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Thank you to @helenzsci.bsky.social and @focalplane.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about my role @cruk-mi.bsky.social, and the career journey that led me to supporting the research community here in #ResearchIntegrity Glad to be able to place this work in a #ResearchCulture context, too

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I'm betting there are a whole host of old-school biology people on Bluesky who have ideas for this, as well as many ECRs with complementary options. One of the things I liked about early Twitter was that combo of old and new ideas being merged, so I'm resharing to see what might be other there now

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A few initial thoughts on the latest #REF2029 missive on ‘contributions to knowledge and understanding’ (which some may obstinately continue to describe as ‘outputs’. 1/4 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/cku-cop...

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I'd love to know more people's thoughts on #REF2029 and decoupling of authors and publications, beyond my direct bubble! Please share, and discuss if you're comfortable

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Please contribute if you are interested in or connected with #REF2029, or work in higher education or with #GenerativeAI in the UK

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Meta AI has - for some reason - a public discover feed where people's prompts and the generated replies are made publicly visible. Also seems like lots of people don't know this is happening. And so yes, all that you're imagining is going on is going on (also on www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...)

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Today and tomorrow: International Meeting on Mirror Biology at the Pasteur Institute www.pasteur.fr/en/home/rese... Bluetorial to follow

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Concerns raised about an RCT of Vitamin K2 in JAMA Internal Medicine: www.pubpeer.com/publications...

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Inspiring keynote from Giovanna Lima of @dorassessment.bsky.social at #ManchesterOpenResearch conference this morning

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My highlights from #OpenResearchManchester conference 2025: - Georgia Vesma’s talk on peer review of interdisciplinary work - a worrying but necessary assessment - @olademk.bsky.social &Jo Hickman Dunne’s talk on registered reports for qual - another area of qual’s (usual) absence in OR discourse.

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Representing @uoyopenres.bsky.social at @uomlibrary.bsky.social Open Research Conference! #libraries #openresearch

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It was great to speak at Manchester’s Open Research Conference about the potential benefits of registered reports in qualitative research, with a focus on the mental health field. Some highlights summarised below from Beth, and even better you can read our article on this! doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...

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Well done to Aleks and Phil, speaking at the Open Research Conference in Manchester today, about developing the DIRECT Framework for digital research skills and competencies. #OpenResearch

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Excellent keynote and opener, The Open Imperative by Professor Stephen Curry. A very helpful primer in the origins, the development of, and the current challenges in open science and open research. From arguments for research being for common good, to politicisation of 'open' #ORC25 #OpenResearch

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Uni of Manchester starting off the day by making it very clear how Open Research is supported right from the very top - open research speaks to their values. (And ours 😉) #ManchesterOpenResearch

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A pleasure to be invited to kick off this year’s Manchester Open Research Conference.

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‘Anyone can do this’: Sleuths publish a toolkit for post-publication review The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG) aims to make “post-publication peer review” more accessible Project headed by @reeserichardson.bsky.social @cosig.net retractionwatch.com/2025/06/04/c...

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i am not against all uses of ML, LLMs related technologies and i can see that people working in those fields get a rough reception on here. but i have yet to see good explainers for non specialists of use cases that aren’t just “slap the everything machine on top of existing system”

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Friends, I have news. It is very good news. You'll just have to read it, I'm afraid. jamesclaims.substack.com/p/introducin...

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Our next community meeting is on Tuesday! Please join us to learn all about eLabFTW version 5.2, which has many new exciting features and tools 🔬⚗️🔭🧪⚛️

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I enjoyed the exploration of this parallel between synthetic generation of content by AI and synthetic fibres such as polyster

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Cherry picking - but the good type!

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My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate. www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

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In #Melbourne? Fan of @emilymbender.bsky.social? In conversation with Dr @kobotic.bsky.social Tues 1st July, Kaleide Theatre, #RMIT, discussing her book written with Dr @alexhanna.bsky.social #TheAICon. Learn how to cut through the #AI hype www.readings.com.au/events/emily...

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URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

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“Anonymous GitHub” — I just discovered this today. What a great idea!! (Apparently I am the 46,631ˢᵗ to find it.) Provides an anonymized portal to your GitHub respiratory suitable for submission to double-blind review for research conference papers or journal articles. anonymous.4open.science

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Exciting to see the full programme released for the @officialuom.bsky.social #OpenResearch conference next week - www.openresearch.manchester.ac.uk/conference/ I'm looking forward to great talks - including from Stephen Curry & Giovanna Lima, great posters & facilitating the #ResearchCulture labs!

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