Loughborough Open Research Team

The line-up looks fab! www.midlandsinnovation.org.uk/orw
@midlandsinnovation.bsky.social #OpenResearchWeek #OpenResearch #ORW2026 #ReseachCulture

Did you know that a good dataset can get you a publication? Check out this data paper from Richard Hodgkins: hdl.handle.net/2134/31305490

#opendata #datapaper #weatherdata #lborouni #loughborough #ukweather bsky.app/profile/lbor...

📢 Open Research Week is coming...

16–20 March
📍Online

Packed with keynotes, panels and case studies, this year’s event is bigger than ever, offering valuable sessions for the whole research community and those who support it.

👉 Programme & bookings: buff.ly/JCANngY

This looks like it should be a great event, and we appreciate you making it hybrid so we all can come 😊 Especially looking forward to the keynotes!

UoA researchers, be sure to check out the list for events relevant to your work!

An image of a gold horse on a Chinese inspired red background with gold text reading Happy Chinese New Year

Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate!

#YearoftheHorse #LunarNewYear

Two BGS staff members stand next to the landslide demonstration experiment at Kirkby-in-Ashfield library.

We're at the Nottingham Festival of Science & Curiosity today!

Pop on over to Kirkby-in-Ashfield library as we show you how landslides work with our live demonstrations! Entry is free.

#NFSC26

Volume 33 of 'Austrian Studies' is now out!

'Austria and Film in the Twenty-First Century'

Edited by Katya Krylova (@katyakrylova.bsky.social) and Dora Osborne.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55395

red background with hearts and white text reading: Happy Valentine's Day

Love + IP = the perfect match.

Explore the hidden world of copyright, trademarks, and GIs behind Valentine’s traditions.

💘 New post out today!

blog.lboro.ac.uk/rdm/2026/02/...

An example area with the dataset, symbolised by BGS Lexicon code and labelled with formation names.

Quaternary UK offshore data digitised for the first time.

The dataset will help users, particularly those in the offshore renewables sector, and can be used for reference when completing site investigations.

Learn more:
www.bgs.ac.uk/news/quatern...

Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Galloping into Lunar New Year: Horse Imagery in Medieval Manuscripts. A manuscript illustration of a knight in armor jousting atop a horse that is clad in decorated red and gold armor.

A medieval manuscript illustration shows a man and woman riding a white horse adorned with red and gold ornaments. The man, wearing a green robe and red hat, gestures with his hand. The woman, in a red garment with a veiled headdress, sits behind him. The scene is set against a backdrop of trees and a blue sky, with a text above introducing the horses featured in this post as selections from Getty's collection of European manuscripts, presented in honor of the Year of the Horse.

🐎 As we welcome the Year of the Horse, Graduate Intern Xin Yue (Sylvia) Wang is here to share a few fascinating images from Getty’s collection of medieval manuscripts.👇

Clear Skies and IEEE announce landmark integrity screening partnership - Research Information Oversight service provides reporting on journal submissions, peer review standards, and editorial workflows

Clear Skies and IEEE announce landmark integrity screening partnership

www.researchinformation.info/news/clear-s...

Oversight service provides reporting on journal submissions, peer review standards, and editorial workflows

An image of hands in blue latex gloves holding a Munsell Soil Colour Chart so that the cores (also in shot) are described visually, as accurately as possible, in colour and structure.

BGS is part of an international team that has discovered the 1st detailed evidence of long-suspected, hidden, freshwater aquifers.

The discovery comes from analyses of cores recovered during an International Ocean Drilling Programme off the coast of New England.

www.bgs.ac.uk/news/extensi...

Love data? Then license it!

blog.lboro.ac.uk/rdm/2026/02/...

#lovedataweek #copyright #opendata #openresearch @lborolibrary.bsky.social

Global Media Cities 2025: a new release by our @gawc.bsky.social research network ⬇️

and what copyright considerations you need to take into account:

doi.org/10.17028/rd....

Have a look at how you can share your data at Loughborough University:

www.lboro.ac.uk/research/sup...

Four panel comic on Love your data week

💚📊 It’s #LoveYourData Week!

Charlie the Cat and Copycat have teamed up to remind us that research data needs love and copyright considerations are essential!

Put them together and you get… a library‑made love story. 💘📚 (a thread)

#LoveYourData #ResearchData #Copyright #LibraryLove

Call for Papers 2026 Annual Conference of the Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland)

Our call for papers closes on 13 Feb. Theme is Authenticity: Archives are socially constructed - how do changing social perspectives affect authenticity? Full info openingdoors-ara2026.eventsair.site/call-for-pap...

Applications are open for PhD studentships in the School of Social Sciences and the Humanities, of which IRPH is a part. Deadline: 12 March.

Open call: www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Call for UK applicants from a Black, Asian, or Minority Ethnic background: www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr...

'A Queer Scrapbook' is a treasure trove of LGBTIQ+ histories from across Britain and Ireland. Packed with material, the book explores urban, rural and regional queer life since 1945.

Meet two of the editors at @queerbritain.bsky.social on March 11th, tickets here: www.outsavvy.com/event/32181/...

Students told us what GenAI guidance works. Here’s their advice Students are using GenAI whether you’ve addressed it or not. Here’s how to provide the clarity they’re asking for

“I know #ChatGPT can help with my literature review but I’ve no idea if I’m allowed to use it, how to cite it, or whether I’m somehow cheating.” Students are using #GenAI whether you’ve addressed it or not. Here’s how to provide the clarity they’re asking for: https://ow.ly/X7HB50Y8H0J #AcademicSky

Logo for Scottish Research Integrity and Culture Week, featuring a map of Scotland showing all the universities joined up as dots on the map

Have you heard? Scottish Research Integrity & Culture Week is less than a month away! Events will take place both all over Scotland and online and will discuss research ethics, open research, career development, and more! Register now!
abdn-research-integrity-and-culture-week.eventsair.site

We are very excited to work with our colleagues at SCONUL and @armauk.bsky.social to look at ways in which libraries and research offices can further support long-form Open Access. There is already so much great work being done in our communities - can we work together take it to the next level?

Join Professor Peter Kraftl and colleagues for the @ecer-eera.bsky.social launch of the new @elgarpublishing.bsky.social Handbook on Geographies of Education at this online event ⬇️ (25th Feb)

We are looking for a new co-editor to work alongside Tom Morley on our fortnightly newsletter, UKSG eNews. More information is available here: www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...

A collage of behind-the-scenes and interview stills from Loughborough University's filming with BBC Tech Now. Scenes include researchers being interviewed in a studio setting, people using VR headsets while seated on stools, a driving simulator with a participant at the wheel and a projected road scene, a purple DigiLabs entrance sign, a laptop demo between Jacqui Wakefield (reporter) and Dr Clare Mutzenich (Project Director), and a screen showing a cartoon avatar inside a virtual vehicle. Several frames include on-screen name captions identifying university researchers and project directors.

BBC Tech Now's Jacqui Wakefield visited @lborouniversity.bsky.social to see how design experts are using VR and driving simulators to help the Department for Transport ensure self-driving taxis and vehicles are safe and inclusive.

Watch:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Screenshot of Loughborough University Research Repository and some of the books found on the repository

As this year is a year of reading, did you know that you can also find books in our Research Repository?! Why not have a look:

repository.lboro.ac.uk/search?itemT...

#AcademicSky #YearOfReading #Books #ReadABook

OA Books Toolkit This Toolkit is aimed at promoting and supporting open access (OA) to academic books. It consists of short articles covering a wide range of topics relating to OA books, each including a list of…

🎓 Need training material? The Open Access Books Toolkit comes with ready-to-use resources to support workshops, onboarding, and team learning for open access books.

🔗 Explore here: oabooks-toolkit.org

#openscience #oabooks #openinfrastructure

I’m thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a Research Project Grant by the Leverhulme Trust for the project, ‘The Right to Liveability: An Ethical Assessment'. The £222,648 project will beg... I’m thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a Research Project Grant by the Leverhulme Trust for the project, ‘The Right to Liveability: An Ethical Assessment'. The £222,648 project will begin o...

We're very happy to share that IRPH's Dr Guy Aitchison has been awarded a grant by the Leverhulme Trust for ‘The Right to Liveability: An Ethical Assessment'. The three-year, £222,648 project begins on 1 July 2026.

He will be recruiting a Research Assistant to work on the project soon!