Jenni Adams

February issue of our Scholarly Communications Newsletter is out! Lots to read and catch up again incl. #MORPHSS catalogue, #UKrepo report, recent #AI guidelines, PRC model and more. mailchi.mp/f0f2902feb46...

Vice-chancellor calls for review into student loans for those without A-levels Adam Tickell, of University of Birmingham, says money is loaned to people who ‘are not really capable of graduating’

I dropped out of high school, gained a huge amount of often difficult life experience, then went to community college, and now I'm a professor in a prestigious university. There HAS TO BE A PLACE for non-traditional students. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

So cool to see these young people recognized as the “children as researchers delegation” at this week’s #ECSA2026 meeting. Good luck with your research!

A copy of All Adults Here by Emma Straub, with a calico cat sitting next to it

Recently enjoyed this.
Like an Anne Tyler novel but with more queer joy

Your eyeliner is spectacular!

Calico cat lying in the sunshine, her legs stretched out

You should get a delivery of cake, too, to fuel you during the fortnight

We are very excited to share the full programme for the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026 and announce that bookings are officially open! ✨

Find all the details on the Open@UCL blog 👉 buff.ly/S7yECkO

@uclopenscience.bsky.social

Open Research, Gender, and Ethics Discover how open research can shake up gender norms and ethics in this online event.

VERY excited for this event as part of the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026 (online, April 20th).

We don’t talk enough about the patriarchal ideologies embedded in many dominant applications of “open science “

Excellent point by @morphss.bsky.social 's @jenniad.bsky.social at #OxFos26 yesterday: how can we uplift the epistemic status and institutional support for a whole hemisphere of openness? Which open research practices are actively promoted in actions, not only in discourse, and which are not?

AI and Ethics AI and Ethics seeks to promote informed debate and discussion of the ethical, regulatory, and policy implications that arise from the development of AI. It ...

CFP, AI Resistance, Refusal, Reclamation & Reimagining: Ethical Imperatives and Emerging Practices! Note "This collection is focused ...on the strategies & actions of individuals, communities, organisations & collectives to actively resist, refuse, reimagine & reclaim 'artificial intelligence."

Practice #23 from the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS disciplines: Public scholarship

"Methods for public scholarship include academic blogs, journalistic essays, social media posts, media broadcasts (television and radio), podcasts, and public lectures..."

White Poppy against a blue background

'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by the cyanotype process were the first ever to be published #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

@sabinaleonelli.bsky.social discussing what science more generally can learn from open AHSS research practices in terms of situated, reflexive approaches to open research... especially crucial in the context of AI's impact on approaches to open/research.

#oxfos26 #OpenResearch #AHSS

Who owns our knowledge? This is the theme of the Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship today, for which I am honored to deliver the opening keynote on the relation between Open Science and #AI - Programme: openaccess.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul... #philsci

Postcard which reads “deadlines exist, as do timeless states of contemplation”

Calico cat, sleeping, with her pink nose and mouth showing

💡 what a helpful articulation of the diversity of open research practices beyond open data!

"Openness in AHSS occurs in practices like experimental publishing, participatory research methods, and public scholarship"

Practice #20 from the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS disciplines: Foregrounding Positionality

"Foregrounding of positionality can take the form of brief acknowledgement of a researcher's positioning or more sustained, holistic and embedded self-examination..."

A broader vision of open research is needed to include the arts, humanities and social sciences - LSE Impact Discussing the findings of a new report on open practices in the arts, humanities and social sciences, Jenni Adams, Miranda Barnes, Samuel Moore and Stephen Pinfield argue to support open research in ...

💥New | A broader vision of open research is needed to include the arts, humanities and social sciences

✍️ @jenniad.bsky.social, @mirandab-oa.bsky.social, @samuelmoore.org & @stephenpinfield.bsky.social

#OpenResearch #SocialScience #Humanities #AcademicSky

After Paul Auster died I revisited my copy of The Invention of Solitude and found this annotation abomination…. I can only justify it by how much I loved the book ;)

Use AI critically to advance open research 

New Open Research podcast episode on Spotify:

I’m joined by Professor David Smith to unpack AI in research culture—moving beyond hype to talk integrity, trust, and... digital equity.

Tune in now 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/74Oe...

Black and white print featuring a blackbird sitting in a next amongst branches of a tree in blossom

Printmaker Clare Leighton, 'Blackbird on Nest, Lithograph of Wood Engraving, 1935 #womensart

Still time to book onto #OxFOS26 - Though the in-person day is getting crowded!

Very much looking forward to taking part in this @morphss.bsky.social panel in March to launch and discuss the amazing Report doi.org/10.17613/jn1... and Catalogue catalogue.morphss.work of open research practices in AHSS by @jenniad.bsky.social and @mirandab-oa.bsky.social et al. Register below!

A black and white photo of a lot if pigeons flying, parts of a building and balconies to the right

Rock formation resembling a pile of something on the top of a hill. Heather and raggedy grass is growing in between the rocks lower down. The sky is an incredible blue.

Sunshine in the peaks

Practice #19 from the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS disciplines: Participatory Action Research

"The form of openness embodied here is not the openness of research products... It is, instead, an openness to the participation and knowledge of individuals outside academia..."

My general feeling is that every summary tool shortcuts the library shelf. In grad school there were few things I adored more than finding a book on the shelf bc I inevitably found six or seven other books on proximate shelves that I didn’t even know I needed! Process is the point!