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Announcing the Hidden REF Competition 2026!
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🎙️ Podcast Ep16. What the REF is the Hidden REF Competition?!
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Practice #16 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Open longform scholarship

"open longform publishing challenges the closed, hierarchical workflows of legacy academic presses, instead fostering community-driven, collaborative ecosystems..."

#OpenResearch #AHSS

February issue of our Scholarly Communications Newsletter is out! Lots to read and catch up again incl. #MORPHSS catalogue, #UKrepo report, recent #AI guidelines, PRC model and more. mailchi.mp/f0f2902feb46...

Together w/ @susan-librarian.bsky.social at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social, we teamed up with @jennye.bsky.social to organise the "#OpenResearch: the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences perspective" online session. More details are coming soon. Here is the link to register! bit.ly/OpenResearch...

I'll be speaking in a panel with @eve.gd and @alittleroad.bsky.social on #OA books at the London Open Science & Scholarship festival in April. The event is online and can be booked now, see blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...

Open Research, Gender, and Ethics Discover how open research can shake up gender norms and ethics in this online event.

VERY excited for this event as part of the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026 (online, April 20th).

We don’t talk enough about the patriarchal ideologies embedded in many dominant applications of “open science “

Practice #2 from the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS disciplines: Annotation for Transparent Inquiry.

"ATI is a means of augmenting a publication with annotations that provide additional information about the evidence on which statements in the publication are based..."

A very good point, and something we are brewing on in @morphss.bsky.social! 🙂

Excellent point by @morphss.bsky.social 's @jenniad.bsky.social at #OxFos26 yesterday: how can we uplift the epistemic status and institutional support for a whole hemisphere of openness? Which open research practices are actively promoted in actions, not only in discourse, and which are not?

We're launching a new Research on Research seminar series for early career researchers!

A space to share your work, brainstorm in-progress projects, or explore fresh ideas for advancing metascience.

Stay updated or register to present: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I am really keen to follow the @morphss.bsky.social project as it progresses. It is really impressive in its approach, and also incredibly refreshing to see/hear its intentionalities around the communities and practices of scholars that spread across a vast array of disciplines.

Thanks Kevin!

Hi Megan, we received a link/reminder just now, so hopefully you should have too

Flyer for the OxFos session on the Future of Open Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, which is happening on 3rd March 2026. Contains a QR code,=.

The MORPHSS team are delighted to be presenting at #OxFOS26 today in the session on the future of open research in the humanities and social sciences.

Details below:

And the #MORPHSS team will be presenting online on the future of open research in humanities and social sciences

@samuelmoore.org @jenniad.bsky.social @mirandab-oa.bsky.social

📆 Tues 3 March
⏲️ 15.00–16.30

Register now 👉 buff.ly/PtkHdlg

Find out more about the project 👉 buff.ly/6JgOYXA

@sabinaleonelli.bsky.social discussing what science more generally can learn from open AHSS research practices in terms of situated, reflexive approaches to open research... especially crucial in the context of AI's impact on approaches to open/research.

#oxfos26 #OpenResearch #AHSS

Practice #23 from the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS disciplines: Public scholarship

"Methods for public scholarship include academic blogs, journalistic essays, social media posts, media broadcasts (television and radio), podcasts, and public lectures..."

Coming up later this month:

Excellent keynote by Siddharth Soni linking the colonialism of genAI to the colonialism of knowledge production now and throughout history #CopimConference

Closing keynote: Scholarly Book and the Digital Commons - Dr Siddharth Soni of @unisouthampton.bsky.social considers the future of the scholarly book amid new digital cultures of writing and reading, and the role of the librarian #CopimConference

This is thought-provoking - talks about how openness in arts, hums and soc sci should be viewed as occurring 'in practices like experimental publishing, participatory research methods, and public scholarship', i.e. not just about OA publication or data.

💡 what a helpful articulation of the diversity of open research practices beyond open data!

"Openness in AHSS occurs in practices like experimental publishing, participatory research methods, and public scholarship"

Wish we could have cited @morphss.bsky.social in "Show Me the Data"!

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A broader vision of open research is needed to include the arts, humanities and social sciences - LSE Impact Discussing the findings of a new report on open practices in the arts, humanities and social sciences, Jenni Adams, Miranda Barnes, Samuel Moore and Stephen Pinfield argue to support open research in ...

💥New | A broader vision of open research is needed to include the arts, humanities and social sciences

✍️ @jenniad.bsky.social, @mirandab-oa.bsky.social, @samuelmoore.org & @stephenpinfield.bsky.social

#OpenResearch #SocialScience #Humanities #AcademicSky

Practice #20 from the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS disciplines: Foregrounding Positionality

"Foregrounding of positionality can take the form of brief acknowledgement of a researcher's positioning or more sustained, holistic and embedded self-examination..."

Setup is go! Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow! #CopimConference

We are really looking forward to sharing the outcomes of the pilot projects that we (Copim's Experimental Publishing Group copim.pub/groups/exper...) have supported over the last 2 years during this conference, more information about the program & registration will hopefully be available next week!

Very much looking forward to taking part in this @morphss.bsky.social panel in March to launch and discuss the amazing Report doi.org/10.17613/jn1... and Catalogue catalogue.morphss.work of open research practices in AHSS by @jenniad.bsky.social and @mirandab-oa.bsky.social et al. Register below!

Practice #26 from the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS disciplines: Sharing Creative Practice Outputs

"Online 'portfolios' of practice research are created by combining brief statements or articulations of research alongside audio-visual documentation of the output..."

Wonderful stuff here — the prioritizing of STEM in OA makes me grind my humanist teeth.

I especially love the report's Catalogue of Open Research Practices in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences: catalogue.morphss.work