“These aren’t ‘soft’ alternatives to ‘hard’ research. They are different technologies of knowledge that can access realities other methods miss.” Excellent piece on the need for plural & inclusive visions of knowledge creation.

Really brilliant today hearing from @samuelmoore.org about the @morphss.bsky.social project and all the @oipassoc.bsky.social members discussing their work for the half-day online OIPA Symposium 👏 Thanks to all the speakers for their time and contributions, and attendees for the discussion! 🎉

The symposium has kicked off with @samuelmoore.org talking about @morphss.bsky.social and their various work packages on defining, cataloguing, encouraging and embedding open research practices in AHSS 🙌 #OAWeek #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing #Humanities #Research

On December 4th I'll be in conversation with @hjoseph.bsky.social about my new book Publishing Beyond the Market. Part of the @authorsalliance.bsky.social and @archive.org book talk series. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...

📣 Open Call: Share Your Content on the #OpenMethods Blog! Have you come across some interesting content or methodology on Digital Arts & Humanities you would like to share? Have you published exciting content or contributed to inspiring venues? Get in touch! ℹ️ openmethods.dariah.eu/open-call/

New Issue Out Now! Explore the Journal of Embodied Research (JER) 8.1, featuring new work in #videographic scholarship and embodied research. Includes 4 #videoarticles and 1 #videoessay jer.openlibhums.org/issue/1724/i...

TOMORROW at 11:30 CET, don't miss the very first #FridayFrontiers of the Autumn, entitled "Fostering Data Sharing in the Humanities with Open-source software: The archeoViz Portal for Spatial & Statistical Exploration of Archaeological Data" 👀 ➡️ Register: www.dariah.eu/2025/06/13/r...

Call for contributions: OxFOS 2026 conference Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS), 2–6 March 2026, is a free University-wide conference exploring how to make research more open, transparent, & accessible. Submit your proposal to present a talk/workshop by 3 Nov 25: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos

Lovely interview with our new OLH colleague Dr Maddie Sinclair who reflects on the importance of research being publicly available. "As a researcher, I became aware very early on of the structural inequalities in publishing systems, and I didn’t want to perpetuate them." #OpenAccess #AcaSky

Congratulations to the winners of the OLH Open Access Award 2025! 🎉🏆 • Free to Publish, Free to Read: Diamond Open Access Workshops in Malaysia, Pakistan, and Singapore • Open Philosophy • Data as a Story: A Humanities Dataset Exhibition Read more: www.openlibhums.org/news/857/

This is a really exciting journal (re)launch at @openlibhums.org working with @the87press.bsky.social ! This poetry journal is doing such important work to address the massive under-representation of writers of colour and entrenched inequalities in literary publishing. #OpenAccess #AcaSky #poetry

ATRIUM is delighted to invite contributions from partners and beyond to #CAA2026 for Session 38 ‘End-to-End Reusable Archaeological Data Workflows: Spotlight on the Demonstrator Model’, to be held in Vienna! ⚠️ Deadline 26th October 🔸 Read more atrium-research.eu/news/caa-202...

Ever wondered why you don't hear more about engagement in arts and humanities research? Esther Lisk-Carew and I talk about how co-production is often business as usual for these subjects and the typical outputs can be more accessible than standard publications. Listen in your podcast app.

📣 Save the date! Join @copim.bsky.social to explore the future of community-led #OA books at #CopimConference2026 🗓️ 26–27 February 2026 📍 Loughborough University, London (plus online) 📲 More info, including registration details, to follow next month!

I have an op-ed out today in @resprofnews.bsky.social introducing my new book on the commercialisation of open access publishing.

Our #OpenFest25 presentation from last week is now available to watch. Enjoy @kjsanders.bsky.social and I talking about the spirit of experimentation in open research through our work with Radical Librarians Collective, Copim's Experimental Publishing Group, and @openbookcollective.bsky.social.

The session recording from #OpenFest25 which includes our brief intro to the MORPHSS (Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences) project is now available, with our talk beginning at 34.50 in the recording: shu.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

In this morning's #OpenFest2025 session on building diverse networks, we heard how openness is being explored as a mechanism for inclusivity in research. So much to follow-up on! RDA Ambassadors www.rd-alliance.org/groups/rda-a... Global OER Graduate Network go-gn.net MORPHSS morphss.hcommons.org

So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!

If anyone missed our talk at #OpenFest25 but would like to find out more about MORPHSS - our new project to surface & support open research in the arts, humanities & social science, do take a look at our webpages, including planned project deliverables: morphss.hcommons.org/project-deli...

Some kinds of data creation can be massively expensive - open data can improve equity in terms of who can do research. But some kinds of data are easier to share than others- do open data mandates favour STEM over AHSS, where things can be trickier? @drbeth.bsky.social at #OpenFest25

Join us TOMORROW as part of #OpenFest2025 🌐 Towards an equitable, inclusive and bibliodiverse publishing ecosystem 📍 Online via MS Teams ⏰ Weds. 3 September (10.00-11.00am) Book your place 👉 buff.ly/jTIYWPV

Coming up this Thursday, 10-11am UK time. Session details and booking link here: sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

Research environments and publishing environments are often segregated from one another, but you can't have healthier publishing environments without (significantly) healthier research environments. That's why I'm super excited that @morphss.bsky.social is underway!

New open access book out from our MORPHSS project lead @samuelmoore.org: "By deploying theoretical literature on science & technology studies, care ethics, & the commons, the book critically interrogates open access & reimagines a more ethical future for researcher-led publishing." #OA #AHSS

📢 Want to run a research transparency workshop at your home institution? Looking for funding for an open science project? Apply for BITSS Catalyst funding by September 30! cega.submittable.com/submit/33435...

We're looking forward to introducing the MORPHSS project at #OpenFest25 on September 4th, in a session on "Building diverse open research networks & communities." Sign up to hear more about our plans to surface & support open research practices in the humanities & social sciences - details below:

With @morphss.bsky.social we're trying to build a case for openness more as experimentation with different knowledge practices rather than focusing on the end point of sharing stuff transparently. It's about how communities can be open to less-reified ways of working, collaborating, sharing, etc.

Follow the MORPHSS (Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences) project at @morphss.bsky.social for updates on this & other components:

Cool trial of distributed grant application review. We're trying something similar for journal publishing as part of @morphss.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We were going to use Pubpub for @morphss.bsky.social until they announced their $3,500 fee. I completely understand the financial predicament they're in, but pivoting to more professional efforts won't work because it undermines the community-led approaches that gave Pubpub its original value.

New website for the MORPHSS (Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences) project, co-delivered by the universities of Cambridge, @sheffielduni.bsky.social, Coventry, & Southampton:

We are pleased to announce we have a shiny new website with @kcommons.bsky.social and fresh new logo! MORPHSS is ready to roll. Please share. 😊 @theul.bsky.social @camdighum.bsky.social morphss.hcommons.org

Really excited to shortly be joining the MORPHSS project, working with @stephenpinfield.bsky.social , @samuelmoore.org , @mirandab-oa.bsky.social and others to surface & enable open research practices in the humanities & social sciences. Follow the project here: @morphss.bsky.social

Very excited to be joining the MORPHSS Project at Cambridge University in 2 weeks! 😄 I'll be working closely with @samuelmoore.org, investigating ways to encourage and embed innovative open research practices within humanities and social science (HSS) disciplines. www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/morp...