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Open research advocates at LJMU library providing information and advice to researchers at Liverpool John Moores University.

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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reposting last year's Carve Your PhD winners-this years' competition is now open! Check your emails from @ljmudoctoral.bsky.social for more details/get in touch if you need more info. As ever, with profound thanks to @openresearchuoa.bsky.social for their wonderful idea. Can't wait to see them!
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Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On October 13th at 5pm, @ljmuhistory.bsky.social are having a little launch event for the 2nd editions of Cold City & Hot War. If you're in the area & fancy coming along, you can register here (primarily so that our security people will let you in the door!) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cold-cityh...
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Cold City/Hot War Launch Event
It's a launch event. For the Cold City and Hot War second edition TTRPGs.
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Perfect Friday afternoon failures for me. I got 0. And then 0. And then 3.
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Davide Bruno @davidebrunophd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We’re now on Day 2 of #OpenFest26! Explore how life drawing can make research data visible, human and interpretable with Amie Longthorne @ljmuresearch.bsky.social libguides.shu.ac.uk/openresearch... #OpenFest #DrawingData
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tom is also an award-winning pumpkin carver-and he amazingly represented his PhD in a pumpkin last year. Our team is still in awe.
Orange and pink carved pumpkin, carved to illustrate electromagnetic art.
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Saw this post and was reminded that there's currently an exhibition all about May Morris at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight: www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/lady...
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May Morris: Crafting a Legacy
"I’m a remarkable woman – always was, though none of you seemed to think so."May Morris
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You Said, We Did! LJMU researchers said they wanted a list of journals covered by our agreement-here one is! To read more about our Open Journal Checker tool, check out this blog post with details on where to go/how to search: ljmuresearchsupport.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/y...
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You Said, We Did – Introducing Open Journal Checker
Our Researchers wanted a list of journals covered by LJMU’s Institutional Open Access Agreements. You can now search ALL these journals in one place.    •&nb…
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This list of Diamond Open Access monograph options from @kirahopkins.bsky.social is fantastic. I appreciate being able to share it with authors with ease/simplicity & show people OA options. Where you publish is a choice-this helps me expand those choices! Thank you! zenodo.org/records/2212...
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Where can I publish a book open access without (necessarily) paying a fee? A list of Diamond open access options
Many publishers utilise various business models that enable them to publish some (or all) of their books open access without charging authors a fee, often called a Book Processing Charge (BPC).     Wh...
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hooray for open journals and @ojcollective.bsky.social Congrats!
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thinkchecksub.bsky.social @thinkchecksub.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Why not give your library a Think. Check. Submit. boost? Find all our promotional resources here: bit.ly/4zmkkQW/ • Posters • Postcards • Stickers • Social media banners
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Partially funded by LJMU Library 💪! We love seeing open access books from our colleagues being welcomed to the world, in particular from our fantastic friends up the road @livunipress.bsky.social . Congrats, @helentookey.bsky.social
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Hoping for clear skies later so we can add a new #SolarEclipse photo to our collection. Like this one that Tom Kent took 114 years ago of a solar eclipse over Kirkwall #Orkney in April 1912. Taken 2 days after the sinking of the Titanic. Archives are amazing. ❤️
A black and white archive photograph showing the silhouette of the spire of St Magnus Cathedral and a partial eclipse of the sun in the sky above it.
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Dr Pownall took part in our Open Research Week in 2024 and I STILL remember so many things that she discussed. Looking forward to her keynote next month! For anyone interested in that talk from a couple of years back, you can listen here: opendata.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/18...
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 31/07/2026
What does an OLH Open Access Award make possible? Read Amie Longthorne's latest OLH Open Access Award 2025 Awardee Report, reflecting on Data as a Story, the exhibition supported by the award.
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Data as a Story Exhibition 
Data as a Story Exhibition The OLH Open Access Award 2025 Awardee Report, authored by Amie Longthorne, Open Data Management Specialist, Liverpool John Moores University The idea and getting started …
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
One of my favourite parts of my cycling commute to campus is the birdsong of south Liverpool.
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hip, hip hooray!
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Saw this and thought of you, @luciejones83.bsky.social
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
One of my favourite demos to show researchers in @doaj.bsky.social is filtering by language. If I'm taking you in there, I'm also showing you how you can find a place to publish in Vietnamese, in French, in Arabic, in.....I love it!
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Hidden REF @hiddenref.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The Hidden REF Competition is now live! The competition is your opportunity to highlight your hidden contributions to research. All the information you need to put together your submission can be found at: hidden-ref.org/hidden-ref-c... 🗓️ The deadline for submissions is 13 September
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Hidden REF Competition 2026 - The Hidden REF
Celebrating all research outputs and everyone involved in their creation The Hidden REF Competition The Hidden REF Competition celebrates all research outputs and everyone involved in […]
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Really enjoyed listening to this-nice dip into something I thought I knew a little bit about, then realised I really didn't! Interesting, informative, and accessible.
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Chuffed to bits to publish this, after many discussions with its fantastic editors-who grabbed the advice from @cathdishman.bsky.social that 'anything was possible' & ran with it. Beautiful cover by Kiera Morris & wonderful, creative stuff inside. A testament to what's possible when you're open!
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Open Institutional Publishing Association @oipassoc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
LJMU Open Journals Service have just published their first Zine! It has come out of a monthly #Ethnography club meeting, and describes itself as a guerrilla-style Zine, 'publishing the unpublishable': openjournals.ljmu.ac.uk/EiD @ljmuresearch.bsky.social #OpenAccess #Publishing #Zines #Journals
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Ethnography is Dead
The zine explores ethnographic and qualitative research as creative, critical, and reflexive practices.
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Davide Bruno @davidebrunophd.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Multiverse! Cortex! Biomarkers! 🧠🔬 All this and more in our recent paper! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ccandl.bsky.social @kmueller123.bsky.social @ljmuimpact.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social @ljmuresearch.bsky.social @ljmu-ris.bsky.social Also, the code: osf.io/k8amh
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A Multiverse Analysis of the Logical Memory Test and Plasma Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) detection with blood-based biomarkers promises to revolutionise dementia diagnosis. However, blood testing is still a challen…
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UK Reproducibility Network @ukrepro.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Tomorrow 14:00 to 15:30 GMT+1 join us online for the #OpenResearch for Business Researchers webinar. For further information and to register visit: www.ukrn.org/event/ukrn-w...
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UKRN webinar - Open Research for Business Researchers
UKRN webinar - Open Research for Business Researchers
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Qué bien!
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LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Very exciting to see Senior Lecturer in American History Malcolm Craig's history-based role-playing games out in the wild. Watch out for a special launch event when the new academic year starts in September! FYI @ljmuimpact.bsky.social, @ljmuresearch.bsky.social, and @ljmuofficial.bsky.social
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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A week today! Our 'Overview of Books Publishing' free training session provides a comprehensive overview of the process of getting an academic book published, incl choosing a publisher, preparing a proposal, book contracts & the writing & production process. Sign up: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Overview of Books Publishing
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Super cool video about our @ljmu-sca.bsky.social Heritage Lottery funded project with the Unity Theatre! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xAM... The exhibition runs until the end of this month and you can learn more about the project here: ljmuarchives.blog/2025/10/14/i...
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'A Radical Re-Imagining: The History of Merseyside Unity Theatre, 1937-1987' - Archive & Exhibition
YouTube video by The Library@LJMU
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Your Wednesday break! Choose wildlife for banknotes: www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he...
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Help us celebrate the UK’s wildlife
Tell us which animals you would like to see on our next series of banknotes by 3 July 2026
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
New Paul McCartney album out today 🎶 Revisit his catalogue with a curated track selection by editors of the Journal of Beatles Studies—including an 80-song playlist 🔗 bit.ly/JBS-80-at-80 @paullongmedia.bsky.social @smallmegapixel.bsky.social @ppbkwriter.com #PaulMcCartney #BeatlesStudies #OpenAccess
A teal banner featuring the title “The Journal of Beatles Studies” in large yellow and white lettering. Beneath the word “Beatles,” four silhouetted figures of the Beatles jump in mid-air. To the right, text reads “Available Open Access” alongside the Open Access symbol. Below are the Liverpool University Press logo and the University of Liverpool crest.
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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Announcing our new #OpenAccess #DigitalCulturalHeritage series - thanks @sas-news.bsky.social! And thanks to the authors of the inaugural volume: @amsichani.bsky.social @jfwinters.bsky.social @dh-researchhub.bsky.social & Eirini Goudarouli @uknatarcsector.bsky.social. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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University of London Press launches new open access ‘Digital Cultural Heritage’ series
The University of London Press has published the inaugural volume in its new Digital Cultural Heritage series, co-authored by researchers from SAS and The National Archives, UK.
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LJMU Special Collections & Archives @ljmu-sca.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
It's here! Today's the launch party for our exhibit A Radical Re-imagining 16:00-18:00 🥳 Celebrate with us tonight, or visit anytime until 28 June. Timeline designed by LJMU Graphics student Abi Reynolds. #archive #exhibit #museum #liverpool #theatre #liverpoolhistory #history #socialisthistory #art
Timeline graphic with bold yellow bubbles on white background, with red text and dotted line connecting each section. This section starts from 1930 (pre-Unity, which began 1937) and includes images of archival records until the mid 1940s.Timeline graphic with bold yellow bubbles on white background, with red text and dotted line connecting each section. This section starts from the mid 1940s until the mid 1960s, showing images of archival records in each bubble including One Hundred Years Hard, Break it up Boys, Working Majority, Open Air Theatre, and The Wesker Trilogy.Timeline graphic with bold yellow bubbles on white background, with red text and dotted line connecting each section. This section starts from the mid 1960s until 1987, with archive images in each bubble including The Fire Raisers, Progress to the Park, Mother Courage, The Life of Galileo, Liverpool Ome, Beneath Olympus, Steam and Speed - The Rocket and After, Days of the Commune, Brecht: On Women, and finishing with an image of the Unity Theatre on 1 Hope Place.
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This. Proudly helping you find/solve/do/share/create/and get your research out into the world.
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
We were delighted to see our latest open journal/zine launched at yesterday's wonderful PGR Festival. Welcome to the world: Ethnography is Dead. It featured the beautiful hard copies, linked to our open version online, too! openjournals.ljmu.ac.uk/EiD
Ethnography is Dead journalEthnography is Dead journal with skeletons
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Time for a Friday break.
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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
And here it is! Come to Liverpool in July next year. We have a fantastic [insert appropriate collective noun here] of keynotes: @bkadams.bsky.social, @dnmcinnis.bsky.social, @lucycmunro.bsky.social, Perry Mills & Deborah Payne!
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Take a break, watch some puffins.
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Our wonderful colleagues Emily and Megan spoke about this project as part of our Open Research Week 2026. You can learn more generally about the Unity Theatre but also the challenges of making these archives open:
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Theatre Reviews North @trnorth.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Work by Liverpool's Unity Theatre and the John Moores University to preserve more than 200 boxes of archive material is revealed at a special exhibition, show and other events in May and June. @unitytheatre.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social #archive www.theatrereviewsnorth.com/post/radical...
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Radical Re-imagining at Liverpool's Unity Theatre
Work by Liverpool's Unity Theatre and the John Moores University to preserve more than 200 boxes of archive material is revealed at a special exhibition, show and other events in May and June
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Your friendly reminder that the Open Research Team is always happy to help you better understand research metrics: not just in the context of how it can demonstrate what you do but also to know you what it cannot demonstrate about you and your work. Always happy to poke that bear.
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Sio Wynne (he/they) @siowynne.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I'm recruiting! Super excited to talk to people about the little ways they cope with dysphoria, feel free to email or DM with questions 😀
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Are cognitive tests keeping up with Alzheimer’s biomarkers. Join @davidebrunophd.bsky.social for this Research Showcase. communities.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/c/events/res...
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Research Showcase - Dr Davide Bruno - Neurocognitive Metrics for Detecting Alzheimer’s Pathology
Research Showcase - Dr Davide Bruno - Neurocognitive Metrics for Detecting Alzheimer’s Pathology
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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
📢 There's still time to register for your free spot on this #OpenAccess session, which includes a panel of authors and publishers sharing their advice and experiences. Might be helpful for some @oipassoc.bsky.social members and authors! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-acces...
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Open Access Publishing in Practice: Author Experiences and Insights
A panel of authors share first-hand insights into how publishing their work openly has shaped its reach, visibility and impact.
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thinkchecksub.bsky.social @thinkchecksub.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Librarians and information professionals – please join one of our focus groups to help us better understand how to develop tools and guidance that support you and your researchers. bit.ly/4sK3kje
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Library Focus Groups • Think. Check. Submit.
Focus groups to help us better understand how we can continue supporting researchers in identifying trusted publication venues and avoiding predatory publishers.
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Davide Bruno @davidebrunophd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Blog post I co-authored for @betterresearch.bsky.social with @andrewk-phd.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social @ljmuresearch.bsky.social @ljmuimpact.bsky.social www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-why-nor...
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Blog – Why “Normal” Cognition Is Hindering Preclinical Alzheimer’s Trials
“Normal” cognition may be masking treatment effects in Alzheimer’s trials. Andrew Kiselica explores how subtle decline could change everything.
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IMS @phi-ims.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Only two weeks until our LJMU Drug Related Deaths Conference 2026. We have lots of great speakers planned! The event is online, on Thursday 23rd April, and it's free to register: ims.ljmu.ac.uk/DRDconference #DRDevent
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Tom Morley @tmorley24.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
@academiclibsnorth.bsky.social are offering 10 sponsored places for both presenters and delegates at this years conference, "Reimagining Openness in Academic Libraries". The deadline to apply if the 29th of April. academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/conference/a...
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ALN Conference 2026 - Academic Libraries North
Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal to be a part of the programme for #ALN26. A sub-group of the conference planning team is currently reviewing
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Listening to Lynda Kellam speak about her work with the @datarescueproject.org Inspired and in awe of the collective work to save public data by this group! This American in the USA is grateful for you and what you do! #RLUK26
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This topic was discussed as part of our Open Research Week 2026 session on making archives open (see link attached.) Amongst other things-the ongoing preservation of things once they are made open!
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