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Open Research at York
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Engaging with our research community, supporting good practice and sharing updates on all aspects of #openresearch #openaccess #opendata @york.ac.uk

Open Research at York: https://york.ac.uk/open-research
Email the team: [email protected]
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🌳 Happy #NationalTreeWeek!

Join us on 2 Dec for "Storytelling as Method for Inclusive + Reciprocal Research Practices".

Creative outdoor storytelling w/shop (11-12) with Lotte Dijkstra, then an indoor hybrid session (12:30-2).

Bring people + place together! buff.ly/vBfDpac
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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📣 Tomorrow in York!
Join Retrofit Futures 2025, showcasing the Retrofit One Stop Shop project + York’s progress on fair, scalable home retrofit.

SEI’s Luke Gooding will share why locally rooted One Stop Shops like YorEnergy are essential for community-centred climate action.

Book: buff.ly/qqM856m
Retrofit Futures 2025 - Insights From Building A Retrofit One Stop Shop | YorEnergy
Join us for a full-day showcase at York Guildhall exploring the lessons from the Retrofit One Stop Shop York (ROSSY) project, peer learning through the York Retrofit Network, and the official launch…
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Did you know that @uoylibrary.bsky.social provides a DOI registration service for @york.ac.uk academic outputs? 🔗

DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) can help people find, cite and track work. We provide them for outputs hosted on york.ac.uk web pages, and/or the White Rose Research Online repository
Get a DOI for your work
A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is a way of uniquely and permanently identifying a resource, so that it can remain findable and citable in the long term.
www.york.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Presenting at the Centre for Medieval Studies on open research for @uoyopenres.bsky.social

Open research is an area I’m personally and professionally passionate about so I can’t wait to see what people think!
November 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
New research from Dept of Mathematics @york.ac.uk and @yorkstjohn.bsky.social School of Humanities on the German Navy’s U-boat campaign in WWII

#openaccess paper in The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord doi.org/10.25071/256... 🔓 📄
Changing tactics: Battle of Atlantic could have played out differently according to mathematicians
The German Navy’s U-boat campaign in the Battle of the Atlantic could have been far more effective if it was conducted in a less centralised way and with a less hero-oriented military culture, accordi...
www.york.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Recording and slides now available from this week's Research Coding Course session on software lifecycle planning (covering software management plans, open source licences and dissemination)

Materials from the previous sessions on version control and introducing the course are also available 👇
Research Coding Course
A new training programme for developing research software
researchcodingclub.github.io
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Employers must take responsibility for tackling online abuse of women, research says

Read the full findings in @suwatson.bsky.social's @ukri.org-funded #openaccess book 'Gendered Online Abuse Against Women in Public Life: More Than Just Words': bookstore.emerald.com/gendered-onl... 🔓 📖
Employers must take responsibility for tackling online abuse of women, research says
Employers must do more to protect women in public-facing professions from online abuse, according to new research.
www.york.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
"High concentrations of fine particulate matter were discovered in the homes of 309 families participating in the long-term Born in Bradford study - with recommended guidelines exceeded on 41% of all monitored days"

Read the full #openaccess paper in BMC Public Health: doi.org/10.1186/s128... 🔓 📄
Families from deprived areas and ethnic minorities face the worse indoor air quality, York research finds
Harmful levels of indoor air pollution have been discovered in UK homes, with families from deprived areas and ethnic minority backgrounds facing the highest levels of exposure, according to a new stu...
www.york.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:08 AM
A through-provoking piece from @theblochian.bsky.social, citing the @n8research.bsky.social Statement on Sustainable Scholarly Publishing and anticipating the launch of @ojcollective.bsky.social, non-profit/community-led research infrastructure to fund diamond OA journals 💎 🔓
November 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Next Wednesday (19 Nov) our Research Coding Club are delivering an in-person session on software lifecycle planning 🧑‍💻

Register your place and read more about the Research Coding Course training programme 👇
Research Coding Course
A new training programme for developing research software
researchcodingclub.github.io
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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We have just released a new episode of the #DARCI Podcast reflecting on the DARCI Conference. Both the audio and the transcript are available. A great episode with lots of insights on the field and lots of tips on how to organise inclusive and accessible events enhancingaudiodescription.com/darci-23
November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🥳 The Open Book Collective is delighted to announce the first recipient of our Collective Development Fund for 2025–2026! 🥳

The project is titled:
‘Empowering Ethiopian Research Universities: A Multifaceted Approach to Overcome Open Access Barriers in Scholarly Publishing’.
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Great news from @wrunipress.bsky.social about their latest open access publication! 🌟
🌟🚢 We are excited to announce that Screening the Fleet by Prof. Jonathan Rayner (University of Sheffield), published by WRUP, has been nominated for the 2025 Maritime Media Awards!

To read more about the nomination and the book, follow the 🔗👉 universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/announcements
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The ESRC-funded @vp-centre.bsky.social, led by @uoysbs.bsky.social and @lawatleeds.bsky.social works with public sector organisations to help them improve the support they offer to citizens

Their Connected Data Analytics programme engages with a variety of open research practices, detailed below 👇
Our Connected Data Analytics programme explores how administrative datasets – combined with a range of other information – can provide powerful insights into the types of problems that many disadvantaged communities experience.

Read more 👇

vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/connected-da...
Connected Data Analytics - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre
Our Connected Data Analytics programme explores how routinely collected data can be used to improve service delivery for vulnerable people.
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Our Connected Data Analytics programme explores how administrative datasets – combined with a range of other information – can provide powerful insights into the types of problems that many disadvantaged communities experience.

Read more 👇

vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/connected-da...
Connected Data Analytics - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre
Our Connected Data Analytics programme explores how routinely collected data can be used to improve service delivery for vulnerable people.
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Researcher Development training workshop next week:

Archiving your research data 💾
Tue 11 November, 10:00-11:30, online

To register, go to SkillsForge (PGRs): www.skillsforge.york.ac.uk/york/#he.dev...,

or the LMS (staff): york-ac.csod.com/ui/lms-learn...
SkillsForge
www.skillsforge.york.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Over the past 20 years, the ADS has been at the forefront of many collaborations and projects.

In March 2025 UKRI visited to film a video highlighting the value of Horizon Europe funding to the UK, with ADS as their case study.

To find out more and watch the video visit: buff.ly/3JKFW2N
November 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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New story from the lab by PhD student Seb Grant. Started as a summer project and developed into an interesting story.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Evolutionary convergence of a Pyroptosis-Apoptosis crosstalk drives non-canonical inflammasome signalling.
The coordination of efficient immune responses to infections is essential to enable pathogen clearance and host survival. Cell death modalities are a crucial component of the innate immune system and ...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.

A neural state space for episodic memories

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
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November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Next Tuesday we are contributing to this @openresleeds.bsky.social online event on Rights Retention, reflecting on challenges and benefits for authors and universities against a backdrop of changes to publishing agreements 👇
November 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The 2025-26 York Researcher Development Programme has been updated, with new workshops for staff and PGRs on:

● Equitable and responsible research
● Communicating research on social media
● Policy masterclass and storytelling for policy training
● Developing research software

Full details here 👇
Research staff and postdocs
www.york.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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We've put this up on our big vertical screen again this year... #UoYTips
October 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Former @anthropocenebio.bsky.social @biologyatyork.bsky.social PhD student Dr Tiffany Ki has used records from museum collections and citizen science projects to show long-term patterns in the species richness of tropical butterflies 🦋

Read the full #openaccess paper: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 🔓 📄
Integrating museum records with contemporary citizen science data to uncover 166 years of tropical butterfly history
A former PhD student at the University of York has used records from museum collections and citizen science projects to show long-term patterns in the species richness of tropical butterflies.
www.york.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Researchers from York Trials Unit found that nurses working in GP surgeries face challenges linked to class, ethnicity, gender, ageism and professional status, which leave leave many feeling undervalued, overlooked and excluded

OA paper in BMC Health Services Research doi.org/10.1186/s129... 🔓 📄
Class, race, ageism and status shaping who stays in general practice, study shows
A new study has revealed that hidden social and cultural barriers - not just workload and pay - are driving nurses out of general practice and threatening the stability of primary care.
www.york.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Open Access for All: What Is Rights Retention and Why Should You Care?

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Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 1pm - 2pm

With Thom Blake @uoyopenres.bsky.social and Professor Stephen Eglen, Universty of Cambridge

@akadidymus.bsky.social
Open Access for All: What Is Rights Retention and Why Should You Care?
The N8 Research Partnership launched its Rights Retention statement in January 2023. Now nearly three years later and with the sector in the midst of a financial crisis, the...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM