Ruth MacMullen (Mallalieu)
@ruthmacmullen.bsky.social
Work in Oxford, live in Sheffield. Open research, music, cooking, keeper of small child, neverending house project.
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Don't forget: this weekend as part of Oxford Open Doors 2025, the Bodleian Libraries will be opening up some of our spaces and showing off collections not usually accessible to the public.
More information: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/sep25/...
More information: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/sep25/...
Oxford Open Doors
Oxford Open Doors at the Bodleian Library: special tours, family activities, collection talks and more
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
September 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Don't forget: this weekend as part of Oxford Open Doors 2025, the Bodleian Libraries will be opening up some of our spaces and showing off collections not usually accessible to the public.
More information: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/sep25/...
More information: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/sep25/...
Inspiring day today with the @coarassessment.bsky.social UK National Chapter brainstorming how to put Responsible Research Assessment principles into practice - and, for me, considering the commonalities with open and transparent research, and how libraries can lead/support.
September 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Inspiring day today with the @coarassessment.bsky.social UK National Chapter brainstorming how to put Responsible Research Assessment principles into practice - and, for me, considering the commonalities with open and transparent research, and how libraries can lead/support.
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This should have been big news!
Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]
Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]
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September 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Join MED:EL (the world's leading hearing implant company) at the Bodleian for a free, in-person educational session exploring the science, innovation, & human stories behind cochlear implants.
Register here: bit.ly/4mKGgy8
9 Sept | 10am–12pm | Weston Library
Register here: bit.ly/4mKGgy8
9 Sept | 10am–12pm | Weston Library
Discover the Power of Sound
9th September 10am - 12pm
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September 2, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Join MED:EL (the world's leading hearing implant company) at the Bodleian for a free, in-person educational session exploring the science, innovation, & human stories behind cochlear implants.
Register here: bit.ly/4mKGgy8
9 Sept | 10am–12pm | Weston Library
Register here: bit.ly/4mKGgy8
9 Sept | 10am–12pm | Weston Library
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The new Humanities Library (@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social) at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities will shortly receive its first transfer of books to fill its lovely new shelves. Huge thanks to the team managing the moves!
August 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The new Humanities Library (@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social) at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities will shortly receive its first transfer of books to fill its lovely new shelves. Huge thanks to the team managing the moves!
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It's true there are sustainability problems with S2O, but there is with virtually all academic publishing.
Why not strategically invest in a more sustainable alternative - the end game of which might be that the money doesn't come from the library and those budgets shrink accordingly
Why not strategically invest in a more sustainable alternative - the end game of which might be that the money doesn't come from the library and those budgets shrink accordingly
Subscribe-to-Open Is Doomed. Here’s Why. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/18/s...
Subscribe-to-Open Is Doomed. Here's Why. - The Scholarly Kitchen
A scholarly communication ecosystem that relies on voluntary support rather than charging for access to content becomes radically less capable of keeping money in the system.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
August 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
It's true there are sustainability problems with S2O, but there is with virtually all academic publishing.
Why not strategically invest in a more sustainable alternative - the end game of which might be that the money doesn't come from the library and those budgets shrink accordingly
Why not strategically invest in a more sustainable alternative - the end game of which might be that the money doesn't come from the library and those budgets shrink accordingly
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RIP Ozzy Osbourne. We scoured the archives to find our best medieval bats in the rocker’s honour.
#MedievalMonday.
1. Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Misc. 554
2: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 304.
3: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 764.
4: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511.
#MedievalMonday.
1. Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Misc. 554
2: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 304.
3: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 764.
4: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511.
July 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
RIP Ozzy Osbourne. We scoured the archives to find our best medieval bats in the rocker’s honour.
#MedievalMonday.
1. Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Misc. 554
2: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 304.
3: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 764.
4: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511.
#MedievalMonday.
1. Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Misc. 554
2: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 304.
3: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 764.
4: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511.
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CLOCKSS is proud to launch an official YouTube channel, where we’ll share webinars and resources about digital preservation.
📺 Our first video: How COUNTER metrics and CLOCKSS preservation services work together www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0cY...
✅ Future events: clockss.org/events/
📺 Our first video: How COUNTER metrics and CLOCKSS preservation services work together www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0cY...
✅ Future events: clockss.org/events/
June 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
CLOCKSS is proud to launch an official YouTube channel, where we’ll share webinars and resources about digital preservation.
📺 Our first video: How COUNTER metrics and CLOCKSS preservation services work together www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0cY...
✅ Future events: clockss.org/events/
📺 Our first video: How COUNTER metrics and CLOCKSS preservation services work together www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0cY...
✅ Future events: clockss.org/events/
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746 proposals for a total of 3M (about 13 will be funded).
If orgs spent 4000 in personnel time preparing their proposals on average, then this mechanism actually reduced funding for open science.
Open science is extremely underfunded.
If orgs spent 4000 in personnel time preparing their proposals on average, then this mechanism actually reduced funding for open science.
Open science is extremely underfunded.
June 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
746 proposals for a total of 3M (about 13 will be funded).
If orgs spent 4000 in personnel time preparing their proposals on average, then this mechanism actually reduced funding for open science.
Open science is extremely underfunded.
If orgs spent 4000 in personnel time preparing their proposals on average, then this mechanism actually reduced funding for open science.
Open science is extremely underfunded.
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Q - how do you deal with people co-opting the language of open for politically dubious purposes?
Heather Joseph - call it out, loudly and quickly and often
#openrepos2025
Heather Joseph - call it out, loudly and quickly and often
#openrepos2025
June 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Q - how do you deal with people co-opting the language of open for politically dubious purposes?
Heather Joseph - call it out, loudly and quickly and often
#openrepos2025
Heather Joseph - call it out, loudly and quickly and often
#openrepos2025
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Listening to Heather Joseph’s @hjoseph.bsky.social opening plenary at #OpenRepos2025 and it’s so good!
June 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Listening to Heather Joseph’s @hjoseph.bsky.social opening plenary at #OpenRepos2025 and it’s so good!
Very excited about this development - great to see a company which is so responsive to its community 🧠 🤓
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Today Altmetric is announcing a major development in collaboration with the Brain Occipital Lobe Learning Observation Centre Kalhausen-Strasbourg.
From today Altmetric will be able to determine what research paper you're thinking of, regardless of what you're actually writing/saying.
1/17
Today Altmetric is announcing a major development in collaboration with the Brain Occipital Lobe Learning Observation Centre Kalhausen-Strasbourg.
From today Altmetric will be able to determine what research paper you're thinking of, regardless of what you're actually writing/saying.
1/17
April 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Very excited about this development - great to see a company which is so responsive to its community 🧠 🤓
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Great @npr.org article on the vital work that our friends at the @archive.org are doing to preserve online history against political attacks.
As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them
The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.
www.npr.org
March 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Great @npr.org article on the vital work that our friends at the @archive.org are doing to preserve online history against political attacks.
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Closing day two of #RLUK25 we're looking forward to hearing two keynote talks by Mahaletchumy Arujanan (ISAAA) and Emmanuel Boakye (African Reproducibility Network)
Chaired by Suzy Cheeke @bristolunilib.bsky.social
Chaired by Suzy Cheeke @bristolunilib.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Closing day two of #RLUK25 we're looking forward to hearing two keynote talks by Mahaletchumy Arujanan (ISAAA) and Emmanuel Boakye (African Reproducibility Network)
Chaired by Suzy Cheeke @bristolunilib.bsky.social
Chaired by Suzy Cheeke @bristolunilib.bsky.social
Okay, the sessions and networking at #RLUK25 are excellent, but I’m also very proud of managing pizza two nights in a row. Will there be pizza at the conference dinner tonight? 😆
March 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Okay, the sessions and networking at #RLUK25 are excellent, but I’m also very proud of managing pizza two nights in a row. Will there be pizza at the conference dinner tonight? 😆
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Takeaways from #RLUK25 Day 1:
- Using times of crises to rebuild and re-position our services
- The importance of collaboration in Open Research, collections and AI
- Advocacy is an vital skill for LIS professionals
- Classification systems can reflect biases and libraries as non-neutral spaces
- Using times of crises to rebuild and re-position our services
- The importance of collaboration in Open Research, collections and AI
- Advocacy is an vital skill for LIS professionals
- Classification systems can reflect biases and libraries as non-neutral spaces
March 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Takeaways from #RLUK25 Day 1:
- Using times of crises to rebuild and re-position our services
- The importance of collaboration in Open Research, collections and AI
- Advocacy is an vital skill for LIS professionals
- Classification systems can reflect biases and libraries as non-neutral spaces
- Using times of crises to rebuild and re-position our services
- The importance of collaboration in Open Research, collections and AI
- Advocacy is an vital skill for LIS professionals
- Classification systems can reflect biases and libraries as non-neutral spaces
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We're going to have a Copim Corner this evening, #RLUK25. Details TBC, but likely to be www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk/restaurants/.... All most welcome! (The #OABooks and #openresearch discourse will likely be strong, but will it be stronger than the drinks?)
www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk
March 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
We're going to have a Copim Corner this evening, #RLUK25. Details TBC, but likely to be www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk/restaurants/.... All most welcome! (The #OABooks and #openresearch discourse will likely be strong, but will it be stronger than the drinks?)
If I may say so myself, it was a great discussion! I think we need a follow-up blog post to capture and explore some of the fascinating points made 😁 #RLUK25
If you're at @rluk.bsky.social today, join @openbookcollective.bsky.social and @oapenbooks.bsky.social for a long table session - Building an Open Monographs Future 🔮
⏰ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
👉 site.pheedloop.com/event/RLUK25...
#RLUK25
⏰ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
👉 site.pheedloop.com/event/RLUK25...
#RLUK25
March 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
If I may say so myself, it was a great discussion! I think we need a follow-up blog post to capture and explore some of the fascinating points made 😁 #RLUK25
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#RLUK25 parallel sessions now:
🔵 Building an open monographs future with @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social @kjsanders.bsky.social Silke Davison @oapenbooks.bsky.social Andrew Barker (Lancaster), Bethany Logan (Sussex) & Sarah Thompson (York)
🔵 Building an open monographs future with @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social @kjsanders.bsky.social Silke Davison @oapenbooks.bsky.social Andrew Barker (Lancaster), Bethany Logan (Sussex) & Sarah Thompson (York)
March 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
#RLUK25 parallel sessions now:
🔵 Building an open monographs future with @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social @kjsanders.bsky.social Silke Davison @oapenbooks.bsky.social Andrew Barker (Lancaster), Bethany Logan (Sussex) & Sarah Thompson (York)
🔵 Building an open monographs future with @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social @kjsanders.bsky.social Silke Davison @oapenbooks.bsky.social Andrew Barker (Lancaster), Bethany Logan (Sussex) & Sarah Thompson (York)
Is anyone else having zero joy editing their profile on PheedLoop for #RLUK25? I’ve been trying to add a job title and bio for ages, via the phone app and web browser…
March 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Is anyone else having zero joy editing their profile on PheedLoop for #RLUK25? I’ve been trying to add a job title and bio for ages, via the phone app and web browser…
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The revival of university/institutionally based presses in the UK has been one of the most exciting developments in #scholcomms in recent times - @suzannetatham.bsky.social & I wrote for @timeshighered.bsky.social about why this matters
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/six-r...
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/six-r...
Six reasons why open institutional publishing matters
A new wave of institutional publishers is changing the way we think about academic publishing. Here’s why they’re worth watching
www.timeshighereducation.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The revival of university/institutionally based presses in the UK has been one of the most exciting developments in #scholcomms in recent times - @suzannetatham.bsky.social & I wrote for @timeshighered.bsky.social about why this matters
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/six-r...
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/six-r...
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Wonderful way to start #IDCC25 from @martateperek.bsky.social. She captured not only what has changed in the last 20 years of digital curation, but did by reflecting on her own journey and brought in the voices of 12 female colleagues and the power of community. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Twenty Years Back Twenty Years Forward: A Community's Journey: Navigating Challenges Through 12 Voices
Keynote by Marta Teperek, Programme Leader, Open Science NL at IDCC25 in Den Haag on 18 February 2025.
doi.org
February 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Wonderful way to start #IDCC25 from @martateperek.bsky.social. She captured not only what has changed in the last 20 years of digital curation, but did by reflecting on her own journey and brought in the voices of 12 female colleagues and the power of community. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Just wow. 👏🏼
Hello #IDCC25! We are going to be in the lighting talks coming up in about ten minutes in session O in the Bon van der Starp room! Come hear us talk about US #GovInfo. We have adjusted our topic slightly from what is listed in the program... #DataRescue #SeeSomethingSaveSomething
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Just wow. 👏🏼