A request for poetry suggestions! I'm looking for more archaeologists who also write poetry - as I'd love to read their work. If you know of any contemporary archaeologist-poets please add links/names to this thread (picture of Stonehenge because why not!)

And we now have a full roster of speakers confirmed, including Emmie-Rose Price-Goodfellow of You're Dead To Me, Kate Wiles of @historytoday.com, @estelleprnq.bsky.social on social media and @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social on building a freelance career.

"AI models that lie and cheat appear to be growing in number with reports of deceptive scheming surging in the last six months, a study into the technology has found."

We're delighted to share that University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives have joined the Open Journals Collective! They are one of our founding members, and their support is hugely important to us. We look forward to working with them as we build a brighter future for academic publishing!

Join our next talk on Open research in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences with Dr Jenni Adams from @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social on 26 March at 2 pm UK time! See Teams link in comments. uea-uk.libguides.com/researchrepro #OpenScience #openresearch #reproducibilitea

Regular reminder that RELX -- owner of academic publisher Elsevier -- is one of those brokers providing data to ICE.

UNESCO has launched a consultation to explore "fair, inclusive ways to create, share, and access academic knowledge, and to address challenges in building more equitable systems." Deadline for contributions is April 13. www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

Why is there actual snow.

In case you missed it 👀 Tickets for this year’s International Creative Research Methods Conference are now on sale! 🗓️ Mon 7th – Tues 8th Sept 📍 Manchester, UK + online Secure your place today: www.creativeresearchmethods.com #ICRMC26 #ICRMC #CRMethods #CreativeResearchMethods

This story is completely nuts, as a preliminary search for "dissertation defense" on their site reveals

Universities: do digital humanities! Also universities: no, we won’t pay to host it. Good luck.

Good to see the publication of these principles by @rluk.ac.uk, which conveniently align with our own principles for supporting OA infrastructure! www.york.ac.uk/library/abou...

Practice #5 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Co-production "processes in which researchers collaborate with individuals, communities or organisations outside academia to conduct research that draws on and recognises the value of the knowledges those individuals hold..."

Follow up: if you're unsure if you're a party (author/publisher) in the Anthropic AI settlement, you can check here (secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup) & then file a claim. You can search by ISBN/ASIN, Title, Author, Publisher & Copyright Reg #. The deadline is **March 30, 2026**.

Hello, all. I'm writing this thread to ask for your help. I know it's a bit of a downer at the start of a sunny spring weekend, but please read to the end. (1/?)

I've just seen that the link to the IPSEA 'Write to your MP' template letter is broken. Here's a working link. www.ipsea.org.uk/write-to-you...

Spring is here in the northern hemisphere! Here's a graphic from the #PeriodicGraphic archives in @cenmag.bsky.social looking at the pigments that give daffodils their golden glow: cen.acs.org/articles/93/... #PeriodicGraphic#ChemSky 🧪

I'm giving a keynote 4/9 on speculative+experimental kinds of peer review, built on my "Organized Futures: Speculative Design for More Just+Joyful Scholarly Infrastructure" article journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/... For Experimental Publishing Practices conf: copim.pub/online-confe...

PhD opportunity – Recording nature and writing the self: time, entomology and the archive in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. More info: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/phd-...

A Typology of Openness: 🔓 Openness as access/ible dissemination 📖 Openness as the rich realisation of research 🌏 Openness as equitable and inclusive knowledge creation Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences (MORPHSS) @morphss.bsky.social

Anyone sceptical of our claim (in @morphss.bsky.social) that podcasting can be seen as an open/collaborative research practice should listen to the American Vandal (especially this episode). It's a great illustration of collective knowledge production and experimental presentation at work.

London Open Science & Scholarship Festival spotlight💡 'Open Research, Gender, and Ethics' - Speakers from different fields will explore what we can learn at the intersection of open research, gender, and ethics. 🗓️ 20.04, 4-5pm 📍 Online Register: buff.ly/kabEXg3 #LDNOpenFest26

Tomorrow!👀 Join us for this launch event and panel discussion on open research in the arts, humanities & qualitative social sciences. We're looking forward to sharing recent outputs from MORPHSS & hearing from a range of experts including @openreflections.bsky.social and @henrygonnet.bsky.social

'The surging number of redundancies in UK higher education could undermine entire research fields as networks of collaborators disappear, according to an academic whose project fell through when a colleague’s job at another institution was put at risk.' 1/2

There's still time to register!

If you notice a friend exhibiting any concerning signs – especially rapid worsening over hours – take them seriously.

🚨FIXED TERM ARCHIVE JOB KLAXON🚨 We are looking for an experienced archivist to develop and implement a scoping project to re-catalogue and make available the York Archdiocesan Archive (6 months full time, or 12 months part time). Full details at the link: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/proj...

Just a reminder to Arts, Humanities & Social Science postdocs with 10 years of the PhD that membership in the British Academy's Early Career Researcher Network is free and available across the UK. Independent researchers welcome; if employed at an, you do not need to be in a research position. 1/2

#EnglishCreates: Futures Our series on 'Communities' continues with an insightful post by Isaac Fraveshi – PhD student, poet, and artist at the Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities. 'Sticking together: collage as a community listening praxis': universityenglish.ac.uk/sticking-tog...

Practice #11 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Experimental longform publishing "Experiments with more collaborative forms of book authoring and knowledge production highlight the myriad relationalities involved in the production of research..." #OpenResearch #AHSS

Inspired by @sparc-eu.bsky.social Case for Connecting the Opens sparceurope.org/the-case-for... Hold the date👇

"These systems are especially likely, given the limited datasets available for many Indigenous languages, to produce invented words, fabricated cultural teachings, or generalized 'pan-Indigenous' representations that flatten distinct nations or communities into one interchangeable identity."

When Palantir tell you who they are, believe them.

"AI is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world" www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Action alert from @biologicaldiversity.org Protect Old-growth Forests in Oregon "Stand up for living forests and the endangered species they harbor: Tell the BLM to scrap this logging plan." act.biologicaldiversity.org/5E-gjTsTuE22...

All those AI companies destroying our scholarly infrastructures will definitely be queuing up to support arXiv now it's becoming an independent organisation and seeking financial sustainability, yeah?

Many are the repositories whose digitized collections are held together by paper clips & twine paid for with an uncertain budget that may not get renewed in the next fiscal year because there’s long been a zeal to “just” digitize things but not to invest in their careful documentation & maintenance.

Explore how co-production can transform physical activity research and practice 🚶 Join researchers, practitioners, and communities for an exciting day of discussion, insights, and collaboration on Tue 24 March. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/co-product...

🏺 Research Fellow in Landscape Archaeology – University of Southampton, UK 🌍 Study Eastern Mediterranean & Middle East landscapes using archaeology, environmental data & GIS. Apply now. 🎓 Eligibility: PhD ⏳ Deadline: 01 Apr 2026 🔗 higherjobz.com/landscape-ar... #postdoc @unisouthampton.bsky.social

Join us next week for this launch event and panel discussion on open research in the arts, humanities & qualitative social sciences. We're looking forward to sharing recent outputs from MORPHSS & hearing from a range of experts including @openreflections.bsky.social and @henrygonnet.bsky.social

Just 2 days to go before 'Videogame Preservation: Practices and Approaches: An Online Symposium'! www.digitalscholarship.ox.ac.uk/event/videog...

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks' - BL & UCL Dep of Information Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... Now open for student applications! Deadline: 14 April

Practice #16 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Open longform scholarship "open longform publishing challenges the closed, hierarchical workflows of legacy academic presses, instead fostering community-driven, collaborative ecosystems..." #OpenResearch #AHSS

REMINDER: The US changes its clocks this weekend!! If you're scheduled to meet with a US-ian next week, check with them to confirm meeting times! www.timeanddate.com will help you coordinate!

Solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels. www.positive.news/environment/...

I dropped out of high school, gained a huge amount of often difficult life experience, then went to community college, and now I'm a professor in a prestigious university. There HAS TO BE A PLACE for non-traditional students. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

If you enjoyed the first edition, get ready for the 2nd Canadian Open Science Conference!!🍁 #savethedate : 27-29 October, @uottawa.ca more info and CfA coming soon ! sign up for the mailing list, you don't want to miss it 💫 #AcademicSky #OpenScience #ScholComm @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca

What happens when a musical composer joins an ecology lab?🎶 Zack Di Lello collaborates with the Ecoacoustics project, led by @ellabrowning.bsky.social, transforming ecological data into music and inviting new ways to listen to environmental change. www.oxfordecosystems.org/post/where-m...