delphdoucet.bsky.social
@delphdoucet.bsky.social
Research and scholarly communications librarian still an intellectual historian, early modern Europe
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Don't forget to register for this upcoming webinar (Wednesday November 5).
Join us on 5 November 2025 at 9–10am UTC for Wayfinders #6.
"Diamond OA communities-of-practice in action" will dispel myths and explore the facets and features of diamond open access: bit.ly/47CAwla
With Femi Arogundade, @jbuggle.bsky.social, @creaght.bsky.social & Malavika Legge.
#OA #OpenAccess
October 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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“When there’s so much misinformation around and distrust about science, it’s more important than ever that we are transparent about how exactly science goes on” - RoRI's @scurry.bsky.social calls on the research sector to end the “publication bias” against negative results: tinyurl.com/ux5xtm4d
October 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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This may be of interest to UK academics preparing Impact Case Studies for REF2029 (especially in History and in Social Work and Social Policy (UoAs 20 and 28). But beware conflating correlation and causation. #Skystorians
How to use Overton to develop impact case studies - Impact of Social Sciences
Despite the lack of clarity surrounding the next round of the REF, university research offices are already collecting evidence and preparing. Tamsin Varney outlines three ways in which the policy cita...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Hello Bluesky! We're Open Press University of Sussex (OPUS), a library-based Diamond Open Access publisher. To celebrate International Open Access Week, we're launching our first social media account to tell you a little bit about us and spotlight some of our books.

www.openaccessweek.org
International Open Access Week
International Open Access Week is held annually to inspire global momentum toward the open sharing of knowledge in order to address important social issues affecting people around the world. Open Acce...
www.openaccessweek.org
October 21, 2025 at 8:13 AM
ericalevi.coventry.domains/games/CCpers...

I'm a CC-BY-SA. That works for me. Like the idea of an OA chain. #OAWeek
Thanks Coventry for the bit of fun.
CCpersonalityQuiz
ericalevi.coventry.domains
October 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Explore with your Research and Scholarly Communications Teams the theme of #OA week. Who owns our knowledge. buff.ly/rJCnMDK
Open Access Week: Who owns our knowledge?
This session aims to engage with the theme of Open Access Week to consider how academic knowledge is currently shared and owned and how authors can disrupt the status quo. From...
librarytalksunderland.libcal.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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New blog post (never a paywall): "The Default Body: AI, biased health data, and the illusion of objectivity." Medicine's idea of a “universal body” was never universal. It was male, and now AI is learning from that legacy. Bias doesn’t disappear in data; it scales. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
October 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It was a very enjoyable discussion. Thanks for being a great co-chair @meganeve.bsky.social. @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social #OpenResearch
Had a really good "coffee break" with the ALN research group today. We are trialling informal reading groups - today was the second focused on RDM. Great conversation and reflections for a Friday afternoon 😎
May 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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If you wouldn't accept "we are at risk of becoming an island of strangers" from Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage you probably shouldn't accept it from Keir Starmer. Don't pretzel yourself trying to explain why it's ok from the guy in the red tie.
May 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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"I have never seen anything like this in nearly 40 years of doing science," says Paul Bierman, a geomorphologist at the University of Vermont. "I think it's an unmitigated disaster."

www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion
Swathes of scientific data deletions are sweeping across US government websites – with decades of research at risk. Now, scientists are racing to save their work before it's lost.
www.bbc.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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📆 It's just over a week until the Universities for North East England Open Research Week begins! Taking place from March 24th-28th, all events are online, and registration is open to everyone.

Read more:
library.northumbria.ac.uk/librarynews/...

#NorthumbriaLibrary #OpenResearchWeek
March 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Please join us and share widely our Universities for North East England Open Research Week. Registrations close on Friday 21st March. Lots of interesting events about #OpenResearch.
March 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM