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Domi Smithson
@domismithson.bsky.social
Research Support Librarian, Open Research Champion
“Science cannot be open for everyone unless it is made by everyone.”

Just reflecting on the summary message at the 4th United Nations Open Science and Open Scholarship Conference in Tokyo, a city I had the chance to visit with my family a week later.
November 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Research data holds immense potential—but sharing it isn’t always straightforward. Inspired by Christine Borgman’s The Conundrum of Sharing Research Data, we’re exploring the benefits, challenges, and future of open data in research.

#ReproducibiliTeaSheffield #openresearch
October 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
#OSC2025 Second day in Hamburg for more of the insightful talks, hands-on discussions, and a forward-looking perspective on the future of research (and AI)👇

#openscience
#openresearchandAI
October 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
LIVE from #OSC2025

p.s. @morphss.bsky.social interesting highlight from the posters introductions about the following AI project from University of Jyväskylä:

👉 "A human centered open source platform for image and text processing in humanities research" 💡
October 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Last but not least of our key ingredients that add to our EEDI focused open research approach driven by #Openfest25

Thank you to all co-organizers, speaker and participants - its been a pleasure!

All recordings of the online sessions will be released next week. Stay tuned!
September 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Just about to start our 3rd day of #OpenFest25
The recipe for an #EEDI open research approach is still in the making, more ingredients from yesterday pictured below👇
September 4, 2025 at 8:19 AM
We are now running our second day of #OpenFest25
Our key ingredients of the EEDI open research approach from the first day pictured below

@reddite.bsky.social chairing sessions today🔊
September 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Spotify podcast alert: #OpenFest25 Open Research + EEDI

Together with @openresshef.bsky.social, joined by
@jenniad.bsky.social@reddite.bsky.social, Dr Keith Fildes and Dr Jim Uttley we discuss EDI research design (and support) with more robust + reliable data.
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
September 1, 2025 at 9:02 AM
In less than a month now, we will be launching our next OpenFest to discuss #openresearch filtered by the principles of #EEDI, the main theme of this year's event. Join us online!
libguides.shu.ac.uk/c.php?g=7091...
August 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Join us in the next #OpenFest2025 at Sheffield: #OpenResearch and #EEDI in all the meanings of those terms: all the way from safeguarding #publicdata around experiences of marginalised groups 👉to an equitable #bibliodiversepublishing ecosystem.

Register now:
libguides.shu.ac.uk/c.php?g=7091...
July 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Back from #metascience2025 in London with some reflections around our current research assessment strategies, credibility of scientific outputs, quality performance driven by AI agents and more ideas for my open research design 💡
July 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Heading off to London soon, presenting at the #metascience2025 conference at @ucl.ac.uk - thrilled to have the space to promote a responsible use of GenAI across the research lifecycle!

Just a few more days to go ⏰
June 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
After first day of the Open Research Conference at ‪‪@manchester.ac.uk‬‬ : look at the etymology of 'open' and what does it tells us about the mixture of meanings including vulnerability (versus) being communicative + accessible to new ideas 💡
June 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Drafting some ideas for the next OpenFest and how EEDI framework weights on the strategy towards a healthier research culture
#openresearch
#openfest2025
May 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Our BMRC researchers run #LiveLab @KelhamIslandMuseums. Everyone was invited to participate in #environmentalresearchstudy +run water quality testing. Thrilled to see open practice going live and becoming a citizen scientist myself by using dipstick tests to measure nutrient levels in river water.
March 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Its been a pleasure to be a part of #OxFOS
@ox.ac.uk thank you for featuring our #openresearch podcast. Heading back with some reflections around #rightsretention, data perception in non- #STEM disciplines, epistemological intersubjectivity, #researchtrustmarkers + what shapes research imagination
March 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Art reproducibility≠ Art reproduction
Do we really need to reinvent the wheel to establish a dictionary of usage in open research? A blind repeatability does not fully capture the meaning of reproducibility, nor does accountability, translatability etc.
#openresearchinart#reproducibilitycrisis
January 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM