Reposted by Emma WilsonRachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Mary Astell first suggested higher education for women in 1694. Emily Davies petitioned Cambridge for access in 1866. Equal access to HE was finally achieved in 1995. Three bloody centuries. 9386139
Reposted by Emma WilsonOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/09/2026are they destroying the humble spreadsheet? 10799
Reposted by Emma WilsonSimon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 23/09/2026Are these the same UK Higher Education providers who have all uncritically subscribed to LLM platforms like ChatGPT Edu? Who continually recontract with the same proprietary software providers like Ex Libris Group for library systems? 178
Reposted by Emma WilsonIva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This ridiculous number of applications is, in my view, the result of 2 nightmare developments happening concurrently 1.the precariousness of the job market for young PhD graduates which then fuels further: 2.the AI tools enabling overproduction of proposals. #Research #ERC #ResearchFunding #Academia 411448
Reposted by Emma WilsonMartin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 21/09/2026And add the cost of assessing it on top of that. It is phenomenal how much time we spend just so that we can maintain the ideology of meritocratic competition. 02310
Reposted by Emma WilsonMoti Black 🏴 @motiblackart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026For those of you who think it's too early for Halloween... This is a carve I wanted to do for a while, so finally did it last year. I think I'm going to try something similar again this year, but with even more planning (sob). 173
Reposted by Emma WilsonBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026you think metascience units sound good on paper but are skeptical that they will be misused by this government. i think they sound horrifying on paper and am skeptical that they could do any good in anyone's hands. we are not the same.aip.orgResearchers Skeptical of NSF Metascience PlanThe agency issued a memo last week laying out several grantmaking changes, including a new office for metascience. 23613
Reposted by Emma Wilson👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/09/2026if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep” bring a union rep 251823533
Reposted by Emma WilsonRebecca Wojturska @beckywojturska.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Wrote in @timeshighered.bsky.social Campus about Diamond Open Access in the UK. Give it a read and check out these incredibly vital OA initiatives: @oipassoc.bsky.social, @ojcollective.bsky.social, @openbookcollective.bsky.social, @eudch.bsky.social. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/diamo...timeshighereducation.comDiamond open access publishing: what it is and how to do itFor researchers interested in publishing their work with no fees for authors or readers, diamond open access publishing could be the answer. Here is a guide to the basics 02116
Reposted by Emma WilsonMORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026'The word traceability, in place of reproducibility, [...] refers to the extent to which the decisions made by the researcher are transparently documented, allowing readers to see how conclusions were reached' @maddipow.bsky.social in new paper 'Can open science speak qualitative?' ⬇️doi.orgCan open science speak qualitative? Rearticulating open science vocabulary for qualitative research‘Open research’ (or ‘open science’) has substantially reshaped conversations surrounding rigor, transparency, and accountability, yet its vocabulary remains largely rooted in quantitative, positivi... 03419
Reposted by Emma WilsonIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 15/09/2026📣 Scholarship programme for applications by graduates in the Netherlands with a non-Western migration background and/or a recent asylum background. If interested to do PhD research in Computational Cognitive Science, feel free to reach out! Info about research lines in our lab in thread below. 🧵nwo.nlFirst round of Mosaic 3.0 now open for applications | NWOThe first round of the updated Mosaic 3.0 PhD scholarship programme is now open for applications. Mosaic encourages the recruitment of graduates from under-represented groups into Dutch academia by fu... 14533
Reposted by Emma WilsonAlice Bennett @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The RNLI and the RNIB both do excellent, if very different, work. Those attacking them are monstrous. 061
Reposted by Emma WilsonMoti Black 🏴 @motiblackart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This may be interesting: societyofauthors.org/event/indust...societyofauthors.orgIndustry Insider – Neurodiversity, disability justice, and writing in Wales - The Society of AuthorsThis session on neurodiversity and disability will spotlight the work of Sofia Brizio, an Italian writer, translator and editor based in Wales, chaired by neurodivergent writer, Francesca Sobande. 073
Emma Wilson @emmawilson.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026I really appreciate this initiative, and I already peer review for diamond OA journals and am on the editorial board for one, but I think the info on the webpage conflates OA costs (free to read and publish) and other open research values. Not all diamond OA journals are scholar led for instance. 1115
Reposted by Emma WilsonUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. 41422498
Reposted by Emma WilsonBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The interventionist, top-down, efficiency-driven approach to science policy depresses me even without that power being abused by an authoritarian government that is deeply scared of science and scientists but is aware of and needs to exploit its rhetorical power in society. 02713
Reposted by Emma WilsonMORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Arts, humanities & social science researchers, are you aware of any journals in your field that make good use of plain language summaries to make publications more accessible to non-academic or practitioner audiences? If so, we'd love to hear from you - do reply in-thread! 3611
Reposted by Emma WilsonAlice Bennett @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Resharing with functional link! unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...unesdoc.unesco.org 174
Reposted by Emma WilsonSimon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 08/09/2026As I've noted before (blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...), outsourcing – especially on technical infrastructure – ultimately costs more, is less secure, and is less effective than investing in people and building things in-house. 1114
Reposted by Emma WilsonBritish Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The full programme for this year's Fantasycon is now available! Join us in Glasgow next month for 3 days of talks, workshops, live podcasts, panel discussions, readings, and more - plus, of course, to find out who's won the British Fantasy Awards! Head to: britishfantasysociety.org/events-2/fan... 16437
Emma Wilson @emmawilson.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026Handling peer reviews as a journal editor for the first time ever and praying I’m doing everything right 🤞 4110
Reposted by Emma WilsonThe Binks Hub @thebinkshub.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We're thrilled to share our Binks Hub Celebration Day, happening at Greyfriars Charteris Centre in Edinburgh on Thursday 8th October! Join us to celebrate five years of community collaboration in research. Find out more and browse the programme of events: edin.ac/4h2ZH58 168
Reposted by Emma WilsonJenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social · 01/09/2026NEW training slides on open research in the arts, humanities & qualitative social sciences, codeveloped by staff from 15 UK universities at a hackathon event earlier this summer. Including colleagues from @uoyopenres.bsky.social, @edopenresearch.bsky.social, @openresleeds.bsky.social & moredoi.org 02213
Emma Wilson @emmawilson.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026Brilliant thread. Completely agree with @devezer.bsky.social 050
Reposted by Emma WilsonAndrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Reminds me of AI pushers who claim it's good so ppl "improve their language," esp non-native EN speakers. Many of us speak globish but claiming u cannot understand us, is ridiculous. Language is a rich, living thing. To hell w the pancaking of language & PLEASE allow ppl to develop their own voices. 06119
Reposted by Emma WilsonBritish Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026A little public service announcement for the horror community: You are always welcome in the British Fantasy Society. We exist to celebrate and support ALL of speculative fiction - including horror, dark fantasy, paranormal and supernatural, and crime stories - across the spectrum. 🧵⬇️ 412458
Reposted by Emma WilsonRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"My sense is that at least some of these people genuinely consider themselves to be politically neutral defenders of academic values – a delusion so enormous that one has to wonder what quality of thought informs their academic work" 0216
Reposted by Emma WilsonIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The conclusion is NOT "we need to debias LLMs" Besides that it's impossible, it also detracts from the point, which is: We shouldn't use machines to offload of the very cognition that is constitutive of the work to be done & supercharge existing inequities and injustices in the process. 🧵 544191
Reposted by Emma WilsonIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Using LLMs in science for “literature review” or “summarizing" is *automated cryptogyny* olivia.science/cryptogyny/ @olivia.science 🧵olivia.scienceCryptogynyOn the systematic obfuscation of women's contributions. 3389168
Reposted by Emma WilsonBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Metascientists need to be required to read history of science. We already know so much about how an individual experiment is not a miraculous thing that is supposed to single-handedly produce fail-proof scientific facts. More than science, it's our assumptions about science that we must fix. 28616
Reposted by Emma WilsonDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026remember, the public lynching of Arday & the massive list of academics backing Cofnas is meant to put Black scholars in our place. not about whistleblowing or academic freedom, but to paralyse us to the extent that we stop producing public facing work for fear of scrutiny & eventually leave academia 015161
Reposted by Emma WilsonKay Guccione @kayguccione.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Recruiting! To our new blog series collecting career stories from Research Professionals (research managers, administrators, specialists, developers, technical professionals etc). Have YOU had an interesting pathway? Got career insights or lessons to share? DM me? theauditorium.blog/category/pat...theauditorium.blogPathfinder Professional Narratives – The Auditorium: a research culture and researcher development blogPosts about Pathfinder Professional Narratives written by Dr Kay Guccione and UofG-RCandRD-Team 042
Reposted by Emma Wilsonmatthewspalmer.bsky.social @matthewspalmer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Lost Talent is on Kindle Countdown deal all this week, and is onlly £/$0.99! If you like Stories of Contemporary Fantasy, coming of age stories, Found Families and detailed well developed magic systems, I think you'll really enjoy this! #Booksky #Bookdeals #Kindle #fantasyamazon.co.ukLost Talent eBook : Palmer, M S: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle StoreLost Talent eBook : Palmer, M S: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store 174
Reposted by Emma WilsonDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026Hello men. Nice to see you. Hope you're doing ok. Just to say, when a woman disagrees with you it's not a personal attack. 413614
Reposted by Emma WilsonVeena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I think a lot of people don’t understand that the academic freedom that we have — which we have fought for — is not the freedom to say every asinine racist & sexist thing that you think. 638980
Reposted by Emma WilsonKevin Sanders @kjsanders.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026It seems curious that there are hundreds of signatures for the aCaDemIc FrEedOm of a racist being racist, rather than for the thousands of academics losing their academic freedom by virtue of being sacked and departments being shuttered through managerialism. Hmm. Hmm. 23012
Reposted by Emma Wilsonfolukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I think one radical thing academics can do is accept that we are workers, and what we do is labour in exchange for a wage from an employer. 06015
Reposted by Emma WilsonAlice Bennett @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Lot of anxiety in the media about undeserving disabled people getting free stuff - a thread 🧵 None of the Disability Benefits being attached/panicked about are automatic, all of them have an application process, where you have to provide evidence and be assessed. 1/ 36330
Reposted by Emma WilsonDr. Sara L Middleton @saralilplants.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Yeah honestly it's been a week as a Black Autistic ADHDer in academia. A bunch of us in the neurodiversity community literally wrote a paper on myths surrounding neurodivergent conditions, the harms they cause and ways to counteract them. 👇🏽 osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 210226
Reposted by Emma WilsonSara Rouhi @rouhiroo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026#HigherEd #science #sciencesky #EduSky having difficulty complying w/ #openscience #openaccess mandates? Particularly as an #ECR or limited-funding researcher? Looking for a couple of panelists for a conference who can share their experience. DM me and share! #PublicHealth #publicPolicy 054
Reposted by Emma WilsonHolly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Pleased to share some preliminary findings from our work at Sheffield to understand current attribution practices and to improve recognition for all contributors to research 👇 0106
Reposted by Emma WilsonDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026i don’t want “accelerated”, “increased-speed” or “fast-paced” research. in fact, am not interested in any shortcuts to mindful, intentional, and slow science 12837187
Reposted by Emma WilsonMartin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 19/08/2026"Indigenous excellence: confronting racism and complicity in peer review" academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...academic.oup.comIndigenous excellence: confronting racism and complicity in peer reviewAbstract. Racism in peer review is a common, structurally embedded, and systemic problem. However, it is often framed as isolated acts of individual-level 083
Reposted by Emma WilsonMORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social · 18/08/2026New experimental preprint on zine-making, feminism and open research from MORPHSS colleagues @jenniad.bsky.social & @mirandab-oa.bsky.social alongside collaborators @domismithson.bsky.social and others: 053
Reposted by Emma WilsonJenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social · 18/08/2026💥New preprint from @mirandab-oa.bsky.social , @domismithson.bsky.social , myself & others on creativity, collaboration & activism Our experimental piece offers reflections on a recent zine making workshop on feminism & open research, drawing on zine logics & aesthetics ⬇️ doi.org/10.17613/r46... 2124
Reposted by Emma Wilson👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 14/08/2026Shame on Cambridge, shame on the racists, shame on every person who tokenised him and put him in this situation to begin with. Gods. 235645
Reposted by Emma WilsonMartin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 14/08/2026So much disability hate speech in the UK media. "broadcaster GB News insisted it had nothing to apologise for after a right-wing commentator ... suggested the best way to cut the number of disabled people claiming benefits was to starve or shoot them" www.disabilitynewsservice.com/how-to-fight...disabilitynewsservice.comHow to fight back against rising tide of hostile media coverage targeting disabled peopleDisabled people’s organisations across the UK have suggested a range of ways in which they and their allies could fight back against the “deeply concerning” rise in hostile media coverage that is t… 1106
Reposted by Emma WilsonBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The authors' reputations are riding on being perceived as good, rigorous scientists and honest, transparent science activists who are in it for the right reasons. But nothing about the way they reacted to this retraction signals those values. Just so many blatant lies and denial of responsibility. 4398
Emma Wilson @emmawilson.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026⭐ Amazing new paper from Jenni, Shuolin, and Zuzanna on cross-disciplinary conversations around open, transparent and rigorous research 032