Rosie Higman

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Open research nerd. Librarian. Part-time PhD student. Parent. Cycling in my spare time. LwiththeT

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More on the mass resignation of editors of 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 & 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴: an op-ed by yrs truly in The Guardian, about the commercial academic publishing scam #PolTheory #philsky #polisky #academicsky

Academic publishing is a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadehwww.theguardian.com Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh

Finishing off bits of work before I go on holiday with some fascinating talks from LSE Festival in the background, they are available to stream here and there are loads of timely discussions around politics and democracy: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

LSE Festival 2024: Power and Politicswww.youtube.com The LSE Festival 2024 is taking place from Monday 10 to Saturday 15 June 2024, exploring how power and politics shape our world. All events are free and open...

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:dons librarian hat: Digital preservation is more expensive than preserving paper; it takes more staff, active attention, and consistent computing resources. Libraries have discussed “digital dark age” since the 1990s. Corp archives often 1st to go b/c suits haven’t figured out how to profit.

One of the interesting things about the Internet is that we’re actually living through a dark age. Future historians are unlikely to have records of this period. Paper and ink last. Digital storage, less so. variety.com/2024/tv/news...

Comedy Central’s Website Purges 25 Years of Video Clips and Other Contentvariety.com The vast repository of content on Comedy Central's website has been removed by Paramount Global, in a move to push fans to Paramount+.

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Some personal notes on the REF OA mandate for books eve.gd/2024/06/21/a...

Some personal notes on the REF OA mandate for bookseve.gd A few personal notes on the clamour around OA for books (written from the perspective of an author of 10 books that are all openly accessible):

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Remember, Jude Bellingham is under 25, so his brain isn't fully formed yet, meaning any goals he scores don't count. #Joke #ISwearToGod #ItsJustAJoke

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Librarianship MA student from UCL looking for ECRs to be interviewed about how libraries can communicate with researchers in a post-twitter world, if anyone can spare the time! liveuclac-my.sharepoint.com/personal/ucz...

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I am a Digital Humanities web developer and IT professional. My greatest hits include: * That sounds great; who is going to maintain it? * No, really; who is going to maintain it? * Lets try again; who is going to maintain it after you get bored with it / run out of grant money? * **screaming**

I am a games PR manager. My greatest hits include: * You have to talk to someone else about that game * No, we don't have any news about that yet * I really like it, and I'm not just saying that. * No, I don't do the podcast anymore.

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Library job alert! Liaison librarian (medicine) and library manager for Imperial College London. This has been my role for the last (nearly) 10 years so please let me know if you have any questions about it. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Descriptionwww.imperial.ac.uk Imperial College London is the UK’s only university focussed entirely on science, engineering, medicine and business and we are consistently rated in...

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This will only make sense to Pratchett fans but I am increasingly sure Rishi Sunak is the prime ministerial equivalent of Fred Colon after Vimes and Carrot ran off to Uberwald. Only instead of counting sugar lumps he's locked himself in his office frantically making spreadsheets.

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We are delighted to announce that our #LSEPPR journal is now indexed on @doaj.bsky.social - the Directory of Open Access journals. 🎉 🔎 Simply search 'LSE Press' at doaj.org #openresearch #journalpublishing #publicpolicy

Directory of Open Access Journals – DOAJdoaj.org DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone...

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"By partnering with Slow Ways...Railwalks aims to eventually offer a comprehensive, searchable, national network of rail walks, a mixture of station-to-station routes and circular hikes. And like Slow Ways itself, it needs your help."

‘You can walk virtually everywhere in England by using the train’: the man connecting rail-based walkswww.theguardian.com A new website aims to offer a wide network of walking routes from British train stations, and is calling on hikers to add their favourites. Our writer accompanies the founder on a ramble to Bath Spa s...

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We're delighted to announce Philippa Grand has been appointed head of publishing, as reported in The Bookseller. 🎈 “Philippa brings a wealth of expertise, and we can’t wait to see what she achieves in this new leadership position.” @niamhtumelty.bsky.social ✍️ www.thebookseller.com/news/philipp...

Philippa Grand joins LSE Press as head of publishingwww.thebookseller.com Philippa Grand has been appointed head of publishing at LSE Press, the academic publishing arm of the London School of Economics and Political Sciences.

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The Open Library of Humanities launches 7 new journals: openlibhums.org/news/700/ This increases the OLH’s portfolio to 30 journals currently publishing, with a further 3 high-profile journals who will be leaving their commercial publishers in Spring-Summer 2024 to relaunch at the OLH. (1/2)

Open Library of Humanitiesopenlibhums.org The Open Library of Humanities is an award-winning open-access publisher of internationally leading academic scholarship. Our mission is to support and extend open access to scholarship in the humanit...

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i don't bake because of a desire to be traditionally feminine, i bake because it enables me to eat cookies whenever i want and no one can say anything about it because i made the cookies and am entitled to eating them

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The images of the planes just rolling through a flat surface of water at Dubai airport...........it's so stunning to me how we're delivered the physical imagery of the climate crisis every few weeks, each time in a completely new way. None of this is subtle at all.

PhD students and ECRs - my colleague is doing a survey on attitudes to open peer review as part of her degree. Please spend 10 minutes helping her here: bbk.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Thanks! 🙏 #PhDSky #AcademicSky #Metascience

I keep reading these in the cadence of Tiddler (the Julia Donaldson classic) and they kind of work

Sorry I’m late, I know we had a date in Constantinople, but I was waiting in Istanbul

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#RLUKICIL | Traces of South Asia: Working with Hidden Collections | 🗓️ Fri 19 Apr Archives & collections are organised to be discoverable. But what is hidden & who has to do the work of ‘finding’ them? Join us for a talk by Daniel Payne @lselibrary.bsky.social in April. 🎟️ bit.ly/RLUKICIL

"we can't use closed data to evidence our commitment to open research" 👏👏👏 Love this from @lizziegadd.bsky.social at #rluk24 will be quoting this at our metrics working group next week

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We have an exciting new role being advertised at the University of Sheffield! A fixed term (18mths) full time position, the Digital Preservation Technical Lead will help shape our Digital Preservation Service. Check out this job at The University of Sheffield: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/38...

Things from Madagascar are Malagasy not Madagascan. If I ever stand for office I'll have a niche policy that companies getting this wrong (e.g. Madagascan Vanilla ice cream) should pay a levy to the Malagasy people

What’s your most tedious bit of niche pedantry, the one that would make people back away from you with fear in their eyes? Mine is that ‘lesser spotted’ doesn’t mean ‘not often seen’ so much as ‘small and spotty’.

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British Library report on their cyberattack just dropped: www.bl.uk/home/british... 📚 “Wherever possible, though, we have tried to err on the side of openness, and not everything here makes comfortable reading for ourselves as an organisation.”

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NO TRANSFORMATION: www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/jis... "Transitional agreements were envisioned as a temporary mechanism to support a transition to full OA. ... However, the review suggests they are at risk of becoming the ‘norm’ and that the rate of transition is too slow."

Really interesting funding opportunity from UKRI, hopefully this will expand at some point beyond their core digital research infrastructure www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Net zero digital research infrastructure coordinator and networkwww.ukri.org Apply to become the net zero digital research infrastructure (NZ DRI) coordinator to develop and lead an NZ DRI network.

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Call for new Editor-in-chief and Associate Editors for the Journal of Open Software Research. account.openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com/index.php/up...

Now hiring 📣 We've got another role in our growing research support team @lselibrary.bsky.social for a fixed-term Open Research Assistant: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Closing 10th March, email me [email protected] if you've got any questions #LISJobs #LibraryJobs

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£3M funding call for metascience "support projects to deepen our understanding of how different structures, incentives, and funding practices within the Research and Development system shape scientific research outputs and career outcomes" www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Pre-announcement: UKRI Metascience research grantswww.ukri.org The Metascience Grants Programme supports cutting-edge research into more effective ways of supporting and funding Research and Development (R&D). Projects must have the potential to inform science po...

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What is a high-quality #research #environment? New paper by @mjinglis.bsky.social @lizziegadd.bsky.social & me topic modelling all unit-level #REF2021 environment statements shows that how statements were written contributed substantially to the perceived quality of a unit’s research environment.

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I can assure you #DataLibs, this will be such a good job to get if you're interested in research data support.

Now hiring! 📣 We're hiring for a new research data librarian @lselibrary.bsky.social, as we expand our support for open research and secure data: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Closing date is Sunday 10th March, email me at [email protected] if you have any questions #Metascience #OpenData