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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🗓️ In just two weeks, Dr. Susan Coan will be joining us at the Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2026 to present: Connecting Local Communities Meaningfully to Research through a Community-Campus Partnership for Health Model. ✍️ Register here: buff.ly/KoJRo2R #UniversityofEdinburgh #OpenResearch

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

👋 Join us online or in-person at the Edinburgh Open Research Conference on the 18th of June! Cristina Rusu is presenting: Copyright as a Path to Open Research: Unlocking Global Access and Learning. ✍️ Register here: library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup... #UniversityofEdinburgh #OpenResearch #EORC26

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

⭐️ The Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2026 is welcoming Dr. Emma Wilson from the University of Edinburgh to present: (Meta)Data, Distortion, and Dashboards ⭐️ ✍️ Register here: library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup... #UniversityofEdinburgh #OpenResearch #EdinburghOpenResearchConference2026

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

📢 Join us online or in-person at the Edinburgh Open Research Conference on the 18th of June! Dr. Carlos Soler Montes is presenting ‘Fostering Multilingualism in Research and Science: Bridging Language Gaps in Global Research Communities’. Register here: library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Do you know who's watching? Keep Research Data safe from prying eyes: Wednesday 18th March: Working with Personal and Sensitive Data. Edinburgh Futures Institute, room 3.52, from 2pm to 4pm. Difficult questions will be answered. Book your place here: edin.ac/4rPGUNw

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Do you know who’s watching? Keep Research Data safe from prying eyes: Wednesday 18th March: Working with Personal and Sensitive Data. Edinburgh Futures Institute, room 3.52, from 2pm to 4pm. Difficult questions will be answered. Book your place here: edin.ac/4rPGUNw

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

We’re hiring! The Research Data Support team is looking for a DataVault Reporting Intern to join us ASAP. Apply or share this post with your network. edin.ac/4ujsOpL #WeAreHiring #UoEJobs #Internship #EdinburghCareers #hiring #StudentOpportunities

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

There's still time to submit your contribution for the Open Research Conference, 2026 where we will be exploring the new roadmap, and UNESCO's model for OR! The deadline has been extended to the end of day, 27th of February, learn more here: library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...

UNESCO's model for Open Science, with four quadrants each with icons representing the components. The centre of the circle reads "Open Science".

The top quadrant, Open Scientific Knowledge, includes Scientific Publications, Open research data, open educational resources, open source software and source code, and open hardware icons.

The right quadrant, Open Science Infrastructures, includes virtual and physical icons.

The bottom quadrant, open engagement of societal actors, includes citizen and participatory science, scientific/volunteering, crowdsourcing, and crowdfunding icons.

The left quadrant, open dialogue with other knowledge systems, includes local communities, marginalised scholars, and indigenous peoples icons.

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Second chances: sometimes they’re real. Don’t miss yours. Data Management for your Research, Wednesday 18th February, Rm 3.35, EFI Book your place now: edin.ac/4rPGUNw

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Are you a Postgraduate Researcher needing help planning your Research Data Management? We're here to help point you in the right direction with an in-person training event at the Lister Building from 14:00-15:30 next Wednesday, February 11th. Book through the following link: edin.ac/46w5PhC

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This is Hadrian’s Library in Athens. Hadrian didn’t look after his data. Don’t be like Hadrian. Come along to our Research Data Management Workshops: edin.ac/3CguBVH

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Happy New Year! To get 2026 off to a good start, why not join the first ReproducibiliTea session of the year from 10-11:30AM (online) on Wednesday 7th? Our theme is "how to work openly?" and we'll be hearing from 3 wonderful speakers – Dr Mahesh Karnani, Dr Emma Ganley, and Dr Danny Schnitzler

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The wonderful Rhiannon Bull (who our Outwith team has had the pleasure of working with!) has just put out a call for participants! You can contribute online or, if you're lucky to be in Edinburgh, you can sign up to their workshop series. Learn more on their beautiful site: www.climatestories.co.uk

Text is overlayed over a photograph of the Scottish highlands, with a loch in the background, and a person with their arms stretched out on the right hand side in the foreground.

Text reads: Share your climate story. Help research into climate emotions and mental health in Scotland through sharing your creative writing - fiction or nonfiction- about climate change. No climate expertise or writing experience needed.

Deadline 28 February 2026

www.climatestories.co.uk

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Keep Your Research Data Safe. Online Workshop: Working with Personal & Sensitive Data, 23rd October, 2-4pm. Don’t be the last to know. Book your place now: buff.ly/OXSKWlB.

PSA: 10 PM Do you know where your data are?

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Want to learn how? Come along to our all new Research Data Service Workshops: library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup....

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Stickers! Who doesn't like stickers? We've made some Open Research and Research Data Management themed stickers to adorn your notebook/laptop/water bottle/whatever else you can (legally and ethically) attach stickers to. We will be giving them away at future events, so look out for them!

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

New post on the Edinburgh Research Data Blog from Research Data Support Assistant, Keith Munro. They reflect on their experience at the International Conference on Concepts of Library and Information Science (CoLIS), hosted by the University of Strathclyde. edin.ac/4kJo9HE

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Are you a UoE researcher (or research-adjacent person) or student with a passion for Open Research and reproducibility? The Edinburgh Open Research Initiative are seeking volunteers for a number of exciting new roles (1-2 hours/month commitment, flexible). Sign up: forms.office.com/e/cB8wB93gnb

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

If you want to attend the Open Research Conference,get tickets while you still can! Available here: in person edin.ac/3YMkxfU or online streaming edin.ac/3YLFSWF

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Latest Edinburgh Open Research newsletter is out today, featuring details of the upcoming Open Research Conference; a pair of events from CAHSS and the Participatory Research Network; as well as updates on a new O.R. Statement and a new CoARA Action Plan. Sign up for newsletter: edin.ac/3MU36Bq

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Worried about the current US administration's impact on research? Robin Rice's blog post details efforts by the Data Rescue Project in saving important research data that could be lost amidst cuts to funding and topics that are deemed antithetical to the administration's ideology. edin.ac/3EwlbY0

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We're really lucky today - we get to yell about a fantastic participatory research project not once - but twice! Empowered Journeys is explores representations of breast cancer surgery through the lens of lived experience. Sarah, The Hopeful Woman, 2024 © Sarah Browne, 2024

A painting with a blue background. In the top left and lower right corners pink flowers grow out from the sides. In the centre is the outline of a person, showing a mastectomy scar on their left. The lines making up the person are formed of words describing the feelings and experiences of the artist, a participant in the project.

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Did you know the University of Edinburgh library has its own publishing platform dedicated to Open Access research? You do now! Edinburgh Diamond offers free publishing services to support Diamond Open Access books and journals created by University of Edinburgh academics, staff and students. (1/2)

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Did you know that Research Data Support has it’s own blog? Even better - we just posted a new post! This one is from Keith, who highlights one of the more unusual datasets from DataShare (the research data repository). This set features, erm, videos of people not moving. buff.ly/3QiYLLY

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

[1/3] This week, we'll be meeting our Research Data Services Team - through the lens of the unnervingly stylish Simon Smith [he/him]. Simon is one of the key Research Data Support Officers, often found roaming the University offering training and guidance how to manage your data.

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

As part of our team introductions, we'd like to introduce Monika Barrera (she/her) our Research Information Systems Support Assistant! She joined Research Information Systems in 2022 where she is the first point of contact for the team, triaging queries and requests, providing user support and more!

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Not to brag (but to brag - we did wait a week after setting these accounts up...), did you know that Library Research Support is an award-winning team, and won a 2024 Times Higher Education award for Outstanding Library Team? Here are some of the team accepting the award #ProudLibrarians

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

We have had some really fantastic submissions for the Edinburgh Open Research Conference, 2025 - but we are keen for more! What OR Barriers do you face? How have you overcome them? Send us your submission by Midnight Wednesday 12th of February on the webform: buff.ly/3Cjcuzb

People around circular tables sit facing the front of the conference venue, watching four specialists in Open Research take part in a panel discussion. The slides read "Plenary Panel: Enacting Research Culture Change".

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Hello and welcome to one of our new Library Research Support socials! Follow us to keep up to date with news, updates, and activities from our team. In the coming weeks, we'll be introducing all of our teams and what we do - along with a few of our team members!

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