Theo
@earthowned.bsky.social
Scholarly Communications Manager in the award winning Library Research Support team at the University of Edinburgh. Will talk about Open Research/Science, running and whimsical fluff.
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It is SUCH a pain to encounter pavement-parked vehicles when in my wheelchair. Drives me round the bend.
Pavement parking impacts everyone and is a major barrier to walking and wheeling local journeys.
The result of the national pavement parking consultation is long overdue and we cannot afford to wait, so want to see marked bays and measures on a street-by-street basis.
The result of the national pavement parking consultation is long overdue and we cannot afford to wait, so want to see marked bays and measures on a street-by-street basis.
Woman calls for pavement parking ban after falling out wheelchair on school run
Aideen Blackborough was left lying in the road after being forced to manoeuvre her way around a vehicle blocking the pavement in Great Barr
www.birminghammail.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
It is SUCH a pain to encounter pavement-parked vehicles when in my wheelchair. Drives me round the bend.
Apparently it’s not shite to be Scottish today, but the jam is. 🏴 ⚽️ 🇩🇰
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Apparently it’s not shite to be Scottish today, but the jam is. 🏴 ⚽️ 🇩🇰
Cooking up some memes for a @reproducibilitea.org session on Open Research next week. This is gonna be fun!
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Cooking up some memes for a @reproducibilitea.org session on Open Research next week. This is gonna be fun!
My fellow panellists don’t look too impressed at what I was saying today 👀 😂
Publishing open and shareable scientific findings without breaking the bank - our panel discuss emerging and future models fo sharing research outputs. @earthowned.bsky.social, @marstonlab.bsky.social, Mahesh Karnani and Matt Nolan #EN-PM
October 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
My fellow panellists don’t look too impressed at what I was saying today 👀 😂
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Really looking forward to this- we can probably accommodate a few last minute sign-ups 😊
Today I'm excited to being talking at the Edinburgh Neuroscience Afternoon about the real cost of academic publishing and big deals. Spoiler: they are expensive and not really transformative.
October 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Really looking forward to this- we can probably accommodate a few last minute sign-ups 😊
Today I'm excited to being talking at the Edinburgh Neuroscience Afternoon about the real cost of academic publishing and big deals. Spoiler: they are expensive and not really transformative.
October 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Today I'm excited to being talking at the Edinburgh Neuroscience Afternoon about the real cost of academic publishing and big deals. Spoiler: they are expensive and not really transformative.
Pink sky in the morning; sailors warning.
October 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Pink sky in the morning; sailors warning.
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Nel, our Library Participatory Research Engagement Officer, has asked us to point out that today is "Outwith Day"; a day to celebrate the glorious Scots English term. They had little else to say, except that it's a wonderful word - and that it's also a great part of what we do
Outwith: Participatory Research and the Library | Library | Library
Find out how the Library is supporting best practice in participatory research at the University. Meet our Partners in Participation, find sources of support, and learn more about our projects,…
outwith.ed.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Nel, our Library Participatory Research Engagement Officer, has asked us to point out that today is "Outwith Day"; a day to celebrate the glorious Scots English term. They had little else to say, except that it's a wonderful word - and that it's also a great part of what we do
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Before bread, before coins, before cities, there was beer. A drink, but also a daily ration, a ritual tool, a reason to gather. Would the beer gods of the past welcome a 21st-century member? 🍺🍻
Find out in this #FoodHeritage story from our Online Creative Residency! bit.ly/4nMqIKH
Find out in this #FoodHeritage story from our Online Creative Residency! bit.ly/4nMqIKH
The Divine Beer Tribunal - Would the beer gods of the past welcome a 21st-century member?
Before bread, before coins, before cities, there was beer. A drink, yes, but also a fermented food with purpose: a daily ration, a ritual tool, a reason to gather.
https://bit.ly/4nMqIKH"
October 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Before bread, before coins, before cities, there was beer. A drink, but also a daily ration, a ritual tool, a reason to gather. Would the beer gods of the past welcome a 21st-century member? 🍺🍻
Find out in this #FoodHeritage story from our Online Creative Residency! bit.ly/4nMqIKH
Find out in this #FoodHeritage story from our Online Creative Residency! bit.ly/4nMqIKH
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📣 Job opportunity for a talented developer to join our Digital Library team at the University of Edinburgh. You'll be working on the open journal and monograph systems we host at the university. This is an exciting role, working closely with colleagues who are passionate about open access. 📣
Digital Library Software Developer
We are looking for talented software developer to join our dynamic systems and development team within the Digital Library at the University of Edinburgh.
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September 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
📣 Job opportunity for a talented developer to join our Digital Library team at the University of Edinburgh. You'll be working on the open journal and monograph systems we host at the university. This is an exciting role, working closely with colleagues who are passionate about open access. 📣
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My favorite Venn diagram. Nice and colorful.
September 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
My favorite Venn diagram. Nice and colorful.
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📢 Staff at the University of Edinburgh are on strike against £140m cuts.
Show your support to colleagues at Edinburgh university ✊
Show your support to colleagues at Edinburgh university ✊
September 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
📢 Staff at the University of Edinburgh are on strike against £140m cuts.
Show your support to colleagues at Edinburgh university ✊
Show your support to colleagues at Edinburgh university ✊
Super excited to be riding in the Tour o’ the Borders tomorrow. Fingers crossed the weather holds out!
Tour O The Borders to return to Peebles after year away
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/114035/
More than 2,600 people have signed up for the 2025 edition of Tour O The Borders, a closed…
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/114035/
More than 2,600 people have signed up for the 2025 edition of Tour O The Borders, a closed…
Tour O The Borders to return to Peebles after year away - United Kingdom News Beep
More than 2,600 people have signed up for the 2025 edition of Tour O The Borders, a closed road ride. Cyclists from Europe, Canada, Australia and the United
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September 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Super excited to be riding in the Tour o’ the Borders tomorrow. Fingers crossed the weather holds out!
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UK-peeps: Sunday's #LunarEclipse is going to be tricky as the horizon is mostly in the way 😬
If you're keen not to miss it, try a dress rehearsal: spot the moonrise today/tomorrow & you'll know where to look on Sunday 🤓🔭🧪
Location-specific moonrise 🕰️: www.timeanddate.com/moon/uk/edin...
📷 S. Harvey
If you're keen not to miss it, try a dress rehearsal: spot the moonrise today/tomorrow & you'll know where to look on Sunday 🤓🔭🧪
Location-specific moonrise 🕰️: www.timeanddate.com/moon/uk/edin...
📷 S. Harvey
September 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
UK-peeps: Sunday's #LunarEclipse is going to be tricky as the horizon is mostly in the way 😬
If you're keen not to miss it, try a dress rehearsal: spot the moonrise today/tomorrow & you'll know where to look on Sunday 🤓🔭🧪
Location-specific moonrise 🕰️: www.timeanddate.com/moon/uk/edin...
📷 S. Harvey
If you're keen not to miss it, try a dress rehearsal: spot the moonrise today/tomorrow & you'll know where to look on Sunday 🤓🔭🧪
Location-specific moonrise 🕰️: www.timeanddate.com/moon/uk/edin...
📷 S. Harvey
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So come along, or dial in, to hear me and others discuss what humanities can do for data science, as well as how humanities uses data science. I'm sure I may go on a patented rant about the potential ramifications of stopping listening to arts and humanities voices in AI development. Sign up here!
Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
So come along, or dial in, to hear me and others discuss what humanities can do for data science, as well as how humanities uses data science. I'm sure I may go on a patented rant about the potential ramifications of stopping listening to arts and humanities voices in AI development. Sign up here!
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Yeah well whose fault is that??
September 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Yeah well whose fault is that??
All discussion I have seen about genAI & Intellectual Property Rights has focused on Copyright. In this blog post my colleague Eugen talks about the lesser known Database Right which has potential to protect academic works and invite fair reuse legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com/copyright-bl...
Protecting University Repositories from Aggressive Web Scraping: Using Database Rights to Retain Control Over Academic Content
Universities have long served as custodians of knowledge, investing in infrastructure - such as institutional repositories - to ensure research outputs are preserved, discoverable, and freely availabl...
legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
All discussion I have seen about genAI & Intellectual Property Rights has focused on Copyright. In this blog post my colleague Eugen talks about the lesser known Database Right which has potential to protect academic works and invite fair reuse legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com/copyright-bl...
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Young Team Fox making mischief tonight down the Water of Leith @wolct.bsky.social until they got a lesson in manners from the local neighbourhood badger 😂
August 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Young Team Fox making mischief tonight down the Water of Leith @wolct.bsky.social until they got a lesson in manners from the local neighbourhood badger 😂
Whoever thought that calling this road National Cycle Route 75 a good idea should hang their head in shame.
Police officers on the scene at Dublin Street say they are just about to reopen the junction with Albany Street and Abercromby Place some four hours after a crash there involving a cyclist and car driver. The cyclist has been taken to hospital according to the earlier police report.
August 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Whoever thought that calling this road National Cycle Route 75 a good idea should hang their head in shame.
I was really happy to help publish the preprint of this groundbreaking study by the @decodemestudy.bsky.social team which hopefully will lead to a pathway to understand and cure ME.
Science magazine’s coverage of the DecodeME initial results : www.science.org/content/arti...
Possible genetic clues to ME/chronic fatigue syndrome identified in massive study
DNA analysis of more than 15,500 people with the debilitating condition identifies eight tentative “genetic signals”
www.science.org
August 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I was really happy to help publish the preprint of this groundbreaking study by the @decodemestudy.bsky.social team which hopefully will lead to a pathway to understand and cure ME.
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Very excited to be recruiting for a Communication and Impact Officer to work with me, @ewaluger.bsky.social and the whole @braiduk.bsky.social team in Edinburgh through late 2028! Opportunity is Grade 7 and applications close 1st Sept
Communication and Impact Officer
The BRAID Communications and Impact Manager will play a pivotal role in enhancing BRAID’s visibility, engagement, and overall impact. The post-holder will contribute to a stakeholder-focussed communic...
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August 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Very excited to be recruiting for a Communication and Impact Officer to work with me, @ewaluger.bsky.social and the whole @braiduk.bsky.social team in Edinburgh through late 2028! Opportunity is Grade 7 and applications close 1st Sept
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The new journal is published by... @openlibhums.bsky.social.
This rarely gets mentioned in these press releases, but if you ever subscribed to Journal of Political Philosophy and appreciate the move away from for-profit publishers to an OA model, then your institution should support OLH.
This rarely gets mentioned in these press releases, but if you ever subscribed to Journal of Political Philosophy and appreciate the move away from for-profit publishers to an OA model, then your institution should support OLH.
'Wiley had attempted to keep the journal going without an academic editorial team in place, but those efforts have now come to an end. The publisher says, “All authors with active submissions will be contacted directly by Wiley to discuss available alternatives and next steps.”'
Journal of Political Philosophy Officially Ends - Daily Nous
"The Journal of Political Philosophy will cease publication effective January 1, 2026." That's from an email sent by the journal's publisher, Wiley, earlier today, calling the move "a difficult decisi...
dailynous.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The new journal is published by... @openlibhums.bsky.social.
This rarely gets mentioned in these press releases, but if you ever subscribed to Journal of Political Philosophy and appreciate the move away from for-profit publishers to an OA model, then your institution should support OLH.
This rarely gets mentioned in these press releases, but if you ever subscribed to Journal of Political Philosophy and appreciate the move away from for-profit publishers to an OA model, then your institution should support OLH.
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Geology people who do we you know in Edinburgh so that we can connect and go to Siccar point together. Do your thing social media!!!
July 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Geology people who do we you know in Edinburgh so that we can connect and go to Siccar point together. Do your thing social media!!!