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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · 14h

#AI in academia versus trust gap - David Smith opens up a conversation on how students feel about using generative AI tools which also reflects on the ways research enablers can support that cultural change towards openness.

Have a read👇
davethesmith.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/t...

The GenAI Trust Gap: Why Students Hide, Share, or Shun AI

David Smith, Nigel Francis Our recent paper on Embedding GenAI skills in a Masters program highlights key findings around a trust deficit in GenAI use. Evidence from our own work and across recent …

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · 15h

LIVE from #OSC2025

p.s. @morphss.bsky.social interesting highlight from the posters introductions about the following AI project from University of Jyväskylä:

👉 "A human centered open source platform for image and text processing in humanities research" 💡

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · 1d

Virtually traveling across Germany recently - from Berlin to Hamburg tomorrow to join @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social for the #OpenScienceConference2025

Excited to learn more about the intersection of open research and AI 💡

www.zbw.eu/en/about-us/...

Open Science Conference 2025

Register now!

www.zbw.eu

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Reproducibility for Everyone (R4E) @repro4everyone.bsky.social · 5d

Join R4E for a workshop on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, at 10 AM ET / 3 PM CET. Topics include Data Management, Reagent Sharing, Bioinformatics, Microscopy, Statistics, and Data & Code Sharing, Analysis, and Visualization. #AcademicTwitter
Registration here:

R4E Workshop Announced!!! — R4E

R4E will be hosting a workshop for anyone! Topics that will be covered include: Data Management, Methods, Reagent Sharing, Bioinformatics, Microscope, Statistics, Data and Code Sharing, Data Analysis…

www.repro4everyone.org

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · 2d

Well done! ✔️

Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · 12d

@researchdataall.bsky.social RDM Train the trainer - completed✔️ @humboldtuni.bsky.social thanks for hosting!

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · 16d

Looking forward to the RDA Europe Train-the-Trainer Workshop for RDM Professionals this week!
#researchdatamanagement #RDM

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · 23d

EEDI in Open Research 🎧

You can now re-watch some of the #openfest25 sessions via our library webpages:
libguides.shu.ac.uk/c.php?g=7091...

LibGuides: Open Research: Open Fest

libguides.shu.ac.uk

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · Sep 5

Last but not least of our key ingredients that add to our EEDI focused open research approach driven by #Openfest25

Thank you to all co-organizers, speaker and participants - its been a pleasure!

All recordings of the online sessions will be released next week. Stay tuned!

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · Sep 4

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MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social · Sep 4

If anyone missed our talk at #OpenFest25 but would like to find out more about MORPHSS - our new project to surface & support open research in the arts, humanities & social science, do take a look at our webpages, including planned project deliverables:

morphss.hcommons.org/project-deli...

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · Sep 4

Just about to start our 3rd day of #OpenFest25
The recipe for an #EEDI open research approach is still in the making, more ingredients from yesterday pictured below👇

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · Sep 3

We are now running our second day of #OpenFest25
Our key ingredients of the EEDI open research approach from the first day pictured below

@reddite.bsky.social chairing sessions today🔊

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks Jenni, I am just following your footsteps!

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · Sep 2

Join us TOMORROW as part of #OpenFest2025

🌐 Towards an equitable, inclusive and bibliodiverse publishing ecosystem
📍 Online via MS Teams
⏰ Weds. 3 September (10.00-11.00am)

Book your place 👉 buff.ly/jTIYWPV

OpenFest 2025

OpenFest 2025 will take place between 2nd-5th September 2025. View the programme and book your place:

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · Sep 1

Spotify podcast alert: #OpenFest25 Open Research + EEDI

Together with @openresshef.bsky.social, joined by
@jenniad.bsky.social@reddite.bsky.social, Dr Keith Fildes and Dr Jim Uttley we discuss EDI research design (and support) with more robust + reliable data.
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

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MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social · Aug 13

We're looking forward to introducing the MORPHSS project at #OpenFest25 on September 4th, in a session on "Building diverse open research networks & communities."

Sign up to hear more about our plans to surface & support open research practices in the humanities & social sciences - details below:

Open Research, University of Sheffield @openresshef.bsky.social · Jul 1

🔊Registration is NOW OPEN for OpenFest 2025, the annual open research event led by Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam unis.

2nd-5th September - all welcome.

This year's theme is Open Research & Equity, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion - in all the meanings of those terms.

More details and registration:⬇️

OpenFest 2025

OpenFest 2025 will take place between 2nd-5th September 2025. View the programme and book your place:

www.sheffield.ac.uk

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · Aug 12

If you're in Edinburgh, you'll be familiar with the post-fringe blues. What to do with all the free time?!

Well - how about grabbing a cuppa and signing up to Sheffield's online OpenFest? sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

OpenFest 2025

OpenFest 2025 will take place between 2nd-5th September 2025. View the programme and book your place:

sheffield.ac.uk

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · Aug 6

In less than a month now, we will be launching our next OpenFest to discuss #openresearch filtered by the principles of #EEDI, the main theme of this year's event. Join us online!
libguides.shu.ac.uk/c.php?g=7091...

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Open Research, University of Sheffield @openresshef.bsky.social · Aug 4

🔊Four weeks to go until OpenFest 2025! 🥳Join us ONLINE for sessions on building diverse and inclusive research cultures, recognition practices, publishing ecosystems, open research communities, and libraries.

Full programme and registration links below:

Open Research, University of Sheffield @openresshef.bsky.social · Jul 1

🔊Registration is NOW OPEN for OpenFest 2025, the annual open research event led by Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam unis.

2nd-5th September - all welcome.

This year's theme is Open Research & Equity, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion - in all the meanings of those terms.

More details and registration:⬇️

OpenFest 2025

OpenFest 2025 will take place between 2nd-5th September 2025. View the programme and book your place:

www.sheffield.ac.uk

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · Jul 30

New podcast episode has just dropped on Spotify!
Listen to Dr Lewis Quayle and Ronak Naeemaee from Sheffield Hallam uncovering the power of open data👇

discussinghttps://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/shu-library-research-supp/episodes/Unlock-the-power-of-open-data-and-teach-open-research-e3663qq

Unlock the power of open data and teach open research by SHU Open Research Podcast

In this podcast episode, we talk to Dr Lewis Quayle, Senior Lecturer in Data Science and Analytics, and Ronak Naeemaee, our Doctoral Researcher at Sheffield Hallam University. Listen to their journey-...

creators.spotify.com

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · Jul 14

hope you've survived

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · Jul 10

New Spotify episode on #openresearchculture

How are we driving a cultural change? What are the skills and practices that inform transparency and accessibility? As a linguist by background, I look into HOW we communicate and interact with researchers👇
spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/a7JJh3iXSUb

Drive that cultural change towards open research by SHU Open Research Podcast

In this episode, Dr Pete Smith talks to Domi Smithson, Research Support Librarian at Sheffield Hallam University, about driving a cultural change towards open research. She shares her understanding of...

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · Jul 7

Join us in the next #OpenFest2025 at Sheffield: #OpenResearch and #EEDI in all the meanings of those terms: all the way from safeguarding #publicdata around experiences of marginalised groups 👉to an equitable #bibliodiversepublishing ecosystem.

Register now:
libguides.shu.ac.uk/c.php?g=7091...

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · Jul 3

A responsible use of GenAI in research project attached in the poster board:
metascience.info/programme/#1...

Programme - Metascience

Take a look over the Metascience 2025 timetable.

metascience.info