Online event next week 👇
@pci-regreports.bsky.social

Knowledge Equity & Open Scholarship Week 2026 Programme - Knowledge Equity Network Tue 19 – Thu 21 May 2026 The Knowledge Equity and Open Scholarship Week 2026 (KE & OS Week) Programme brings together a diverse coalition of partners from North Africa, Europe and South Africa, includ...

We are delighted to announce the programme for the inaugural Knowledge Equity and Open Scholarship week taking place online from Tuesday 19th May – Thursday 21st May 2026:

knowledgeequitynetwork.org/casestudies/...

Was moved/overjoyed/inspired to talk to @elainagmamaril.bsky.social about disability, podcasting, and who gets to determine what constitutes knowledge. I am even recommending this to my non-RC friends and colleagues as an episode on how to be an excellent human being.

Event recap and full recording:

📽️leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/bridging-know...

Peer Community In (PCI): Leaving Publishers Out of the Peer Review Process Traditionally, academic peer review is managed by a journal editor who oversees the process and decides on acceptance. In this system, the publisher acts as the main gatekeeper,...

Peer Community In (PCI): Leaving Publishers Out of the Peer Review Process (online🌐, April 29📆, 1pm🕐)

leeds.libcal.com/event/4495806

With Prof Chris Chambers (Cardiff University) and @maddipow.bsky.social

Cc: @cardiffunilib.bsky.social @pci-regreports.bsky.social

"The guide explains why reproducing results using the same data and analysis isn’t always as straightforward as it sounds. Missing code, unclear methods, software changes, and hidden dependencies can all make analyses difficult or impossible for others to rerun."👇

Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration Abstract. Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’

Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration (2025) doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Mostly online and open to all…so HS2 not required for Leeds colleagues to attend👇

Still time to book for this lunchtime 12pm GMT👇

Creative Dilemmas: Balancing open access and integrity (2025) doi.org/10.31273/eir...

Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM (A MORPHSS Project Report) Conceptual frameworks of 'Open Science' and their implementation by funders, journals, institutions and other organisations have been criticised on the grounds that they are tailored primarily to quan...

Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM (A MORPHSS Project Report)
works.hcommons.org/records/h10r...

A Typology of Openness:

🔓 Openness as access/ible dissemination
📖 Openness as the rich realisation of research
🌏 Openness as equitable and inclusive knowledge creation

Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences (MORPHSS) @morphss.bsky.social

Currently comprises 30 practices (Certainly not exhaustive says @jenniad.bsky.social)

Bridging knowledge gaps through collaboration: Wikimedia in South Africa and the UK Tuesday 24 March, 12:00 - 13:00 GMT / 14:00 - 15:00 SAST This webinar focuses on advancing knowledge equity through Wikimedia initiatives and open education, with a particular...

🌍 Bridging Knowledge Gaps: Wikimedia in South Africa & the UK

📅 Tue 24 Mar
⏰ 12h GMT | 14h SAST

🎤 With Herschal Jackson (@wikimediaza.bsky.social), Lucy Crompton-Reid (@wikimediauk.bsky.social) & Chaired by @yclepit.bsky.social (@openresleeds.bsky.social)

Register: leeds.libcal.com/event/4499551

Design choices for productive, secure, data-intensive re
search at scale in the cloud (2019) arxiv.org/pdf/1908.08737

A colourful, collage style graphic with cut out letters spelling “research culture” at the top and “Community of Practice Open Call” across the centre. The background is pale with wavy pink lines. . Decorative elements include stars, hearts, a megaphone illustration, and small abstract shapes in bright colours.

Community of Practice 2026 - Open Call for Contributions

Our research culture isn’t perfect, but it is a collage we’re creating together.

Help shape what it looks like next: researchculture.leeds.ac.uk/get-involved...

Response somewhat dismissive:

"UK Biobank rejected the concerns, saying that no identifying data, such as names and addresses, were provided to researchers."

We're doing a lot of work around data governance. Read more here library.leeds.ac.uk/info/14062/r...

Mie, 25 Marzo: Prácticas de conocimiento abiertas y equitativas en el mundo de habla hispana

🌍 Nueva serie 2026 sobre Equidad en Conocimiento y Ciencia Abierta.

Una colaboración entre @knowledgeen.bsky.social, OELATAM y la Universidad Nacional del Sur. Sesiones en español de marzo a junio para conectar la comunidad hispanohablante.

Inspired by @sparc-eu.bsky.social Case for Connecting the Opens sparceurope.org/the-case-for...

Hold the date👇

Also see: hoverboards, flying cars

Consider donating to support the important work of R4L friendsofresearch4life.org

Best practices for APC waivers - Research4Life These guidelines offer a checklist of considerations for publishers to set and implement a policy around waivers for article processing fees.

Daniel - R4L is having an impact across the globe and are aiming to bridge the transition form access to open access including working on best practice for waivers for authors www.research4life.org/apc-waivers/ #ORW2026

www.research4life.org

Nick - empowerment - wikimedia can be a bridge between academic and global communities and between open research and open education. Can be powerful in terms of human curated knowledge and hopefully inform ethical AI, information and digital literacy. #ORW2026

Research Professional Futures Project (ARMA) arma.ac.uk/summary-of-t...

Report on the EOSC* Winter School 2026 zenodo.org/records/1883...

*European Open Science Cloud research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/str...

Small European publishers and the transition to #OpenAccess publishing: a 2025 snapshot doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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...

Only Good Antibodies; different players coming together in an open initiative Only Good Antibodies is an open science partnership between science stakeholders at institutions, commercial manufacturers, research funders, publishers, and reagent databases. ...

Only Good Antibodies; different players coming together in an open initiative (Wednesday 4 March, 14:00 - 15:00)
libcal.essex.ac.uk/event/4465347