Holly Ranger
@themauvedesert.bsky.social
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🥳 Today marks the 1st birthday of our Data Stewards Network! Last year, we ran a mix of expert-led workshops & informal networking sessions. To continue the momentum into 2026, we held a co-production workshop to prioritise future activities. Full write-up here: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
Data Stewards Network - Data Stewards Network co-creation workshop February 2026
Data Stewards Network events planning 2026
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February 12, 2026 at 10:41 AM
🥳 Today marks the 1st birthday of our Data Stewards Network! Last year, we ran a mix of expert-led workshops & informal networking sessions. To continue the momentum into 2026, we held a co-production workshop to prioritise future activities. Full write-up here: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
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I'm pleased to have co-authored a new article out today in the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship. Kevin Sanders, @sluginkpress.bsky.social, and I reflect on the Radical Librarians Collective and how we situate radical librarianship alongside critical librarianship. doi.org/10.33137/cja...
A Genealogy of Radical Librarianship: Collectivity, Action, and Organisation as an Alternative to Critical Librarianship
| Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship
doi.org
February 4, 2026 at 8:57 AM
I'm pleased to have co-authored a new article out today in the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship. Kevin Sanders, @sluginkpress.bsky.social, and I reflect on the Radical Librarians Collective and how we situate radical librarianship alongside critical librarianship. doi.org/10.33137/cja...
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It's taken me five weeks to write this essay on knowing and, more importantly, not knowing; on epistemology & the Epstein episteme, or the 'knowledge' economy (Biblical sense). It took a panicking, trapped fox to unlock it, and it includes a hottt pic of young Engels.
www.somayer.net?na=view&id=6
www.somayer.net?na=view&id=6
know
www.somayer.net
February 2, 2026 at 10:14 PM
It's taken me five weeks to write this essay on knowing and, more importantly, not knowing; on epistemology & the Epstein episteme, or the 'knowledge' economy (Biblical sense). It took a panicking, trapped fox to unlock it, and it includes a hottt pic of young Engels.
www.somayer.net?na=view&id=6
www.somayer.net?na=view&id=6
Has anyone else found examples of this? Apparently Primo is creating temporary catalogue entries pulled from the Google scholar landing pages of non-existent works - genAI created and accumulating citations in other genAI articles... Slop all the way down!
When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦
December 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Has anyone else found examples of this? Apparently Primo is creating temporary catalogue entries pulled from the Google scholar landing pages of non-existent works - genAI created and accumulating citations in other genAI articles... Slop all the way down!
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Now unlocked: we discuss the fate of the NHS since the neoliberal turn and the Labour party’s dismal 10 year plan to turn the NHS into “an engine for economic growth” and “the most AI enabled care system the world” with special guest @medicinered.bsky.social
on.soundcloud.com/jmKcdCpLdiwb...
on.soundcloud.com/jmKcdCpLdiwb...
The Past and Future of the NHS w/ Red Medicine (Unlocked)
This episode was originally released November 10th for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a p
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December 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Now unlocked: we discuss the fate of the NHS since the neoliberal turn and the Labour party’s dismal 10 year plan to turn the NHS into “an engine for economic growth” and “the most AI enabled care system the world” with special guest @medicinered.bsky.social
on.soundcloud.com/jmKcdCpLdiwb...
on.soundcloud.com/jmKcdCpLdiwb...
Great presentation at Jisc DRC today from the NFCS Network+ project exploring the cultural and epistemic challenges to creating a national federated data infrastructure. Francisco Durand del Fierro: "infrastructure is relational and political". Scoping review report here: zenodo.org/records/1764...
Inclusive Futures of Federated Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI). A Scoping Review of Cultural Challenges to Federation
This scoping review maps existing research on the cultural dimensions of the digital transformation of research, paying particular attention to how large-scale computing resources are reshaping contem...
zenodo.org
December 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Great presentation at Jisc DRC today from the NFCS Network+ project exploring the cultural and epistemic challenges to creating a national federated data infrastructure. Francisco Durand del Fierro: "infrastructure is relational and political". Scoping review report here: zenodo.org/records/1764...
I know I shouldn't be surprised to encounter TERF brainworms in a Guardian book review, but it's so weird to critique the narrator of On the Calculation of Volume for "never once in three volumes allud[ing] to her period, surely for a woman in her 30s a definitive marker of time."
December 9, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I know I shouldn't be surprised to encounter TERF brainworms in a Guardian book review, but it's so weird to critique the narrator of On the Calculation of Volume for "never once in three volumes allud[ing] to her period, surely for a woman in her 30s a definitive marker of time."
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Journal editors can also help by encouraging inclusion of ORCiD numbers.
2. In manuscript submission systems, solicit identities, ORCIDs, and the contributions of acknowledgees in the same way as co-authors.
We're interested in working with publication systems on this.
2. In manuscript submission systems, solicit identities, ORCIDs, and the contributions of acknowledgees in the same way as co-authors.
We're interested in working with publication systems on this.
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Journal editors can also help by encouraging inclusion of ORCiD numbers.
2. In manuscript submission systems, solicit identities, ORCIDs, and the contributions of acknowledgees in the same way as co-authors.
We're interested in working with publication systems on this.
2. In manuscript submission systems, solicit identities, ORCIDs, and the contributions of acknowledgees in the same way as co-authors.
We're interested in working with publication systems on this.
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finally a normal software license that definitely holds up really well
November 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
finally a normal software license that definitely holds up really well
"The boosting of AI by big technology firms, big financial firms, and government agencies is not separate from book bans, educational censorship efforts, and the war on education [and] libraries... Fascism and AI... are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"The boosting of AI by big technology firms, big financial firms, and government agencies is not separate from book bans, educational censorship efforts, and the war on education [and] libraries... Fascism and AI... are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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one thing that is so horrible about the AI interwoven into every medium of communication is the prompt to summarize. no, actually, I want to read closely and carefully the words which my beloveds are writing to me!
October 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
one thing that is so horrible about the AI interwoven into every medium of communication is the prompt to summarize. no, actually, I want to read closely and carefully the words which my beloveds are writing to me!
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The next DigiPres North meeting is booked in for world digital preservation day #WDPD25
Where we'll be discussing TeraCopy!
If you're a Northern digipres person without an invite and want to come along drop me a message!
#digipres
Where we'll be discussing TeraCopy!
If you're a Northern digipres person without an invite and want to come along drop me a message!
#digipres
a man with a beard is standing in the snow with the words `` i belong in the north '' written above him .
ALT: a man with a beard is standing in the snow with the words `` i belong in the north '' written above him .
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October 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Counterpoint: this is a net negative and more deeply entrenches Clarivate in the broader affinities of scholarly communications; ORCIDs and other PIDs are already (quite reasonably) contested, and such affinities will reduce confidence from many communities and participants.
🎉 We are delighted to share that Clarivate is #ORCID's newest Certified Service Provider!
Try out the recently improved and relaunched Web of Science search & link tool now!
👉 https://orcid.org/signin
#Researchsky
Try out the recently improved and relaunched Web of Science search & link tool now!
👉 https://orcid.org/signin
#Researchsky
October 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Counterpoint: this is a net negative and more deeply entrenches Clarivate in the broader affinities of scholarly communications; ORCIDs and other PIDs are already (quite reasonably) contested, and such affinities will reduce confidence from many communities and participants.
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Uk library peoples! Concerned about inter library loans and copyright in the light of potential journal cancellations? Well m’colleague and all round delightful chap, Andrew Johnson, has written all about it here so hopefully you can stop your panics doi.org/10.1629/uksg...
Interlibrary loans, subscriptions and copyright in the UK academic library sector | Insights
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October 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Uk library peoples! Concerned about inter library loans and copyright in the light of potential journal cancellations? Well m’colleague and all round delightful chap, Andrew Johnson, has written all about it here so hopefully you can stop your panics doi.org/10.1629/uksg...
View from my train window: a house decorated for Halloween, with a skeleton on the roof, cobweb netting stretched over the garden, and a giant England flag draped over the garage. 10/10 visual metaphor for the rotting empire lurching relentlessly on 🧟♂️ Spooky!
October 14, 2025 at 7:45 AM
View from my train window: a house decorated for Halloween, with a skeleton on the roof, cobweb netting stretched over the garden, and a giant England flag draped over the garage. 10/10 visual metaphor for the rotting empire lurching relentlessly on 🧟♂️ Spooky!
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📣 Reminder: Sheffield Library is recruiting for an Open Research Manager/ local UKRN ORCA! Applications close next Wednesday, 22 October 👇
🔊 Vacancy: Open Research Manager, University of Sheffield Library (full-time, open-ended). The role will involve supporting projects across Sheffield and nationally with the @ukrepro.bsky.social to accelerate open research practices. Closing date 22 October: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Open-Res...
Open Research Manager
Open Research Manager
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
📣 Reminder: Sheffield Library is recruiting for an Open Research Manager/ local UKRN ORCA! Applications close next Wednesday, 22 October 👇
📢 Come work with us! The Open Research Manager is a reformulated role in our team - it would suit someone with a strong research support background, but I'm happy to chat to anyone about the role and criteria.
🔊 Vacancy: Open Research Manager, University of Sheffield Library (full-time, open-ended). The role will involve supporting projects across Sheffield and nationally with the @ukrepro.bsky.social to accelerate open research practices. Closing date 22 October: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Open-Res...
Open Research Manager
Open Research Manager
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk
September 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
📢 Come work with us! The Open Research Manager is a reformulated role in our team - it would suit someone with a strong research support background, but I'm happy to chat to anyone about the role and criteria.
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Our preprint on our translations of CRediT into 36 languages. We've come a long way with this project! osf.io/preprints/me... If you know of non-English academic journals that don't have a policy on saying who did what, get in touch - CRediT may be part of the answer.
OSF
osf.io
September 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Our preprint on our translations of CRediT into 36 languages. We've come a long way with this project! osf.io/preprints/me... If you know of non-English academic journals that don't have a policy on saying who did what, get in touch - CRediT may be part of the answer.
Reflecting on #OpenFest25, I'm grateful to the presenters (Almarzouq, Bowie, Sanders) who reminded us that openness is a social practice > we must not lose sight of this. E.g. open practices per se cannot dismantle the humanities' centrality in the ideological scaffolding of apartheid and genocide 👇
I have a new article out today in Public Humanities, where I try to find some words for how historicide is (and has always been) a project of European colonialism - and I try to find some words for the historians who continue to support it. 🇵🇸✊🏻
Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
How the Past Became a Weapon of Genocide in Palestine | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
How the Past Became a Weapon of Genocide in Palestine - Volume 1
www.cambridge.org
September 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Reflecting on #OpenFest25, I'm grateful to the presenters (Almarzouq, Bowie, Sanders) who reminded us that openness is a social practice > we must not lose sight of this. E.g. open practices per se cannot dismantle the humanities' centrality in the ideological scaffolding of apartheid and genocide 👇
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This was great from @batoolmm.bsky.social - not often you see discussion of open science explicitly referencing universities' harmful investment in fossil fuels and weapons #openfest25
In our final online panel, a great paper from Batool Almarzouq, who shows how - if you follow the sources back - the same extractivist dynamics that transfer wealth from the global south to the global north in neocolonial projects play out in the open science funding landscape #OpenFest25
September 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This was great from @batoolmm.bsky.social - not often you see discussion of open science explicitly referencing universities' harmful investment in fossil fuels and weapons #openfest25
Finally, @lesleyuttley.bsky.social, who found 68 kinds of problems with systematic reviews, including lack of diversity in the review team: "a bad systematic review is worse than a non-review" because of the assumption of a gold standard doi.org/10.1016/j.jc... #OpenFest25
Now @alicejanegibson.bsky.social is talking us through how systems theory/ systems thinking can help us map and understand research culture as an ecosystem, locating the leverage points for transformative impact across the ecosystem #OpenFest25
In our final online panel, a great paper from Batool Almarzouq, who shows how - if you follow the sources back - the same extractivist dynamics that transfer wealth from the global south to the global north in neocolonial projects play out in the open science funding landscape #OpenFest25
September 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Finally, @lesleyuttley.bsky.social, who found 68 kinds of problems with systematic reviews, including lack of diversity in the review team: "a bad systematic review is worse than a non-review" because of the assumption of a gold standard doi.org/10.1016/j.jc... #OpenFest25
Now @alicejanegibson.bsky.social is talking us through how systems theory/ systems thinking can help us map and understand research culture as an ecosystem, locating the leverage points for transformative impact across the ecosystem #OpenFest25
In our final online panel, a great paper from Batool Almarzouq, who shows how - if you follow the sources back - the same extractivist dynamics that transfer wealth from the global south to the global north in neocolonial projects play out in the open science funding landscape #OpenFest25
September 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Now @alicejanegibson.bsky.social is talking us through how systems theory/ systems thinking can help us map and understand research culture as an ecosystem, locating the leverage points for transformative impact across the ecosystem #OpenFest25
In our final online panel, a great paper from Batool Almarzouq, who shows how - if you follow the sources back - the same extractivist dynamics that transfer wealth from the global south to the global north in neocolonial projects play out in the open science funding landscape #OpenFest25
September 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
In our final online panel, a great paper from Batool Almarzouq, who shows how - if you follow the sources back - the same extractivist dynamics that transfer wealth from the global south to the global north in neocolonial projects play out in the open science funding landscape #OpenFest25
Thanks to @nickshepp.bsky.social for posting links from our panel on recognising and attributing contributions to research #OpenFest25
Valuing a broad range of research contributions through Team Infrastructure Roles: Why CRediT is not enough commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/c69y2lr3...
#OpenFest25
#OpenFest25
Valuing a broad range of research contributions through Team Infrastructure Roles: Why CRediT is not enough
commonplace.knowledgefutures.org
September 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Thanks to @nickshepp.bsky.social for posting links from our panel on recognising and attributing contributions to research #OpenFest25
First up on #OpenFest25 Day 2 is @simonxix.com and @kjsanders.bsky.social with a call to approach 'open' as a social process (rather than an end goal) to revive its original DIY radical ethos and practice
September 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
First up on #OpenFest25 Day 2 is @simonxix.com and @kjsanders.bsky.social with a call to approach 'open' as a social process (rather than an end goal) to revive its original DIY radical ethos and practice