New Call for Papers alert! Consider submitting to our forthcoming special issue on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways. CfP available here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/239/ Abstracts due March 23rd 2026. #DiamondOA

One for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (SHAPE) researchers interested in open science, and hot off the press (as well as, naturally, open access).

We’ve been made aware of individuals receiving emails claiming to be from the OBC, requesting fees from authors. To be clear: OBC does not charge individuals, book clubs, or authors for meetings/events. We're a collective funding model that channels library support to OA publishers & infrastructure.

The MORPHSS project has also created a typology of six forms of openness we identify among AHSS open research practices: Participatory openness, epistemic openness, process openness, evidentiary openness, availability of outputs and the accessible communication of research. catalogue.morphss.work

Our team in the MORPHSS Project are proud to share our first set of deliverables! We've produced a new catalogue resource for open research in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences:

Excavation of the tomb of Akhet-Hetep at Giza revealed a monument to his mother Peseshet, the "Overseer of Women Physicians." She is the world's earliest known woman doctor, and practiced at the time of the building of the great pyramids in Egypt, about 2500 BC. #CelebratingWomen

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Irrespective of whether there is a crisis, it doesn't make sense that open research has been so oriented around the goal of reproducibility when this goal isn't relevant to all research. @morphss.bsky.social will be releasing a report next week on how STEM cultures impact open research in AHSS.

Piece on how citation cartels are writing junk review articles with huge reference lists to boost citations. They're 'authored' by fake researchers from low-income countries so they can get an APC waiver, although it's not clear why publishers are being duped by so many of these articles.

Take the time to do this folks. The proposed changes to ILR are shocking and cruel, which is made abundantly clear in the text of the public consultation linked below. Please lend your voice to try to mitigate the cruelty.

Romanticists and Long Eighteenth Centuryists — there’s an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) being advertised, a joint appointment with St Peter’s College. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK016/a...

Does anyone know of any universities who have signed up to the Responsible Research(er) Recruitment Checklist (below)? Thanks!

We think so! Check out the details of our Production Manager role here: www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Closing 15th Feb. @ipgbook.bsky.social @alpsp.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social

We’re hiring! 📣 Join us as an Investment Officer, Music Hubs and help support the national Music Hub programme. You’ll support grant processes, analyse programme data and help strengthen music education across England. Apply by 13 February isw.changeworknow.co.uk/arts_council...

"The unsealed records surrounding Project Panama offer one of the clearest views yet into how modern AI systems are built. They show that behind consumer-facing chatbots lies an industrial pipeline involving large capital outlays, legal risk, and irreversible data extraction." 📚

What academic articles do you venerate for their style? (Any discipline) Am looking to push some boundaries and would like examples

I love the idea of this partnership between a museum and the local public library's special collections for a podcast. 📜 www.kwqc.com/2026/01/29/a...

I'm delighted to have been accepted as a participant at the Winter Academy of the Musikhochschule in Bremen and am now looking for an affordable place to stay 16-20 February, preferably where I can do some minimal cooking whilst avoiding AirBnB. Any tips? 🎵 #earlymusic #bremen

Saw this on the Tube this morning. Today marks 40 years of Poems on the Underground. You can see the archive @theul.bsky.social.

when "AI" is forced on universities, the reason is corporate welfare for no-use-case tech, the reason is cognitive decapacitation of the populace, AND the reason is mining mining mining data for the surveillance state

@kcommons.bsky.social Hello! Having a bit of an issue depositing in KCWorks today! Happens when trying to publish, . After opening the modal to submit (publish), nothing happens after the button is pushed. Inspection shows an error on the submit button:

Tomorrow, Tuesday 27 January, our Executive Director, Prof. Caroline Edwards, will speak at Open Access and the Commons, organised by the LSE Open Research Community

a hold has been placed on this book

If you work at a university, your library staff will be happy to talk to you at length about research data management. They are desperate to dispense this free advice.

If someone else – or more likely some company – can delete all your data, then it was never really /your/ data.

Together with @joedeville.bsky.social I will be giving the opening keynote at the @copim.bsky.social Conference 2026: What Next for Community-led Open Access Book Publishing?(26-27 February). Would be lovely to see you there, either in person or virtually: copim.pub/join-us-for-... #CopimConference

👀In a few weeks' time we'll be launching our NEW catalogue of open research practices in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences - ~30 open research practices across AHSS disciplines that we've documented so far, with detailed descriptions, examples and resources.

📢 Call for Proposals: Humanitarian Archive Emergency Project Proposals are sought to map at-risk humanitarian archives, records, and datasets and contribute to developing ethical approaches to strengthen their resilience. 📅 Deadline: 25 Jan 🔗https://tinyurl.com/26hy2amy

Fun facts about your pet word association tool: It knows nothing & cannot* be responsible for the consequences of treating its output as having any meaningful overlap with the material world. Substituting convenience for understanding or expertise is a Bad Move. *Until laws change profoundly.

I cannot stress enough that you should not do this.

We're calling for submissions to the Black Archive from disabled authors and authors of colour, who we know have been underrepresented in the range. Please spread this as widely as you can, as we want it to reach as many eligible authors as possible. Thank you. obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive...

I know there are lots of people at fault here, but the fact that such an obviously unethical article got published is another illustration of how publishers have completely lost control of what they're publishing in the push for APCs.

Our Experimental Publishing Group are in Nairobi for a HYBRID WORKSHOP: Extending Knowledge and Publishing Infrastructures in and from Africa 📆 8–9 December 2025 Online participants can attend 3 panel sessions More information, plus online registration 👉

"We are aware that some AI chatbots (such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Bard and others) may generate incorrect or fabricated archival references. These systems do not conduct research, verify sources, or cross-check information."

📣 NEWS! Last week a key paper defending #glyphosate, ghostwritten by #Monsanto (now #Bayer), is retracted after undermining safety decisions for 25 years! 👉 This should lead to the EU to reconsider glyphosate's permit on the EU market. 😡 But EC and Big Polluters team up to weaken safety rules

Have you ever received emails from journal editors requesting your contributions and wondered if they are legitimate or predatory? Learn more at our @ucclibrary.bsky.social workshop on 4th December. All welcome! libcal.ucc.ie/calendar/cla...

to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.

Funny reading this quote because it's exactly the same way I'm now thinking about open research with @morphss.bsky.social

Are you a scholar in Games Studies, Museum Studies and/or Digital Humanities and want to help NMS develop research in Collecting Video Game Heritage? Come and apply to be an IASH Fellow at the University of Edinburgh! Applications Opens - Dec 25 Closes - April 26 www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...

This is an exciting project, led by @nebulousflynn.bsky.social, to safeguard access to the UK’s digital 3D heritage at risk through over-reliance on commercial and free-to-use platforms for storage and dissemination. I'm happy to be serving on the advisory board and looking forward to discussions.

🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

We're all super lovely we promise 😇

Find out more about ‘Deep Maps: Blue Humanities’ 🗺️ ℹ️ An OBF-funded experimental #Book #Publishing pilot project in collaboration with @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @uwpress.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social Labs 🔗

This Wednesday I'm giving an online talk about my new book. It's at 4pm UK time and you can register here: opendivide.hypotheses.org/625

Can we please discuss accessibility at conferences? When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded. /

This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views

NYT: A wise and deeply moving letter to the editor from a retired history teacher Liz Zucker. “Ignorance is not bliss. It’s just ignorance.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...

"Maybe the intelligence we most need is the capacity to see beyond the hierarchies that determine which knowledge counts. Without that foundation, regardless of the hundreds of billions we pour into developing superintelligence, we’ll keep erasing knowledge systems that took generations to develop."

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”