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Bargain time :)
Shares very welcome and appreciated!
mybook.to/magicmapsand...
🍀 Feeling lucky this March?
The real pot of gold isn’t hidden at the end of a rainbow — it’s in open research and stronger scholarly connections.
When scholars share knowledge openly, discoveries travel farther, collaborations grow, and communities benefit.
That’s the kind of gold we’re after.
InFrame project logo
Really excited to have started a new role on the InFrame project at the University of Edinburgh. InFrame focuses on research culture, collegiality, and diverse leadership, which are all close to my heart ❤️
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
Reddit screenshot from Glasgow thread. Bright flames rising out the side of a Victorian building.
Video screenshot from Reddit. Building is now a shell with flames visible in every window.
The roof has collapsed embers rise into the night sky.
The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out.
I am amazed by the limited news coverage.
The NY Times writes about DOGE and their assault on the NEH...
USING CHATGPT TO DECIDE WHETHER A GRANT WAS DOING WOKE DEI.
Just appalling.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
I’m so sorry that sounds awful 😢 🫂
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