Lesley Uttley
@lesleyuttley.bsky.social
Meta-meta-meta researcher in systematic reviews. Research integrity, research culture and other human influences in research. Senior Research Fellow at University of Sheffield.
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4603-9069
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4603-9069
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📢 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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How ‘correct’ should #evidencesynthesis be? How does this change if we add #AI?
Help inform new tool dev and best practice guidance! forms.office.com/e/ZwdicYQpjv
Open until 2 Jul, ~35 mins. Part of @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded DESTinY @campbellreviews.bsky.social @ellaflem.bsky.social
Help inform new tool dev and best practice guidance! forms.office.com/e/ZwdicYQpjv
Open until 2 Jul, ~35 mins. Part of @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded DESTinY @campbellreviews.bsky.social @ellaflem.bsky.social
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
June 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
How ‘correct’ should #evidencesynthesis be? How does this change if we add #AI?
Help inform new tool dev and best practice guidance! forms.office.com/e/ZwdicYQpjv
Open until 2 Jul, ~35 mins. Part of @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded DESTinY @campbellreviews.bsky.social @ellaflem.bsky.social
Help inform new tool dev and best practice guidance! forms.office.com/e/ZwdicYQpjv
Open until 2 Jul, ~35 mins. Part of @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded DESTinY @campbellreviews.bsky.social @ellaflem.bsky.social
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Scientists say they used LLMs to reproduce 12 gold-standard #Cochrane systematic reviews in 2 days - rather than 12 years.
But other experts are sceptical; the system doesn't automate some review steps and needs independent testing. My news story for @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
But other experts are sceptical; the system doesn't automate some review steps and needs independent testing. My news story for @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI slashes time to produce gold-standard medical reviews — but sceptics urge caution
Although language models can help to accelerate systematic reviews, a fully automated system is still some way off.
www.nature.com
June 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Scientists say they used LLMs to reproduce 12 gold-standard #Cochrane systematic reviews in 2 days - rather than 12 years.
But other experts are sceptical; the system doesn't automate some review steps and needs independent testing. My news story for @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
But other experts are sceptical; the system doesn't automate some review steps and needs independent testing. My news story for @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Join us on the 24th March at 11am for our webinar on the importance of #EDII in Behavioural Research, with speakers @julzealejandre.bsky.social, Niamh Hart, Sancha Martin, Ann Phoenix & @lesleyuttley.bsky.social
Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
March 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Join us on the 24th March at 11am for our webinar on the importance of #EDII in Behavioural Research, with speakers @julzealejandre.bsky.social, Niamh Hart, Sancha Martin, Ann Phoenix & @lesleyuttley.bsky.social
Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Final call for registration for meeting on research #fraud.
Talks and discussion sessions with sleuths, research integrity experts, and more. Online and in person options.
www.sjcfairsmeeting.com (turn off VPN if it doesn't load)
#ResearchIntegrity #Oxford
Talks and discussion sessions with sleuths, research integrity experts, and more. Online and in person options.
www.sjcfairsmeeting.com (turn off VPN if it doesn't load)
#ResearchIntegrity #Oxford
March 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Final call for registration for meeting on research #fraud.
Talks and discussion sessions with sleuths, research integrity experts, and more. Online and in person options.
www.sjcfairsmeeting.com (turn off VPN if it doesn't load)
#ResearchIntegrity #Oxford
Talks and discussion sessions with sleuths, research integrity experts, and more. Online and in person options.
www.sjcfairsmeeting.com (turn off VPN if it doesn't load)
#ResearchIntegrity #Oxford
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Just under a week left to apply for this position on the MORPHSS project.
We're advertising another postdoc on @morphss.bsky.social. This is a two-year position at Sheffield working on open research practices in the social sciences (particularly data sharing) with @stephenpinfield.bsky.social
Please share!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD201/r...
Please share!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD201/r...
Research Associate at University of Sheffield
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Associate on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
March 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Just under a week left to apply for this position on the MORPHSS project.
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Well over 600 signatories now. Please keep the momentum going.
Sign and share to show how much the wider scientific community is concerned by the Royal Society's silence over Musk's FRS.
Members of the UK and international scientific community are all welcome to sign.
Sign and share to show how much the wider scientific community is concerned by the Royal Society's silence over Musk's FRS.
Members of the UK and international scientific community are all welcome to sign.
Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...
List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
forms.gle
February 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Well over 600 signatories now. Please keep the momentum going.
Sign and share to show how much the wider scientific community is concerned by the Royal Society's silence over Musk's FRS.
Members of the UK and international scientific community are all welcome to sign.
Sign and share to show how much the wider scientific community is concerned by the Royal Society's silence over Musk's FRS.
Members of the UK and international scientific community are all welcome to sign.
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💥New: Better assessment is key to improving research culture
✍️ @lesleyuttley.bsky.social #ResearchCulture #REF2029
✍️ @lesleyuttley.bsky.social #ResearchCulture #REF2029
Better assessment is key to improving research culture
People culture and environment will have a greater weighting in the next iteration of the REF. Lesley Uttley argues research assessment plays a significant role in positively shaping research cultu…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
February 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
💥New: Better assessment is key to improving research culture
✍️ @lesleyuttley.bsky.social #ResearchCulture #REF2029
✍️ @lesleyuttley.bsky.social #ResearchCulture #REF2029
This blog for LSE is a short summary of our scoping review of research culture blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... Good if you're short on time but want some key take-homes about potential reforms for healthier research environments.
Better assessment is key to improving research culture
People culture and environment will have a greater weighting in the next iteration of the REF. Lesley Uttley argues research assessment plays a significant role in positively shaping research cultu…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
February 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This blog for LSE is a short summary of our scoping review of research culture blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... Good if you're short on time but want some key take-homes about potential reforms for healthier research environments.
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While I see (again) many new users, here is the metaresearch and open sciencff et starting pack 1. Please repost.
January 29, 2025 at 5:59 AM
While I see (again) many new users, here is the metaresearch and open sciencff et starting pack 1. Please repost.
Many thanks Stephen. We tried to squeeze as much research culture as possible in this summary to get conversations moving. Those who are too busy or important to care about research culture may well be the problem with it! Hopefully the REF will lead to incentives evolving with the times.
Given the publication this week of the guidelines for the REF pilot of People, Culture & Environment statements, this scoping review from Nov 2024 from Lesley Uttley and colleagues provides a considered overview of why we need action to reform research culture. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
January 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Many thanks Stephen. We tried to squeeze as much research culture as possible in this summary to get conversations moving. Those who are too busy or important to care about research culture may well be the problem with it! Hopefully the REF will lead to incentives evolving with the times.
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"Research culture influences in health and biomedical research: Rapid scoping review and content analysis", new paper in @jclinepi.bsky.social with a great team of colleagues and led by the fantastic Lesley Uttley.
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
November 25, 2024 at 9:12 AM
"Research culture influences in health and biomedical research: Rapid scoping review and content analysis", new paper in @jclinepi.bsky.social with a great team of colleagues and led by the fantastic Lesley Uttley.
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
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Yet another problem with systematic reviews: A living review update - @jclinepi.bsky.social
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
Yet another problem with systematic reviews: A living review update
In February 2023, the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology published ‘The Problems with
Systematic Reviews: A living Systematic Review.’ In updating this living review for
the first time to incorporate li...
www.jclinepi.com
November 28, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Yet another problem with systematic reviews: A living review update - @jclinepi.bsky.social
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
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🌟Exciting news!🌟 When you publish on Octopus, your work is now automatically sent to your institution's repository. Find out more ji.sc/octopus-pub-...
#OpenResearch #OpenAccess @jisc.bsky.social
#OpenResearch #OpenAccess @jisc.bsky.social
January 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
🌟Exciting news!🌟 When you publish on Octopus, your work is now automatically sent to your institution's repository. Find out more ji.sc/octopus-pub-...
#OpenResearch #OpenAccess @jisc.bsky.social
#OpenResearch #OpenAccess @jisc.bsky.social
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New 🧵 about our recent 🎄🎅🎄 paper in @plosbiology.org "Public engagement with research reproducibilty". Topic of the day: "Talking about research with the public (non-)reproducibilty is is far from destined to fail". Please repost.
Public engagement with research reproducibility
Public engagement with reproducibility is crucial for fostering trust in science. This Community Page describes how, by using relatable analogies and hands-on activities, participants explored the cha...
journals.plos.org
December 15, 2024 at 7:01 AM
New 🧵 about our recent 🎄🎅🎄 paper in @plosbiology.org "Public engagement with research reproducibilty". Topic of the day: "Talking about research with the public (non-)reproducibilty is is far from destined to fail". Please repost.
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And here is the fantastic paper on research culture Lesley led… www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
www.jclinepi.com
December 4, 2024 at 10:35 AM
And here is the fantastic paper on research culture Lesley led… www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
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Welcome @lesleyuttley.bsky.social in the meta research and open science starter pack. go.bsky.app/DWo6RbA
December 4, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Welcome @lesleyuttley.bsky.social in the meta research and open science starter pack. go.bsky.app/DWo6RbA