Miranda L. Barnes
@mirandab-oa.bsky.social
Research Associate, Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences (MORPHSS), Uni. of Cambridge (Cambridge Digital Humanities & Cambridge University Library). Views my own.
[Find my poetry account at @luminousjune.bsky.social]
[Find my poetry account at @luminousjune.bsky.social]
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Cambridge University Library awarded funding to explore openness in humanities and social sciences
Significant funding has been awarded to investigate ways to encourage and embed innovative open research practices within humanities and social science (HSS) disciplines.
www.lib.cam.ac.uk
Very excited to be joining the MORPHSS Project at Cambridge University in 2 weeks! 😄 I'll be working closely with @samuelmoore.org, investigating ways to encourage and embed innovative open research practices within humanities and social science (HSS) disciplines.
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/morp...
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/morp...
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to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.
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Funny reading this quote because it's exactly the same way I'm now thinking about open research with @morphss.bsky.social
A reminder that "[o]ne should not think of OA as a thing-in-itself; rather, it should be seen as a process of understanding, engaging and experimenting with the ways in which research is presented and disseminated." (@samuelmoore.org, 2017)
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Funny reading this quote because it's exactly the same way I'm now thinking about open research with @morphss.bsky.social
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Are you a scholar in Games Studies, Museum Studies and/or Digital Humanities and want to help NMS develop research in Collecting Video Game Heritage? Come and apply to be an IASH Fellow at the University of Edinburgh!
Applications
Opens - Dec 25
Closes - April 26
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...
Applications
Opens - Dec 25
Closes - April 26
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...
IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship | IASH
www.iash.ed.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Are you a scholar in Games Studies, Museum Studies and/or Digital Humanities and want to help NMS develop research in Collecting Video Game Heritage? Come and apply to be an IASH Fellow at the University of Edinburgh!
Applications
Opens - Dec 25
Closes - April 26
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...
Applications
Opens - Dec 25
Closes - April 26
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...
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This is an exciting project, led by @nebulousflynn.bsky.social, to safeguard access to the UK’s digital 3D heritage at risk through over-reliance on commercial and free-to-use platforms for storage and dissemination. I'm happy to be serving on the advisory board and looking forward to discussions.
Wikimedia UK has been awarded a grant of £56,198 from National Lottery Heritage Fund towards our ‘UK Heritage 3D Data at Risk: Developing a Strategy for Long Term Access & Storage’ project. The grant will help ensure future access to the UK’s 3D heritage data.
More info: tinyurl.com/3ma28psr
More info: tinyurl.com/3ma28psr
November 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This is an exciting project, led by @nebulousflynn.bsky.social, to safeguard access to the UK’s digital 3D heritage at risk through over-reliance on commercial and free-to-use platforms for storage and dissemination. I'm happy to be serving on the advisory board and looking forward to discussions.
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🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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We're all super lovely we promise 😇
JOB KLAXON: Who wants to come work with us?! 📣
Join us as a Project Manager (0.60FTE) on a fixed term 3 month contract (available to start from 1st February 2026)
All the details are on the Lancaster University website 👉 buff.ly/A70OcHY
Don't delay, get your application in today!
Join us as a Project Manager (0.60FTE) on a fixed term 3 month contract (available to start from 1st February 2026)
All the details are on the Lancaster University website 👉 buff.ly/A70OcHY
Don't delay, get your application in today!
November 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
We're all super lovely we promise 😇
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Find out more about ‘Deep Maps: Blue Humanities’ 🗺️
ℹ️ An OBF-funded experimental #Book #Publishing pilot project in collaboration with @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @uwpress.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social Labs
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ℹ️ An OBF-funded experimental #Book #Publishing pilot project in collaboration with @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @uwpress.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social Labs
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Launch of Experimental Book Publishing Pilot Project 'Deep Maps: Blue Humanities' - Copim
The Open Book Futures (OBF) Experimental Publishing Group is pleased to announce the launch of ‘Deep Maps’, one of three funded pilot projects resulting from OBF’s call for experimental book projects.
buff.ly
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Find out more about ‘Deep Maps: Blue Humanities’ 🗺️
ℹ️ An OBF-funded experimental #Book #Publishing pilot project in collaboration with @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @uwpress.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social Labs
🔗
ℹ️ An OBF-funded experimental #Book #Publishing pilot project in collaboration with @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @uwpress.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social Labs
🔗
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This Wednesday I'm giving an online talk about my new book. It's at 4pm UK time and you can register here:
opendivide.hypotheses.org/625
opendivide.hypotheses.org/625
Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons
In the seventh lecture of the Open Divide Series, Samuel Moore will present “Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons”. In his talk on November 26, 2025, at 5:00 PM CET, Samuel...
opendivide.hypotheses.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This Wednesday I'm giving an online talk about my new book. It's at 4pm UK time and you can register here:
opendivide.hypotheses.org/625
opendivide.hypotheses.org/625
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Can we please discuss accessibility at conferences?
When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded.
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When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Can we please discuss accessibility at conferences?
When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded.
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When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded.
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This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views
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NYT: A wise and deeply moving letter to the editor from a retired history teacher Liz Zucker.
“Ignorance is not bliss. It’s just ignorance.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
“Ignorance is not bliss. It’s just ignorance.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
NYT: A wise and deeply moving letter to the editor from a retired history teacher Liz Zucker.
“Ignorance is not bliss. It’s just ignorance.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
“Ignorance is not bliss. It’s just ignorance.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
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"Maybe the intelligence we most need is the capacity to see beyond the hierarchies that determine which knowledge counts. Without that foundation, regardless of the hundreds of billions we pour into developing superintelligence, we’ll keep erasing knowledge systems that took generations to develop."
🤖 "Holes in the web: Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, GenAI is shockingly ignorant too."
Excellent essay on algorithmic epistemological knowledge and the collapse of knowledge throughout mean-driven data machines.
aeon.co/essays/gener...
Excellent essay on algorithmic epistemological knowledge and the collapse of knowledge throughout mean-driven data machines.
aeon.co/essays/gener...
Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays
Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too
aeon.co
November 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
"Maybe the intelligence we most need is the capacity to see beyond the hierarchies that determine which knowledge counts. Without that foundation, regardless of the hundreds of billions we pour into developing superintelligence, we’ll keep erasing knowledge systems that took generations to develop."
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
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I'm giving a talk on November 26 at 5 pm CET as part of the Open Divide: Critical Studies on Open Access series. Registration and more info on the series here:
opendivide.hypotheses.org/open-divide-...
opendivide.hypotheses.org/open-divide-...
Open Divide 2025/2026 — Speakers and Topics
In 2018, Open Divide: Critical Studies on Open Access examined the transformation of scholarly communication, questioning dominant narratives and highlighting unresolved controversies. Now, seven year...
opendivide.hypotheses.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I'm giving a talk on November 26 at 5 pm CET as part of the Open Divide: Critical Studies on Open Access series. Registration and more info on the series here:
opendivide.hypotheses.org/open-divide-...
opendivide.hypotheses.org/open-divide-...
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OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
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Newly released Stockholm Declaration recommends the following reforms to publishing:
1. Academia resumes control of publishing
2. Incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity
3. Independent fraud detection and prevention
4. Legislation and policies to protect science quality and integrity
1. Academia resumes control of publishing
2. Incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity
3. Independent fraud detection and prevention
4. Legislation and policies to protect science quality and integrity
Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration | Royal Society Open Science
Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure
are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data,
text and image fabrication....
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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📣 The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research is pleased to present RETHINKING RIGOUR, a two-day symposium exploring creative-critical research in medical humanities.
📅 4-5 December 2025
Find out more about the event and book your free tickets 👇
📅 4-5 December 2025
Find out more about the event and book your free tickets 👇
Rethinking Rigour: Conditions of Creativity & Criticality in the Academy - Durham University
4 December 2025 - 4 December 2025
www.durham.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
📣 The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research is pleased to present RETHINKING RIGOUR, a two-day symposium exploring creative-critical research in medical humanities.
📅 4-5 December 2025
Find out more about the event and book your free tickets 👇
📅 4-5 December 2025
Find out more about the event and book your free tickets 👇
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“These aren’t ‘soft’ alternatives to ‘hard’ research. They are different technologies of knowledge that can access realities other methods miss.”
Excellent piece on the need for plural & inclusive visions of knowledge creation.
Excellent piece on the need for plural & inclusive visions of knowledge creation.
Art as Knowledge – Why research needs a non-aligned revolution - Impact of Social Sciences
Drawing on political theories of non-alignment, Annalena Oppel argues universities should take a more plural approach to art as research.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“These aren’t ‘soft’ alternatives to ‘hard’ research. They are different technologies of knowledge that can access realities other methods miss.”
Excellent piece on the need for plural & inclusive visions of knowledge creation.
Excellent piece on the need for plural & inclusive visions of knowledge creation.
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Our team developed an open-source WordPress plugin that lets you pull in items from your ORCID profile and display them on your site. Very cool!
Schopieray, S., & Eben, G. (2025). Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025 (p. 3). MSU Commons. doi.org/10.17613/ypc...
Schopieray, S., & Eben, G. (2025). Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025 (p. 3). MSU Commons. doi.org/10.17613/ypc...
Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025
Our project, Linked Open Profiles, is a WordPress plugin designed to display ORCID profile data directly on websites. With ORCID Global Participation Fund (GPF) support, we moved the tool from a proto...
doi.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Our team developed an open-source WordPress plugin that lets you pull in items from your ORCID profile and display them on your site. Very cool!
Schopieray, S., & Eben, G. (2025). Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025 (p. 3). MSU Commons. doi.org/10.17613/ypc...
Schopieray, S., & Eben, G. (2025). Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025 (p. 3). MSU Commons. doi.org/10.17613/ypc...
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LinkedIn just made an update, and it is USING YOUR DATA.
As of Nov 3, your posts/comments/activity will be used to train AI automatically.
Rather than in, it’s opt-out.
If you do nothing, your stuff becomes free fuel for AI with no "undo"
Wanna opt out? Update your settings: lnkd.in/emughyJ8
As of Nov 3, your posts/comments/activity will be used to train AI automatically.
Rather than in, it’s opt-out.
If you do nothing, your stuff becomes free fuel for AI with no "undo"
Wanna opt out? Update your settings: lnkd.in/emughyJ8
LinkedIn Login, Sign in | LinkedIn
Login to LinkedIn to keep in touch with people you know, share ideas, and build your career.
lnkd.in
October 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
LinkedIn just made an update, and it is USING YOUR DATA.
As of Nov 3, your posts/comments/activity will be used to train AI automatically.
Rather than in, it’s opt-out.
If you do nothing, your stuff becomes free fuel for AI with no "undo"
Wanna opt out? Update your settings: lnkd.in/emughyJ8
As of Nov 3, your posts/comments/activity will be used to train AI automatically.
Rather than in, it’s opt-out.
If you do nothing, your stuff becomes free fuel for AI with no "undo"
Wanna opt out? Update your settings: lnkd.in/emughyJ8
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The number of reports by nurses of racist incidents at work has risen by 55% over three years - the Royal College of Nursing calls on govt to stop using anti migrant rhetoric that drives this, and for employers to prioritise tackling racism and work with unions www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55%
Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The number of reports by nurses of racist incidents at work has risen by 55% over three years - the Royal College of Nursing calls on govt to stop using anti migrant rhetoric that drives this, and for employers to prioritise tackling racism and work with unions www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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The is particularly true of current ukgov funded research on AI that starts from the premise “Yay! AI is Brilliant! Amazing! Woohooo!!!”
Research should inform policy but that’s tricky if it is almost entirely driven by policy. The independence of research is key to change because if you fund only research that responds to policy (even good policy) you’re less innovative, creative & responsive to the open options of the future.
October 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
The is particularly true of current ukgov funded research on AI that starts from the premise “Yay! AI is Brilliant! Amazing! Woohooo!!!”
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
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It's open access week!
We, at @kcommons.bsky.social, are running a webinar later this week, showcasing what we do and what we have! Do please come join us... msu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#oaweek25 #oaweek2025 #openaccessweek
We, at @kcommons.bsky.social, are running a webinar later this week, showcasing what we do and what we have! Do please come join us... msu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#oaweek25 #oaweek2025 #openaccessweek
October 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
It's open access week!
We, at @kcommons.bsky.social, are running a webinar later this week, showcasing what we do and what we have! Do please come join us... msu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#oaweek25 #oaweek2025 #openaccessweek
We, at @kcommons.bsky.social, are running a webinar later this week, showcasing what we do and what we have! Do please come join us... msu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#oaweek25 #oaweek2025 #openaccessweek
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We've posted a recording of the excellent event 'Plants, Memory, Belonging', co-hosted recently by Oak Spring Garden Foundation and our journal 'Plant Perspectives'. Fascinating presentations and discussion! Check it out here: youtu.be/CssAzff55Q4?... @plantperspectives.bsky.social #planthumanities
Plants, Belonging, Memory
YouTube video by White Horse Press
youtu.be
October 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
We've posted a recording of the excellent event 'Plants, Memory, Belonging', co-hosted recently by Oak Spring Garden Foundation and our journal 'Plant Perspectives'. Fascinating presentations and discussion! Check it out here: youtu.be/CssAzff55Q4?... @plantperspectives.bsky.social #planthumanities