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Andy Tattersall

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Open Research Communications Specialist . Trouble-shooter, techy, writer, podcaster, works in health research. Research communications and impact trainer - consultant for hire. https://www.andytattersall.com/ https://linktr.ee/andy_tattersall

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Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 20h

After 24 years of working in university research, I’m going out on my own as a research communications consultant.

My mission: helping researchers and institutions share their work clearly, compellingly, and with impact.

In case you don't know who I am, watch this short video.
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About me

This short introductory video explains who I am and what services I offer. If you want to know more, visit https://www.andytattersall.com/ or email me at [email protected]

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Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 19h

And do try to ignore the scowl that YouTube has kindly freeze-framed on my face. It seems to know when to pause at the most unflattering of moments.

Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 20h

About me

This short introductory video explains who I am and what services I offer. If you want to know more, visit https://www.andytattersall.com/ or email me at [email protected]

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Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 20h

I've attended the excellent @socmedhe.bsky.social Conference a few times over the past decade.
It's a real honour to deliver the keynote at this year's iteration at @lancasteruni.bsky.social
#AcademicTwitter Is Dead — What Died, What Survived, What’s Next?
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Keynote speaker

We are excited to announce that Andy Tattersall will be the keynote speaker at the conference! #AcademicTwitter Is Dead — What Died, What Survived, What’s Next X was once the number one place for …

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Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty much most web tools right now....

A schoolgirl playing a tuba directly at another girl's face with the meme - Putting AI into everything imaginable - the girl whose face is inside the tuba represents people who never asked. The tuba player represents big companies

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Robin Bisson @robinbisson.bsky.social · 5d

The govt is making much of the promise of AI-powered science (there's a strategy incoming) but will it primarily benefit the most research-intensive universities?

Great piece from @sophieatrpn.bsky.social

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 5d

‘Golden triangle’ institutions snap up 80% of AI supercomputer time.

Exclusive: Oxbridge and London dominate early stages of government programme to expand AI-powered research.

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‘Golden triangle’ institutions snap up 80% of AI supercomputer time - Research Professional News

Exclusive: Oxbridge and London dominate early stages of government programme to expand AI-powered research

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 5d

🧵Netscape Navigator brought the web to millions. 🌐 It was the first browser to achieve mass-market adoption & introduced bookmarks, cookies, & JavaScript.

See its website on the #WaybackMachine. 1 in a Trillion pages saved ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19961101...

#Wayback1T

Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Gone" and "NETSCAPE.COM". Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the Netscape website from October 20, 1996, alongside a stylized computer window featuring a pixel art frowning face representing that the website is gone.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 6d

As I've said before, no software should be released without asking "what's the worst thing that someone can do with this technology?" and it's totally believable that never occurred to anyone at OpenAI.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

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Overton @overton.io · 6d

At Overton, we work with a lot of policy citation data.

Along the way, we’ve noticed some interesting patterns about the type of research that gets cited in policy.

Check out the video below to hear what our very own founder and director @mrstew.bsky.social has to say about those patterns!

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ALTUK.bsky.social @altuk.bsky.social · 6d

The programme’s live, the momentum is building, and there’s still time to book your place. Join us at #ALTC25 on 23 - 24 October. With 60+ sessions, ALTC Radio, Group Fest & the Gala Awards Dinner, it’s shaping up to be an inspiring few days. Register now: altc.alt.ac.uk/altc #EdTech #HigherEd #altc

ALT Annual Conference, Stronger Foundations, Broader Horizons, 23 and 24 October, Glasgow

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Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 6d

Says the guy who like to fry bacon by wrapping it around the barrel of a machine gun and firing it.

Experts say this could lead to food poisoning, but he knows better.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 7d

Whereas stealing artists’ work is killing their industry, so…

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 7d

It’s a fact that when someone starts a sentence with the words ‘it’s a fact’ that it’s rarely a fact.

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 7d

💥New: Banning Sci-Hub highlights India’s unequal access to knowledge

✍️Rituparna Patgiri

#AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #SciHub

Banning Sci-Hub highlights India’s unequal access to knowledge - Impact of Social Sciences

The decision to block Sci-Hub in India brings inequalities in access to research based knowledge into sharp focus.

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 12d

💥New: Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities

✍️ @niamhtumelty.bsky.social & @heroicendeavour.bsky.social

#OpenResearch #AcademicSky #HigherEducation (@lsepress.bsky.social)

Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities - Impact of Social Sciences

Why open educational resources should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement.

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Katy Jordan @katyjordan.bsky.social · 17d

The call for abstracts for sessions at this year's #socmedhe25 conference is out now! Me and @kathymchandler.bsky.social look forward to seeing you in Lancaster in December :-)

Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference @socmedhe.bsky.social · 21d

This year, #socmedhe25 will be coming to Lancaster University, on 16th December! The call for papers/session proposals is now open at socmedhe25.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/c... - please submit abstracts by *24th October*
Hope you can join us - see you in December!

Call for session proposals

This year, we are delighted to host the 11th international Social Media for Learning in Higher Education conference at Lancaster University, co-chaired by Dr Katy Jordan and Dr Kathy Chandler. The …

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Knowledge for Public Health @know-ph.bsky.social · 11d

Join us on November 4th for our next @know-ph.bsky.social webinar: Highlighting the importance of health impact assessments.

Fiona Marshall and @joelangley.bsky.social will talk about HIAs for housing developers, communities and key decision makers in England.
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Highlighting the importance of health impact assessments

Added Value: Highlighting the importance of health impact assessments for housing developers, communities and key decision makers in England

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Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 11d

The recording and slides from my @know-ph.bsky.social presentation 'Thinking Long Term - Creating Sustainable Knowledge Mobilisation Outputs' webinar are now available online.

Recording on YouTube
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Slides on @figshare.com
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Thinking Long Term - Creating Sustainable Knowledge Mobilisation Outputs

YouTube video by KNOW-PH - Knowledge for Public Health

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Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 12d

It’d certainly better if some of the HE/Research orgs invested more energy here.

40m is still too small fry to attract some of the problems we saw with X, but that may change sadly.

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 15d

👀 ICYMI: How to use Overton to develop impact case studies

#ResearchImpact #ImpactCaseStudies #REF2029 @overton.io

How to use Overton to develop impact case studies - Impact of Social Sciences

Despite the lack of clarity surrounding the next round of the REF, university research offices are already collecting evidence and preparing. Tamsin Varney outlines three ways in which the policy…

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Sheila Webber @sheilawebber.bsky.social · 13d

Call for proposals #LILAC2026

There is a call for presentations for LILAC 2026 (the UK's Information Literacy conference) which takes place in Sheffield, UK (at my university!), 30 March - 1 April 2026. The deadline is 13 November 16.00 GMT (UK time). "There are no set themes for LILAC 2026, the focus is simply information literacy. We welcome proposals from all sectors and contexts. We ask that your presentation makes explicit reference to your innovative practice or research in information literacy." Proposals can be for short or long presentations, workshops, panel discussions, open review, lightning talks, "wildcards" and posters. For more information go to: https://www.lilacconference.com/lilac-2026/call-for-presentations-1 There is a webinar for those who would like more advice abour submitting abstracts on 3 October 2025 at 12 noon - 13.00 BST (UK time) - register at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/cilipinformationliteracygroup/1850273

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Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 13d

Also add to that the line, ‘I’m sorry, I was wrong about that’.
Too much doubling down.

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 13d

Royal Society rules out expelling Elon Musk after rally speech.

Society president criticises billionaire’s “language of violence” but says organisation should not “police political opinions”.

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Royal Society rules out expelling Elon Musk after rally speech - Research Professional News

Society president criticises billionaire’s “language of violence” but says organisation should not “police political opinions”

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Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 13d

It's odd.
A mix of sites just not doing what they are supposed to do, overly keen but unhelpful embedded AI, poor UX and navigation on others.
I feel the web is starting to slowly unravel sadly.

Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 13d

having one of those Enshittification of the web kind of days. Literally everything I try to engage with is broken.

Crashed pages everywhere...and it ain't my router or connection.

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Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 13d

There's still a couple of hours left if you have a free hour this lunch time to come and hear how we're doing research communications and knowledge mobilisation differently as part of a piece of @nihr.bsky.social funded work with our @know-ph.bsky.social

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Thinking Long Term - Creating Sustainable Knowledge Mobilisation Outputs

In this webinar, we’ll share how the KNOW-PH team has tried to approach how we collaborate, communicate and share outputs differently.

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