Dr Beth

Misleading content can be both hard to spot and dangerous. But how can we identify and debunk it? Join Professor Iryna Gurevych for the free Milner Prize Lecture on 17 November as she explores:
https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2025/11/how-to-spot-and-debunk-misleading-content/

Well, socks are hard 🧦

Events & Conference Manager Salary for this Role: From £65,000 with benefits subject to skills and experience Job Title: Events & Conference Manager Reports to: Georgie Bevan Closing Date: 20/Oct/2025 23.59 GMT Job Descripti...

If you're someone with experience of organising events or Sci Comm stuff, I can't think of a better job!

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The battle for people, culture and environment Lizzie Gadd makes the case for embracing People, Culture and Environment and sets out why reverting to REF 2021 would be a mistake

Adding my voice to the chorus battling to retain an increased focus on people, culture, and environment in the next REF... wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ba...

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Did you miss the LIS Research seminar on "Obstacles to Open Access publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties"?

If so, never fear, the recording is now out! I'd really recommend giving it a listen.

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Applications open soon for the second Web Archiving School co-hort. Our fellowship aims to create a new generation of web archiving practitioners dedicated to documenting the Black experience. Sign up today to receive reminders and updates on the application: bit.ly/warc-2026-si...

Good luck!

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Ah that would have been great but we're not going that far north. Sydney - Tas - Melbourne trip.

After saying I was going 'soon' for the last 25 years, we've finally booked a trip to Australia.

Getting to see the country that shaped my family is both exciting and kind of terrifying!

But most of my energy has always been tied to the community rather than a specific job, and if you can make change there then I think that can last (for a while anyway).

Yeah, Ive had this previously when I was doing so much extra stuff to support researchers and then when I left they just stopped doing it and ... no-one really cared.

It's a really difficult talk to do in the current EDI climate, and I'm not sure I hit the nail on the head this time but hopefully it was interesting and useful for people.

Dame Patricia Routledge obituary: The life of TV's magnificently snobby 'Hyacinth Bucket' A much-loved actress who became famous in the role of Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances.

Very sad to see that Patricia Routledge has died. A big hit in our house in the 90s because of Keeping up appearances.

But more importantly for me she became a really good personal friend to my Grandmother in later life.

RIP Patricia, our family loved you very much.

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Things like going around the room and allowing each person to speak without being interrupted before discussion.

Monitoring the chat for people putting ideas in there when they don't want to speak up.

Returning to people who've just been talked over.

One big value action I've seen from introvert chairs is setting up meetings so that extroverts aren't the only 1s listened to.

Super easy for extrovert chairs to forget that the best ideas might not be the loudest.

Use yr knowledge of being an introvert to get the most out of quieter folks

Applications for Doctoral Clinical Fellowships at the Crick, including a project in my lab, are now open! Please share widely!

My paper from #ASEE2025 (the conference I attended in Montreal in June) is now live! In this paper I share some reflections on my PhD methodology, and some preliminary findings from my research into female engineering students' information experiences peer.asee.org/work-in-prog... #infolit #PhDlife

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations The ROOT & SHOOT project in the plant sciences has produced guidelines to help scientific societies organize conferences that are more inclusive and offer more supportive environments to all attendees...

We are incredibly excited & proud: our first publication is out in eLIFE!
"Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations"
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
This project was a team effort involving contributors from seven professional societies. #PlantSci

I mean that's the way of journals 🤷‍♂️

Nature partners with Research Square and The Lancet has it's own server www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en...

I haven't looked into it much, although don't see anything immediately wrong. Easy route to submitting to MDPI though, maybe getting more papers that way?

Don't know why you'd use it in the sciences, but could be a resource for Arts & Hums folks tho.

There's a list of flipped titles here: oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Jour...

Only some will still have subscription archives, but I bet it's quite a chunk of them.

Anywhere that flipped recently is likely to have this happen - APCs pay for Gold OA going forward, but no-one has paid for the back catalogue so it's unlikely to get flipped.

www.tandfonline.com/journals/ijm... and
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... are examples.

PSA: @americanstudier.bsky.social and I are launching this website to host our public scholarship and get it off of Substack.

It's going to take a lot of self-promotion (sorry!) to rebuild from scratch, but we put so much love into this site (that's notably Nazi-free and penguin-friendly!)

Haha, cheers. Beating the 100kg barrier feels really good.

Just finished lifting at the Sheffield Pride Party Deadlift Comp - raised my PB by 10kg to 110kg over the last month. 3 good lifts.

Pretty chuffed.
#SaturdaySport

Did you see your friend's book at the store? Email them a pic! See them cited? Email them (esp. as aggregators fail to catch many citations)! Did a scholar mention their work! Email them! Did a student use their work in a paper? Email! Did a professor teach their work? Email! Email! All the time!!!

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The first of this term's LIS research seminars is starting in just under 30 mins. I'm looking forward to seeing those of you who've registered there.

If you've not registered yet, you can still do so from this page cassyni.com/events/RY5W1...

You can read all the visions here if you're interested: web.archive.org/web/20211103...

"In short, the OpenAI paper inadvertently highlights an uncomfortable truth: the business incentives driving consumer AI development remain fundamentally misaligned with reducing hallucinations. Until these incentives change, hallucinations will persist." […]