Promotional flyer for a Behavioural Research UK Methods Webinar titled "Systematic Reviews and Beyond: How Evidence Synthesis Is Evolving." The flyer features headshots of two speakers — Professor Andrew Booth and Dr Lesley Uttley, both from the University of Sheffield — and is chaired by Dr Hui Zhang, also from the University of Sheffield. A QR code and registration details are shown at the bottom, with the event scheduled for April 27th 2026 at 12pm. The flyer uses a teal and light grey colour scheme with the Behavioural Research UK logo at the top.

Systematic Reviews & Beyond: How Evidence Synthesis Is Evolving. This session is intended for researchers, funders, policymakers, and practitioners interested in how evidence synthesis is changing, and how it needs to change further to meet contemporary challenges.

27.04.26 @12pm

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A panel of four speakers at a table on a stage in front of a seated audience in Firth Hall, University of Sheffield.

The packed programme featured speakers from @sheffielduni.bsky.social who presented on founding the National Fairground and Circus Archive, the It's All A Show exhibition and the Showmen's Mental Health Charity, 120 years of the Students' Union and navigating political archive material 🗣️...

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A 'Welcome to the History and Archives Practice' conference sign on a door.

Last week we hosted the History and Archives in Practice annual conference #HAP26 and what an incredible day we had!👏

This year's theme 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives' was explored through panels, workshops and a showcase of archive services and projects all over the UK...

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Take a look at this short video with Smriti Safaya @sei.org, talking about participatory #CitizenScience research and the @inaturalist.bsky.social York City Nature Challenge which takes place later this week (24-27 April)! 🍃 👇

A graphic with a green background and a on which is written 'London Open Science & Scholarship Festival, 20-24 April 2026' At the bottom of the image are 13 logos of various libraries, institutions and university presses in London.

#LDNOpenFest26 begins today!💡

Share insights and follow along using the hashtag above.

Registrations for today's sessions have closed, but you can still register for the brilliant array planned for the rest of the week lnkd.in/eeXSqw6d

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🥳 The call for papers for OpenFest 2026 is now live! It's OpenFest's 5th birthday this year, and we can't wait to read your proposals on this year's theme: "People and Place". Read the full call and find the online submission form at the link below: sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

University of York joins ELIXIR-UK life sciences research infrastructure University of York has joined ELIXIR-UK, building on existing ties through Data Stewardship Fellows, ELIXIR-badged training, and a strong open research culture.

The University of York has joined ELIXIR-UK 🎉 With three Data Stewardship Training Fellows already in the network and strong regional training links, York is a very welcome addition to our research infrastructure.
Read more: elixiruknode.org/news/2026/un...

It was a joy to talk to @emilyennis.bsky.social about my work using podcasting as counter-archiving and cripping research culture. If you want to know what I've been up to, please give it a listen!

I've been doing a lot of Mad Libs with my son lately, and I thought it would be fun to put one together with a data management theme.

You can complete your own here: cghlewis.github.io/data_mgmt_ma...

Developing Data Steward Personas Join us for one of two participatory research events exploring the future of data stewardship.

📣Final few days remaining to register for online attendance at our workshop, 'Developing career options for Data Stewards: creating personas to facilitate career progression'. Join us on Tuesday 14 April at 10:30am. More details and registration at the link below: www.eventbrite.com/e/developing...

🏅There's still time to submit your entries to our FAIR Data and Software Awards! The competition closes next Friday 17 April - read the full guidelines and find the link to the submission form on our webpages 👇

🥳 The call for papers for OpenFest 2026 is now live! It's OpenFest's 5th birthday this year, and we can't wait to read your proposals on this year's theme: "People and Place". Read the full call and find the online submission form at the link below: sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

Alternatively, join us in London or online on Wednesday 22 April at the London Open Science and Scholarship Festival - travel bursaries are available!

In person signup for UCL (www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/developing...) and online signup for UCL workshop (www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/developing...).

Developing Data Steward Personas Join us for one of two participatory research events exploring the future of data stewardship.

Join us in Sheffield or online on Tuesday 14 April - travel bursaries are available! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/developing...

Thrilled to announce Sheffield's collaboration with brilliant colleagues @casdarnetwork.bsky.social, @researchdataall.bsky.social Data Stewards Career Tracks Working Group, @step-up.bsky.social , and @uclopenscience.bsky.social on two hybrid workshops in April: co-creating data steward personas.

Working with hard-to-share data? - DANS

Check out these really helpful guides by the folks over at DANS, and well done to all involved, they will no doubt be really helpful, especially for those in social sciences and humanities.
dans.knaw.nl/en/news/work...

Notes from the Copim conference - Copim This is a guest post by Emily Nunn, Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of Sheffield, a recipient of a bursary for the Copim Conference 2026.

Next up is @ebnunn.bsky.social Scholarly Communications Librarian @sheffielduni.bsky.social

Notes from the #CopimConference features their thoughts on labour, values & community

Read more 👇
copim.pub/notes-from-t...

Save the date flyer for two workshops, one in Sheffield on 14 April 2026 and one in London on 22 April 2026.

📣¡¡Save the date!! Join us for one of two participatory research events exploring the future of data stewardship, in collaboration with @researchdataall.bsky.social, @casdarnetwork.bsky.social, @uclopenscience.bsky.social, and STEP-UP. Signup links coming soon; travel bursaries will be available.

Save the date flyer for two workshops, one in Sheffield on 14 April 2026 and one in London on 22 April 2026.

📣¡¡Save the date!! Join us for one of two participatory research events exploring the future of data stewardship, in collaboration with @researchdataall.bsky.social, @casdarnetwork.bsky.social, @uclopenscience.bsky.social, and STEP-UP. Signup links coming soon; travel bursaries will be available.

Announcing UKRN & FAIRsharing’s FIRM project, a UK-wide community effort creating a transparent, sector‑wide approach to applying FAIR Principles in institutional repositories. ORP partners: ukrn.org/partner-institutions 
Web: www.ukrn.org/fair-institu... Blog: www.ukrn.org/2026/03/13/d...

A person with dark hair looks up at colorful confetti being launched into a clear blue sky.

🎉 In collaboration with the @universityofleeds.bsky.social, White Rose University Press is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Early Career Publishing Prize (ECPP).

The White Rose University Press team are attending The ALPSP Conference in Liverpool this week #UPREDUX2026

CRediT now appears in about 22% of all openly available outputs, and submitting authors are increasingly asked to complete contributor information; so the time seemed right for an intervention, using CRediT as a jumping off point for broader conversations around authorship and contributorship.

Naming every contribution: Sheffield's approach to fairer research recognition - White Rose University Consortium Research is a team endeavour, involving not just named authors, but a wide range of colleagues whose contributions to data, equipment, methodology and more are essential to the final output. Yet tradi...

✍️ Thanks to @whiteroseuc.bsky.social for featuring our work to improve contributor recognition practices on their blog! "Naming every contribution: Sheffield’s approach to fairer research recognition": whiterose.ac.uk/news/naming-...

A recent UKRN survey found that awareness of FAIR is still relatively low among researchers across all disciplines (ukrn.github.io/ORP-survey-2...). So we encourage UoS academic, technical, & professional staff to apply & share examples of how digital research is being made FAIR. Deadline: 17 April!

FAIR Data and Software Awards Celebrating 10 years of the FAIR Principles for research data

📣To celebrate 10 years of the FAIR Principles, we're launching the FAIR Data and Software Awards to showcase FAIR in practice across different disciplines & research contexts, and recognise Sheffield staff demonstrating best practice in making digital research FAIR: sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

We are very excited to share the full programme for the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026 and announce that bookings are officially open! ✨

Find all the details on the Open@UCL blog 👉 buff.ly/S7yECkO

Demystifying Data Journals: Experiences of data journal editors Learn how publishing in data journals can increase awareness of your research

Demystifying Data Journals: Experiences of data journal editors
(@n8research.bsky.social event, online - Tue, 10 March, 1-2:30pm) www.eventbrite.com/e/demystifyi...

Someone recommended this lovely experimental open access book at the #CopimConference and I added it to my training session on OA books today developmentserver.ravenspacepublishing.org/as-i-remembe...