Hugh Sexey's Thing

Serhii Nazarovets@serhiinazarovets.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We found that famous songs often appear in article titles as catchy signals to attract readers. But they don’t guarantee more citations. Style helps. Impact still depends on substance. doi.org/10.1177/0165... #Scientometrics #AcademicWriting #Bibliometrics

Replace every how-to-publish panel with one on the material realities of publishing. This is where I’m at.

First evening out together without the kids for four years! Had noodles, beer and saw some lesbian ballet (Northern Ballet's 'Gentleman Jack') 10/10 evening 😍

Nah it was pretty good

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo ago

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie review – bland screensaver of a movie that’s actually worse than AI

7yo on kids youtube "Em look, they're making a chocolate QR code!"

My partner just said "is it queer to date an AI" and I really miss the heyday of twitter where you would have been able to amuse yourself for hours reading discourse about just this type of thing

I guess that's the point of a provocation but academic authors aren't a monolithic group...

Emma Booth (she/her)@emmabooth.eurosky.social · 4mo ago

Dave Jago launches a provocation that only #librarians want #openaccess for #longform - it doesn't serve authors Do authors really want to reach as many readers as possible? Or do they just want to reach the 'right' audiences & need the heft of established publishers (eg via marketing)? #RLUK26

Here are my reflections on the #CopimConference - thanks again for the bursary to attend 🥰

Copim@copim.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Next up is @ebnunn.bsky.social Scholarly Communications Librarian @sheffielduni.bsky.social Notes from the #CopimConference features their thoughts on labour, values & community Read more 👇 copim.pub/notes-from-t...

In the first of a series from our #CopimConference bursary attendees, @meganeve.eurosky.social (Copyright & Scholarly Comms Librarian at@yorkstjohn.bsky.social) shares: 🧠 reflections on the event 🔜 next steps after the conference 🤝 advice on getting involved w/Copim Read & share: buff.ly/0gwiYQR

Reflections of the Copim Conference - Copim

This is a guest post by Megan Kilvington, Copyright & Scholarly Communications Librarian at York St John University, a recipient of a bursary for the Copim Co…

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Love an endlessly adaptable vehicle for baked beans

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 5mo ago

“Jacket potatoes,” a British classic, are having a culinary comeback thanks to social media. They act as an endlessly adaptable vehicle for baked beans, tuna salad and all manner of other peculiarly British toppings. nyti.ms/4lRsIBU

Solidarity with the school librarian in this article, subject to disciplinary action and marked as a safeguarding threat for just doing her job :-(

Index on Censorship@indexoncensorship.org · 5mo ago

A shocking new investigation by Index reveals that Emily (not her real name), a school librarian in Greater Manchester, faced disciplinary action after stocking the book Men Who Hate Women. Nearly 200 books were targeted. 1/4 By @katiedd.bsky.social

Sometimes my partner and I try and introduce a song into the tightly controlled car playlist and it never goes down well

Join @morphss.bsky.social for their catalogue launch event and panel discussion next week! The panel of experts features @openreflections.bsky.social from our Experimental Publishing Group! 📆 Thurs, 19 March ⏲️ 3-4:30 pm GMT 📍 Online Register now! buff.ly/q3tc1UH #OpenResearch #AHSS

MORPHSS Catalogue launch event and panel discussion

Documenting open research practices in the arts, humanities and social sciences: MORPHSS Catalogue launch event and panel discussion.

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Tig has persuaded me it is their "birthday eve" so we can have a beer even though it is monday. Living the high life

happy mothers day - the kids are screaming at each other again and 3yo has embarked on trying to make a cake with real eggs without us noticing 🌸🍳

Watched the last epidode of Call the Midwife - end of an era!

Very much looking forward to speaking on a panel with @aileenfyfe.bsky.social and @eve.gd on 'Open Access Books: Rights, Ownership and Control' on Monday 20 April at the London Open Science & Scholarship festival! Find out more: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...

Looking afresh at these reviewers' comments on our paper on trans disabled people, it's even more obvious that the paper was rejected because of transphobia

It is a shame when old ladies on the tram inform me that 3yo is licking the windows because then I have to make a big show of stopping her licking the windows and once she knows I don't want her to she only wants to lick the windows MORE

Only a few days after @scholtom.bsky.social informed me he had screenshotted one of my bluesky posts about wiley to use at appropriate moments, my heady days of fame have arrived

Em Nunn@ebnunn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A librarian cited my thesis in their presentation and I am very happy as I assumed no one had ever read it 😂😂

A librarian cited my thesis in their presentation and I am very happy as I assumed no one had ever read it 😂😂

Someone recommended this lovely experimental open access book at the #CopimConference and I added it to my training session on OA books today developmentserver.ravenspacepublishing.org/as-i-remembe...

The Artistic Journey: 2021: celebrated as I published one of the best books of my career. 2025: watched Anthropic steal it, with millions of others, to train its model, without compensation. 2026: watched Anthropic sell that model, an AI killing machine, to the US government. Human progress!

Particularly loud pro life guy with a Bible outside Sheffield Cathedral this morning providing vivid descriptions of what the punishment in hell would be like for women who had had abortions 😬😬

Accessibility is a shared responsibility across scholarly communications; everyone needs to ensure that it is embedded in their workflows and that resources meet the needs of disabled users #CopimConference

Still a huge queue of Harry Potter fans at Kings Cross posing with wands by the platform 9 3/4 sign!

This is what I think about when people say we need to give people "AI literacy". How do you AI literacy out of this exactly? This shows how absurd the concept is, this is what the goal of AI is for every worker.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5mo ago

“Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees.”

As a PhD student studying open access and then an OA librarian I have been v disillusioned with the whole project but the work produced by Copim over the last few years has really provided something to enage with again #CopimConference

Excellent keynote by Siddharth Soni linking the colonialism of genAI to the colonialism of knowledge production now and throughout history #CopimConference

Simon@simonxix.com · 5mo ago

🔥 #CopimConference