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London Open Science & Scholarship Festival spotlight ✨
'Wikimedia and Open Science: What, Where and How?', led by 2025 Wikimedian of the year Joanna Baines will be an ideal intro to all things Wikimedia 👩💻
🗓️ 20.04, 10-11:30am
📍Online
Register: buff.ly/Q9RqS5p
#LDNOpenFest26 @ucllccos.bsky.social
📣 London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026
Don't miss David Luke, editor of How Africa Trades and How Africa Eats, discussing open access publishing in practice, chaired by Philippa Grand.
📅 20–24 April 2026
🔗 https://bit.ly/4rSLLxA
#LDNOpenFest26 @uclopenscience.bsky.social
February issue of our Scholarly Communications Newsletter is out! Lots to read and catch up again incl. #MORPHSS catalogue, #UKrepo report, recent #AI guidelines, PRC model and more. mailchi.mp/f0f2902feb46...
Have you supported research projects at UCL before?📝
Join this informal workshop to explore ways you’ve contributed to research and how researchers can better acknowledge your input in future.
As a thank you, we’re offering a £50 Love2Shop voucher.
🗓️ 23 March, 2-4pm
Register: buff.ly/I2fBTeQ
Poster titled “What’s so Special about UCL Special Collections?” scheduled 10-11:30am, Tuesday 24 March at Culture Lab, UCL East. Below the yellow title banner, a photo shows a young woman wearing a headscarf examining an open rare book on a foam support while others chat or browse exhibits in the background.
What’s so Special about UCL Special Collections? is back at UCL East! Join us on 24 Mar to explore a selection of rare books and archives, meet members of our team, and discover the stories behind these fascinating materials at this relaxed, free event.
Book now on tinyurl.com/uclopenmorning.
📢 Bookings are now open for the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026!
The festival features a week of insightful and applicable sessions on topics including gender and ethics in open research, open science careers, and open education resources.
➡️ Find out more: https://bit.ly/4rSLLxA
A screenshot of the HERJ deputy editor call for expressions of interest, spread over two pages and listing the duties and responsibilities, person specification, criteria and how to apply.
📢 @histedresearch.bsky.social is seeking Deputy Editors! 📢
History Education Research Journal (HERJ) is looking for active researchers to help shape open access history education scholarship and strengthen global debate.
More info: journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/news/153/ @uclpressjournals.bsky.social
What a fantastic example of the possibilities with OA datasets 👏 we definitely want to have a go at building a Georgian feast🍗
Very exciting to see the full rogramme of the London #OpenScience & Scholarship Festival 2026! #LDNOpenFest26 Led by fantastic team of @uclopenscience.bsky.social Booking is now open. Check the sessions out and note that Tue. 21 April is in-person at the @fci-library.bsky.social 🎊
VERY excited for this event as part of the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026 (online, April 20th).
We don’t talk enough about the patriarchal ideologies embedded in many dominant applications of “open science “
I'll be speaking in a panel with @eve.gd and @alittleroad.bsky.social on #OA books at the London Open Science & Scholarship festival in April. The event is online and can be booked now, see blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...
We're also really looking forward to this one - such an important conversation
#LDNOpenFest26 #OpenScience #OpenResearch #LondonLibraries #LondonUniversities
@uclpress.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social @lsepress.bsky.social @fci-library.bsky.social @uolpress.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm-laors.bsky.social @kclopenresearch.bsky.social @royalvetcollege.bsky.social @uwpress.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social
We are very excited to share the full programme for the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026 and announce that bookings are officially open! ✨
Find all the details on the Open@UCL blog 👉 buff.ly/S7yECkO
Brilliant piece on the Open@UCL blog today, written by @nazlinbhimani.bsky.social
Nazlin unpacks how grey literature, research produced outside of traditional academic publishing, is vital for open science and contributes to decolonising research.
Read now 👉
UCL undergraduates 🔉
Take a look at this summer school module if you want to deepen your understanding of open science & scholarship and reproducibility practices - it looks great ✨
This is fantastic! 👏
Librarians can be key research partners who help to scour the literature, manage data and make science open
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@leedsunilibraries.bsky.social
The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social is the oldest learned society dedicated to the science of natural history 🕷️🦋
And they have a comprehensive list of Open Access resources on their website 👀
Have a browse 👉 buff.ly/MBemvXe
📣Coming up on 19th March at 3pm - online
Join us for the launch of the MORPHSS Report and Catalogue of open research practices in the arts, humanities & social sciences.
The launch presentation will be followed by a panel discussion on openness in AHSS, chaired by @samuelmoore.org.
All welcome!
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AI in research and education raises many questions around copyright.
UCL student or staff, register for ‘Copyright considerations in the use of GenAI’ to hear updates from external speaker Ben White. buff.ly/sUewDrF
🗓️ 4 March, 9:30am - 12pm
📍 IoE Library
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Did you catch Professor Ilan Kelman's episode of UCL Press Play, 'No Natural Disasters'?
Watch the video below to hear Professor Kelman talk more about his episode, and how 'natural disaster' is a misexpressive phrase.
Catch up with his episode now: lnkd.in/eYWz7NVf
Come to Bloomsbury Theatre to celebrate 200 years of UCL Chemistry! This immersive event will feature talks, short films, and the re-creation of Victorian-era experiments @uclchemistry.bsky.social. Tickets: www.bloomsburytheatre.com/event/2026/0...
📢 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 📚📬
That’s a wrap for Love Data Week 2026! 💕
Christiana McMahon from the Research Data Management team has summarised the week in a final blog post, and there's a final treat - a wordsearch 🔍
See if you can find all the teams that help staff and students on their data journeys 👀 buff.ly/8VKvh6T
💕 February 9 – 13 2026 is International Love Data Week #LoveData26, but PKP celebrates #DataSharing all year round.
Considering the theme “Where’s the Data” in this post, the answer at PKP is clear — the data is everywhere and #interoperability is how we help it flow:
pkp.sfu.ca/2026/02/12/l...
It’s day 4 of Love Data Week 💕
Confused about copyright or how to licence your research data? Don’t worry, today’s blog post by @christined.bsky.social from UCL Library Services Copyright team guides you through the essentials💡
Have a read 👉 buff.ly/N85GTdk
#LoveData26 #UCL #Copyright #Data
📚 Two centuries of student life reveal a dynamic, changing London.
To mark UCL’s 200th anniversary, Student London: A New History of Higher Education in the Capital is out today- free to read and download: bit.ly/3NcnXpi
#StudentLondon #LondonHistory #HigherEducation #OpenAccess
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