Andy Tattersall

It’s a fact that when someone starts a sentence with the words ‘it’s a fact’ that it’s rarely a fact.

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Banning Sci-Hub highlights India’s unequal access to knowledge - Impact of Social Sciences The decision to block Sci-Hub in India brings inequalities in access to research based knowledge into sharp focus.

💥New: Banning Sci-Hub highlights India’s unequal access to knowledge

✍️Rituparna Patgiri

#AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #SciHub

Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities - Impact of Social Sciences Why open educational resources should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement.

💥New: Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities

✍️ @niamhtumelty.bsky.social & @heroicendeavour.bsky.social

#OpenResearch #AcademicSky #HigherEducation (@lsepress.bsky.social)

The call for abstracts for sessions at this year's #socmedhe25 conference is out now! Me and @kathymchandler.bsky.social look forward to seeing you in Lancaster in December :-)

Highlighting the importance of health impact assessments Added Value: Highlighting the importance of health impact assessments for housing developers, communities and key decision makers in England

Join us on November 4th for our next @know-ph.bsky.social webinar: Highlighting the importance of health impact assessments.

Fiona Marshall and @joelangley.bsky.social will talk about HIAs for housing developers, communities and key decision makers in England.
bit.ly/3Wlhole
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YouTube video by KNOW-PH - Knowledge for Public Health Thinking Long Term - Creating Sustainable Knowledge Mobilisation Outputs

The recording and slides from my @know-ph.bsky.social presentation 'Thinking Long Term - Creating Sustainable Knowledge Mobilisation Outputs' webinar are now available online.

Recording on YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TP8...
Slides on @figshare.com
bit.ly/3KwdVxO

It’d certainly better if some of the HE/Research orgs invested more energy here.

40m is still too small fry to attract some of the problems we saw with X, but that may change sadly.

How to use Overton to develop impact case studies - Impact of Social Sciences Despite the lack of clarity surrounding the next round of the REF, university research offices are already collecting evidence and preparing. Tamsin Varney outlines three ways in which the policy…

👀 ICYMI: How to use Overton to develop impact case studies

#ResearchImpact #ImpactCaseStudies #REF2029 @overton.io

Also add to that the line, ‘I’m sorry, I was wrong about that’.
Too much doubling down.

Royal Society rules out expelling Elon Musk after rally speech - Research Professional News Society president criticises billionaire’s “language of violence” but says organisation should not “police political opinions”

Royal Society rules out expelling Elon Musk after rally speech.

Society president criticises billionaire’s “language of violence” but says organisation should not “police political opinions”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

It's odd.
A mix of sites just not doing what they are supposed to do, overly keen but unhelpful embedded AI, poor UX and navigation on others.
I feel the web is starting to slowly unravel sadly.

having one of those Enshittification of the web kind of days. Literally everything I try to engage with is broken.

Crashed pages everywhere...and it ain't my router or connection.

Thinking Long Term - Creating Sustainable Knowledge Mobilisation Outputs In this webinar, we’ll share how the KNOW-PH team has tried to approach how we collaborate, communicate and share outputs differently.

There's still a couple of hours left if you have a free hour this lunch time to come and hear how we're doing research communications and knowledge mobilisation differently as part of a piece of @nihr.bsky.social funded work with our @know-ph.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-l...

Look forward to seeing you tomorrow Anna, hopefully you'll come away with much useful knowledge.

CILIP: the library and information association UKeiG CPD: Words and sound - using blogs and podcasts to disseminate research to diverse audiences

A few places remaining on my @ukeig.bsky.social 2 hour online course tomorrow: Words and sound - using blogs and podcasts to disseminate research to diverse audiences

Book via the link or contact @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social for a last minute booking.

www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...

Call for session proposals This year, we are delighted to host the 11th international Social Media for Learning in Higher Education conference at Lancaster University, co-chaired by Dr Katy Jordan and Dr Kathy Chandler. The …

This year, #socmedhe25 will be coming to Lancaster University, on 16th December! The call for papers/session proposals is now open at socmedhe25.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/c... - please submit abstracts by *24th October*
Hope you can join us - see you in December!

What research might be lost after the NIH’s cuts? Nature trained a bot to find out We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US National Institutes of Health grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences of such action.

We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US NIH grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences

go.nature.com/4pBArFH

One is enough, it’s Friday

At least 2, it’s cherry, packed with vitamins

Freedom and Sharing at the Internet Archive Europe On Friday, in a narrow, cream-painted 17th-century row house facing a wide canal bathed in golden light, the Internet Archive Europe celebrated the opening of its new headquarters in Amsterdam. Around...

Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage.

Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...

Train carriage internal doors with privacy screens

Be a good chap and don’t gawp at the first class passengers.

#OA wonks - can anyone point me to a list of medicine-ish journals that partially offer gold OA - e.g. ones that have full OA now but paywalled archives? Doesn’t have to be comprehensive, I’m just trying to design an in-class exercise.

The great university shake-up: four charts show how global higher education is changing More students than ever are studying across international borders, but where and what they learn is shifting.

If the 264 million students enrolled in higher education around the globe were a country, it would be the fifth most populous in the world

go.nature.com/46jJHGK

on 2nd October I'll give an LSE lecture on the future of social media based on my recent book The Space of the World www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b.... Baroness Beeban Kidron will respond and Myria Georgiou will be chairing. Do come: there'll be a live stream too! www.lse.ac.uk/events/the-s...

@figshare.com How can I delete an item (in my free account) that is public (not private). It seems from the help guide that you have to do this? It's a duplicate item. Thanks.

We have added our Housing and Public Health Knowledge Interactive Evidence Map created by @niftyfoxcreative.bsky.social to our @figshare.com as an interactive PDF. figshare.com/articles/pre...

The web version is here view.genially.com/67ea72e2301c...

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They're back again... what were the chances? 😂

Thanks, it has just ceased - which has saved me from the vinegar which I hate but my wife loves.

I'm sure she would have taken pleasure in administering the medicine 😄