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Dr Hamid Khan @openscihamid.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I'll be speaking at this webinar in my role as UKRN Local Network Lead for Imperial. The session is taking place on Thursday 23 April, 12:00, as part of the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival. You can sign up to attend my session and any others using the link below.

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UK Reproducibility Network @ukrepro.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The UKRN Local Network are playing a key role in UK universities to develop #OpenResearch expertise. Join #LDNOpenFest26 webinar on Thu 23 April at 12-13:00 (UK time) to learn how LNLs are undertaking community building to support #ResearchReproducibility at 3 universities. Eventbrite link below:

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UK Reproducibility Networks: Building a Local Network for Open Research

This session will highlight the valuable work being performed by the UK Reproducibility Network in developing a culture of open research.

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Dr Hamid Khan @openscihamid.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

You have to start somewhere, but this is an odd place to start. It's as if Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman in 'Independence Day' saw the aliens blow up NYC and LA, and then sat among the ruins telling each other: "Gosh, there's a lot of rubble about, isn't there? Careful where you step!"

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Dr Hamid Khan @openscihamid.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

...by a megalomaniac with unbridled control over a platform of angry conspiracy theorists. And there's no collaboration when there is no solidarity with colleagues across the world. Musk must have his fellowship revoked! [3/3]

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Dr Hamid Khan @openscihamid.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The Royal Society cites excellence, respect and collaboration among its values. But there's no excellence when there is no academic freedom and scientists are barred by government edict from conducting legitimate research. There's no respect when scientists are threatened with imprisonment... [2/3]

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Dr Hamid Khan @openscihamid.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Elon Musk FRS daily trashes the reputation of the @royalsociety.org. Will they respond to Stephen's call and revoke his fellowship? [1/3]

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Dr Hamid Khan @openscihamid.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

That sounds rather nice if you also add a sprinkle of nutmeg.

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Dr Hamid Khan @openscihamid.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I'm not sure if Popeye's tinned spinach was any tastier than your frozen blocks, but I will say it was the ONLY reason I ate spinach as a child. Now that was in the '90s, more than a decade after the iron theory was disproved, so it just goes to show how long flawed research lingers in the pscyhe!

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Dr Hamid Khan @openscihamid.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Yes, one has to be endlessly careful with these things. I always say these are good tools for encouraging transparency, collaboration and open peer review, but they should only be used in combination with other qualitative and quantitative indicators of quality, visibility and impact.

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Dr Hamid Khan @openscihamid.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Hence the scenes in Popeye cartoons, in which he chugs a whole tin of spinach before speeding off to rescue Olive Oyl from Bluto.

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KnowledgeRights21 @knowledgerights21.org · 06/02/2025

🗓️ #RetainYourRights: Join us on 20 Feb (13:00 CET) for a webinar on 'Ten Approaches to #RightsRetention in Europe'! 🔝 Get an exclusive preview of @sparc-eu.bsky.social’s upcoming 2nd KR21 Project Retain, compiling insights from 10 European countries. 🎫 Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Dr Hamid Khan @openscihamid.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

As we move away from the Journal Impact Factor, tools like @altmetric.com show how much attention research gets in news, social media and policy docs. We subscribe to Altmetric at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Library. We encourage researchers to use it to learn about the visibility of their work.

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Dr Hamid Khan @openscihamid.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Finally X'iting the sinking ship across the water. I chose Bluesky instead of Mastodon or Threads because the research world seems to be coalescing here. I got up to 300 followers on X. Hope to clear that by 2030, which would be a record-breaking rate of increase in my influence...

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