Samuel Moore
@samuelmoore.org
Researcher at Cambridge University Library / Cambridge Digital Humanities
PI: @morphss.bsky.social
New book: Publishing Beyond the Market https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market
https://www.samuelmoore.org
PI: @morphss.bsky.social
New book: Publishing Beyond the Market https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market
https://www.samuelmoore.org
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Samuel Moore
@samuelmoore.org
· Sep 1
You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)
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another thing about AI-enabled research is that academics in secure jobs will say this is economic exigency: "funding for humanities research is drying up so I might as well use this instead"
the earlier research on which we established our careers was supported by paid grad students
the earlier research on which we established our careers was supported by paid grad students
February 9, 2026 at 6:34 PM
another thing about AI-enabled research is that academics in secure jobs will say this is economic exigency: "funding for humanities research is drying up so I might as well use this instead"
the earlier research on which we established our careers was supported by paid grad students
the earlier research on which we established our careers was supported by paid grad students
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Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM (A MORPHSS Project Report)
works.hcommons.org/records/h10r...
works.hcommons.org/records/h10r...
Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM (A MORPHSS Project Report)
Conceptual frameworks of 'Open Science' and their implementation by funders, journals, institutions and other organisations have been criticised on the grounds that they are tailored primarily to quan...
works.hcommons.org
February 9, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM (A MORPHSS Project Report)
works.hcommons.org/records/h10r...
works.hcommons.org/records/h10r...
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Our first report is out! Read on to find out why open research practices in AHSS are diverse and extend beyond the suite of practices emphasised within dominant accounts of open science.
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.
Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM (A MORPHSS Project Report)
Conceptual frameworks of 'Open Science' and their implementation by funders, journals, institutions and other organisations have been criticised on the grounds that they are tailored primarily to quan...
doi.org
February 9, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Our first report is out! Read on to find out why open research practices in AHSS are diverse and extend beyond the suite of practices emphasised within dominant accounts of open science.
Reposted by Samuel Moore
Our team in the MORPHSS Project are proud to share our first set of deliverables! We've produced a new catalogue resource for open research in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences:
NEW resource for open research in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences:
The MORPHSS catalogue documents 30 open research practices in AHSS disciplines, with detailed descriptions, examples, and suggested resources and further reading.
catalogue.morphss.work
The MORPHSS catalogue documents 30 open research practices in AHSS disciplines, with detailed descriptions, examples, and suggested resources and further reading.
catalogue.morphss.work
February 9, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Our team in the MORPHSS Project are proud to share our first set of deliverables! We've produced a new catalogue resource for open research in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences:
Our first report is out! Read on to find out why open research practices in AHSS are diverse and extend beyond the suite of practices emphasised within dominant accounts of open science.
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.
Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM (A MORPHSS Project Report)
Conceptual frameworks of 'Open Science' and their implementation by funders, journals, institutions and other organisations have been criticised on the grounds that they are tailored primarily to quan...
doi.org
February 9, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Our first report is out! Read on to find out why open research practices in AHSS are diverse and extend beyond the suite of practices emphasised within dominant accounts of open science.
Touching tribute to Paul Ayris. The UK open research community owes him a great debt.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
Paul Ayris obituary
Other lives: Library leader at UCL committed to the movement for open science
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Touching tribute to Paul Ayris. The UK open research community owes him a great debt.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
'Large Language Models and the Returns of Critical Theory'. @camdighum.bsky.social Distinguished Lecture 2026 by @whkchun.bsky.social on Wednesday 11 March.
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/d...
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/d...
Professor Wendy Hui Kyong Chun will deliver CDH Distinguished Lecture 2026 - CDH
We are thrilled to announce that Professor Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication and Director of the Digital Democracies...
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk
February 8, 2026 at 5:09 PM
'Large Language Models and the Returns of Critical Theory'. @camdighum.bsky.social Distinguished Lecture 2026 by @whkchun.bsky.social on Wednesday 11 March.
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/d...
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/d...
Lab-grown beef sounds like two scientists with a grudge against one another.
February 7, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Lab-grown beef sounds like two scientists with a grudge against one another.
Sad news but honestly a good innings for an APC-free, community-led open access journal.
February 7, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Sad news but honestly a good innings for an APC-free, community-led open access journal.
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Irrespective of whether there is a crisis, it doesn't make sense that open research has been so oriented around the goal of reproducibility when this goal isn't relevant to all research.
@morphss.bsky.social will be releasing a report next week on how STEM cultures impact open research in AHSS.
@morphss.bsky.social will be releasing a report next week on how STEM cultures impact open research in AHSS.
Is science really suffering from a reproducibility crisis?
Experts divided over severity of replication problems, as AI “monster” creates different threat.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
Experts divided over severity of replication problems, as AI “monster” creates different threat.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
Is science really suffering from a reproducibility crisis? - Research Professional News
Experts divided over severity of replication problems, as AI “monster” creates different threat
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Irrespective of whether there is a crisis, it doesn't make sense that open research has been so oriented around the goal of reproducibility when this goal isn't relevant to all research.
@morphss.bsky.social will be releasing a report next week on how STEM cultures impact open research in AHSS.
@morphss.bsky.social will be releasing a report next week on how STEM cultures impact open research in AHSS.
Irrespective of whether there is a crisis, it doesn't make sense that open research has been so oriented around the goal of reproducibility when this goal isn't relevant to all research.
@morphss.bsky.social will be releasing a report next week on how STEM cultures impact open research in AHSS.
@morphss.bsky.social will be releasing a report next week on how STEM cultures impact open research in AHSS.
Is science really suffering from a reproducibility crisis?
Experts divided over severity of replication problems, as AI “monster” creates different threat.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
Experts divided over severity of replication problems, as AI “monster” creates different threat.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
Is science really suffering from a reproducibility crisis? - Research Professional News
Experts divided over severity of replication problems, as AI “monster” creates different threat
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Irrespective of whether there is a crisis, it doesn't make sense that open research has been so oriented around the goal of reproducibility when this goal isn't relevant to all research.
@morphss.bsky.social will be releasing a report next week on how STEM cultures impact open research in AHSS.
@morphss.bsky.social will be releasing a report next week on how STEM cultures impact open research in AHSS.
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💥New | University journal publishers – global, messy and underestimated
✍️ Maryna Nazarovets @mikaellaakso.bsky.social & @zehrataskin.bsky.social
#AcademicPublishing #UniversityPresses #AcademicSky
✍️ Maryna Nazarovets @mikaellaakso.bsky.social & @zehrataskin.bsky.social
#AcademicPublishing #UniversityPresses #AcademicSky
University journal publishers – global, messy and underestimated - LSE Impact
Despite being systematically underestimated university presses are a widespread and structurally significant part of the journal publishing landscape.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
February 5, 2026 at 11:10 AM
💥New | University journal publishers – global, messy and underestimated
✍️ Maryna Nazarovets @mikaellaakso.bsky.social & @zehrataskin.bsky.social
#AcademicPublishing #UniversityPresses #AcademicSky
✍️ Maryna Nazarovets @mikaellaakso.bsky.social & @zehrataskin.bsky.social
#AcademicPublishing #UniversityPresses #AcademicSky
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You sell citations to real authors and you have nothing to pay to the publisher or to fake authors for "writing" the paper. Maybe you have to pay a #reviewmill if you don't operate yourself. Perfect business model #citationcartles #researchintegrity
Piece on how citation cartels are writing junk review articles with huge reference lists to boost citations. They're 'authored' by fake researchers from low-income countries so they can get an APC waiver, although it's not clear why publishers are being duped by so many of these articles.
Citation cartels use fake author names to target chemistry journals
Dubious entities masquerade as researchers in war zones or low-income countries to obtain journal fee waivers
cen.acs.org
February 5, 2026 at 5:40 PM
You sell citations to real authors and you have nothing to pay to the publisher or to fake authors for "writing" the paper. Maybe you have to pay a #reviewmill if you don't operate yourself. Perfect business model #citationcartles #researchintegrity
Piece on how citation cartels are writing junk review articles with huge reference lists to boost citations. They're 'authored' by fake researchers from low-income countries so they can get an APC waiver, although it's not clear why publishers are being duped by so many of these articles.
Citation cartels use fake author names to target chemistry journals
Dubious entities masquerade as researchers in war zones or low-income countries to obtain journal fee waivers
cen.acs.org
February 5, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Piece on how citation cartels are writing junk review articles with huge reference lists to boost citations. They're 'authored' by fake researchers from low-income countries so they can get an APC waiver, although it's not clear why publishers are being duped by so many of these articles.
Reposted by Samuel Moore
The Universities Superannuation Scheme was set up in 1974 to provide pensions for academic and senior administrative staff in the university sector, but high-profile losses have put a spotlight on its push into private markets ft.trib.al/eDUDyRm
February 5, 2026 at 3:01 PM
The Universities Superannuation Scheme was set up in 1974 to provide pensions for academic and senior administrative staff in the university sector, but high-profile losses have put a spotlight on its push into private markets ft.trib.al/eDUDyRm
"From between millstones, loaves of bread. Digital Humanities and the awkward privilege of bridging epistemicidal trends"
Prof. Jennifer Edmond speaking at @camdighum.bsky.social next week.
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41169/
Prof. Jennifer Edmond speaking at @camdighum.bsky.social next week.
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41169/
From between millstones, loaves of bread. Digital Humanities and the awkward privilege of bridging epistemicidal trends. - CDH
Speaker Jennifer Edmond, Professor in Digital Humanities at Trinity College Dublin Jennifer Edmond is Professor in Digital Humanities at Trinity College Dublin. She has been the PI or co-PI of 10+ lar...
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk
February 5, 2026 at 2:34 PM
"From between millstones, loaves of bread. Digital Humanities and the awkward privilege of bridging epistemicidal trends"
Prof. Jennifer Edmond speaking at @camdighum.bsky.social next week.
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41169/
Prof. Jennifer Edmond speaking at @camdighum.bsky.social next week.
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41169/
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Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - MetaROR’s approach
doi.org/10.64000/vfe...
Together with @andre-brasil.bsky.social I just published this blog post about @crossref.bsky.social DOI registration practices for @metaror.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.64000/vfe...
Together with @andre-brasil.bsky.social I just published this blog post about @crossref.bsky.social DOI registration practices for @metaror.bsky.social.
February 5, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - MetaROR’s approach
doi.org/10.64000/vfe...
Together with @andre-brasil.bsky.social I just published this blog post about @crossref.bsky.social DOI registration practices for @metaror.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.64000/vfe...
Together with @andre-brasil.bsky.social I just published this blog post about @crossref.bsky.social DOI registration practices for @metaror.bsky.social.
"By far the most common misconception appearing in the RFI responses is that NIH public access policy has essentially forced researchers into a "pay-to-play" system"
Christopher Steven Marcum and Corinna Turbes on some of the misconceptions about the NIH Public Access Policy.
Christopher Steven Marcum and Corinna Turbes on some of the misconceptions about the NIH Public Access Policy.
The Cost of Confusion: Dispelling Myths about the NIH Public Access Policy and Article Processing Charges
Last July, the NIH issued an RFI on limiting direct spending on article processing charges (APCs). Over 900 public responses offered valuable perspectives but also exposed widespread misconceptions ab...
upstream.force11.org
February 4, 2026 at 2:59 PM
"By far the most common misconception appearing in the RFI responses is that NIH public access policy has essentially forced researchers into a "pay-to-play" system"
Christopher Steven Marcum and Corinna Turbes on some of the misconceptions about the NIH Public Access Policy.
Christopher Steven Marcum and Corinna Turbes on some of the misconceptions about the NIH Public Access Policy.
"Relx, which is the 16th largest company in the FTSE 100 index, lost just over £6 billion from its stock market value after Anthropic launched a new AI product that can help automate work for the legal industry."
archive.ph/ya78V
archive.ph/ya78V
archive.ph
February 4, 2026 at 1:08 PM
"Relx, which is the 16th largest company in the FTSE 100 index, lost just over £6 billion from its stock market value after Anthropic launched a new AI product that can help automate work for the legal industry."
archive.ph/ya78V
archive.ph/ya78V
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Data and publishing stocks deepen slump on AI threat ft.trib.al/tojHdSe
Data and publishing stocks deepen slump on AI threat
Media and analytics businesses have fallen sharply following release of new Anthropic tools
ft.trib.al
February 4, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Data and publishing stocks deepen slump on AI threat ft.trib.al/tojHdSe
High-volume publishing leading to high-volume retractions.
Mega-journal Heliyon retracts hundreds of papers after internal audit
Heliyon has published fewer papers and ramped up its retractions since a major indexing service put the journal on hold and the publisher launched an audit of all papers published in the journal si…
retractionwatch.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:36 PM
High-volume publishing leading to high-volume retractions.
"Instead of taking their story of science as fact, we now can take it for what it is: a summary of personal accounts and attempts at making sense of the (scientific) world and what reformers believe to have occurred in it."
Nice post on the narratives of crisis/solutionism in open science advocacy.
Nice post on the narratives of crisis/solutionism in open science advocacy.
New on Cultures of Trial and Error:
Open Science isn’t just a set of reforms, but also a story about science in crisis, heroes, urgency, and repair. In this post, Sheena Bartscherer looks at the narrative side of (Open) Science, and why these stories matter
blog.trialanderror.org/cultures-of-...
Open Science isn’t just a set of reforms, but also a story about science in crisis, heroes, urgency, and repair. In this post, Sheena Bartscherer looks at the narrative side of (Open) Science, and why these stories matter
blog.trialanderror.org/cultures-of-...
February 3, 2026 at 6:50 PM
"Instead of taking their story of science as fact, we now can take it for what it is: a summary of personal accounts and attempts at making sense of the (scientific) world and what reformers believe to have occurred in it."
Nice post on the narratives of crisis/solutionism in open science advocacy.
Nice post on the narratives of crisis/solutionism in open science advocacy.
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"Reformers commonly present automation and standardisation (through strict protocols) as viable solutions to reduce...(inherently human) biases and uncertainties (Flis, 2019; Penders, 2022), increase (scientific) efficiency (Peterson & Panofsky, 2021), and help produce a ‘better science’ overall."
New on Cultures of Trial and Error:
Open Science isn’t just a set of reforms, but also a story about science in crisis, heroes, urgency, and repair. In this post, Sheena Bartscherer looks at the narrative side of (Open) Science, and why these stories matter
blog.trialanderror.org/cultures-of-...
Open Science isn’t just a set of reforms, but also a story about science in crisis, heroes, urgency, and repair. In this post, Sheena Bartscherer looks at the narrative side of (Open) Science, and why these stories matter
blog.trialanderror.org/cultures-of-...
February 3, 2026 at 6:15 PM
"Reformers commonly present automation and standardisation (through strict protocols) as viable solutions to reduce...(inherently human) biases and uncertainties (Flis, 2019; Penders, 2022), increase (scientific) efficiency (Peterson & Panofsky, 2021), and help produce a ‘better science’ overall."
This doesn't feel fair to the arXiv. Maybe a community form of governance (albeit a blunt one like personal recommendations) is a better approach than investing millions in research integrity tools with mixed success.
newsletter.journalology.com/p/journalolo...
newsletter.journalology.com/p/journalolo...
February 3, 2026 at 9:09 AM
This doesn't feel fair to the arXiv. Maybe a community form of governance (albeit a blunt one like personal recommendations) is a better approach than investing millions in research integrity tools with mixed success.
newsletter.journalology.com/p/journalolo...
newsletter.journalology.com/p/journalolo...
Nothing like starting the week hearing you've moved up to 9th place in the allotment waiting list.
February 2, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Nothing like starting the week hearing you've moved up to 9th place in the allotment waiting list.