence probably not heavy enough for my self-conscious adolescence) 🤘🎸

Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons by @samuelmoore.org www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono... Available #OpenAccess, obviously 😀 #OpenFest25

Truly inspiring project in the face of the current United States administration's attacks on science and data #OpenFest25

Are you a potential, current, or past ReproducibiliTea organizer? ✨ Join our upcoming networking event! 📅 October 2, 2025 (16:00 CEST) on Zoom 👉 Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/iH6sHt3dB4Wf... Everyone is welcome!

One week until OpenFest 2025! The festival is open to all, and the sessions this year are predominantly online - so we hope to see many of you there! This year's theme is Open Research and Equity, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Register at the link below: sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

We need new early career researchers to take over Leeds ReproducibiliTea journal club! @reproducibilitea.org From this, you can work with like-minded ECRs from across the University, and gain amazing experience in leadership, lesson design, and presenting. Find out more below 😀

Trig point

Strangely vivid dream about Richard Dawkins trying to nick my shopping…I was queuing at a supermarket kicking 10 cook in the bag chickens along the floor towards the checkout. Dawkins was in the queue next to me, surreptitiously hooked a chicken with his foot, drew it towards his own shopping …

Finally managed to get this up on @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social blog from April 👀 leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/c... Blog post & recording, with Kikachukwu Oluonye (Library), Myles Gould (DoRi, School of Geography, @envleeds.bsky.social & Roger Beecham (DoRi, @lida-leeds.bsky.social)

@culturebullet.com any idea why this wiki citation not showing up on @altmetric.com ? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjuvan... WRRO record: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/20...

Clever🧠

Excellent, insightful conversation on the What the REF podcast between @simonhettrick.bsky.social and Marcus Munafo (@ukrepro.bsky.social) covering REF, open and transparent research and research culture (also rowing) youtu.be/uHRQjNqY6CY

Just stubbed my toe at Ilkley Lido, distracted by this sign

Great @wikipedia.org translation event today led by @yclepit.bsky.social Languages represented: 🇦🇪 Arabic 🇪🇬 Masry 🇳🇬 Igbo 🇰🇷 Korean 🇫🇷 French 🇪🇸 Spanish 🇵🇹 Portuguese 🇰🇪 Gikuyu 🇹🇷 Turkish 🇩🇪 German 🇮🇪 Irish @wikimediauk.bsky.social

🆕 #ResearchCultureUncovered episode! Host @nickshepp.bsky.social chats with @simonhettrick.bsky.social on the #HiddenREF & why ALL research outputs matter. 🎧

This event is running on Wednesday PM and if you or someone you know would like to attend, please do sign up! Open to all and we'd love to have you. leeds.libcal.com/calendar/ope... 🌍🌎🌏 World in Translation: Beyond English Wikipedia Online 🌍🌎🌏 @wikimediauk.bsky.social

I realise Meta and Zuckerberg are evil incarnate…the only positive being memories, like these from 9 years ago

If you are a native speaker in any language other than English, please come along and help us translate Wikipedia! (Online, Monday 30th July, 2-5pm) leeds.libcal.com/calendar/ope... @wikimediauk.bsky.social

🔊Registration is NOW OPEN for OpenFest 2025, the annual open research event led by Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam unis. 2nd-5th September - all welcome. This year's theme is Open Research & Equity, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion - in all the meanings of those terms. More details and registration:⬇️

@culturebullet.com just wondering if any mileage in flagging DOIs on wikipedia other than mainspace e.g. this on a Talk page doi.org/10.48785/100... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cl... Obviously wouldn't count as a 'citation' per se

Feedback from a researcher that OSF “crashes frequently”…not something I’ve ever noticed @kellylloyd.bsky.social ? @cos.io

My wife says I drink too much 🤷‍♂️

Lots of conversations recently about the potentially chilling effect of LLMs and AI on open practice (though Rachel Bruce from @ukri.org emphasises that publishers are also selling their paywalled content to big tech) #LKFS2025