Open Research Competition 2026. Open to all staff who conduct research and postgraduate research students. Deadline 27 March 20206. Research and Graduate School. University of Sunderland Library.

We're hosting our second Open Research Competition! Following the success of last years, we're continuing to celebrate and reward our University colleagues who adopt open research practices. For more information see below:

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Open Research Competition 2026. Open to all staff who conduct research and postgraduate research students. Deadline 27 March 2026. Research and Graduate School. University of Sunderland Library.

Our Open Research Competition 2026 has a first prize of £500 and a second prize of £150! This money can be spent on conference attendance, network event organisation on campus, equipment to support research, and open research data deposit costs. For more information see below.

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More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists took part in Cop30, investigation finds Lobbyists representing industry responsible for a quarter to a third of global emissions participated in key talks at the UN climate summit

Do you trust corporations like Nestlé, Pepsico, and Danone to write climate policy? Neither do we. And neither should the delegates at #COP30.

But latest @desmog.com analysis reveals 300+ #BigAg lobbyists at the U.N. climate talks — a 14% increase from last year. #KickOutTheSuits

Title screen for Lucy McCormick's video 'The history of social class and the Bibliography of British and Irish History'

In this On History blog, @lucy-mccormick.bsky.social and Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal discuss how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) can be used to research and teach the histories of social class buff.ly/ZDbRcur

📣 Join authors, publishers, librarians, and infrastructure developers to explore the future of community-led open access books

Get your ticket now! 🎟️

🗓️ 26–27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London and online
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The Royal Society journals move to Subscribe to Open | Royal Society We’re switching our eight subscription journals to a Subscribe to Open model. Royal Society Publishing Director, Rod Cookson, explains why and how.

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Don't forget to register for this upcoming webinar (Wednesday November 5).

“When there’s so much misinformation around and distrust about science, it’s more important than ever that we are transparent about how exactly science goes on” - RoRI's @scurry.bsky.social calls on the research sector to end the “publication bias” against negative results: tinyurl.com/ux5xtm4d

How to use Overton to develop impact case studies - Impact of Social Sciences Despite the lack of clarity surrounding the next round of the REF, university research offices are already collecting evidence and preparing. Tamsin Varney outlines three ways in which the policy cita...

This may be of interest to UK academics preparing Impact Case Studies for REF2029 (especially in History and in Social Work and Social Policy (UoAs 20 and 28). But beware conflating correlation and causation. #Skystorians

International Open Access Week International Open Access Week is held annually to inspire global momentum toward the open sharing of knowledge in order to address important social issues affecting people around the world. Open Acce...

Hello Bluesky! We're Open Press University of Sussex (OPUS), a library-based Diamond Open Access publisher. To celebrate International Open Access Week, we're launching our first social media account to tell you a little bit about us and spotlight some of our books.

www.openaccessweek.org

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I'm a CC-BY-SA. That works for me. Like the idea of an OA chain. #OAWeek
Thanks Coventry for the bit of fun.

Open Access Week: Who owns our knowledge? This session aims to engage with the theme of Open Access Week to consider how academic knowledge is currently shared and owned and how authors can disrupt the status quo. From...

Explore with your Research and Scholarly Communications Teams the theme of #OA week. Who owns our knowledge. buff.ly/rJCnMDK

Image of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man sketch and the blog article title, "The Default Body: AI, biased health data, and the illusion of objectivity." Image credit for the photo: dilara irem

New blog post (never a paywall): "The Default Body: AI, biased health data, and the illusion of objectivity." Medicine's idea of a “universal body” was never universal. It was male, and now AI is learning from that legacy. Bias doesn’t disappear in data; it scales. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

It was a very enjoyable discussion. Thanks for being a great co-chair @meganeve.bsky.social. @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social #OpenResearch

If you wouldn't accept "we are at risk of becoming an island of strangers" from Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage you probably shouldn't accept it from Keir Starmer. Don't pretzel yourself trying to explain why it's ok from the guy in the red tie.

Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion Swathes of scientific data deletions are sweeping across US government websites – with decades of research at risk. Now, scientists are racing to save their work before it's lost.

"I have never seen anything like this in nearly 40 years of doing science," says Paul Bierman, a geomorphologist at the University of Vermont. "I think it's an unmitigated disaster."

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📆 It's just over a week until the Universities for North East England Open Research Week begins! Taking place from March 24th-28th, all events are online, and registration is open to everyone.

Read more:
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Poster announcing the UNEE Open Research week 24-28 March with QR code.

Please join us and share widely our Universities for North East England Open Research Week. Registrations close on Friday 21st March. Lots of interesting events about #OpenResearch.

Thanks. Just going through lists to find my people 😀