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Brian Carey (School of Government and International Affairs) and Elizabeth Ventham's new paper has just been published in Episteme: "There is no fresh air: A problem with the concept of echo chambers" doi.org/10.1017/epi....

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Read about female power in copper age Iberia by @martaguardamino.bsky.social et al in the run up to #InternationalWomensDay, available in DRO: durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3467389

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Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland & Teesside Universities invite you to their Open Research Week - March 24th-28th. Events are via TEAMS. Please share widely with all your networks! @dulib.bsky.social librarytalksunderland.libcal.com/calendar/res...

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Please register now for our exciting training course: Introduction to Research Data Management. Full details: webapp.inkpath.co.uk#/redirect/ey...

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With #InternationalWomensDay coming soon, its a great time to recognise the women of @dusportexsci.bsky.social and the great work that they do. 🧵⬇️ will build up through the week until 8th March ...

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Keira Forde a Durham Sociology student has written about the history of Black students at Durham & her own family's history of Black Brilliance in higher education. This is part of a wider project looking at the Absence/Presence of Black histories in Durham. stories.durham.ac.uk/BlackBrillia...

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Durham Research Methods Café's next session will be running on Wednesday 5th March 2025 in person, 1100-1230. All PGR/PGT students and DU staff welcome. More information here: www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...

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A little late as we're only just here on BSky ... ... but do have a watch below for some of the valuable contributions colleagues in @dusportexsci.bsky.social were making in 2024 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns9L...

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Published open access in Molecular Autism by Dr Haemy Lee Masson - examining how autistic adults process social touch scenes at the brain network level. doi.org/10.1186/s132... Congratulations Haemy! 🎉

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A blog post from DRO's OA Publications Officer, Katie, on her visit to the House of Commons Library last week... dulib.blog/2025/02/24/b...

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Welcome to Bluesky @durhameducation.bsky.social 👋

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A blog post about when @debbieriby.bsky.social, @dramypearson.bsky.social, @mimhanley.bsky.social, @drmbothapsych.bsky.social, @chloefielding.bsky.social & James Mcleod came to @dulib.bsky.social to talk about #neurodiversity research: dulib.blog/2025/02/20/c...

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🍷Reporting nutritional information on wine packaging: does it affect consumers’ choices? Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Italy🍷 Available in DRO without 💳: durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3319294 DU co-author: Economics Professor, R Scarpa DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102800

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5 Mins With | “Finding solutions motivates me” Claire Horwell (@clairehorwell.bsky.social) is an air pollution scientist and Professor of Geohealth at Durham University: geoscientist.online/sections/fiv...

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📸❤️ Scrolling through Instagram and other social media sites is a habit for many of us, but what effects do such habits have on our bodies? Michael Wadsley and Niklas Ihssen from @durhampsych.bsky.social investigate in their new, fully OA article. 👉 durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3489550

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Congratulations to Harriet Strahl, a member of our student association, MEMSA, on the publication of her article "‘Compassion Alone Moved Me to Tell This Story’: Orderic Vitalis on the Wreck of the White Ship" in the Journal of Medieval History! 👏 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Happy Valentine's Day! ❤️ Celebrate by reading 'Love' a book chapter co-authored by Philosophy's @joe-saunders.bsky.social which is available in DRO and recently came out of embargo: durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1643328 #Philosophy Published: doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_1070-1

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#OA research!

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Registration is now live for our conference and book launch event in May! For more details see pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...

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The Impossibility of ‘Good Mothering’ in Child Welfare Systems When Referred for Non-Traditional Harms By Sociology academics @rutternik.bsky.social , C Firmin, K O'Brien & R Owens, with D Garvey: www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/14... One author has a lived-experience perspective to bring to the article

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The #Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open more rapidly as it responds to climate change.  Research led by @tomchudley.bsky.social from @geogdurham.bsky.social found crevasses had significantly increased in size and depth in just five years 👉 bit.ly/4aKE8l7 @leverhulme.bsky.social #DUresearch

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It was a hard end-of-month, but we've found positivity in doing what we like best - helping authors publish: here's our update for January and an example of our continued support for DU authors, no matter what. libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc...

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A lovely 3rd year student of mine is looking for participants for her dissertation on victimisation and masking among autistic people: CW for questions on experiences of violence. Any reshares/time much appreciated. No funding attached. eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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I (Martin, your local Repository Officer) rambled on about this in a profile I did for the Library's blog when I joined the OR team. Vindicated! ✅ New doors 🔜 A life-sized Bill Bryson for every study space? (do we even still have a life-sized cardboard cut-out of Bill Bryson, @dulib.bsky.social?)

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Algorithmic bias: sexualized violence against women in GPT-3 models is available online now. 💻 Read the full paper here: durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3342589 Co-authored by Sarah Wyer & Sue Black @drblack.bsky.social

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Barriers and facilitators to increasing physical activity in medium secure mental health settings: An exploration of staff perceptions ➡️doi.org/10.1016/j.mhpa.2024.100663 @durhampsych.bsky.social co-authors: Gloria Roden-Lui & @proftammiwalker.bsky.social #OpenAccess

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Well, hello! Great to see you all here 💜 We’re Durham University Library, home to Durham Uni's libraries and @ducollections.bsky.social We support students, staff, researchers, visitors and alumni with all their library and collections needs 😊 Oh, and we also have a ridiculously MASSIVE bee 🐝

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Hot off the press! 📢 "Assessing the physical activity training needs and preferences of community health workers in South Africa" #openaccess via our Institutional Open Access Fund. Congrats to Mark Stoutenberg & the rest of the authorship team🎉 Read it first, here:👇 doi.org/10.1186/s128...

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🆕 to DRO, and fully Open Access: This paper, co-authored by Prof Gina Porter and Prof Emma Murphy, examines the challenges women face when travelling to work in three African cities. You can read their findings here: 👉 durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3315800 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

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December was another busy month for the team! Check out our news, activity, stats (and more!) for last month 👇 libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc...

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Do School Exclusions And Attainment Outcomes Disproportionately Impact Minority Ethnic Pupils? Analysis Of Pupil Characteristics, Segregation, And Outcomes In England by School of Education authors N. Siddiqui, S. Gorard, B.H. See (U. of Birmingham) & Y. Gao: doi.org/10.3390/educsci15010006

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Celebrating the #openaccess publication of Prof. Jon Gluyas and Emeritus Prof. Gillian Foulger: "The plausibility of claimed induced seismicity". ✨🎉✨ 👇 doi.org/10.1038/s415... (We were able to make this OA using funds from the University's Open Access Fund. More details on the Fund in comments. )

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The DRO team will be 'out of office' from 3pm on Friday 20th December to Thursday 2nd January to spend time with our nearest and dearest over the Christmas vacation... including Betsy...

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Ever wondered how #Christmas traditions shape our lives in the UK? 🎄Check out this work in our e-thesis repository by Dr Lucinda Murphy: "The Varieties of Christmas Magic: An ethnography of festivity, identity, and worldview in British life" etheses.dur.ac.uk/14759/

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🧵 After the Open Access requirements for REF2029 were confirmed earlier this week, we've updated our guidance to provide information and hopefully answer any questions you might have (call it an early Christmas present? 🎄)

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