Domi Smithson

OS culture actions:

-community building efforts
-identifying systemic barriers,
-enhancing international collaborations
-capacity building for global pathways for OS
-reflective adaptation of existing research practices
and...
➡️promoting a COMMON understanding of open science

#NFDIxCS #OSC2025

LIVE from #OSC2025

Open Science as "an INCLUSIVE construct of movements and practices" 💡

Building and establishing RDSM in communities in 3 steps:
Inform - Meet - Discuss

👉https://nfdixcs.org/

#OSC2025 Second day in Hamburg for more of the insightful talks, hands-on discussions, and a forward-looking perspective on the future of research (and AI)👇

#openscience
#openresearchandAI

The GenAI Trust Gap: Why Students Hide, Share, or Shun AI David Smith, Nigel Francis Our recent paper on Embedding GenAI skills in a Masters program highlights key findings around a trust deficit in GenAI use. Evidence from our own work and across recent …

#AI in academia versus trust gap - David Smith opens up a conversation on how students feel about using generative AI tools which also reflects on the ways research enablers can support that cultural change towards openness.

Have a read👇
davethesmith.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/t...

LIVE from #OSC2025

p.s. @morphss.bsky.social interesting highlight from the posters introductions about the following AI project from University of Jyväskylä:

👉 "A human centered open source platform for image and text processing in humanities research" 💡

Open Science Conference 2025 Register now!

Virtually traveling across Germany recently - from Berlin to Hamburg tomorrow to join @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social for the #OpenScienceConference2025

Excited to learn more about the intersection of open research and AI 💡

www.zbw.eu/en/about-us/...

R4E Workshop Announced!!! — R4E R4E will be hosting a workshop for anyone! Topics that will be covered include: Data Management, Methods, Reagent Sharing, Bioinformatics, Microscope, Statistics, Data and Code Sharing, Data Analysis…

Join R4E for a workshop on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, at 10 AM ET / 3 PM CET. Topics include Data Management, Reagent Sharing, Bioinformatics, Microscopy, Statistics, and Data & Code Sharing, Analysis, and Visualization. #AcademicTwitter
Registration here:

Well done! ✔️

@researchdataall.bsky.social RDM Train the trainer - completed✔️ @humboldtuni.bsky.social thanks for hosting!

Looking forward to the RDA Europe Train-the-Trainer Workshop for RDM Professionals this week!
#researchdatamanagement #RDM

EEDI in Open Research 🎧

You can now re-watch some of the #openfest25 sessions via our library webpages:
libguides.shu.ac.uk/c.php?g=7091...

Last but not least of our key ingredients that add to our EEDI focused open research approach driven by #Openfest25

Thank you to all co-organizers, speaker and participants - its been a pleasure!

All recordings of the online sessions will be released next week. Stay tuned!

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If anyone missed our talk at #OpenFest25 but would like to find out more about MORPHSS - our new project to surface & support open research in the arts, humanities & social science, do take a look at our webpages, including planned project deliverables:

morphss.hcommons.org/project-deli...

Just about to start our 3rd day of #OpenFest25
The recipe for an #EEDI open research approach is still in the making, more ingredients from yesterday pictured below👇

We are now running our second day of #OpenFest25
Our key ingredients of the EEDI open research approach from the first day pictured below

@reddite.bsky.social chairing sessions today🔊

Thanks Jenni, I am just following your footsteps!

OpenFest 2025 OpenFest 2025 will take place between 2nd-5th September 2025. View the programme and book your place:

Join us TOMORROW as part of #OpenFest2025

🌐 Towards an equitable, inclusive and bibliodiverse publishing ecosystem
📍 Online via MS Teams
⏰ Weds. 3 September (10.00-11.00am)

Book your place 👉 buff.ly/jTIYWPV

Spotify podcast alert: #OpenFest25 Open Research + EEDI

Together with @openresshef.bsky.social, joined by
@jenniad.bsky.social@reddite.bsky.social, Dr Keith Fildes and Dr Jim Uttley we discuss EDI research design (and support) with more robust + reliable data.
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

We're looking forward to introducing the MORPHSS project at #OpenFest25 on September 4th, in a session on "Building diverse open research networks & communities."

Sign up to hear more about our plans to surface & support open research practices in the humanities & social sciences - details below:

OpenFest 2025 OpenFest 2025 will take place between 2nd-5th September 2025. View the programme and book your place:

If you're in Edinburgh, you'll be familiar with the post-fringe blues. What to do with all the free time?!

Well - how about grabbing a cuppa and signing up to Sheffield's online OpenFest? sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

In less than a month now, we will be launching our next OpenFest to discuss #openresearch filtered by the principles of #EEDI, the main theme of this year's event. Join us online!
libguides.shu.ac.uk/c.php?g=7091...

🔊Four weeks to go until OpenFest 2025! 🥳Join us ONLINE for sessions on building diverse and inclusive research cultures, recognition practices, publishing ecosystems, open research communities, and libraries.

Full programme and registration links below:

New podcast episode has just dropped on Spotify!
Listen to Dr Lewis Quayle and Ronak Naeemaee from Sheffield Hallam uncovering the power of open data👇

discussinghttps://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/shu-library-research-supp/episodes/Unlock-the-power-of-open-data-and-teach-open-research-e3663qq

hope you've survived

New Spotify episode on #openresearchculture

How are we driving a cultural change? What are the skills and practices that inform transparency and accessibility? As a linguist by background, I look into HOW we communicate and interact with researchers👇
spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/a7JJh3iXSUb

Join us in the next #OpenFest2025 at Sheffield: #OpenResearch and #EEDI in all the meanings of those terms: all the way from safeguarding #publicdata around experiences of marginalised groups 👉to an equitable #bibliodiversepublishing ecosystem.

Register now:
libguides.shu.ac.uk/c.php?g=7091...

Programme - Metascience Take a look over the Metascience 2025 timetable.

A responsible use of GenAI in research project attached in the poster board:
metascience.info/programme/#1...

Back from #metascience2025 in London with some reflections around our current research assessment strategies, credibility of scientific outputs, quality performance driven by AI agents and more ideas for my open research design 💡

YouTube video by Sheffield Hallam Library Checklist for GenAI use in research at Sheffield Hallam

#Metascience2025 has begun! Tomorrow I will be presenting our GenAI checklist - designed to help researchers follow that responsible approach when engaging with AI.

You can now watch our promo video👇
youtu.be/wOlgC8xn3l4?...