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Moonlight and the apotheosis of sacred baboons

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University of St Andrews@uniofstandrews.bsky.social · 2w ago

Illuminating research from St Andrews uncovers moonlight baboons which inspired ancient Egyptian god Thoth 🌔🦧🎉 Read more... 👇 https://ow.ly/tguU50ZsnAH #EverToExcel

The hand of Fife

Newly released thesis! 🎉📙 @mlaurism.bsky.social explores fandom as modern mythology, fulfilling our enduring need for connection, representation, and shared meaning. Read: 👀🐉👉 doi.org/10.17630/sta... @sta-modlangs.bsky.social #OpenResearch #ModernMythology #FanStudies @fanstudies.bsky.social

HALF-TIME | It's all square in Pretoria after a brilliant Scottish fightback

Exciting news - our online platform of over 650,000 metadata records of UK doctoral theses (EThOS) is now available again  Find out more about EThOS and how to use it on our website link.bl.uk/kxk

What can distant worlds tell us about our own? Ilyana Guez's thesis introduces Molecule Agnostic Spectral Clustering (MASC), a novel method for analysing exoplanet atmospheres through comparative exoplanetology. Read more here: 👇🌎🪐✨ doi.org/10.17630/sta... @earthscista.bsky.social #OpenResearch

Tomorrow we will remember and celebrate a wonderful human, sadly missed. Any donations welcome to support the volunteers of Torridon MRT www.justgiving.com/page/iainpro...

Iain's fundraiser for Torridon Mountain Rescue Team

Help Beth Proven raise money to support Torridon Mountain Rescue Team

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Kudos to #UNESCO on the launch of its new #OpenAccess #OpenScience platform. Here's the announcement. www.unesco.org/en/articles/... And here's the platform itself. open-science.unesco.org #OpenInfrastructure #OpenSource

Launch of UNESCO Open Science Platform

UNESCO invites partners, researchers and the wider public to discover a new digital platform that promotes open access to UNESCO scientific knowledge and research products and tracks global progress

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Super lucky to enjoy both a sea breeze and some shade today

If I ignore the weeds and the imminent rain, the back garden will do just fine for my holidays #Scottishsummer

"The book powerfully blends theory and practice, helping social scientists improve their research." — Brian Nosek, Professor, University of Virginia, and Executive Director, Center for Open Science Doing Open Social Science is free to read and download via #OpenAccess: https://bit.ly/4bKnowA

Out now & free to download by chapters or whole text, my @LSEPress book with Tim Monteath, Denisa Kostovicova and Hannah Boroudjou *Doing Open Social Science* press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3... helps qualitative & quantitative researchers make their work more reproducible & robust

We are delighted that our Libraries & Museums and @standrewsopenres.bsky.social are helping to support sustainable publishing through @ojcollective.bsky.social

Open Journals Collective@ojcollective.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Let's end the week by celebrating our next @ojcollective.bsky.social library member - we are thrilled to announce that University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums has joined us!

Congratulations to @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @arthistorysta.bsky.social Bishop Wardlaw Professor Kathryn Rudy for being shortlisted for the ACLS Open Access Book Prize for her book Image, Knife and Gluepot, which was published open access by @openbookpublish.bsky.social!

American Council of Learned Societies@acls1919.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Announcing the 2026 finalists for ACLS Open Access Book Prizes + Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards! Five books in six categories—anthropology, environmental humanities, history, literary/media studies, multimodal, and political science—advance to the final round of $50k prizes: bit.ly/43rZPDD

Scottish Universities Press (SUP) is seeking a Journal Publishing Coordinator to help shape the future of academic publishing in Scotland. To apply and learn more: https://www.sup.ac.uk/news/d9aldr4xeox9ux9fm1jb5xacamwsz4

Update. Some colleagues and I have been collecting university #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies for the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD). We now have 170. https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies Spread the word. The world could use many more. #Academia #Copyright […]

📣 The first OIPA Newsletter is here! We’re excited to share OIPA's first newsletter. It's packed full of updates, member highlights and insights from across the community. 🔗 Read the newsletter: mailchi.mp/bf74d58f98df... ✉️ Sign up for future updates at oipauk.org/contact-us/

New from me: Why funders shouldn’t withdraw money from open access publishing www.samuelmoore.org/2026/04/14/w...

Why funders shouldn’t withdraw money from open access publishing

Cancer Research UK’s decision to stop funding article processing charges marks a significant shift in how they approach open access. In its April 1st announcement (not an April Fool), the org…

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This month we're celebrating! 🥳🥳🥳 Open access journal hosting is one of the key services our #openresearch team provides. April marks the 15th anniversary since this service launched at the University of St Andrews. Learn more on our blog. 👉 openresearch.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/04/jour...

RLUK's new principles call for collective funding, not-for-profit governance protected from commercial acquisition, bibliodiversity, and transparency. For us here at the OBC, these principles are at the core of our operating model. 📚 #OpenAccess #DiamondOA

RLUK's new Shared Principles for OA Monographs points straight to the OBC - Open Book Collective

RLUK, a consortium of UK and Irish research libraries, recently released their Collections Strategy Network’s Shared Principles for the Evaluation and Acquisition of Open Access Monograph Models: a ne...

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🌊 Featuring a fascinating orca & elasmobranch🦈imagery dataset from @mattidcarter.bsky.social and Maeva Terrapon 🖼️🎥👉 doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... 🔓📙Read the #OpenAccess article here: doi.org/10.1038/s415... @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social #MarMam #MarineMammals #OpenResearch

📖Publishing an article with an #openaccess or hybrid journal? There are a few things you may want to think about, especially when it comes to article processing charges 💸 and the fine print of agreements... openresearch.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/02/arti...

Following the success of our book publishing offer we are preparing to launch our journal publishing programme. We are now accepting expressions of interest from editors of existing journals. All subjects will be considered. For more information: www.sup.ac.uk/news/introducing-journal-publishing

✨ Celebrating Dr. Pia Cortés Zuleta’s planetary science research! 🪐 Explore her open access work: research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/persons/p... 🔎 Spotlighting women researchers ahead of #IDWGS 2026 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM #OpenResearch @piacortes.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

St Andrews School of Physics and Astronomy@physastrostand.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Congratulats to Dr Pía Cortés Zuleta who has been awarded the L’Oréal–UNESCO For Women in Science UK and Ireland Young Talent Award in the category of Physical Sciences. The prize was awarded for her work on developing novel techniques for the detection and characterisation of low-mass exoplanets.

Fancy a walk on the pier? Not today!

Wild on Fife shores today

We've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...

The wait is over. Democratising spy watching: Public oversight of intelligence-driven surveillance in Southern Africa is out now. 🎉 Get your copy and dive in today: https://www.sup.ac.uk/forthcoming-books #NewRelease #BookDrop

Maybe you celebrated the new year with fireworks, but our team celebrated with something far more exciting: the implementation of updated open access requirements for #REF2029! 🎉🎉🎉 Read our blog for more info: openresearch.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/01/ref2...

If you have clear skies go look at the icy moon halo