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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
October is Black History Month and we want to celebrate by highlighting some interesting open access resources. We're starting with the AODL, the African Online Digital Library, an open access digital library of African cultural heritage materials. You can access it here: aodl.org
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Home | AODL
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We hit 1,000 datasets on Pure! 🎉 This dataset holds the data for a study by @sahandfarmand.bsky.social et al., recently published in Nature, showing online exercise improves midlife mood & brain biomarkers. Dataset: shorturl.at/IHXLS Paper: nature.com/articles/s41514-026-00439-w Onward to 2000!
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Effects of a three-month exercise programme on cognition, mood and neurogenesis: The NeuroFit randomised controlled trial
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
For our second Q&A, we spoke with Olivia Rye, our Open Access Manager, about her role at King's. You can read the Q&A in this thread: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We are pleased to share the summer edition of the King’s Open Research Quarterly (KORQ) with you. If you have a King's ID, you cansign up to the King’s Open Research Quarterly mailing list here: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Have you spent this summer wanting to escape the heat? This #openaccess article from King's researchers in the Department of Geography @kings-sga.bsky.social looks at the policy changes that are needed to deal with increasing incidence of extreme heat: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Escaping the heat: urban heat resilience and public cool spaces - Regional Environmental Change
With heatwaves set to increase in frequency, intensity and duration, a policy shift is needed to build climate resilience on national and local levels. In London, a new strategy has been introduced to...
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We're wrapping up International Cat Week with Suzy. Suzy has published her article open access under one of our Read & Publish agreements. She can sit down now, relax, and watch those views and citations roll in! Thank you @patekb.bsky.social for sharing your studious and fluffy friends with us!
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We continue our International Cat Day (Week) activities with Cleo. Cleo submitted her Data Management Plan to our colleagues for review, and knows that with their support, her funding application will be outstanding! She looks towards the future with confidence. Be like Cleo.
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
For International Cat Day on Saturday, we're celebrating the feline friends of @patekb.bsky.social, one of our Team Coordinators. Since passing her viva and submitting her PhD thesis to our team to make it openly available in the repository, Amber spends her days taking long, well deserved naps.
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
To continue our celebration of Disability Pride month, we want to highlight the support available at King's for disabled staff and students. This includes support around learning, mental health, funding, and adjustments. You can find out more here: www.kcl.ac.uk/student-life...
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Disability Support & Inclusion | King's College London
The Disability Support & Inclusion Team offers information, advice and guidance to prospective and current disabled students.
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Happy Disability Pride Month! New research from Dr. Carla Finesilver (@finesilver.bsky.social) and Jonathan Berliner shows that neurodivergent students thrive when they are active partners in co-designing their classroom environments. You can find out more here: shorturl.at/881FI
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Neurodivergent students learn best when active partners in shaping their learning environment | King's College London
Neurodivergent students learn best when they are active partners in shaping their learning environment, according to a new report by Dr Carla Finesilver and Jonathan Berliner from the School of Educat...
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Introducing our new profile picture!
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This week is Alcohol Awareness Week. To commemorate this, we are highlighting the Read & Publish Agreements we have with journals focussing on substance use and addiction. These agreements help spread the important work of King's researchers working in these fields. You can find out more here:
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Sunday the 5th of July is Research Appreciation Day! We want to thank all of our fantastic researchers who make King's College London a hub for innovation and development. You can browse our research for free at the King's Research Portal: kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/
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Research support | King’s College London
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We have recently launched our Research Data Management Clinic! This is a fortnightly space where King's researchers and doctoral students can bring any queries they have to discuss with the RDM team. Find out more here: shorturl.at/tqPWE (King's ID required 🔒)
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SkillsForge
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
For Refugee Week, we're highlighting the King's Sanctuary Programme. The Programme was established in 2015 and since then has supported over 100 refugees. You can find out more about it here: www.kcl.ac.uk/service/sanc...
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King's Sanctuary Programme | Service at King’s | King’s College London
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
For Diabetes Awareness Week, we are celebrating the pioneering diabetes research and treatment carried out at King's College Hospital. These archive photographs from Historic England offer a glimpse into life in the Diabetes Department and the people who shaped its history. sl1nk.com/pfbz2nw
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A nurse pushing a trolley carrying meals for patients with diabetes from a kitchen at King's College Hospital (MED01/01/1055) Archive Item - Topical Press Agency Medical Collection | Historic England
A nurse pushing a trolley carrying meals for patients with diabetes from a kitchen at King's College Hospital
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The Open Institutional Publishing Association (OIPA) will be hosting its symposium next week at the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts. The event is free and will feature panels, talks, and workshops. You can find out more information here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oipa-sympo...
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OIPA Symposium 2026
Following on from the success of the 2024 OIPA Symposium, this year's event will feature panels, lightning talks and workshops.
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Open Institutional Publishing Association @oipassoc.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
📢 Join us at the OIPA Symposium! Attend in person or online to explore key pressures in higher education, hear lightning talks across open scholarship, and help shape the future of institutional publishing. Register free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oipa-sympo... #OpenAccess #OpenScholarship #OIPA2026
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OIPA Symposium 2026
Following on from the success of the 2024 OIPA Symposium, this year's event will feature panels, lightning talks and workshops.
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LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
@uolpress.bsky.social reflects on the recent Open Access Publishing in Practice session at the London Open Science and Scholarship Festival, featuring LSE Press Head of Publishing Philippa Grand and David Luke, editor of How Africa Trades and How Africa Eats. 🔗 uolpress.co.uk/2026/05/open...
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Open Access Publishing in Practice – Author experiences and insights from the London Open Science and Scholarship Festival - University of London Press
On 23rd April 2026, we hosted an online panel discussion on ‘Open Access publishing in practice‘ as part of the London Open Science and Scholarship Festival. The event brought together authors and pub...
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Read out interview with Dr Anna Collins, the Open Research Manager for Research Data and Bibliometrics at King’s College London here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Our Q&A with Dr Anna Collins, the Open Research Manager for Research Data and Bibliometrics at King’s College London: Can you tell us a bit about your background and what led you into research…...
Our Q&A with Dr Anna Collins, the Open Research Manager for Research Data and Bibliometrics at King’s College London: Can you tell us a bit about your background and what led you into research data...
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🗣️"Open social science methods can be applied across all the major qualitative methods" #OpenSocialScience #OpenScience @lsepress.bsky.social @civica.bsky.social @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social @twm.bsky.social
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Qualitative research can and should be more open and reproducible - LSE Impact
Qualitative research has lagged behind quantitative studies in open research practices. A new book shows how & why qualitative research can be more open.
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
For Mental Health Awareness Week, we want to promote Mental Health Open. This is an open access, peer-review, and data journal focussed on advancing mental health knowledge. You can check it out here: mentalhealthopen.eu/index.php/mh...
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Mental Health Open | Open-Access Journal
Advancing mental health research, policy, and education through open-access publications.
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
There is still time to sign up for our next #OpenAccess training session for academic and professional staff. It takes place on Wednesday, 13 May, on Strand Campus. tinyurl.com/6femkfnx @kingsnmes.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
We are pleased to share issue #3 of King’s Open Research Quarterly! In keeping with a colourful Spring theme, we are thinking about sustainability and how ’Green’ Open Access is, along with the colours of Openness. Subscribe here: shorturl.at/DAQz9 (Kings ID required🔒) #Kings #OpenResearch
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
For our latest team day, we visited the Temple of Mithras in London, shared Open resources on Ancient Rome, and enjoyed some delicious pistachio cake courtesy of our talented colleague Charlotte. It was a very fulfilling day and we've highlighted some of our resources below. #OpenAccess #Kings
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Stress Awareness Month King's participates in 22 R&P agreements which allow eligible King's authors to publish Gold open access without paying APCs. These agreements remove cost barriers and reduce admin burden around OA publishing. You can find out more here:
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Open Access and APC funding | Research support | King’s College London
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Happy World Book Day! 📚 For WBD, we're highlighting 'Oral Literary Worlds: Location, Transmission and Circulation', edited by Sara Marzagora (King's) & Francesca Orsini (SOAS). This is an Open Access book on oral traditions, storytelling & global literary circulation. Read: shorturl.at/45wVT
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Oral Literary Worlds: Location, Transmission and Circulation
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Happy Earth Day! To celebrate this year's Earth Day, we're highlighting the role of Open Access in supporting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. We're proud to advocate for open access publishing for our researchers in line with these goals. Check out our thread below. 🧵
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Stress Awareness Month This article explores the impact of emotionally challenging research and highlights the importance of institutional support, supervision, and wellbeing planning. Supporting researcher wellbeing is an essential part of research culture.
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Coping with Emotionally Challenging Research: Developing a Strategic Approach to Researcher Wellbeing
While previous work has highlighted the possible impacts of undertaking emotionally challenging research, it is only recently, particularly within the UK with the 2028 Research Excellence Framework…
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The London Open Science & Scholarship Festival is taking place this week! A collaborative event led by UCL and London universities, exploring key issues in Open Science—from AI to careers. Find out more and sign up: shorturl.at/UhI2F
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London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026 – open for booking! | UCL Open@UCL Blog
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Stress Awareness Month Creating Pure records? If your research output is already published online, you can save time and reduce stress by importing records from CrossRef or Scopus instead of creating them from scratch. See our guide on how to import research outputs into Pure:
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Stress Awareness Month One of the biggest sources of research stress is sorting out data at the end of a project. Planning early using a Data Management Plan (DMP) can make projects run more smoothly and reduce pressure later on. A useful tool for writing DMPs is DMPOnline:
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DMPonline
Data Management Plans that meet institutional funder requirements.
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Stress Awareness Month Research can be stressful: deadlines, publishing pressure, data management, and compliance. Over the next month we will be sharing information and tools to help support researchers manage these pressures and to raise awareness about stress within research culture. #Kings
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
For our Open Research Journal Club last week, we discussed a recent study by Swanson et al. (2026) on how LLMs can perform large-scale deanonymisation at speed and relatively low cost, using micro-data gathered from unstructured text. You can read the full paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2602.16800
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Call for recommendations 🙏 At our next journal club, we're going to be discussing predatory and non-reputable practices in research publishing. We're looking for recommendations for articles or papers on this topic. If you know of any please let us know!
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Happy 10th Birthday to the FAIR principles! The guiding principles of data management were first published in this comment piece 10 years ago today. They state that data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. You can read the article here: www.nature.com/articles/sda...
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
For #IWD2026, we're sharing the Gender Equality Index UK, developed by researchers at King’s College London and other universities. The Index measures gender equality across 372 UK local authorities. You can explore the open dataset, report, and interactive maps here:
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Gender Equality Index UK
The Gender Equality Index UK (GEIUK) offers a pioneering data tool to measure and map women’s and men’s socioeconomic outcomes across local authorities in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern…
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
This International Women's Day, we want to highlight some of the research conducted at King's relating to women's experiences and history. The English Women's Journal (1858-1864) was an influential, early feminist publication advocating for women's employment, education, and legal rights.
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
We're looking forward to RLUK's virtual conference from the 25th to the 27th of March. The theme of the event, 'The role of libraries in supporting civic society', feels very timely and we're excited to see what discussions emerge. You can find out more and sign up here: rlukconference.com #RLUK26
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RLUK Conference – Research Libraries UK Conference
RLUK Conference - Research Libraries UK Conference
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We are excited to have launch our other Open Research account on LinkedIn! We look forward to promoting our work and connecting further with the OR community across multiple platforms. If you are on LinkedIn, please check out our first post (with a lovely team photo) here: shorturl.at/ROExD
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King's College London Open Research Updates | King's College London - Open Research posted on the topic | LinkedIn
We are excited to be launching our LinkedIn account for the Open Research team at King's College London. This account will share updates on open research practice at King’s, including open access publishing,...
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
KORDS is King’s Open Research Data System — our institutional platform for securely storing, managing, and sharing research data. It supports archiving and sharing, with guidance from the RDM team on metadata, licensing, and data reuse. You can contact the RDM team here: research.data@kcl.ac.uk
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The Scholarly Kitchen @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Guest Post — Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/18/g...
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Guest Post — Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest blogger asks: What would it mean to support community-led publishing as infrastructure, rather than as a collection of heroic individual efforts?
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The Research Libraries UK Conference will take place from the 25th - 27th of March. The theme of the event is 'Stewardship in challenging times: the role of libraries in supporting civic society' You can find out more here: rlukconference.com
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RLUK Conference – Research Libraries UK Conference
RLUK Conference - Research Libraries UK Conference
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Really looking forward to this!
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Where's the Data? 🔍🗂️ Not sure where your data belongs? Find the right repository for you at the Registry of Research Repositories. re3data.org #LoveData26 #KCL
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Home | re3data.org
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” Elizabeth Barrett Browning For Love Data Week, we’ve been inspired by literature, poetry & song to see some of the ways metadata makes data discoverable, understandable, interoperable & reusable. #LoveData26 #KCL
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Where's the data? Working with environmental or climate data? The archive at CEDA, the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, specialises in Earth, atmospheric, and environmental datasets. If your data tracks the planet, give it a stable home. 🌍 archive.ceda.ac.uk #LoveData26 #KCL
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| The CEDA Archive
Principly, we accept data from or supporting Natural Environment Research Council funded science. We do take data from other sources if it fits our mission
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Live, laugh, love! For Love Data Week, we are spotlighting a research project which maps the science of comedy. Dr Vanessa Pope and colleagues used a new computational method to analyse timing and structure in live stand-up comedy. Read more here: shorturl.at/HfHPB #LoveData26 #KCL
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Mapping comedic timing, ta-da!
Researchers propose a computational method to reveal the hidden timing structure of live performance. Vanessa C. Pope and colleagues present a framework, called Topology Analysis of Matching Sequences...
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King’s Open Research @kclopenresearch.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Where's the data? Is your sequencing data looking for a long-term partner? The European Nucleotide Archive ensures that genomic data stays findable, reusable, and interoperable. Match your sequences with the right archive. #LoveData26 www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/...
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ENA Browser
ENA Browser
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Carla Molteni @carlamolteni.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Very pleased to have the most viewed dataset (10,461 views) @kclopenresearch.bsky.social ! Molecular dynamics and metadynamics data supporting "Deciphering the molecular mechanisms of startle disease: The role of the Asn46Lys mutation in the glycine receptor" JCP 163, 125103 (2025).
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