Holly Ranger
@themauvedesert.bsky.social
📚 Open research / research data / libraries / research culture // ✍️ Critical ancient world studies / feminisms and classical reception / Sylvia Plath //
Just been alerted that a journal I’ve never heard of published an article I didn’t write with my name, university and work email on it 😡 Reported to my uni’s research integrity team but this is the second time (I know of) this has happened. Really need to know if anyone else has experienced this?
You're drinking too much water, you're not eating out of bins enough, you have unused compute on your home PCs, you're not eating enough carcinogens
"the forced adoption of AI threatens livelihoods, the information ecosystem, and the environment... Spread the bad news. Take up your mantle as a hater and guide your patrons on the path of technology refusal."
Holly Ranger@themauvedesert.bsky.social · 2w ago🔥"As values-driven organizations, libraries have a role to play in facilitating patrons’ rejection of technology, just as much as in their adoption of it... If information professionals can’t teach the public that large language models are not a reliable source of information, what can we teach?"🔥
🔥"As values-driven organizations, libraries have a role to play in facilitating patrons’ rejection of technology, just as much as in their adoption of it... If information professionals can’t teach the public that large language models are not a reliable source of information, what can we teach?"🔥
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2w agoI attended a lecture on AI refusal in public libraries. Created and led by Hannah Cyrus who is excellent. Clear practical information, deeply informed by practice and research, for real humans. 10/10 ital.corejournals.org/index.php/it...
This means that when a university recommends a GenAI tool or even licenses it to their researchers or students (aspiring researchers), they need to show that the tool does not infringe on academic integrity principles by design. Will tools like ChatGPT and Claude pass that test? ⬇️
It was also my pleasure to contribute to a @ukrepro.bsky.social project that's informed the new UKRI policy: w/colleagues at Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leicester, PLoS, & OpenAIRE, we assessed researcher practice against MRC's expectations for research data. Findings here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Monitoring Data Availability Statements and FAIR Data Practices in Medical Research Council (MRC) -Funded Research
The FAIR Guiding Principles have become a central framework for research data management and sharing. This study assessed the presence and quality of Data Availability Statements (DASs) against MRC policy expectations and the feasibility of assessing Findability and Accessibility using Data Availability Statements and repository metadata from MRC-funded publications published in 2023. Headlines: DASs were present in 82.3% of sampled publications, but only 58.6% were judged acceptable. Nearly 10% of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) did not resolve to a landing page. Repository metadata was generally strong once data had been deposited. Comparison of manual assessments with DataSeer's automated extractions demonstrated variable overall agreement. DataSeer’s extraction identified the presence or absence of a Data Availability Statement with 95.0% accuracy, indicating that DAS detection could be reliably automated at scale. Agreement was lower when assessing whether data had been shared, with DataSeer correctly identifying the status of shared data in 74.8% of cases relative to manual classifications. Performance also varied across specific statement types. For example, DataSeer correctly identified that data had been shared in 91.7% of cases where the manual assessment classified data as being available via repository deposition and correctly identified that data had not been shared in 80.0% of cases where data were available only upon request. OpenAIRE's conservative DAS extraction identified 51.4% of manually verified DASs. Follow-up analysis identified actionable heading variants that have already informed improvements in OpenAIRE’s DAS mining. The identifier-mining results should be interpreted separately: methods designed for full publication text were applied here only to the extracted DAS snippets, so the limited identifier yield does not assess OpenAIRE’s general full-text mining capability. The findings report herein suggest that, with further refinement, automated approaches based on DataSeer’s pipeline could provide an accurate and scalable method for monitoring data-sharing practices, although targeted validation is likely to remain necessary for more nuanced or ambiguous statement types. Whereas the UKRN Open Research Indicator pilots focused on the development and validation of generic indicator specifications, this study examined their applicability within a major biomedical funding portfolio and assessed their potential suitability for routine policy monitoring. The project therefore presents evidence on the practical challenges of implementing indicator-based monitoring in a discipline-specific funder context and informs future dashboard development.
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Open Research, University of Sheffield@openresshef.bsky.social · last mo.We welcome UKRI's new research data policy - there's still time to register to attend our @ukrepro.bsky.social webinar next week on research data planning & review - we'll be joined by UKRI to set the policy in the broader landscape of best practice and institutional support for open research 1/2
2/2 This is the first webinar in a new series connecting planning & review with themes including FAIR data and repositories, open research monitoring & indicators, and skills & capability development. Join us 13:00-15:00, Thursday 22 October - register to attend here: www.ukrn.org/open-researc...
UKRN open research webinars 2026 2027
UKRN open research webinars 2026 2027
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We welcome UKRI's new research data policy - there's still time to register to attend our @ukrepro.bsky.social webinar next week on research data planning & review - we'll be joined by UKRI to set the policy in the broader landscape of best practice and institutional support for open research 1/2
UK Research and Innovation@ukri.org · last mo.We have published our new research data policy today. This UKRI-wide policy updates and harmonises our expectations for responsibly managing and sharing research data so it is findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) and as open as possible, and as closed as necessary. Read more ⬇️
We have published our new research data policy today. This UKRI-wide policy updates and harmonises our expectations for responsibly managing and sharing research data so it is findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) and as open as possible, and as closed as necessary. Read more ⬇️
UKRI publishes new research data policy
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has today published its new research data policy.
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This is what "AI research assistants" take away from us: serendipity! curiosity! That explosion of ideas when you encounter something unexpected and think, "huh, that's interesting."
Hannah Čulík-Baird@opietasanimi.com · last mo.one of the things which I genuinely love to do and which has been the start of several of my articles and research projects generally is to search for word clusters in the PHI Latin text corpus. now it has a note on it calling on "AI assistants" in essentially the vocative
Hello #archives #digipres hive mind! I wonder if you can help? I'm looking for examples of Digital Asset Manager job descriptions. Does anyone have anything you can share with me please? Many thanks
Beaver Forgot: Damn It!
Alt: Beaver Forgot: Damn It!
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"The expression of fateful inevitability is always an invitation, even to those weaker than oneself, to identify with dominating power." On technofascism:
Zahid R Chaudhary@zahidrc.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe first foray into my new book on impunity www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/tec...
🎬It's a wrap for #OpenFest26 - with a perfect session to close on some histories of and futures for open research careers. Thanks to our colleagues Domi and Pete @hallamlibrary.bsky.social for running the show all week, and thanks again to our speakers and attendees - see you all next year!
Domi Smithson@domismithson.bsky.social · 2mo agoLast but not least #OpenFest26 update this week: What does a career in Open Research look like? Practitioners from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social glasgow.ac.uk and uniofstandrews.bsky.social share reflections on how their roles evolved and where opportunities lie for future of Open Research.
It's the final day of OpenFest 😭 Join us for sessions on open research in the context of working on and with minoritised communities, open imaging and workflows in plant biology and agriculture, and open research careers. Thanks again to @domismithson.bsky.social for live tweeting Day 3 yesterday!
Domi Smithson@domismithson.bsky.social · 2mo agolibguides.shu.ac.uk/openresearch...
And: open borders! I really appreciated @riverdonproject.bsky.social problematizing the use of "citizen" (and "science"!) in "citizen science", and noting the particular importance of resisting the state's logics in a City of Sanctuary like Sheffield.
Holly Ranger@themauvedesert.bsky.social · 2mo agoA theme that emerged today at OpenFest was *being* open: open-minded, open to play, open to diverse outcomes and outputs. Nick's talk made me think about how this is something that research professionals have more freedom to do. Academics have to pin down research questions in advance for funders...
A theme that emerged today at OpenFest was *being* open: open-minded, open to play, open to diverse outcomes and outputs. Nick's talk made me think about how this is something that research professionals have more freedom to do. Academics have to pin down research questions in advance for funders...
Open Research Leeds@openresleeds.bsky.social · 2mo agoOutputs from the “co-production experiment” available here knowledgeequitynetwork.org/casestudies/... #OpenFest26
I love @maddipow.bsky.social 's perspective here. I'm not convinced epistemological and linguistic issues are the real barriers to realising open research: we have to tackle the socio-political - & the psychological, too! Looking forward to Maddi's keynote at OpenFest tomoz @openresshef.bsky.social
Prof. Madeleine Pownall@maddipow.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Metascience needs psychology and we need to be better at communicating this need. Understanding how researchers actually develop and change may be one of the most missing pieces in understanding how science itself changes." www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
> As we have argued here, AI is deployed in women’s health in ways that reinforce sex-based stratification and (self)surveillance, both of which obscure structural causes of health disparities. [R]ather than representing a grand solution, AI stands to further depoliticize and harm women’s health.
![Figure from the paper. At the top it says in red: Impoverished understandings of sex and gender in women's health research
And then it lists the following below:
Conceptualizing sex or gender in terms of binary categories, and a subsequent search for differences between groups. This limits understanding of complex distributions and overlap between categories of people, while tending to erase the experiences of transgender, non-binary, and intersex people [25,31,38];
Relying on categories (e.g., female/male, woman/man) as though categories themselves are causes or mechanisms in health and illness, rather than understanding them as proxies for potentially relevant mechanisms (e.g., specific hormone levels, body mass and tissue distribution, propensity for risk-taking behaviors, exposure to discrimination, etc.) [39-41);
Discussing the experiences of transgender, non-binary, and intersex people as exceptions to the binary rule, rather than indicative of overall human diversity [42-44];
Understanding gender as primarily an individual trait or set of traits, rather than as a social system of difference and inequality that impacts health [45,46]:
Understanding sex as a static category existing prior to, and independently from, gender-related factors, and subsequently isolating and prioritizing sex as a target of investigation, inviting overly bio-deterministic conclusions about health and illness [47-49];
Isolating gender/sex from other intersecting social systems shaping health (e.g. ethnicity and race, class, sexuality, nation), such that women's health knowledge is not generalizable to all women [50.51].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreigrmqmkoos4jswaj3fhhcdsmhdjkf6ydk4rfckdoevvo5c7t4qqnq)
Last call for OpenFest 2026! Register to join us in person (at Hallam) or online next Tues 15, & online Weds 16 - Thurs 18. This year's theme is 'People & Place', and we'll be talking citizen science and co-production, critical approaches to open research and hidden feminist lineages, & much more! 👇
Domi Smithson@domismithson.bsky.social · 3mo agoOpen Research in Sheffield: People and Place: Join us for #OpenFest26 and hear keynote speaker Dr Madeleine Pownall from @universityofleeds.bsky.social present "Who Built Open Research? Reclaiming the Intellectual Lineage of Openness." Explore our full programme: libguides.shu.ac.uk/openresearch...
I'm sure this take has been took already but it's worth saying: the obscene, cynical performance of "It's about being against plagiarism" re Arday is absurd when the entire academic superstructure is being reorganised around mandating plagiarism using advanced plagiarism automation software
(The loss of search function is a vastly vastly vastly more damaging thing to information equity and social progress than research papers being paywalled and yet it’s getting a fraction of the indignation)
The loss of search structure is devastating for knowledge retrieval. I teach basic lit searching and it's always felt like a really core transferable skill for students to know boolean operators and "exact phrase searching" and now google, microsoft etc have just killed it to force us to use slopAI.
Elliot 🦃@nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 3mo agoOh I fuckin hate it out here. Yesterday I had to search Gmail for the quotation-enclosed string “code of conduct” and Gmail showed me every email that contains the word “of”
Pleased to share some preliminary findings from our work at Sheffield to understand current attribution practices and to improve recognition for all contributors to research 👇
LSE Impact@lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 3mo ago💥New | For a decade CRediT has quietly reshaped academic authorship – what comes next? ✍️ @drachiarelli.bsky.social, Lucia Loffreda, LizAllen, @mhmdhsini.bsky.social, Sandra Bendiscioli and @themauvedesert.bsky.social #CredIT #ScholComms #AcademicPublishing
Do try to remember that the EHRC guidance only affects service providers and not employment, so if you work somewhere where there are toilets or changing rooms for employees that aren’t open to the public then your employers are wrong if they try to stop you from using facilities for your gender
We must also remember that IR systems collect huge amounts of personal data on users (their search queries, clicked links to websites, keystrokes and mouse-movements, etc.) and make them available to be retrieved by corporate and government actors constituting powerful mode of user surveillance. 8/
This is important because from print media to search engines, all information access media are sites of political conflict b/w liberation & oppression. These Orwellian risks aren't hypothetical; we see real examples today of state & private actors trying to manipulate our information ecosystems. 9/
While concerns of user surveillance and censorship are not new, generative AI's ability to produce persuasive language / visualizations + our ability to align these models = key new ingredients for building systems of mass manipulation. Also concerning: emerging risks of Digital Blackface. 10/
cc: scientists who work with protected human data, and especially those ones who are also AI evangelists
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 4mo agoNEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
After the embarrassment of the UK's chartered institute for library workers launching their new slop generated website last week, this is a v. heartening and inspiring conversation w/ librarians in the US teaching patrons about surveillance tech, data privacy, and to trust their Luddite instincts 👇
Tech Won’t Save Us@techwontsave.us · 4mo agoLibraries are still essential in the digital age. Some librarians are even helping patrons ditch AI and get off Big Tech. This week Hannah Cyrus and @flexlibris.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to discuss how libraries address people’s concerns about tech. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/338_...