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Kirsty Wallis (she/her)
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Head of Research Liaison, UCL Office for Open Science & Scholarship. Librarian. PhD Student in DIS at UCL. Neurodivergent. Photographer. Anthropologist. Bullet Journal Enthusiast. Baker. Nerd. www.kirstywallis.com
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Day three of #OAWeek is a busy one for us 🔓

Webinar 👩💻 buff.ly/E8FeEzd

Open Science & Scholarship Awards ceremony 🏆https://buff.ly/dq4eWkX

Plus, the next instalment on our blog from Catherine Sharp, Head of UCL Open Access Services 👉 buff.ly/EiGpUrC

(Photo by Mary Hinckley, UCL Digital Media)
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October 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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It's not too late to register for the UCL #OAWeek Webinar 🔓 buff.ly/E8FeEzd

22 October, 11am - 12:30pm 🗓️
MS Teams📍

Four UCL speakers will consider the question, 'Who Owns Our Knowledge?' through the lens of their various expertise💡

(Graphic from openaccessweek.org, photo by Greg Rakozy)
A graphic divided into two halves, on the left is a starry night sky with the silhouette of a person looking up at it in wonder, and against the backdrop of the sky is a large version of the International Open Access Week logo which looks like an open padlock. On the right is a dark purple background with the text 'International Open Access Week' at the top with the logo, and 'Open Access Week 2025' near the bottom, below which is written 'October 20-26, 2025, #OAWeek'
October 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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lseimpactblog.bsky.social
💥New Post | A practical blueprint for legal and ethical AI research

✍️ @drsbrooke.bsky.social & Nick Oh

#AIResearch #SocialMediaResearch #ResearchEthics
A practical blueprint for legal and ethical AI research - Impact of Social Sciences
To use public data researchers must navigate legal regulations & platform norms. The PETLP framework shows how privacy-by-design can be built in at the outset.
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October 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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ICYMI, UCL's Open Science & Scholarship award winners were announced last week🏆 buff.ly/bIPG9T9

Join us at UCL Bloomsbury Campus to celebrate the winners and hear about their outstanding work in Open Science🔬📔

Wednesday 22 October, 3pm - 4:30pm

Register here 👉 buff.ly/dq4eWkX
October 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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uclopenscience.bsky.social
@ucl.ac.uk Staff and Students - join us for an Open Access Week webinar in which four speakers will consider the question: Who Owns Our Knowledge?

Wednesday 22 October, 11am - 12:30pm 📆

We hope you can make it! 👉 buff.ly/g0vGFc8

(Graphic from Open Access Week website, photo by Greg Rakozy)
October 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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uclopenscience.bsky.social
Happy #OAWeek! ✨

This year's theme is 'Who Owns Our Knowledge?', which we'll be exploring through our blog this week📝

Have a read of today's blog post which discusses the theme and some of our thoughts on it 👉 buff.ly/xUYiSc4

(Image: Lucia Obst (WMDE), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
An illustration on white background in which one hand is reaching up from the bottom left-hand side to another hand reaching down from the top right-hand side holding a pencil as though it is about to hand it over. There are two speech bubbles, one to the left of the hands with a question mark and one to the right with a light-bulb. On the left-hand side of the image are three colourful post-it notes and on the right-hand side are five colouring pencils.
October 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Everyone with the internet has access: it's free to read.
September 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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uclopenscience.bsky.social
Another exciting milestone 📢

UCL Research Data Repository has reached over 1 million downloads 🎉

A fantastic achievement - huge congratulations to the staff and research students who have published and shared their research outputs. The repository team are very proud! 👏
A screenshot from the UCL Research Data Repository which has the UCL logo in the centre near the top, under which is written 'Discover research from University College London'. At the bottom of the image, it is written '1,186,758 views' on the left hand side, '1,132,035 downloads' in the centre, and 'more stats' on the right hand side.
September 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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New blog post ✨

Ever wondered about platforms available for Citizen Science projects? Wonder no more.

Our latest blog post explores several platforms and spotlights one in particular - iNaturalist - with reflections from Professor Muki Haklay
@mhaklay.bsky.social

Have a read 👉 buff.ly/ycjW0TT
From Observation to Impact: Exploring Citizen Science Platforms | UCL Open@UCL Blog
UCL Homepage
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August 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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lizstokoe.bsky.social
Come and work with brilliant @lselibrary.bsky.social colleagues @rosiehigman.bsky.social @helskrw.bsky.social @niamhtumelty.bsky.social and me (in my #impact role) as our Wikimedian in Residence and Research Visibility Champion!

Closing 17th Aug 2025

#OpenResearch

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
July 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My cartoon for this week’s Books pages in @theguardian.com
Image: A small, pretty English village. A girl with a bag on her shoulder runs towards a van on the other side of the village green. She says to herself "I've got to follow my heart and leave this sleepy village behind. A new life awaits on the open road, touring from town to town in a merry band of brilliant eccentrics!" Title: “Rebecca runs away to join the travelling library”
July 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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carorowland.bsky.social
A more accurate headline would be "... but find it difficult to get them published". I try to publish every null result that I am sure is robust (e.g., not due to me making a stupid mistake in the method) and it is always harder than with positive results.
July 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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uclopenscience.bsky.social
A few months ago, UCL hosted its first ever Replication Games📝

💡Three teams working together to reproduce the results of a published paper in one day - how hard could it be?

Read on to find out how it went 👉 buff.ly/OpHgiTk

#Reproducibility #OpenScience #ResearchData
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July 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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@constntdreamer.bsky.social she has arrived!!! Welcome to Bluesky my friend!! 💜💜💜
July 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Happy 16th Wedding Anniversary to my partner in crime and greatest support @archwubs.bsky.social - thanks for putting up with me! Pics of then and now, time flies!
A couple at a wedding The same couple 16 years on.
July 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Couldn’t resist this really weird Kandinsky inspired double serving moka pot when I saw it while ordering my usual coffee beans! Look at it!!
A box branded from bialetti. The box shows a blue coffee pot with two spouts.
June 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Don't forget to submit your presentation idea for #UKSG2026 in Glasgow! dub.sh/lGMfvyz
UKSG Conference and Exhibition 2026 30 March-1 April Scottish Events Centre
June 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
kirstywallis.com
So this past week or so I have been experimenting with body doubling and co-working while working from home. How you say? Using Twitch. It might not be for everyone but it is actually helping me focus and get stuff done. Recommended for my @nlisn.bsky.social friends especially.
June 23, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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🏆 Applications and nominations are open for the UCL Open Science & Scholarship Awards! 🏆
Celebrating exceptional areas of Open Science practice across the university, all UCL students, PhD candidates and staff can apply buff.ly/CbTEhoS
You have until 22 August - spread the word and get applying!
June 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Those journal articles, ebooks, bits of data you found? The uni library paid hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions for all that, depending on size of uni. Then we hooked it all up mostly seamlessly so you didn't notice.
kariebookish.bsky.social Karie Bookish @kariebookish.bsky.social · Jun 17
What's common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

No, I do not hand-knit to-order (but if I did, you wouldn't be able to afford it) but I can teach you how to knit that garment (but I expect to be paid).
jlphistory.bsky.social Joanna L. Pearce, Ph.D. @jlphistory.bsky.social · Jun 17
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Unless you seek it out, most professors don't learn how to teach. It's not part of the job requirements. The idea is that you're an expert in your field and that's Enough.
June 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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It’s too hot.

That is all.🔥🥵
June 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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If you're involved in your unit's or university's REF2029 submission, you'll be interested in Contributions to Knowledge and Understanding (CKU) policy guidance, released today: 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/cku-cop...
New REF 2029 policy on Contributions to Knowledge and Understanding released with full Code of Practice guidance  – REF 2029
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June 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Surprising number of slogans that are cropping up at the UKRI data policy meeting.
So far - "DMPs now!!!" and "Comply or Explain!!!"
June 12, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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In Birmingham today for a UKRI workshop about their in-development research data policy. I know that @rosiehigman.bsky.social is going to be here, and I have spotted a @hughshanahan.bsky.social across breakfast… the coffee is good, let’s go!
June 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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📚 Reminder: UCL Library Services Research Data Drop-in on 18 June, 2–4 PM. Get expert advice. 🔗 buff.ly/G6NjbqB #UCL #ARC
June 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM