📃✍️Payment-based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology
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#GlobalBias #OpenScience #ResearchEquity #ScientificInclusion #SocioPoliticalDisparities
Celebrating Research4Life turning 25 this year!
We're proud to be a partner in advancing #ResearchEquity 🌍 #R4L25
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NEW RESOURCE 📚. Is peer review upholding ethics or stifling diverse voices? A study with 23 RACM academics in Australia critiques Eurocentric peer review biases. It explores strategies to navigate, conform, or resist the system. tinyurl.com/yc8zz4nn #PeerReview #ResearchEquity
A UCL branded graphic with a red background, diamond open access logo, with the text "Why Diamond Open Access is Emerging as the Future of Scholarly Publishing. Why Diamond OA, Why Now?". Call to action to read now.
🔓 If #OpenAccess removes barriers, why do so many researchers still face them?
In the first post of our new series, we reflect on why #DiamondOpenAccess is gaining renewed attention and what this means for equity and sustainability in publishing.
📖 Read more: bit.ly/4tBwfHI
#ResearchEquity
ArXiv's English-only requirement is a poor decision. AI translation as a workaround creates disadvantages for Global South researchers. Question the policy, not just build bandages.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#Preprints #ResearchEquity
#OpenAccess brings benefits - but also challenges. We work to reduce costs, address geographic bias, and uphold quality and transparency. We’re proud to be part of the Open Access conversation and to keep listening, learning, and improving. #OpenScience #ResearchEquity #ResearchIntegrity
Mental health research is still dominated by high-income countries.
Funding, leadership, and power remain uneven, even when studies are done in LMICs.
How do we shift toward truly equitable and locally led research?
#GlobalMentalHealth #ResearchEquity #MentalHealthPolicy
📚🌍 Who really benefits from open access?
Global study of 8M papers shows low-income countries lead in open access, while middle-income countries are priced out.
Knowledge should be free — the system still isn’t fair.
👉 tinyurl.com/mszuezp3
#OpenScience #ResearchEquity
🌍📖 Open science in South Africa
Fast discovery, but high publishing fees still block many researchers.
South Africa is pushing for fairer, more accessible science.
👉 Watch the summary: youtu.be/S-GRcTK8YUA
#️⃣ #OpenScience #OpenAccess #ResearchEquity
NEW RESOURCE! Authors explore how Yarning is used in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research. The study emphasises the need for genuine Indigenous leadership and clear reporting. Read more: tinyurl.com/bdddjv28 #IndigenousResearch #ResearchEquity #SciComms
What would research look like if every conversation happened in the spaces people already trust?
@arc-southlondon.bsky.social’s blog offers rich insights into how listening within communities can reshape inclusion and improve maternal outcomes. #ResearchEquity #ReducingInequalities
It's International Open Access Week.
Today, we're sharing insights from our webinar speaker, Dr. Daniela Saderi, Co-founder and Executive Director of PREreview @prereview.bsky.social
📌 Watch her talk: buff.ly/RJ5AHCd
#Academicsky #Edusky #AcademicWriting #ResearchEquity #OAweek
💥New: What we can learn from tracking research funding flows from North to South
✍️Francesco Obino
#ResearchFunding #DevelopmentResearch #ResearchEquity
Research from LMICs can be invisible or disappear. How can we make preservation a default, not an afterthought? #researchequity
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Research from LMICs can be invisible or disappear. How can we make preservation a default, not an afterthought? #researchequity
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“Remote-control science” keeps power in the #GlobalNorth while local experts do the work without credit. Time to #decolonize research with fair authorship, funding & respect for local knowledge 🌍
#DecolonizeScience #ResearchEquity #GlobalSouth #FairScience
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Worth a read for equity in scholarship: “Who Gets Seen in the Age of AI?” examines how AI-assisted writing may reshape who gets cited - and which regions gain or lose visibility.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.08306
#Science #AI #AcademicPublishing #ResearchEquity
We were delighted to take part in the OASPA 2025 Annual Conference, where our Chief Academic Officer, Dr Emily Choynowski, delivered a lightning talk on the evolving open access publishing landscape across the 22 Arab states.
#OASPA2025 #OpenAccess #DiamondOA #ScholarlyPublishing #ResearchEquity
CMO Wales launches Inclusivity Action Plan at the iconic govt buildings @senedd.wales Also announces the historic partnership between Wales Health & Care Research and @thecfre.bsky.social Oxford—embedding inclusivity at the heart of research & health improvement. #ResearchEquity #HealthInequalities
#WATCHProject #WorkPackage2 #WATCHUpdate #CareHomeResearch #CareHomeInclusion #CareHomeVoices #OlderAdultsMatter #InclusiveTrials #VaccineEquity #ResearchEquity #EquityInResearch #ClinicalTrials #HealthResearch #ResearchMatters #PublicHealth
#PrimaryCare #ResearchEquity
250 at the 4Nation #NIHR national Deep End webinar- patients, practitioners, academics, RDN March ’25
Presented to #DeepEnd Canada July’25 : “Learning Series: One year of Deep End Canada: International lessons for tackling health inequities
Podcast upload soon!
#ListerFellow @ and Lucy Wedderburn comment on the future of #rheumatology research and argue it's time to prioritise #researchequity and #inclusion so no patient group is left behind.
👀 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@bcellsrosser.bsky.social @uclchildhealth.bsky.social
🌍 Who contributes to open access in anaesthesiology — and who’s left behind?
📘 IJA July 2025 | Bibliometric analysis on global publication disparities
🔗 journals.lww.com/ijaweb/fullt...
#IJA #OpenAccess #ResearchEquity
Great to hear from @r4lpartnership.bsky.social Country Connectors from Kenya, Uganda & El Salvador on their experiences! 🌏 Very valuable to be able to hear first hand about successes & challenges, and hopes for the future of research (& libraries!) in their countries.
#ResearchEquity #GlobalHealth
The @r4lpartnership.bsky.social Country Connectors do an amazing job being ambassadors & focal points for local users! 🌍 We're so proud to have been early funders, and we hope to see the network expand even more in the future! Find all about it: www.research4life.org/about/countr...
#ResearchEquity
Commenting on #preprints benefits authors, readers and the community. On Preprints.org, you can give feedback or highlight parts for others via comments. Check the FAST principles buff.ly/R9D1mro for constructive feedback.
#AcademicSky #Edusky #PhDSky #AcWri #SciComm #OpenAccess #ResearchEquity
🌍 Who contributes to open access in anaesthesiology — and who’s left behind?
📘 IJA July 2025 | Bibliometric analysis on global publication disparities
🔗 journals.lww.com/ijaweb/fullt...
#IJA #OpenAccess #ResearchEquity
A recent PLOS ONE study shows the power of inclusive indexing—especially for independent publishers in the Global South.
🔗 Read more: www.dimensions.ai/blog/how-dim...
#OpenAccess #Bibliodiversity #ScholarlyPublishing #ResearchEquity
🤑 USA research grants have a surprising twist! Only 10% go to black Americans, while 41% fund white male researchers. It's time for equitable funding! #ResearchEquity #USA_Watermelon 🍉🤑 learn how i got $1256 grant for my business: tinyurl.com/financialhel...