Practice #2 from the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS disciplines: Annotation for Transparent Inquiry.
"ATI is a means of augmenting a publication with annotations that provide additional information about the evidence on which statements in the publication are based..."
Thanks for sharing! I was so disappointed I missed out on the conference because it looked amazing
This panel on experimental publishing futures which I co-chaired with @openreflections.bsky.social is now available to view in its entirety on the Internet Archive. #CopimConference archive.org/details/copi...
because I keep forgetting to mention it: LITERALLY ANYONE can nominate books for this prize! yes! that means you! you have until march 31st!
I am really keen to follow the @morphss.bsky.social project as it progresses. It is really impressive in its approach, and also incredibly refreshing to see/hear its intentionalities around the communities and practices of scholars that spread across a vast array of disciplines.
Same! It’s such impressive (and needed) work
Practice #23 from the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS disciplines: Public scholarship
"Methods for public scholarship include academic blogs, journalistic essays, social media posts, media broadcasts (television and radio), podcasts, and public lectures..."
Just under a week left to apply to the #CollectiveDevelopmentFund 2026. This fund is to support projects building capacity for Open Access Books, including networks and infrastructure. Read and apply in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese. #OpenAccess #OABooks #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOA
Logo for Scottish Research Integrity and Culture Week, featuring a map of Scotland showing all the universities joined up as dots on the map
Scottish #ResearchIntegrity and Culture Week is finally here! 🎉
Check out the full list of events happening throughout Scotland, both in-person and online, here www.sricw.co.uk/programme
The focus is libraries, but I once again recommend @patchedelbows.bsky.social on trauma-informed recruitment "the process of looking and applying for jobs can cause applicants to experience or re-experience trauma"
sites.google.com/view/fairlib...
some resources for cognitive scientists — especially for junior scholars who ask me wonderful questions and want to learn more — on theorising and metatheorising olivia.science/theory/ (not 100% finished & more to come, but all my work is freely available here: olivia.science#publications as usual)
This is what stands out in Richard's thread to me: The problem is looking for & relying on shortcuts to use methods that require expertise. Scientists using stats w/o needing to learn it have been messing it up as we all know. They can now do so with LLMs but they'd have done it either way.
Practice #20 from the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS disciplines: Foregrounding Positionality
"Foregrounding of positionality can take the form of brief acknowledgement of a researcher's positioning or more sustained, holistic and embedded self-examination..."
Inspired by Tidy Tuesday & LGBTQ+ History Month myself and @nrennie.bsky.social are challenging people to produce visualisations using UK census data on LGBTQ+ people.
Share your visualisations and code via GitHub or on here using #VisLGBTQ
github.com/nrennie/rain...
Practice #26 from the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS disciplines: Sharing Creative Practice Outputs
"Online 'portfolios' of practice research are created by combining brief statements or articulations of research alongside audio-visual documentation of the output..."
kindness costs. that's exactly why it's worth something.
Academics write research papers, then give them to publishers for free. They them expect Libraries to buy subscriptions to read the content, to pay article processing charges, to buy access to citation databases and now AI tools? Absolutely not indeed!
The main things that stuck with me from my GCSE history was how people used to do this to their neighbours in Nazi Germany. My history teacher really hammered it home that this is how a fascist state was upheld & I've always remembered it when I see a hotline for reporting people here. Pure evil.
Are you making waves in data research, or do you know someone who is?
Submit a nomination for the CDCS Prizes https://www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/cdcs-prizes #EdCDCS
🌈 rainbowR is next week!
⏳ Registration closes this Sunday at 23:59 UTC.
If you’re planning to join us, now’s the time to sign up 💜
🔗 pretix.eu/rainbowr/con...
#RStats #LGBTQ #QueerInTech #DataScience
I did a conference presentation about a year ago about community-owned infrastructure for library systems, a better alternative to pissing money away paying private companies, and one of the questions afterwards was "But how do you scale that?" My answer was, "You don't."
Interested in hearing more about the work of MORPHSS? We'll be presenting on our first work package, and hosting a discussion panel, at our official catalogue launch in March! Booking link below & please share with your networks. 😊
🧠 Question for the hive mind: now that bot and crawler activity has rendered views and downloads mostly meaningless, is anyone thinking about how best to track and measure actual impact? For data especially, but resources and outputs more broadly. For our own repositories, we've contacted... 1/3
Batool Almarzouq
Batool Almarzouq joined EPCC and the Software Sustainability Institute as a UKRI-funded AI Metascience Fellow in January. As she discusses in this article, her work will explore how AI is shaping disruptive science and influencing scientific norms.
edin.ac/3MKUK4N
Improving research culture will require us to consider some bold ideas, perhaps even a Conference Timekeeping Bear.
What's your big idea for research culture?
📢 Open Research Week 2026, Mon 2 - Fri 6 March 2026.
Registration is now open! A free series of events exploring new, developing & current practices in #OpenResearch.
👉 Register here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/open-researc...
UoL is proud to help lead this national event @liverpooluni.bsky.social 📚📬
“We should be careful not to marginalise questions of power, because in wearing that aura of clean objectivity, metascience risks becoming strangely depoliticised.”
By @batoolmm.bsky.social
Who do I know in LIS who is working on AI slop…? Any pointers well taken, thanks!
The extractive nature of LLMs can be seen in their exploitation of not only open content, but also in their damage to open infrastructures.
UNESCO's model for Open Science, with four quadrants each with icons representing the components. The centre of the circle reads "Open Science". The top quadrant, Open Scientific Knowledge, includes Scientific Publications, Open research data, open educational resources, open source software and source code, and open hardware icons. The right quadrant, Open Science Infrastructures, includes virtual and physical icons. The bottom quadrant, open engagement of societal actors, includes citizen and participatory science, scientific/volunteering, crowdsourcing, and crowdfunding icons. The left quadrant, open dialogue with other knowledge systems, includes local communities, marginalised scholars, and indigenous peoples icons.
There's still time to submit your contribution for the Open Research Conference, 2026 where we will be exploring the new roadmap, and UNESCO's model for OR!
The deadline has been extended to the end of day, 27th of February, learn more here:
library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...
