Nick Sheppard
@nickshepp.bsky.social
Open research at University of Leeds. Amateur Wikimedian. Conscientious objector to the culture war.
#OpenResearch #OpenScience #KnowledgeEquity #Wikimedia
#OpenResearch #OpenScience #KnowledgeEquity #Wikimedia
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Value and recognition for all contributions to research
leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/v...
Blogpost by @nickshepp.bsky.social about Festival of @hiddenref.bsky.social held in Birmingham in October
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Blogpost by @nickshepp.bsky.social about Festival of @hiddenref.bsky.social held in Birmingham in October
Value and recognition for all contributions to research
This post is by Nick Sheppard, Open Research Adviser based in the Edward Boyle Library Back in October I was amongst the delegates at the Festival of Hidden REF held at the Birmingham Science Museu…
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November 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Value and recognition for all contributions to research
leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/v...
Blogpost by @nickshepp.bsky.social about Festival of @hiddenref.bsky.social held in Birmingham in October
leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/v...
Blogpost by @nickshepp.bsky.social about Festival of @hiddenref.bsky.social held in Birmingham in October
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Sobering session at #OAI14 about challenges to research integrity including Ivan Oransky (@retractionwatch.com) @deevybee.bsky.social on paper mills and Ophélie Fraisier-Vannier on the increasing use of LLMs and AI 😨
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Sobering session at #OAI14 about challenges to research integrity including Ivan Oransky (@retractionwatch.com) @deevybee.bsky.social on paper mills and Ophélie Fraisier-Vannier on the increasing use of LLMs and AI 😨
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"We’re entering uncertain times; a chaotic transition is coming as universities shift away from commercial models to cheaper, more sustainable, non-profit alternatives. As with any publishing revolution, there will be winners and losers."
Opinion: Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing.
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards (@theblochian.bsky.social).
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards (@theblochian.bsky.social).
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"We’re entering uncertain times; a chaotic transition is coming as universities shift away from commercial models to cheaper, more sustainable, non-profit alternatives. As with any publishing revolution, there will be winners and losers."
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Talking of Wikipedia and Academic Libraries👇
@yclepit.bsky.social is running an event next Monday @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social as part of @leedscitylanguages.bsky.social
Workshop: World in Translation: beyond English Wikipedia:
leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/world...
All welcome😀
@yclepit.bsky.social is running an event next Monday @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social as part of @leedscitylanguages.bsky.social
Workshop: World in Translation: beyond English Wikipedia:
leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/world...
All welcome😀
Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project
Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project contains 19 chapters by 52 authors from Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Scotland, Spain, and the United...
doi.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Talking of Wikipedia and Academic Libraries👇
@yclepit.bsky.social is running an event next Monday @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social as part of @leedscitylanguages.bsky.social
Workshop: World in Translation: beyond English Wikipedia:
leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/world...
All welcome😀
@yclepit.bsky.social is running an event next Monday @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social as part of @leedscitylanguages.bsky.social
Workshop: World in Translation: beyond English Wikipedia:
leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/world...
All welcome😀
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Perhaps part of the solution is rewarding and incentivising more diverse research outputs? i.e. @hiddenref.bsky.social
research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/valu...
researchadjacent.com/recognising-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6u9...
research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/valu...
researchadjacent.com/recognising-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6u9...
How do we incentivise people to publish fewer papers?
We need to live in a world where saying 'I have published over 500 papers' is widely understood as a red flag, not as something to brag about.
We need to live in a world where saying 'I have published over 500 papers' is widely understood as a red flag, not as something to brag about.
November 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Perhaps part of the solution is rewarding and incentivising more diverse research outputs? i.e. @hiddenref.bsky.social
research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/valu...
researchadjacent.com/recognising-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6u9...
research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/valu...
researchadjacent.com/recognising-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6u9...
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Event recording now available on @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social blog:
Archives Across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black Histories
leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/a...
Archives Across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black Histories
leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/a...
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Event recording now available on @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social blog:
Archives Across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black Histories
leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/a...
Archives Across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black Histories
leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/a...
@earthowned.bsky.social featured in a dream last night...I was visiting Edinburgh and saw you receive an award. Not sure what for...and you were only 21 🤷
November 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
@earthowned.bsky.social featured in a dream last night...I was visiting Edinburgh and saw you receive an award. Not sure what for...and you were only 21 🤷
Add your two penn'orth: www.linkedin.com/posts/peterw...
November 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Add your two penn'orth: www.linkedin.com/posts/peterw...
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Open Access for All: What Is Rights Retention and Why Should You Care?
leeds.libcal.com/event/4436818
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 1pm - 2pm
With Thom Blake @uoyopenres.bsky.social and Professor Stephen Eglen, Universty of Cambridge
@akadidymus.bsky.social
leeds.libcal.com/event/4436818
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 1pm - 2pm
With Thom Blake @uoyopenres.bsky.social and Professor Stephen Eglen, Universty of Cambridge
@akadidymus.bsky.social
Open Access for All: What Is Rights Retention and Why Should You Care?
The N8 Research Partnership launched its Rights Retention statement in January 2023. Now nearly three years later and with the sector in the midst of a financial crisis, the...
leeds.libcal.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Open Access for All: What Is Rights Retention and Why Should You Care?
leeds.libcal.com/event/4436818
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 1pm - 2pm
With Thom Blake @uoyopenres.bsky.social and Professor Stephen Eglen, Universty of Cambridge
@akadidymus.bsky.social
leeds.libcal.com/event/4436818
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 1pm - 2pm
With Thom Blake @uoyopenres.bsky.social and Professor Stephen Eglen, Universty of Cambridge
@akadidymus.bsky.social
Still time to book for this event tomorrow 👇👇👇
More than 150 colleagues registered to attend, from both sides of the Atlantic 🌊
#BlackHiatoryMonth
More than 150 colleagues registered to attend, from both sides of the Atlantic 🌊
#BlackHiatoryMonth
Exciting trans-Atlantic collaboration between the libraries at Universities of Rochester and Leeds:
🌎 Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History. A conversation with the University of Rochester ( 🗓️ Thursday 23 October at 🕓 4pm BST / 🕚 11am EDT)
leeds.libcal.com/calendar/ope...
🌎 Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History. A conversation with the University of Rochester ( 🗓️ Thursday 23 October at 🕓 4pm BST / 🕚 11am EDT)
leeds.libcal.com/calendar/ope...
Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History. A conversation with the University of Rochester.
Leeds has a rich, though still under-discussed, history of anti-slavery activism. For instance, the Leeds Anti-Slavery Association was established in 1853 at The Leeds Library on...
leeds.libcal.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Still time to book for this event tomorrow 👇👇👇
More than 150 colleagues registered to attend, from both sides of the Atlantic 🌊
#BlackHiatoryMonth
More than 150 colleagues registered to attend, from both sides of the Atlantic 🌊
#BlackHiatoryMonth
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🗣️Speakers:
🗽Melanie Chambliss, Assistant Professor of History (Rochester)
💂♂️Bridget Bennett, Professor of American Literature and Culture (Leeds)
🗽Autumn Haag, Assistant Director, Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (Rochester)
💂♂️Kate Dossett, Professor of American History (Leeds)
🗽Melanie Chambliss, Assistant Professor of History (Rochester)
💂♂️Bridget Bennett, Professor of American Literature and Culture (Leeds)
🗽Autumn Haag, Assistant Director, Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (Rochester)
💂♂️Kate Dossett, Professor of American History (Leeds)
📚 “Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History”
🗓️ Thu 23 Oct, 4-5pm (BST)
Explore anti-slavery, resistance & archival activism from @universityofleeds.bsky.social and University of Rochester.
Online - register: leeds.libcal.com/event/4443892
#BlackHistory #Archives #Leeds #Rochester
🗓️ Thu 23 Oct, 4-5pm (BST)
Explore anti-slavery, resistance & archival activism from @universityofleeds.bsky.social and University of Rochester.
Online - register: leeds.libcal.com/event/4443892
#BlackHistory #Archives #Leeds #Rochester
Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History. A conversation with the University of Rochester.
Leeds has a rich, though still under-discussed, history of anti-slavery activism. For instance, the Leeds Anti-Slavery Association was established in 1853 at The Leeds Library on...
leeds.libcal.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
🗣️Speakers:
🗽Melanie Chambliss, Assistant Professor of History (Rochester)
💂♂️Bridget Bennett, Professor of American Literature and Culture (Leeds)
🗽Autumn Haag, Assistant Director, Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (Rochester)
💂♂️Kate Dossett, Professor of American History (Leeds)
🗽Melanie Chambliss, Assistant Professor of History (Rochester)
💂♂️Bridget Bennett, Professor of American Literature and Culture (Leeds)
🗽Autumn Haag, Assistant Director, Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (Rochester)
💂♂️Kate Dossett, Professor of American History (Leeds)
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🆕 New #ResearchCultureUncovered podcast episode!
🏛️@richardnevell.bsky.social and "Wikimedian in Residence" @yclepit.bsky.social join host @nickshepp.bsky.social to discuss @wikipedia.org and the importance of human curated knowledge in the age of Artificial Intelligence. 🤖
🏛️@richardnevell.bsky.social and "Wikimedian in Residence" @yclepit.bsky.social join host @nickshepp.bsky.social to discuss @wikipedia.org and the importance of human curated knowledge in the age of Artificial Intelligence. 🤖
(Episode 133) Promoting Open Knowledge at the University of Leeds with Lucy Hinnie and Richard Nevell
Quickly and easily listen to Research Culture Uncovered for free!
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October 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🆕 New #ResearchCultureUncovered podcast episode!
🏛️@richardnevell.bsky.social and "Wikimedian in Residence" @yclepit.bsky.social join host @nickshepp.bsky.social to discuss @wikipedia.org and the importance of human curated knowledge in the age of Artificial Intelligence. 🤖
🏛️@richardnevell.bsky.social and "Wikimedian in Residence" @yclepit.bsky.social join host @nickshepp.bsky.social to discuss @wikipedia.org and the importance of human curated knowledge in the age of Artificial Intelligence. 🤖
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Join us for this special online event that brings together a panel from two universitiess, separated by the Atlantic Ocean while joined by a common history. We’ll hear from academics and archivists with an interest Black history and how libraries and archives support these histories 👇
Exciting trans-Atlantic collaboration between the libraries at Universities of Rochester and Leeds:
🌎 Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History. A conversation with the University of Rochester ( 🗓️ Thursday 23 October at 🕓 4pm BST / 🕚 11am EDT)
leeds.libcal.com/calendar/ope...
🌎 Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History. A conversation with the University of Rochester ( 🗓️ Thursday 23 October at 🕓 4pm BST / 🕚 11am EDT)
leeds.libcal.com/calendar/ope...
Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History. A conversation with the University of Rochester.
Leeds has a rich, though still under-discussed, history of anti-slavery activism. For instance, the Leeds Anti-Slavery Association was established in 1853 at The Leeds Library on...
leeds.libcal.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Join us for this special online event that brings together a panel from two universitiess, separated by the Atlantic Ocean while joined by a common history. We’ll hear from academics and archivists with an interest Black history and how libraries and archives support these histories 👇
Exciting trans-Atlantic collaboration between the libraries at Universities of Rochester and Leeds:
🌎 Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History. A conversation with the University of Rochester ( 🗓️ Thursday 23 October at 🕓 4pm BST / 🕚 11am EDT)
leeds.libcal.com/calendar/ope...
🌎 Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History. A conversation with the University of Rochester ( 🗓️ Thursday 23 October at 🕓 4pm BST / 🕚 11am EDT)
leeds.libcal.com/calendar/ope...
Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History. A conversation with the University of Rochester.
Leeds has a rich, though still under-discussed, history of anti-slavery activism. For instance, the Leeds Anti-Slavery Association was established in 1853 at The Leeds Library on...
leeds.libcal.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Exciting trans-Atlantic collaboration between the libraries at Universities of Rochester and Leeds:
🌎 Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History. A conversation with the University of Rochester ( 🗓️ Thursday 23 October at 🕓 4pm BST / 🕚 11am EDT)
leeds.libcal.com/calendar/ope...
🌎 Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History. A conversation with the University of Rochester ( 🗓️ Thursday 23 October at 🕓 4pm BST / 🕚 11am EDT)
leeds.libcal.com/calendar/ope...
Embedding Trust in Evaluation (E-TIE) is the funded project behind the Hidden REF Competition and Hidden REF Festival. It is funded by Research England from 2025 to 2030 hidden-ref.org/e-tie/
Embedding Trust in Evaluation - The Hidden REF
Embedding trust in evaluation Embedding Trust in Evaluation (E-TIE) is the funded project behind the Hidden REF Competition and Hidden REF Festival. It is funded by […]
hidden-ref.org
October 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Embedding Trust in Evaluation (E-TIE) is the funded project behind the Hidden REF Competition and Hidden REF Festival. It is funded by Research England from 2025 to 2030 hidden-ref.org/e-tie/
Tim Fellows talking now about @octopus-ac.bsky.social at the Festival of the @hiddenref.bsky.social REF. Planning to do more promotion of this innovative platform @universityofleeds.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Tim Fellows talking now about @octopus-ac.bsky.social at the Festival of the @hiddenref.bsky.social REF. Planning to do more promotion of this innovative platform @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Me too…as discussed with “one of you” on the #ResearchCultureUncovered podcast
research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/ukrn...
research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/ukrn...
One of us is off to Birmingham to attend the Festival of the Hidden REF - exploring diverse research outputs and celebrating the hidden roles that make research happen! Looking forward to making some cross-institutional connections hidden-ref.org/the-festival...
The Festival of Hidden Ref - The Hidden REF
A festival for everyone involved in research The Festival of Hidden REF The Festival of Hidden REF takes place on 7 and 8 October 2025 at […]
hidden-ref.org
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Me too…as discussed with “one of you” on the #ResearchCultureUncovered podcast
research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/ukrn...
research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/ukrn...
En route to the Festival of Hidden REF in Birmingham. Anyone else? Think you’re speaking @themauvedesert.bsky.social ?
October 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
En route to the Festival of Hidden REF in Birmingham. Anyone else? Think you’re speaking @themauvedesert.bsky.social ?
*sobs epistemological tears*
Don’t worry everyone, Elon and grok gonna fix info bias
September 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
*sobs epistemological tears*
Don’t worry everyone, Elon and grok gonna fix info bias
September 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Don’t worry everyone, Elon and grok gonna fix info bias
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🔊 Vacancy: Open Research Manager, University of Sheffield Library (full-time, open-ended). The role will involve supporting projects across Sheffield and nationally with the @ukrepro.bsky.social to accelerate open research practices. Closing date 22 October: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Open-Res...
Open Research Manager
Open Research Manager
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk
September 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
🔊 Vacancy: Open Research Manager, University of Sheffield Library (full-time, open-ended). The role will involve supporting projects across Sheffield and nationally with the @ukrepro.bsky.social to accelerate open research practices. Closing date 22 October: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Open-Res...