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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · 1d

Hopefully you won't regret meeting me in smellovision!

Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · 1d

Haha! True! Wow, hybrid working has made me so used to only knowing people in 2D...

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! Will be good to catch up!

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · 13d

Very high demand back at Sheffield for more Cassie stickers!

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · 14d

📢 Come work with us! The Open Research Manager is a reformulated role in our team - it would suit someone with a strong research support background, but I'm happy to chat to anyone about the role and criteria.

Open Research, University of Sheffield @openresshef.bsky.social · 14d

🔊 Vacancy: Open Research Manager, University of Sheffield Library (full-time, open-ended). The role will involve supporting projects across Sheffield and nationally with the @ukrepro.bsky.social to accelerate open research practices. Closing date 22 October: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Open-Res...

Open Research Manager

jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 21d

Our preprint on our translations of CRediT into 36 languages. We've come a long way with this project! osf.io/preprints/me... If you know of non-English academic journals that don't have a policy on saying who did what, get in touch - CRediT may be part of the answer.

OSF

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 7

Reflecting on #OpenFest25, I'm grateful to the presenters (Almarzouq, Bowie, Sanders) who reminded us that openness is a social practice > we must not lose sight of this. E.g. open practices per se cannot dismantle the humanities' centrality in the ideological scaffolding of apartheid and genocide 👇

(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · Sep 4

I have a new article out today in Public Humanities, where I try to find some words for how historicide is (and has always been) a project of European colonialism - and I try to find some words for the historians who continue to support it. 🇵🇸✊🏻

Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How the Past Became a Weapon of Genocide in Palestine | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core

How the Past Became a Weapon of Genocide in Palestine - Volume 1

www.cambridge.org

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Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social · Sep 4

This was great from @batoolmm.bsky.social - not often you see discussion of open science explicitly referencing universities' harmful investment in fossil fuels and weapons #openfest25

Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 4

In our final online panel, a great paper from Batool Almarzouq, who shows how - if you follow the sources back - the same extractivist dynamics that transfer wealth from the global south to the global north in neocolonial projects play out in the open science funding landscape #OpenFest25

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 4

@lesleyuttley.bsky.social also examined research culture influences in health and biomedical research - shows us some brilliant visualisations of The Wheel of Fortune of Questionable Research Practices and The Vortex of Diminishing Returns in Open Science! #OpenFest25 doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

Redirecting

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 4

Finally, @lesleyuttley.bsky.social, who found 68 kinds of problems with systematic reviews, including lack of diversity in the review team: "a bad systematic review is worse than a non-review" because of the assumption of a gold standard doi.org/10.1016/j.jc... #OpenFest25

Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 4

Now @alicejanegibson.bsky.social is talking us through how systems theory/ systems thinking can help us map and understand research culture as an ecosystem, locating the leverage points for transformative impact across the ecosystem #OpenFest25

Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 4

In our final online panel, a great paper from Batool Almarzouq, who shows how - if you follow the sources back - the same extractivist dynamics that transfer wealth from the global south to the global north in neocolonial projects play out in the open science funding landscape #OpenFest25

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 4

Now @alicejanegibson.bsky.social is talking us through how systems theory/ systems thinking can help us map and understand research culture as an ecosystem, locating the leverage points for transformative impact across the ecosystem #OpenFest25

Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 4

In our final online panel, a great paper from Batool Almarzouq, who shows how - if you follow the sources back - the same extractivist dynamics that transfer wealth from the global south to the global north in neocolonial projects play out in the open science funding landscape #OpenFest25

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 4

In our final online panel, a great paper from Batool Almarzouq, who shows how - if you follow the sources back - the same extractivist dynamics that transfer wealth from the global south to the global north in neocolonial projects play out in the open science funding landscape #OpenFest25

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 3

And you can find more information about the @researchdataall.bsky.social Data Stewards Career Tracks Working Group, co-chaired by Elizabeth Newbold, here: www.rd-alliance.org/groups/data-...

Data Steward Career Tracks WG - RDA

www.rd-alliance.org

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 3

You can find my presentation, 'Recognising the contributions of Research Technical Professionals at the University of Sheffield', here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Recognising the contributions of Research Technical Professionals at the University of Sheffield

This presentation describes work to assess the utility of adopting the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) for recognising the contributions of Research Technical Professionals to research at the Unive...

doi.org

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 3

You can find Esther Plomp's presentation, 'Why CRediT' is not enough', here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Why CRediT is not enough

Presentation by Esther Plomp on 3 September 2025 for the OpenFest conference, as part of the session on Inclusive approaches to research recognition.

doi.org

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks to @nickshepp.bsky.social for posting links from our panel on recognising and attributing contributions to research #OpenFest25

Open Research Leeds @openresleeds.bsky.social · Sep 3

Valuing a broad range of research contributions through Team Infrastructure Roles: Why CRediT is not enough commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/c69y2lr3...

#OpenFest25

Valuing a broad range of research contributions through Team Infrastructure Roles: Why CRediT is not enough

commonplace.knowledgefutures.org

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 3

And closing this morning's panel is @samuelmoore.org on OA, care, and the commons. Critiques the market logic of OA policymakers and asks: What if we approached publishing as the commons, as a community-centric activity? #OpenFest25

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hannah talked us through the @thoth-metadata.bsky.social shared values for Open Access books: bibliophilia, community-led, inclusive and open source, DEI, anti-competitive and non-hierarchical #OpenFest25

A snip of Hannah's slides listing Thoth's shared values for Open Access books

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 3

Next, Hannah Hillen provides an overview of the @thoth-metadata.bsky.social project: no open access without open infrastructure!#OpenFest25

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 3

First up on #OpenFest25 Day 2 is @simonxix.com and @kjsanders.bsky.social with a call to approach 'open' as a social process (rather than an end goal) to revive its original DIY radical ethos and practice

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ah, we wouldn't ask you to be awake at 5am for the other sessions! Thanks so much again for joining us.

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 2

Powerful presentation from @lyndamk.bsky.social of @datarescueproject.org on ongoing work to rescue and preserve digital and physical federal data targeted by the Trump administration www.datarescueproject.org #OpenFest25

Data Rescue Project

Preserving public data

www.datarescueproject.org

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 2

@emmawilson.bsky.social on how challenges in finding+accessing research literature harms bibliographic diversity, ending with a key point: "proprietary [research information] systems don't work for us *as researchers*". How do you evaluate the lit. when you can't even read the abstracts? #OpenFest25

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 2

And this has happened to me! As Beth notes, good editors should sieve these absurd comments out.

Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 2

@drbeth.bsky.social providing an overview of 25 years of 'open' and EDI in this space. Appreciated the critique of the ways peer review comments enforce nativism and epistemic hegemony (trans or feminist researchers told they are 'biased' must add more cis men to make the research more 'rigorous')

Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · Sep 1

Last run through of my talk for #OpenFest tomorrow, pretty much bang on an hour so I'm going to have to speak fast and attempt to not go off track.

Hopefully it'll be an enjoyable, if general, overview of EDI issues in Open Research. I hope you'll come along!

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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