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Chris Banks

@chrisabanks.bsky.social
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Recently retired library director, somehow busier than ever being Co-Chair Besson Street Trust, soprano @LPChoir, #gardener, & continuing #OpenResearch #OA & #music interests

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Chris Banks @chrisabanks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The wonderful trust that I chair is looking for a Managing Director. Details here: www.bessonstreet.org.uk/post/vacancy... #job
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Vacancy: Managing Director
Managing Director (0.6 FTE)Besson Street Community Garden, Southeast London (Hybrid by arrangement)£36,000 (0.6 FTE)Besson Street Trust is seeking an experienced and strategic leader to become our Man...
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Chris Banks @chrisabanks.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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Chris Banks @chrisabanks.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Tomorrow I'm joining a @uclopenscience.bsky.social panel, Scaling Up Diamond Open Access Journals along with @theblochian.bsky.social and @abizadeh.bsky.social as part of the UCL Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2025. You can book here: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...
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Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2025 now open for booking! | UCL Open@UCL Blog
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Chris Banks @chrisabanks.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Help @bsky.app - the email address associated with my account is no longer active and I can't change to an active email address because that requires me to enter a code that bsky has sent to my old inactive account. What to do?
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Charlie Rapple @charlierapple.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Science becomes less effective if we deprioritize or excise DEI. "We may have lost the ability to say these words out loud. But that does not mean that our actions for a more diverse, equitable and inclusive research paradigm need to be put on hold". BLOG: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/03/d...
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DEI Under Threat: The Battle for Inclusive Research - The Scholarly Kitchen
What happens to research without diversity? This post explores why erasing DEI weakens science, and why research benefits from inclusivity
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David Prosser @davidprosser.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Some comments from @chrisabanks.bsky.social and me on some institutions walking away from the Elsevier Big Deal. (Paywalled)
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Chris Banks @chrisabanks.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
the text of the @imperialcollege Research Publications Open Access policy is now live. Thanks to my colleagues @imperiallibrary @OAImperial for lots of work behind the scenes. #Publisher letters are being distributed #RightsRetention #OA #OpenAccess www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and...
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Imperial's research publications open access policy
The new Research Publications Open Access Policy will take effect on 1 January 2024. Until 31 December 2023, the existing applies.
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