So cool to see these young people recognized as the “children as researchers delegation” at this week’s #ECSA2026 meeting. Good luck with your research!
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So cool to see these young people recognized as the “children as researchers delegation” at this week’s #ECSA2026 meeting. Good luck with your research!
If you're researching queer history in England, farm records might be one of the last places you'd check.
Yet for #LGBTQHistoryMonth, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares how he's tracing queer histories within our farm archives, and gives tips for future research.
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Looking forward to reading more work in this vein at next month's D&S workshop on AI-enabled science 🦾
This profile makes me proud to have been a folk and myth concentrator, twenty-plus years later.
In the MORPHSS report **Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM**, we explore the narrow focus of existing frameworks of open research & propose more inclusive ways of accommodating the diversity of open practice across all disciplines.
Very excited to help bring this event to fruition over the next two years, as ARL carries forward a commitment to the production of new knowledge that goes back to legacy offerings like our SPEC Kits and Research Library Issues publication. publications.arl.org
ICYMI Allen Institute For #AI (Ai2) Announces Launch of Theorizer ("Turning Thousands Of Papers Into Scientific Laws") allenai.org/blog/theorizer @ai2.bsky.social
Love how this new piece from @ubcokanagan.bsky.social's CE2 Lab brings #OpenScience to reflexive #ResearchCreation: "This protocol is offered as a (re)generative qualitative framework, open to iteration, variation, and adaptation."
www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fq...
See our most recent resource on how repositories can mitigate the impact of AI bots. Spoiler alert, there is no silver bullet if you want to keep your repository open!!! coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
Anyone here know of studies of think tanks & research institutes, & their publications? I’m particularly interested in finding those that sponsor open-access journals but will take anything that discusses their publishing strategies.
Upcoming UKSG Webinar (Feb. 5, 2026): The Open Access – #AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train? www.uksg.org/events/free-... #LLMs #oa #trainingdata #scholcomm #publishing @uksg.bsky.social
On what would have been my dad's 83rd birthday, I'm starting a trial subscription to @theglobeandmail.com.
He would probably have preferred a French-language outlet, but it's part of my 2026 goal to deepen engagement with @arl.org's Canadian members and their national context.
My last piece of writing for 2025. "If the constant challenge of staying in sync leads researchers to fixate on its accomplishment, then libraries can offer paths back to the wonder of discovery."
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@faineg.bsky.social My diss, in case it’s of interest: repository.rice.edu/items/e08f59...
I was already feeling like this in 2018! I’m not following the space anymore, but interesting to hear that that’s still true.
this, from @kevinbaker.bsky.social, is a better analysis of the intersection between LLMs and academic science than 98% of what's out there.
With downward pressure on indirect costs at research institutions, some libraries are taking a closer look at direct charging to grant budgets for specialized services.
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When we talk about how changes in the U.S. federal funding landscape will affect the future of scholarship, this has just become my Exhibit A.
💥New: The case for preserving scholarly
✍️ @pampel.bsky.social & @catharinaochsner.bsky.social
#AcWri #ScholComm #OpenResearch
📢 Excited to share that COS has been awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to develop a community-driven strategic plan for ensuring long-term preservation, accessibility, and usability of federally-funded scientific data.
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Finding that a study can't be reproduced is just the beginning of exploring the "variable space" that might explain why.
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An article I'm thinking with about how research libraries can support engaged scholarship and societal impact: what would it mean to lean into place, rather than a research ecosystem that's implicitly elsewhere and everywhere?
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I loved this piece on the organizational infrastructure of Sacred Harp singings. Did it all seem natural, effervescent? Systems and collective labor did that.
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Here's the latest installment of my newsletter for @arl.org, which aims to provide library leaders with intelligence and insight on the research environment. You can also subscribe if you'd like future issues to show up in your inbox.
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Filling my cup today with Jan Morris's remembrance of Trieste, where I stopped off en route to Ljubljana twenty years ago this month 🧳
The latest post in our #ARLRepertoires series by @marcellaflamme.bsky.social looks to Clay Spinuzzi’s book Triangles and Tribulations for insight on why social scientists continue to look to theory in an age of data-intensive scholarship. bit.ly/RepTheory
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Very cool, I hadn't seen this! I'm thinking specifically about checks that happen prior to peer review (i.e., do we want this on our preprint server?), although in practice it may be hard to draw a bright line between those checks and review itself.
Do we need a server/publisher-agnostic taxonomy of these checks, so that authors and readers can see at a glance which services do what (and, potentially, how well)?
I can see research libraries having a stake in this: we're talking trust indicators at the @arl.org Fall Meeting the week after next.
Glimmer of insight: is one reason departments resist research assessment reform because faculty governance and researcher autonomy are being eroded on so many other fronts?
