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Tim Fellows talking now about @octopus-ac.bsky.social at the Festival of the @hiddenref.bsky.social REF. Planning to do more promotion of this innovative platform @universityofleeds.bsky.social

YouTube video by University of Aberdeen ExplORe Series – How to identify potential research collaborators using Web of Science & other tools

Did you know today is #WorldOctopusDay ?
We don't know much about the kind in the sea, but we can tell you more about the new research platform @octopus-ac.bsky.social
We had an ExlpORe session that demonstrates using Octopus to find collaborators, available here www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7CC...

ASAPbio September 2025 Community  Call: Experiments In Publishing With PubPub & Octopus – ASAPbio During the September Community Call, we heard from Alex Freeman from Octopus and Gabe Stein from PubPub.

Did you miss the ASAPbio September 2025 Community Call: Experiments in publishing with PubPub & Octopus, where we heard from @alexandrafreeman.bsky.social and @gabestein.com?

Don't worry, we've got you covered! Watch the recording📽️ on YouTube and read a brief summary 📄on our blog.👇

Interested in sharing your work with Octopus? Join us for tomorrow's webinar, where we'll talk through all the new features we've been adding to Octopus to make it easier to create publications: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f6985a...

Search publications - Octopus | Built for Researchers Find and read open access scientific research relevant to you.

Want to help policy makers in research backed decision making? New Areas of Research Interest have just been published on Octopus for 4 governmental organisations. Visit www.octopus.ac/search/publi... to take a look, and write a hypothesis attached to one register your interest and get involved!

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As part of our work to make publishing on Octopus.ac easier for researchers in all disciplines, we've added support for formulae! To try it out, use double dollar signs to add a $$KaTeX Expression$$ to your publication. Visit katex.org/docs/support... to learn more.

Octopus | Built for Researchers Get started with Octopus, an open access platform where researchers can read, review and publish findings at all stages of the scientific process.

Want to help make sharing research quicker and easier? We're spending the next few weeks working to enhance our publishing process, driven by feedback from our users. If you'd like to help, hop onto Octopus.ac and get started with a publication, then let us know your thoughts!

Our @allysonlister.bsky.social is speaking at #OxFOS25 at 'Redefining Scientific Publishing' online session 7 March 1330 UTC, together w/ #AlexFreeman @octopus-ac.bsky.social and Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social (@cos.io) @oxforderesearch.bsky.social
Register: openaccess.ox.ac.uk/oxfos25 3/4

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Open data "has potential to transform research management" - Research Information Jisc report highlights several “quick wins” that could reduce bureaucracy and enable greater innovation in UK research management

Open data “has potential to transform research management”
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@jisc.bsky.social report highlights several “quick wins” that could reduce bureaucracy and enable greater innovation

UK Reproducibility Network has joined BlueSky! #AcademicSky #OpenResearch

Campaign to recognise ‘hidden’ research outputs and roles given formal go-ahead Today we released a press release about the next, funded phase of the Hidden REF! Read the press release below. A campaign to recognise the ‘hidden’ […]

We are pleased to officially announce our £3.5 million funding from Research England for our five-year project, Embedding Trust in Evaluation (E-TIE), we will be working with Research England, the REF 2029 team and the Research Diversity Advisory Panel.
hidden-ref.org/campaign-to-...

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🌟Exciting news!🌟 When you publish on Octopus, your work is now automatically sent to your institution's repository. Find out more ji.sc/octopus-pub-...

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Please join us in welcoming our new steering committee members:
@licataae.bsky.social, @marmyleva-ana.bsky.social,
Hemani Sharma, @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social

New committee co-chairs:
@helenagellersen.bsky.social, Paulina Manduch

Returning members:
Michael Muhoozi, @liannewolsink.bsky.social

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Call for the creation of new PCIs - Peer Community In Here is the list of the different Peer Communities In already created, hosting recommendations and peer-reviews of preprints and ready to receive your submissions

There are now 19 thematic PCIs but many disciplines remain to be covered! We are therefore making a call for the creation of new thematic PCIs and giving some information on how to start:

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Octopus Free, fast and fair: the global primary research record where researchers publish their work in full detail.

I've published my first piece of research on @octopus-ac.bsky.social! Delightfully straightforward. If you're a believer in free, open research (or just hate the traditional journal model), take half an hour and put something up. You get a DOI and everything!
www.octopus.ac/publications...

🎉Kicking off the new year with reason number four! Visit octopus.ac to start sharing your research

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Join us for an interactive workshop on how to work with government areas of research interest (ARIs) on Octopus.ac

📅 Date: 20 February 2025 🕒 Time: 12:30 - 13:30 UTC 📍 Location: Online🌐

ji.sc/octopus-ari-...

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When research met policy – a perfect match online - Research Information Alex Freeman, founder of Octopus.ac, explains the tool's new feature integrating government ‘areas of research interest’

When research met policy – a perfect match online
www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opi...
Alex Freeman, founder of Octopus.ac, explains the platform’s new feature integrating government ‘areas of research interest’
@octopus-ac.bsky.social @jisc.bsky.social @ukri.org

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Hi @transformevidence.bsky.social! We'll be recording the workshop and sharing with everyone who's registered. You'll also be able to access the recording on the @jisc.bsky.social events page after the event. Hope that helps!

How to publish on Octopus.ac - Jisc Find out how to link your work to government priorities and open the conversation with government departments.

🗓️Join us on Thursday 20 February! Discover how to link your work to government area's of research interest in this online workshop: ji.sc/octopus-ari-...

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Hidden REF Competition Hidden REF Competition 2024 🏆 The Hidden REF Competition Results 🏆Applications of research Winner – Sarjhana Brindha, CAMHS Digital Lab, King’s College London, myHealthE Highly commende…

The recording of the awards ceremony for the Hidden REF Competition 2024 and the results are now on our website 📽️ :

hidden-ref.org/hidden-ref-c...

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