Researcher at University of Edinburgh focusing on information retrieval, open research, research culture & EDI
Speculative fiction writer | neurodivergent | she/they
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Emma Wilson
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As it’s #PrideCymru today, let’s remember this lovely Twitter exchange from years gone by…
This is the kind of thing we don't hear about when we're told what the public (supposedly) thinks and wants. Fascism depends on keeping people - all people - in a state of fear, and making them feel isolated and helpless. In reality, there are always good people helping each other.
This article is *impressively* determined to ignore, say, declining royalty percentages & advance sizes? Widening disparity in publisher support? Declining literacy?
To instead blame...libraries.
I mean, yous over there do need a PLR system, but also. My dudes. No.
wednesday
We're nearly there, and we've nearly sold out our in person spaces for this years Open Research Conference. If you'd still like to join us though, we would love for you to join us online - all the talks will be broadcast live. Register here:
Great, LLMs are being weaponised by non-historians to try to fill humanities research with garbage. This is so disrespectful to scholars that actually read & write. Critical fabulation & other creative speculative methods is not just making shit up. One needs to know the archive to fill in the gaps.
Out to welcome refugees and turf out fascists in Glasgow. Got all riled up shouting at the three Nazi scum who came out to infiltrate.
"An online exhibition can be as simple as the presentation of artworks or artifacts on a static webpage via images or other files [...] Alternatively, a virtual three-dimensional space may be created..."
Read the MORPHSS catalogue entry on virtual exhibitions as an open research practice for AHSS ⬇️
A brand new article from @kjsanders.eurosky.social @alittleroad.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social @kirahopkins.bsky.social @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social has been published in the new(ish) Scottish Journal of Open Research: journals.gla.ac.uk/SJOR/article...
Dave Jones
'From mission to market: a case study and analysis of the commercialisation of institutional publishing' by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @scholtom.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social & I: doi.org/10.36399/cmn...
Hundreds of strangers in Belfast working together. Doing shopping, providing accommodation, driving kids to school, people to hospital appointments.
Have just been told of a woman close to us who hasn't left her house since Monday so we'll be sorting her out today and getting her anything she needs
