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Durham RDM @durhamrdm.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Today we reached a milestone in our research data repository! 1,000 objects have been created!! 🎉🥳🎈

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Durham RDM @durhamrdm.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Time to plan ahead! Our next workshop on Writing a Good Data Management Plan will be held in person on Wed, 10 June. This will appeal to anyone applying for external grant funding and anyone going through the ethics review process. Please register on Inkpath: webapp.inkpath.co.uk/redirect/eyJ...

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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 13/02/2026

New research from our @durhampsych.bsky.social has discovered a link between loneliness and people’s light preferences. The research has been led by Professor @fuschia-sirois.bsky.social in collaboration with Dr Yanan Wang @ubishops.bsky.social. Here Professor Sirois discusses the findings ⬇️

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

📍 Research Methods Cafe – 18 February 2026 - 11.00-12.30 at the Nine DTP/DRMC Hub, Arthur Holmes Building. Conversation Topic: Methods that Help Break Boundaries. Open to postgraduate students and staff. No need to sign up, just turn up!👇 www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

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Research Methods Cafe Session 18 February 2026 - Durham University

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

A new piece in Insights looks back at a decade-long “quiet culture war” in scholarly publishing.. Open access, library priorities, global vs local needs… it’s all in here. Worth a few minutes if you publish research (or plan to). 👉 insights.uksg.org/articles/10....

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Ten years of a ‘quiet culture war’: where does it stand now? | Insights

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Durham RDM @durhamrdm.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

We have published a new Library Guide today on sharing research data with others during a project: libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc...

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Durham RDM @durhamrdm.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

We will run training on Writing a good data management plan soon! We will cover: RDM best practices; planning data-related work before it takes place; describing different types of research data; short- and long-term storage options for research data; managing sensitive data etc shorturl.at/YLiJC

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Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

💥 Congratulations to Dr Michael Loy, who alongside Katharine Hall has a new publication in 'Internet Archaeology'! 👉 This article proposes a methodology for restoring archaeological context to pottery sherds processed in the conservation lab. 🔗 Read here for free, open-access: tinyurl.com/6t8yhrjn

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Read our most recent Open Research round up! Check out our stats for last month and sign up to our upcoming sessions! 👇 libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc...

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Durham RDM @durhamrdm.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Our next cafe will be held on Wednesday, 05 November! All our cafes are informal and relaxed.

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Durham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

'Sick Leave of Customary Tenants in Late Medieval England' – new article by Grace Owen, Alex Brown, and Tudor Skinner in the Journal of British Studies bit.ly/4hrVxCs (with colourful charts too!)

The chronological and geographical survival of manorial accounts, which include allowances for infirmity on the Ramsey Abbey estate.

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Durham University Library @dulib.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Who owns our knowledge? 🤔 #OpenAccessWeek2025 invites us all to think about how research is shared, owned, and accessed 🔓 Find out more ➡️ openaccessweek.org @drodurham.bsky.social

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Here's what the Open Research team have been up to over the past month 👇 libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc...

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

🔔New research! Dr Eva Fernandez-Dominguez, Dr Kelly Blevins and Prof Janet Montgomery are part of a worldwide team that analysed patterns of mobility of the first farmer societies of Southwest Asia. 👇

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Hanna's (Zihan Yang) first paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... paired data on 317 sewage works and 232 control reaches for 22 years to find out what impact of sewage has. What was getting worse or what was getting better with time and why? @durhamearthsci.bsky.social @jlaknapp.bsky.social

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The Impact of Sewage Treatment Plant Discharges on the Water Quality of Receiving Rivers

With increasing human populations, the need for sustainable management of wastewater becomes an ever-increasing issue, yet studies that consider the impact of the final effluent on the receiving rive....

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Read our most recent Open Research round up! 👇 libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc...

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

"Who Really Influences? A Theory-informed AI Framework For Tourism Influencer Selection Under Budget Constraints" Co-authored by Business School's Zhibin Lin You can read without a paywall in DRO: durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4280665 Published version: doi.org/10.1177/10963480251361951

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Who really influences? A theory-informed AI framework for tourism influencer selection under budget constraints

Social media influencers are particularly attractive to marketers because of their substantial followers and cost-effective influence. However, research is...

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Read our most recent Open Research round up! Check out our stats for last month and hear from Nick, our Research Data Manager 👇 libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc...

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

👏 We're pleased to see Durham University listed as a supporter of Peer Community In (PCI) — a step toward more open, transparent, and community-led peer review in academia. 📖🔍 Supporting initiatives like PCI reflects a broader commitment to improving how research is shared and evaluated.

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Effective July 1, 2025: NIH‑funded research must be deposited in PubMed Central immediately upon publication—no more 12‑month embargo. Submit your Author Accepted Manuscript at acceptance via NIHMS to stay compliant 👍 #OpenAccess #NIH grants.nih.gov/policy-and-c...

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NIH Public Access Policy Overview | Grants & Funding

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Please spread the word that the DRO (repository) team are working on really reduced staffing for the next 8 weeks due to paternity leave (baby DRO team member incoming! 👶), recent reductions in the team and annual leave. We appreciate your patience, as always! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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500 million+ members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Hot off the press! Open Access! "Doxxing to destroy: The convergence of transphobic hate speech and non-consensual disclosure on X" By Briony Anderson, Sociology doi.org/10.1177/1741...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Here's what the Open Research team have been up to over the last month 👇 libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc...

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

⚠️ We're currently experiencing some issues with how outputs added to or updated in Worktribe are feeding through to authors' staff profiles. We're investigating the issue, and hope to have it resolved shortly, but please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused here.

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

‘We Don’t Ask For A Luxury Life, Just Basic Things’: The Experiences Of Mothers With Babies In The UK Asylum System. #OA research. Corresponding author @helenball.bsky.social & colleagues from the Durham Sleep & Infancy Centre working with colleagues from Scotland: doi.org/10.1016/j.ws...

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Read our Open Research update for the last month! libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc...

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

You've heard the term ‘fiercely egalitarian’ but some pop writers complain “it’s not clear what 'egalitarianism' should even mean.” We used thematic analysis of classic texts to identify six key mechanisms. Each was well-defined & consistent across four foraging societies. Open access & online now.

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

You can also read this research in Durham's repository: durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3790358 Thank you so much, @mariannhardey.com for letting the DRO team know that this had been published so we could update it and make it available immediately!

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Health Information Communication and Advocacy in the Haemophilia Community: An X-Based Analysis

Purpose: This study evaluates the network characteristics of the haemophilia community on X (previously known as Twitter) and identifies prevalent themes...

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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

New: From Virtual Rape to Meta-Rape: Sexual Violence, Criminal law & the Metaverse. Pleased it's finally out as it's been a few years in the making-always postponed by 'urgent' crises. But that’s the problem: we’re not doing enough to anticipate emerging abuses academic.oup.com/ojls/advance...

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Have you seen the new article by @chloefielding.bsky.social, Alice Streeter, @debbieriby.bsky.social and @mimhanley.bsky.social? doi.org/10.1177/2754... We were particularly excited to see this one as when the team visited @dulib.bsky.social in December, Chloe talked to us about this research!

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Thank you @dl-arch.bsky.social for letting the DRO team know about these open access articles so we can deposit them in the repository! They look really interesting - check them out in PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... doi.org/10.1073/pnas... doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Housing inequality and settlement persistence are associated across the archaeological record | PNAS

Definitions of sustainability commonly stress both systemic continuity and equality over time. However, the degree to which these two sides of sust...

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DRMC @durhamrmcentre.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Durham Research Methods Café's next session will be running on Wednesday 30th April 2025 in person, 1100-1230. All PGR/PGT students and DU staff welcome. More information here: www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

#HappyFriday and we were delighted to learn it is #NationalPetDay Emi and Betsy are very valued members of the DRO team and we are so grateful for their support 😼🐾

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Read our Open Research Team update for the last month!👇 libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc...

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Durham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

New article by Talitha Ilacqua, 'French Legitimists and Spanish Carlists: Transnational Ultra-Conservative Solidarity During Spain's First Carlist War, 1833–1840' 🥳🧐💾📚 OA here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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French Legitimists and Spanish Carlists: Transnational Ultra-Conservative Solidarity During Spain's First Carlist War, 1833–1840 - Talitha Ilacqua, 2025

When the First Carlist War (1833–1840) broke out in Spain between the queen regent María Cristina, supported by the liberals, and the absolutist pretender Don C...

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It is #AutismAcceptanceMonth! Autism is just one of the research areas of the Centre for Neurodiversity & Development. When members of their team visited us last year, library staff learnt about acceptance and listening to neurodiverse voices. durham-repository.worktribe.com/researchcent...

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Hot off the press - Open Access article: Dis/ableist criminology and domestic colonisation: conceptualising disabled people’s experience of hate and home-based violence DU authors: Sociology's Stephen J. MacDonald and Catherine Donovan www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This week 😱 All of these promise to be great; come along on Wednesday (March 26th) to hear members of the Open Research team discuss their thoughts and feelings (and graphs 📈) on all things Green open access 🟢

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

New OA paper by our colleague Jonny Darling (co-authored with Andrew Burridge) on the role of hotels as adaptive spaces of asylum, thinking through the cultural politics of the hotel as a specific site of 'carceral hospitality' in the UK and Australia: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper critically examines the central role of hotels in accommodating and containing asylum seekers and refugees. By considering the use of hotels in the UK and Australia, we argue that the hote...

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This is next week! ✨ Book your place now ✨ librarytalksunderland.libcal.com/calendar/res...

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

‘There are too many women with love brains’: domestic violence and victim blaming in China By Lihan Miao and Nicole Westmarland (Durham Sociology) doi.org/10.1332/23986808Y2025D000000073 Green OA version (no paywall!): durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3466231

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‘There are too many women with love brains’: domestic violence and victim blaming in China

While there exists increasing awareness and legal remedies in relation to domestic violence in China, victim-blaming still exists – especially in online discourse. This research investigated public re...

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Navigating open access publishing terminology can be a tricky business 🤯so we wrote this expandable Glossary to help!👇 libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc... Are there any more terms that you'd like to see included? @dulib.bsky.social

Multi coloured Open Access themed Word Cloud

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