Emma Rand

York Open Research Awards: Innovation, advocacy and good practice in open research across all disciplines at York. Supported by UKRI Research England.

The York Open Research Awards are back for 2026! 🎉

The call for submissions is open until Monday 27 April 📆

We are keen to recognise and reward a diverse range of projects, and this year we are offering additional prizes to ensure that all researchers at York have the opportunity to participate...

Image from the Quarto Workshop hosted by the UKRI Digital Research Skills Catalyst at the BeS annual meeting. Image include participants sitting at round tables with Pasky presenting the workshop materials.

We had a blast at #BES2025! Huge thanks to our Quarto workshop attendees. 💻📈

The UKRI Digital Research Catalyst is growing! In 2026, we’re launching a new hub for:

📖 Learning resources
🤝 1-to-1 support sessions
📅 Events

Stay tuned for more digital research tools! 🧪

@pasky.bsky.social

Research Data Stewardship Network Join the Research Data Stewardship Network at the University of York

Data stewardship encompasses a broad range of activities in the management of research data throughout its lifecycle, from creation to reuse 💾

If you play a role in data stewardship at York, or are the designated ‘data person’ in your area, then consider joining our new network 👇

A map of Africa showing each savanna protected area as one of five possible savanna clusters grouped according to climate, soil, and landscape parameters and the various environmental groups they call into. There are lots of sites that fall into "Cluster 1" of hot, mosit savannahs, but litte research in these areas.

New paper out documenting research in protected areas across the African Savannah. We identify the widespread hot, wet savannah sites as understudied with 38% of all parks having no papers associated with them & 5 parks accounting for ~50% of all papers 🧪 1/3
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Really looking forward teaching again with @3mmarand.bsky.social: all sorts of good stuff, including:

🐝 getting started with functions
⚡️ writing functions with tidy evaluation
🏃‍♀️iterating over columns of data frames
🐈 intro to functional programming with purrr

Hope you can join us!

Same! Some of my favourite teaching all year!

Nonprofit Refuses $1.5M Science Grant Due To New Federal DEI Rules A coding nonprofit turned down a $1.5M NSF grant after new DEI restrictions, highlighting the clash between federal policy and scientific community values.

I'm really grateful to @jdrakephd.bsky.social for shining a light on
@carpentries.carpentries.org's decision to stand by our core values in the face of escalating pressure to jettison DEI. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... If you're so inclined - help us keep going - www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday August 27th, 4pm UTC 🌈

- connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈
- ask questions about R 🙋
- tell us about an R package you like 📦
- show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻

➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups

We are excited to be participating at the @setac.bsky.social 13th Young Environmental Scientists Meeting this week!

@3mmarand.bsky.social and @pasky.bsky.social will deliver an introductory Workshop on Reproducibility with R.

Come say hello! 👋

#digitalresearchskills #datascience

🌟Thank you to everyone who joined us for the AIBIO-UK 2nd Annual General Meeting 2025! A celebration of AI-biosciences through keynotes, panels, MATLAB training, and industry insights—plus a fantastic networking dinner.

Excited for more collaborations ahead!🚀

#AI #Biosciences #Networking

🎤 The team behind Hidden REF - including some familiar SSI faces - has launched a new podcast called What the REF?! to discuss and investigate all aspects related to the REF. Find out more about it
www.software.ac.uk/news/what-re...

Here are the recipients of this year's York Open Research Awards! 🎉

Our panel chose 8 awardees, highlighting fantastic work undertaken by students, PGRs and ECRs across @york.ac.uk

They were especially interested to see such broad representation of projects from different departments and schools!

Cohort 1 tutors: @ellakaye.co.uk, Paola Corrales
Cohort 2 tutors: @jtrnyc.bsky.social, @3mmarand.bsky.social, @HeathrTurnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy

Looking forward to learning from you all - thank you for guiding us through this journey! 💜

Leeds becomes first Russell Group university to quit X - Research Professional News Leeds says Elon Musk’s social media site “no longer aligns with our university values”

“The nature of the channel…no longer aligns with our university values of collaboration, compassion, inclusivity and integrity,”

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

gif of feaz-book.com, clicking a button collapses all, then expands all sections in TOC

turns out having 100+ chapters in a book makes the TOC quite long 😅 I have now added a "collapse all/expand all" button to www.feaz-book.com to help with that issue

I turned MarkItDown into a webapp that runs on your browser. Check out getmarkdown.com

Congratulations!

Congratulations! That's a massive achievement!

Yes please!

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

You know the "🔹AI Overview" you get on Google Search?

I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke.

"Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...

Two reminders for people who are new here.

To increase followers and engagement, remember to fill out your bio and add a picture so people know who they're following.

If you want to amplify a post, don't just like it, repost it. Unlike that other place, likes are only seen by the original poster.

Amazing article and you should read it

“If business-school psychology is beset with suspect research, then the bar for getting published in its flagship journals ratchets up: A study must be even flashier than all the other flashy findings if its authors want to stand out.”

if you have a @github.com profile, can i ask you to update it with your @bsky.app handle? 🙏

👉 it enables some very cool integrations, like auto curated feeds and starter packs for contributors and tech

This echo chamber nonsense is predicated on the notion that bigotry is a valid perspective. It isn’t. Grow up! Think better!