Dr Beth
@drbeth.bsky.social
The librarian formerly known (on twitter) as @Phdgeek. Into nerdy stuff, open research, EDI campaigning, powerlifting and climbing. 🏳️🌈
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Dr Beth
@drbeth.bsky.social
· Nov 19
So I did a bit of a search around and these are the past and present Francis Crick Institute folks that I could find.
I can't guarantee they're talking about science, but if they are, you know it's going to be cool science 😉
FYI - @thecrick.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/2tMmrSY
I can't guarantee they're talking about science, but if they are, you know it's going to be cool science 😉
FYI - @thecrick.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/2tMmrSY
Hurrah! My paper on the development of UK University RDM policies over time is now live.
I realise it's a bit of a niche interest, but if RDM and open science is your bag, do take a look.
liberquarterly.eu/article/view...
I realise it's a bit of a niche interest, but if RDM and open science is your bag, do take a look.
liberquarterly.eu/article/view...
Do data management policies become more open over time?
| LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries
liberquarterly.eu
February 10, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Hurrah! My paper on the development of UK University RDM policies over time is now live.
I realise it's a bit of a niche interest, but if RDM and open science is your bag, do take a look.
liberquarterly.eu/article/view...
I realise it's a bit of a niche interest, but if RDM and open science is your bag, do take a look.
liberquarterly.eu/article/view...
First vendor trying to get time with me at #UKSG2026 - I'm sorry but if you can find my name, but not bother to research me enough to get the title right, you go on the naughty list.
February 10, 2026 at 9:03 AM
First vendor trying to get time with me at #UKSG2026 - I'm sorry but if you can find my name, but not bother to research me enough to get the title right, you go on the naughty list.
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Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.
February 7, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.
Congratulations to Sociology.
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
February 7, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Congratulations to Sociology.
Off to my great aunt's funeral today - she was 104, it's not a sad day, nice opportumity to celbrate a life instead.
Spent the morning on a pilgrimage to find the road they named after my great uncle for being a brilliant GP ❤️
Spent the morning on a pilgrimage to find the road they named after my great uncle for being a brilliant GP ❤️
February 6, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Off to my great aunt's funeral today - she was 104, it's not a sad day, nice opportumity to celbrate a life instead.
Spent the morning on a pilgrimage to find the road they named after my great uncle for being a brilliant GP ❤️
Spent the morning on a pilgrimage to find the road they named after my great uncle for being a brilliant GP ❤️
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"Writing papers is rarely (probably never) the rate-limiting step in scientific research"
Important to remember this. However painful writing is, however much more efficient we can make it, for experimental work it's the research that takes the time.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Important to remember this. However painful writing is, however much more efficient we can make it, for experimental work it's the research that takes the time.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗺—𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗧𝗲𝗫 𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀.
But this isn't about LaTeX. And it's not about training data.
They could get… | Adam Hyde | 25 comments
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗺—𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗧𝗲𝗫 𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀.
But this isn't about LaTeX. And it's not about training data.
They could get papers from arXiv or partner with Overleaf for that.
So w...
www.linkedin.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:55 PM
"Writing papers is rarely (probably never) the rate-limiting step in scientific research"
Important to remember this. However painful writing is, however much more efficient we can make it, for experimental work it's the research that takes the time.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Important to remember this. However painful writing is, however much more efficient we can make it, for experimental work it's the research that takes the time.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Big problem for me with Open Alex is it doesn't contain datasets which don't have DOIs e.g. NIH databases 😭
Going to be putting something together (at their urging) to show the need for them to ingest the massive sequence etc. databases.
Going to be putting something together (at their urging) to show the need for them to ingest the massive sequence etc. databases.
February 4, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Big problem for me with Open Alex is it doesn't contain datasets which don't have DOIs e.g. NIH databases 😭
Going to be putting something together (at their urging) to show the need for them to ingest the massive sequence etc. databases.
Going to be putting something together (at their urging) to show the need for them to ingest the massive sequence etc. databases.
Currently running through all the Crick known article DOIs through Open Alex using it's API. Interestingly it looks like while it has almost all our papers, lots aren't labeled as Crick.
Getting serious flashbacks to my PhD with it's 1000s of API calls though.
Getting serious flashbacks to my PhD with it's 1000s of API calls though.
February 4, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Currently running through all the Crick known article DOIs through Open Alex using it's API. Interestingly it looks like while it has almost all our papers, lots aren't labeled as Crick.
Getting serious flashbacks to my PhD with it's 1000s of API calls though.
Getting serious flashbacks to my PhD with it's 1000s of API calls though.
Excited about this. We're busy putting together and in person day at the Crick on the 21st April so block out the day in your diary now!
#LNDOpenFest26
#LNDOpenFest26
Announcing the dates for this year's London Open Science & Scholarship Festival! 🎉
Monday 20 - Friday 24 April 2026 🗓️
Find the full list of 13 partners and more details on the latest Open@UCL blog post buff.ly/eSmjBWJ
And make sure to keep following for updates!
#LDNOpenFest26 #OpenScience
Monday 20 - Friday 24 April 2026 🗓️
Find the full list of 13 partners and more details on the latest Open@UCL blog post buff.ly/eSmjBWJ
And make sure to keep following for updates!
#LDNOpenFest26 #OpenScience
February 3, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Excited about this. We're busy putting together and in person day at the Crick on the 21st April so block out the day in your diary now!
#LNDOpenFest26
#LNDOpenFest26
And we're back to this. #pubmed #NIHFundingLapse
February 3, 2026 at 9:23 AM
And we're back to this. #pubmed #NIHFundingLapse
The one story I remember him telling over and over again about his grandfather (?) selling two pairs of pants with a jacket as a New York tailor is in the emails.
I always thought it was a rather good idea, but that is now very ruined.
I always thought it was a rather good idea, but that is now very ruined.
February 2, 2026 at 6:36 PM
The one story I remember him telling over and over again about his grandfather (?) selling two pairs of pants with a jacket as a New York tailor is in the emails.
I always thought it was a rather good idea, but that is now very ruined.
I always thought it was a rather good idea, but that is now very ruined.
Bob Trivers was in my department at Rutgers. Of all the academics I have know, I am least surprised to find out he is in the files.
Lots of correspondence between Robert Trivers and Jeffrey Epstein mentioning money and a predatory view of women 🤮https://www.justice.gov/epstein
February 2, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Bob Trivers was in my department at Rutgers. Of all the academics I have know, I am least surprised to find out he is in the files.
I feel this way about the use of X as the main communications route for lots of companies.
Transport are particularly bad for this - train going to be cancelled? Find out on X. Lost your bag? Contact us on X.
You shouldn't have to sign up to a digital platform to engage with the physical world.
Transport are particularly bad for this - train going to be cancelled? Find out on X. Lost your bag? Contact us on X.
You shouldn't have to sign up to a digital platform to engage with the physical world.
I hate Facebook for many reasons, one of the smallest being how it shuts non- account holders out of local info
My parents are cut off from so much info in their village because everyone puts events, news, council admin on Facebook.
Social media shouldn’t be public infrastructure
My parents are cut off from so much info in their village because everyone puts events, news, council admin on Facebook.
Social media shouldn’t be public infrastructure
February 2, 2026 at 2:51 PM
I feel this way about the use of X as the main communications route for lots of companies.
Transport are particularly bad for this - train going to be cancelled? Find out on X. Lost your bag? Contact us on X.
You shouldn't have to sign up to a digital platform to engage with the physical world.
Transport are particularly bad for this - train going to be cancelled? Find out on X. Lost your bag? Contact us on X.
You shouldn't have to sign up to a digital platform to engage with the physical world.
Reposted by Dr Beth
Sometimes a few words you've already heard a hundred times make you cry for the very first time, and I don't presume to know what greatness is but that's gotta be pretty close
February 2, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Sometimes a few words you've already heard a hundred times make you cry for the very first time, and I don't presume to know what greatness is but that's gotta be pretty close
I really wanted to go this year what with it being in Sheffield, but it overlaps with UKSG. The Research/Teaching librarianship divide rears it's head again!
February 2, 2026 at 1:27 PM
I really wanted to go this year what with it being in Sheffield, but it overlaps with UKSG. The Research/Teaching librarianship divide rears it's head again!
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I am really disappointed that the new version of EThOS at the British Library (the service for getting PhD theses) will be metadata-only. I really think we should use such resources, even if they are not books. They are still contributions to knowledge.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/give-ph...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/give-ph...
‘Give PhD archive attention it deserves,’ British Library urged
Scholars criticise lack of progress on restoring repository of 600,000 PhD theses more than two years after it was felled by cyberattack
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 31, 2026 at 9:53 AM
I am really disappointed that the new version of EThOS at the British Library (the service for getting PhD theses) will be metadata-only. I really think we should use such resources, even if they are not books. They are still contributions to knowledge.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/give-ph...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/give-ph...
Looks great! I'll be buying it for the Crick library - every year I struggle to find books within the collections policy for LGBTQ History & Pride months. So, excited about this!
January 31, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Looks great! I'll be buying it for the Crick library - every year I struggle to find books within the collections policy for LGBTQ History & Pride months. So, excited about this!
9 months into trying to get a project agreed I suddenly remember why I just used to ignore all the forms and processes and just do it anyway 😭
Aren't project management processes meant to help you get the project done?
Aren't project management processes meant to help you get the project done?
January 30, 2026 at 12:02 PM
9 months into trying to get a project agreed I suddenly remember why I just used to ignore all the forms and processes and just do it anyway 😭
Aren't project management processes meant to help you get the project done?
Aren't project management processes meant to help you get the project done?
Reposted by Dr Beth
All this talk of the supposed benefits of AI for drug research, writing, art, music, and more. But with reports suggesting $1.5 trillion or more of investment in AI in the coming years, imagine directly investing a trillion dollars in medical research, writers, artists and musicians.
January 22, 2026 at 2:44 AM
All this talk of the supposed benefits of AI for drug research, writing, art, music, and more. But with reports suggesting $1.5 trillion or more of investment in AI in the coming years, imagine directly investing a trillion dollars in medical research, writers, artists and musicians.
Ours is snow! ❄️ Quite a shock when I looked out the window.
January 30, 2026 at 7:05 AM
Ours is snow! ❄️ Quite a shock when I looked out the window.
We've got a sign by our backdoor saying "Use the front door" 😂
January 29, 2026 at 10:56 AM
We've got a sign by our backdoor saying "Use the front door" 😂
I cause chaos in Sheffield because I refuse to use the backdoor (we're both from the South). We spent a lot of money on a beautiful front door, and my friends aren't tradesmen or servants in the 19th century. Use the front door.
January 29, 2026 at 10:53 AM
I cause chaos in Sheffield because I refuse to use the backdoor (we're both from the South). We spent a lot of money on a beautiful front door, and my friends aren't tradesmen or servants in the 19th century. Use the front door.
It's the way to get an enormous amount done, but it's also a good way to crash and burn.
Equally, I am on the fence!
Equally, I am on the fence!
January 29, 2026 at 10:29 AM
It's the way to get an enormous amount done, but it's also a good way to crash and burn.
Equally, I am on the fence!
Equally, I am on the fence!
Brilliant opportunities to make serious change are appearing the week. Which is great, but is the amount of work actually feasible?
I am who I am though, so I won't be saying no even if it isn't 😂 We'll make it happen.
I am who I am though, so I won't be saying no even if it isn't 😂 We'll make it happen.
January 29, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Brilliant opportunities to make serious change are appearing the week. Which is great, but is the amount of work actually feasible?
I am who I am though, so I won't be saying no even if it isn't 😂 We'll make it happen.
I am who I am though, so I won't be saying no even if it isn't 😂 We'll make it happen.
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After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?
January 28, 2026 at 7:29 PM
After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?