A major new Open Research report is out: MORPHSS.
It identifies 30 AHSS‑specific open practices and shows how they enhance rigour, transparency and community‑grounded research.
Read more here www.ukrn.org/2026/03/11/l...
'For example, in Edinburgh, the university sector's contribution is reckoned to be equivalent to ten Commonwealth Games as the University generates £7.52 billion per year to the UK economy compared with £740 million over seven years by the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth games'.
Today is our first VR workshop where we discuss enabling workspaces for the research and innovation sector. In addition to the VR experience we used Lego play to explore enabling workspaces.
Still time to sign up to our London sessions 5 March! Edicaucus.ac.uk/vr
Published in Nature!
Ok, it is a non-peer-reviewed letter, but still, a first for me
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00498-9
UK Humanities and Social Science researchers: If you want DSIT's metascience agenda to include your disciplines and subject areas, this is the prompt to apply by 23 April for up to £350,000 to make that happen. Don't be left out in the cold. #Skystorians
Are you a Postgraduate Researcher needing help planning your Research Data Management? We're here to help point you in the right direction with an in-person training event at the Lister Building from 14:00-15:30 next Wednesday, February 11th. Book through the following link: edin.ac/46w5PhC
Do we have a good grasp of the ethics of questionable research practices?
"[If we don't], this may generate unnecessary fears among researchers, as well as the abandonment of (good) practices that in some cases are misclassified as questionable."
By @ezequielfk.bsky.social
Did you miss last week’s webinar on ethical approaches to obtaining animal materials in research?
🔗 You can catch up by watching the full recording on our website: ukrio.org/recap-explor...
Is academia just a job?
We assigned this paper in our professional development seminar last week and it was quite popular.
My view: I grew up in a working class family and no one I knew considered their job "a calling". I also had a bunch of jobs that felt, well, like jobs.
One of the best ways for early-career researchers to create community within their department and effect change towards doing open and thoughtful research is to start a ReproducibiliTea journal club. We've distilled our network's experience into a set of simple rules to follow and get started!
Would you look at that?! It's an early Christmas pressie! The Open Research Conference 2026 Call for Contributions is now live!
library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...
This year we're celebrating our adoption of the UNESCO recommendation for Open Science.
Go on, treat yourself... throw in a submission.
it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know
this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science
Unchecked growth in publishing ‘threatens economic model’.
Cambridge University Press report calls for “fewer, higher-quality papers” as libraries face “disproportionate rising costs”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...
Tighter research security puts universities in a bind.
Financial pressures make protecting knowledge and policing researchers more difficult, says Nicola Searle.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Last year, I had a paper rejected after 18 months with the @amjepi.bsky.social.
It's the first time I've had a paper rejected after being invited for revisions. And the first time I've had a paper sent out to completely new reviewers.
It stung so hard that it's taken me a year to look at again.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
It so was hard to imagine having successful career in science as a disabled PhD student that eventually I just left.
Who could have guessed that years later I would help create a magazine issue dedicated to highlighting Trailblazing disabled chemists!
cen.acs.org/people/profi...
#DisabledInSTEM
Free-to-read opinion: The #OpenAccess movement might have run its course as a useful way of thinking about the future of publishing, writes Samuel Moore
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
A huge congratulations to Andrea Robertson, Lab Manager & Chair of the Sustainability Group at #IGC, who won the Contribution to University's Culture, Community and Environment award at the @uoetechnicians.bsky.social Technician Week Conference. Very well deserved!
@cmvm-edinburghuni.bsky.social
For #DoorsOpenDays2025 we are excited to share we're issuing an open invitation to go behind the scenes at IGC on Saturday 27 September and learn about the cutting-edge research we carry out. You can find more information and book free tickets here: edin.ac/4fYRtZP
@cmvm-edinburghuni.bsky.social
We celebrated Technician Week (1–5 Sept) with talks, a conference & our annual awards 🎉
🎙️ IRR Technology & Services Director Shonna Johnston @technicallyedin.bsky.social on the UK Technology Specialists Network: edin.ac/46nCSUs
🥼IRR Technical Manager Steven McLean on his career: edin.ac/4gcCdso
On Money Box Live on Wednesday I am looking at the cost of being a student. Get in touch with questions & stories, if you’re a student, a postgrad, or a parent or grandparent with any questions about support and spending. My email is felicity.hannah@bbc.co.uk
We hope our followers have had a great summer, and we are delighted to announce our first event of Semester 1!
GENDER.ED Welcome Reception
25 Sep 5pm-7pm, CMB
Join us for a fascinating exhibition and roundtable discussion.
More info and to register: www.gender.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/...
Perceptions have real effects
www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-insti...
EDICa logo, funded by UKRI and British Academy. SURVEY. Bullying & sexual harassment in the UK's research & innovation sector. Have you witnessed bullying or sexual harassment? Have you experienced bullying or sexual harassment? Anyone employed in UK's R&I sector (including postgrad research students). All job types - techs, innovators, researchers, research leaders, R&I managers, administrators, PhD students. All sectors - industry, academia, charity, government. 10-20 minutes to complete. URL and QR code.
Help us gauge the state of the UK's research & innovation sector in terms of preventing and handling bullying & harassment. Please share our survey of anyone who has witnessed or experienced it at work.
go.hw.ac.uk/EDICa/Bullyi...
Could AI slow science? Confronting the production-progress paradox
#AI #GenAI #ChatGPT #Claude #Science #WCRI2026 #WCRI
www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...
UKRN are delighted to announce that we are working with Project TIER and FORRT to provide a series of webinars on #transparency and #reproducibility in quantitative research.
Five live online sessions beginning on September 11, 2025🥳🥳
More details here: www.ukrn.org/2025/08/18/a...
Academics should be limited to one publication every year, or even every two years, as a solution to the “publish or perish…mania”, two business researchers have suggested.
Most-read on our site just now.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
Appearing in our feed today but published Oct '24.
Data showed faculty from underrepresented minority (URM) were judged more harshly on h-indexes and scholarly productivity. Results support the double standard hypothesis and provide evidence that it impacts sustained underrepresentation in faculty.
The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh also had exceptional links with slavery, including owning a plantation for a period. NHS Lothian Charity has done some impressive and thoughtful work with the Health Board on this shameful history: org.nhslothian.scot/aboutus/atla...
