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Ruth MacMullen (Mallalieu) @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Is @ukri.org going to join this initiative? I do hope so! 🤞🏼

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 30/03/2026

The lawn outside the Radcliffe Camera had a trim today 🌱 No, it’s not AI. Designed and carefully cut by James from our University Parks Estates team. 📷 Instagram | Jimigk13

Aerial view of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford with a freshly mown lawn featuring intricate curved stripe patterns around the circular building.

Ground-level view of striped grass patterns on the lawn beside the Radcliffe Camera, showing alternating light and dark green lines stretching across the grass.

A lawn mower on the striped grass outside the Radcliffe Camera, highlighting the precision-cut pattern with people and historic college buildings in the background.

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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Incredibly powerful quote from Elaine Sykes to finish this very moving plenary in her memory: “Librarians, this is a call to arms - for change to happen we need to be courageous leaders, even though it seems an impossible task…” Moved to tears here at #UKSG2026

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Ruth MacMullen (Mallalieu) @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Why nice pic! All the best for tomorrow Sarah, you’ll be brilliant 🤩

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Ruth MacMullen (Mallalieu) @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Diamonds are a library’s best friend 💎 (We think they’re pretty good for research, too 👌🏼)

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.eurosky.social · 04/03/2026

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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Brilliant discussion rethinking governance in publishing and research from @kirahopkins.bsky.social and @kjsanders.bsky.social at The Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship #OXFOS26

Two people standing at a lectern at Oxford University delivering a brilliant talk

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Ruth MacMullen (Mallalieu) @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Thank you coming, speaking, posting! Your talk was fantastic and it was really good to see you both.

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Ruth MacMullen (Mallalieu) @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The @oxcin.bsky.social doing a storming job of entertaining the room whilst teaching us about #FAIRdata #OxFOS

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Ruth MacMullen (Mallalieu) @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Fantastic to meet you, albeit far too briefly! 🤩 Do you think we ripped the time space continuum tho?

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Final #CopimConference panel!! Led by @rupertgatti.bsky.social. How can we protect the ability of communities to communicate? In the face of extractive publishing, AI and all the pressures of 2020s HE. One answer: join the new @copim.bsky.social mailing list! www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.e...

Rupert in front of a slide titled 'Endnotes'. Underneath: 'Join the Copim Community JiscMail', with a QR code

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Open Institutional Publishing Association @oipassoc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

To paraphrase @rupertgatti.bsky.social: ‘We have the important principle of ‘scaling small’. But to get to that point, you have to start. Start small. But have your ambitions to the roof.’ #CopimConference

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 27/02/2026

A call to arms from @rupertgatti.bsky.social for all attendees at #Copimconference to keep engaging with @copim.bsky.social and to feed into what's next for #openaccess & #openinfrastructures - join the Jiscmail! copim@jiscmail.ac.uk

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Niamh Dowdall @dowdalln.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

So pleased to see Siddarth Soni referencing Brian Friel in his discussion of the commons and data colonialism. Absolutely fascinating keynote at #CopimConference

Speaker Siddarth Soni stands in front of a projected image of a scene from Brian Friel’s play “Translations”.

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Paula Kennedy @paulakennedy.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Sarah Thompson from @uoylibrary.bsky.social sharing how York now applies its values-based collections criteria to *all* their activity, not just open access 👏 Greater transparency helps not just with their dealings with publishers but also with their academics… #copimconference

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Emma Huber @emmahuber.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This is certainly what @hlaehnemann.bsky.social and I have been doing with Taylor Editions! @tayoxford.bsky.social The model is appreciated by reviewers, e.g. muse.jhu.edu/article/965571

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Ruth MacMullen (Mallalieu) @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Putting my feet up at the incredible V&A Storehouse before the evening social of the #CopimConference

A pair of feet reclining on a chair in front of museum collections, including a brutalist concrete facade

A view from a mezzanine level looking out over museum connections. There are numerous objects in the picture, including a glass viewing gallery.

A view of a brutalist concrete facade, Ruth various objects around it, including a cello.

A view of an ornate Islamic ceiling with intricate golden wood and plaster carved panels

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Ruth MacMullen (Mallalieu) @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Soooo much fun - can’t think of anyone better to spend it with! What a wonderfully rich, inspiring conference. Head is buzzing with ideas #CopimConference

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Isabel Holowaty @iholowaty.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

@bodleian.ox.ac.uk is proud to support @copim.bsky.social and the Open Book Collective, as elegantly demonstrated by our Head of the Office of Open Research @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social. #CopimConference

Ruth Mallalieu standing next to a large blue display screen with text which reads: Make it Open, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford 'Proud supporters of COPIM and the Open Book Collection.'

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Jill Cirasella @jillasella.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Open access means that nobody can tell you you can't read something. Always true, but so very, essentially, bulldozingly important here in the US right now. #copimconference

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Godwyns Onwuchekwa @godwyns.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Bias declared: 😉 Pleased to hear the activities going on in my native #Nigeria to advance Open Access within, and using local contexts. Well done, Fatimah Jibril Abduldayan frm Nigerian Maritime Uni. With @wacren.bsky.social involved, sure its replicating across West Africa. #CopimConference

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Ruth MacMullen (Mallalieu) @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

A quick reminder that applications for this exciting new role close at noon on Friday 16 January. If you’re interested in research impact, metrics, and open scholarship - or know someone who might be - please do take a look and share!

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Ruth MacMullen (Mallalieu) @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

We’re hiring! 📢 How do we understand & communicate the impact of our research? This new role will lead on research metrics, & support open infrastructure services, including our diamond OA platform. There’s real scope to shape & put your own stamp on it. Details 👇 tinyurl.com/OpenMetricsI...

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Ruth MacMullen (Mallalieu) @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Make it two - one because you got the last round, and two because we always have too much up catch up on 🍻

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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Random colleagues in other disciplines now commonly say "the code's on OSF". It's just so great to see an academic org like COS, that goes beyond advocating for change, and actually builds the tools and services that make science work better. More!

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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 02/12/2025

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 09/09/2025

Don't forget: this weekend as part of Oxford Open Doors 2025, the Bodleian Libraries will be opening up some of our spaces and showing off collections not usually accessible to the public. More information: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/sep25/...

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Oxford Open Doors at the Bodleian Library: special tours, family activities, collection talks and more

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Ruth MacMullen (Mallalieu) @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Inspiring day today with the @coarassessment.bsky.social UK National Chapter brainstorming how to put Responsible Research Assessment principles into practice - and, for me, considering the commonalities with open and transparent research, and how libraries can lead/support.

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 02/09/2025

Join MED:EL (the world's leading hearing implant company) at the Bodleian for a free, in-person educational session exploring the science, innovation, & human stories behind cochlear implants. Register here: bit.ly/4mKGgy8 9 Sept | 10am–12pm | Weston Library

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The new Humanities Library (@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social) at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities will shortly receive its first transfer of books to fill its lovely new shelves. Huge thanks to the team managing the moves!

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Peter Barr @tweeterbarr.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

It's true there are sustainability problems with S2O, but there is with virtually all academic publishing. Why not strategically invest in a more sustainable alternative - the end game of which might be that the money doesn't come from the library and those budgets shrink accordingly

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 28/07/2025

RIP Ozzy Osbourne. We scoured the archives to find our best medieval bats in the rocker’s honour. #MedievalMonday. 1. Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Misc. 554 2: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 304. 3: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 764. 4: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511.

Illuminated bat from the Ashmole bestiary showing a bat on a gold background inside a red and green frame. The bat is brown with black wings and cartoonish, with incongrously detailed human-looking facial features.

Three outlines of three bats as marginalia in a yellowed page from a Bodleian manuscript. The bat marginalia are hastily drawn (likely added by a different hand than the scribe who wrote and illustrated the rest of the text). The bats have simplistic facial expresisons; one has two eyes and a straight line for a mouth, the second has a soft smile, and the third has something between the two.

A page from a bestiary showing Latin text and a black bat illustration in an embossed gold square. The bats wings look feathered and the shape is bird like, suggesting whoever drew it may not have seen a bat up close before.

An immediately strange looking illustration from a medieval Paduan text. A bat flies above an illustration of a man, and both are roughly the same size. The bat has cat like legs and a long tail, and is shaped like a winged rat.

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Ruth MacMullen (Mallalieu) @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Congratulations on your new post, we are almost neighbours! 😍

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clockssarchive.bsky.social @clockssarchive.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

CLOCKSS is proud to launch an official YouTube channel, where we’ll share webinars and resources about digital preservation. 📺 Our first video: How COUNTER metrics and CLOCKSS preservation services work together www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0cY... ✅ Future events: clockss.org/events/

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

746 proposals for a total of 3M (about 13 will be funded). If orgs spent 4000 in personnel time preparing their proposals on average, then this mechanism actually reduced funding for open science. Open science is extremely underfunded.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Q - how do you deal with people co-opting the language of open for politically dubious purposes? Heather Joseph - call it out, loudly and quickly and often #openrepos2025

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