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Yes! I saw someone describe such a binary argument as one that mistakes 'practice' with genAI tools for 'literacy' in genAI tools

Ah - thank you for the film recommendation - I will seek it out! So nice to hear that your students responded so positively to your selection.

What a lovely idea! There's a great Columella passage about beekeeping that has stayed with me, which they might enjoy ('bees are prone to melancholy...'). Feel like there is a pedagogical article for you to write there about the literal violence of learning Latin/ acculturation into elite violence!

Yes yes! Congratulations! Can't wait to read it 🤓

Hope you had some wine and a good sleep!

one thing that is so horrible about the AI interwoven into every medium of communication is the prompt to summarize. no, actually, I want to read closely and carefully the words which my beloveds are writing to me!

a man with a beard is standing in the snow with the words `` i belong in the north '' written above him . ALT: a man with a beard is standing in the snow with the words `` i belong in the north '' written above him .

The next DigiPres North meeting is booked in for world digital preservation day #WDPD25
Where we'll be discussing TeraCopy!

If you're a Northern digipres person without an invite and want to come along drop me a message!
#digipres

Counterpoint: this is a net negative and more deeply entrenches Clarivate in the broader affinities of scholarly communications; ORCIDs and other PIDs are already (quite reasonably) contested, and such affinities will reduce confidence from many communities and participants.

Interlibrary loans, subscriptions and copyright in the UK academic library sector | Insights

Uk library peoples! Concerned about inter library loans and copyright in the light of potential journal cancellations? Well m’colleague and all round delightful chap, Andrew Johnson, has written all about it here so hopefully you can stop your panics doi.org/10.1629/uksg...

View from my train window: a house decorated for Halloween, with a skeleton on the roof, cobweb netting stretched over the garden, and a giant England flag draped over the garage. 10/10 visual metaphor for the rotting empire lurching relentlessly on 🧟‍♂️ Spooky!

📣 Reminder: Sheffield Library is recruiting for an Open Research Manager/ local UKRN ORCA! Applications close next Wednesday, 22 October 👇

Hopefully you won't regret meeting me in smellovision!

Haha! True! Wow, hybrid working has made me so used to only knowing people in 2D...

Yes! Will be good to catch up!

Very high demand back at Sheffield for more Cassie stickers!

📢 Come work with us! The Open Research Manager is a reformulated role in our team - it would suit someone with a strong research support background, but I'm happy to chat to anyone about the role and criteria.

Our preprint on our translations of CRediT into 36 languages. We've come a long way with this project! osf.io/preprints/me... If you know of non-English academic journals that don't have a policy on saying who did what, get in touch - CRediT may be part of the answer.

Reflecting on #OpenFest25, I'm grateful to the presenters (Almarzouq, Bowie, Sanders) who reminded us that openness is a social practice > we must not lose sight of this. E.g. open practices per se cannot dismantle the humanities' centrality in the ideological scaffolding of apartheid and genocide 👇

This was great from @batoolmm.bsky.social - not often you see discussion of open science explicitly referencing universities' harmful investment in fossil fuels and weapons #openfest25

@lesleyuttley.bsky.social also examined research culture influences in health and biomedical research - shows us some brilliant visualisations of The Wheel of Fortune of Questionable Research Practices and The Vortex of Diminishing Returns in Open Science! #OpenFest25 doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

Finally, @lesleyuttley.bsky.social, who found 68 kinds of problems with systematic reviews, including lack of diversity in the review team: "a bad systematic review is worse than a non-review" because of the assumption of a gold standard doi.org/10.1016/j.jc... #OpenFest25

Now @alicejanegibson.bsky.social is talking us through how systems theory/ systems thinking can help us map and understand research culture as an ecosystem, locating the leverage points for transformative impact across the ecosystem #OpenFest25

In our final online panel, a great paper from Batool Almarzouq, who shows how - if you follow the sources back - the same extractivist dynamics that transfer wealth from the global south to the global north in neocolonial projects play out in the open science funding landscape #OpenFest25

And you can find more information about the @researchdataall.bsky.social Data Stewards Career Tracks Working Group, co-chaired by Elizabeth Newbold, here: www.rd-alliance.org/groups/data-...

You can find my presentation, 'Recognising the contributions of Research Technical Professionals at the University of Sheffield', here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

You can find Esther Plomp's presentation, 'Why CRediT' is not enough', here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Thanks to @nickshepp.bsky.social for posting links from our panel on recognising and attributing contributions to research #OpenFest25

And closing this morning's panel is @samuelmoore.org on OA, care, and the commons. Critiques the market logic of OA policymakers and asks: What if we approached publishing as the commons, as a community-centric activity? #OpenFest25

A snip of Hannah's slides listing Thoth's shared values for Open Access books

Hannah talked us through the @thoth-metadata.bsky.social shared values for Open Access books: bibliophilia, community-led, inclusive and open source, DEI, anti-competitive and non-hierarchical #OpenFest25