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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social‬) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Tom Shaw @shawthomas.bsky.social Library Engagement Lead for @ojcollective.bsky.social. Former academic librarian now working with libraries globally to support diamond open access publishing. Open knowledge, open research, digital innovation. And sometimes music and other stuff.
Cats of Kyiv 🐈 😻 🐈‍⬛️ 🐱 🇺🇦 @catsofkyiv.bsky.social What happens when 20 stray cats find a sanctuary in the suburbs of Kyiv? They go to Bluesky, of course! From street life to dacha living, follow our cats for your daily dose of whiskers and whimsy right here! Feel free to show ❤️ and repost any cat videos!
Ruth MacMullen (Mallalieu) @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social Work in Oxford, live in Sheffield. Open research, music, cooking, keeper of small child, neverending house project.
Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.eurosky.social PhD candidate on the politics of open research and publishing environments at [redacted]. OBC Board of Stewards. Copim. Synths. Tapes. Perennial pain. Skullduggery. Ⓐ 🍉 ORCID: 0000-0003-1217-0149. https://hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/ (he/him).
COUNTER metrics @countermetrics.bsky.social COUNTER brings the knowledge community together to agree and adopt the global standard for measuring and reporting content usage through normalised metrics. countermetrics.org
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.
Emma Gallon @emmagallon.bsky.social Publisher @University of London Press | Humanities research and publishing | Open research
Mish Dalton @mishdalton.bsky.social Research and Library stuff @ UCD. Views my own Giraffes! 🦒 Badminton! 🏸 Exclamation marks! Contentedly discontent. #OABooks #ResearchCulture
@drgarethcole.bsky.social @drgarethcole.bsky.social Head of Content and Open Research at the University of Exeter. Does a bit of History on the side.
Siân Harris @sianharris.bsky.social Communications about research, international development, publishing, inequity, climate change, politics. Works for @uob-ieu.bsky.social & others Opinions mine. Bristol, UK. (she)
Kirsten the (ex) Librarian @librarykirsten.bsky.social Formerly Research Intelligence Librarian and NHS librarian. Co-founder of Fair Library Jobs. UCU member. Equity, pedantry, cats. She/her.
Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca PKP, a Core Facility of SFU, is a community-governed organization dedicated to increasing the quality, access, and reach of non-commercial #ScholarlyPublishing — the trusted and original home of #OpenJournalSystems (#OJS), OMP, and OPS: https://pkp.sfu.ca
Emma Wilson @emmawilson.eurosky.social Researcher at University of Edinburgh focusing on information retrieval, open research, research culture & EDI Speculative fiction writer | neurodivergent | she/they Views my own
Peter Suber @petersuber.bsky.social Open research, metaresearch, higher ed, US politics. True blue. Dad of daughters. I post to Mastodon more than Bluesky. But see my bridge account for B versions of the M posts. https://bsky.app/profile/petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Rebecca Wojturska @beckywojturska.bsky.social Open Access Publishing Officer for Edinburgh Diamond. All things Diamond OA, Gothic and horror literature and films, and board games.
Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social Open Access Librarian living in the UK. Working in Open Access and academic publishing. May qualify as a yarn hoarder. Thoughts are my own. she/her
Heather Staines @heatherstaines.bsky.social Scholcomm consultant, world traveler, dog mom, human mom, Nima, karaoke singer!
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys) @sarahhlib.bsky.social Posting the prickly bits about Open (Scholarship/Access/Science/Research) & Libraries. Bodleian Open Scholarship Librarian. Social🐘&🐦 = @SarahHLib also! #MetalLibrarian and #Hiker Opp.own She/r Mastodon bridge: @SarahHLib.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy
Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social Uni business librarian, Mum, Researcher. #SystematicReview, searching. Books & reading, esp. scifi (& on tv). Hashtag obsessive. Blogger: https://researcherlibrarian.wordpress.com #AliceWrites Past focuses: left wing politics, aphantasia, gentle parenting
Helen M @helenmonagle.bsky.social Library worker, formally @helenmonagle on Twitter (she/her) and co-founder of NLPN. Lover of dogs, beaches and other lovely things. Perpetually tired.
@clockssarchive.bsky.social @clockssarchive.bsky.social
Nicki Clarkson @nickiclarkson.bsky.social Engagement Librarian at the University of Southampton, lover of cats, cake, coffee, knitting & Board Meeting Bingo, embarrassing parent. Please block me if you are a transphobe. Views: my own. She/her
The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social A live art guerrilla public library service, reaching the parts other libraries have yet to reach. 14 countries, 500+ locations (Top 3 locations of library members? #1 Rotterdam #2 San Francisco #3 London): Come Join Before We Travel On! @librarian #TIPL
John Adamson @johnadamson.bsky.social Research Intelligence Lead for UK & Ireland @Clarivate.com #ResearchQuality #ResearchIntegrity #Benchmarking #Collaboration #AI #Funding #Rankings #Data #HigherEd #Government #Impact #Bibliometrics #Citations
Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
British Online Archives (BOA) @boapublishing.bsky.social Our skilled team curate and digitise unique collections of primary sources that illuminate key historical concepts, events, and themes.
Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social Posts from the Open Research team at Durham University Library. View details of journal articles and book chapters – free access to full-text of many – by scholars from one of UK’s leading research-intensive universities: https://t.co/ocmv3du16G
Open Journals Collective @ojcollective.bsky.social We are a not-for-profit collective of academics, libraries and university-based publishers changing the way that academic research is supported and disseminated. Launching in Jan. 2026. Join the movement: https://www.openjournalscollective.org/
Amanda Bartell @abartell.bsky.social Director of Membership @crossref.bsky.social. Good metadata and bad puns please.
Sara Rouhi @rouhiroo.bsky.social Portfolio growth/ #openscience @AIP Publishing; PhD dropout; co-author of DefendResearch.org declaration 👊#censorship;#openscience advocate #PostsAreMyOwn #DefendResearch Basta YA! ORCiD: 0000-0003-1803-6186
Sarah Ormes @sormes.bsky.social Research Analytics Librarian at the University of Bath. Helping academics to demonstrate the impact of their work.
Alicia Wise @wisealic.bsky.social Keen on accessibility, archaeology, digital preservation, goats, libraries, open access, open science, publishing, and running
Jill Emery @jemerypdx.bsky.social Librarian by day, smart ass pragmatic Gen Xer always. Living my best life possible.
UKSG @uksg.bsky.social UKSG members include scholarly and academic publishers and libraries, along with companies and people who supply them with technology and services. We bring these different organisations together to share experiences and work together on shared challenges.
Charlie Rapple @charlierapple.bsky.social Co-founder of Kudos (growkudos.com - research communication showcase for broadening reach and impact of research - @growkudos.bsky.social). Scholarly Kitchen blogger. Follow me and other people in scholarly publishing: https://go.bsky.app/FanaExt
Kate O'Riordan @kathleenor.bsky.social Academic, queer, digital culture, technoscience, science and media studies. Sea swimming. Based in the UK.
Rick Anderson @rickanderson.bsky.social Latter-day Saint, librarian, clawhammer banjo player, writer, speaker. University Librarian at Brigham Young University. Posts are only my opinions.
S Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social Systems & Discovery Manager (Librarian) | Open Access, Publishing, Diversity, IT, Libraries & (Digital) Collections. Tech, cooking and moorwalking | She/Her | Views (unfortunately) my own.
Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social Open Book Collective, #ebookSOS, WikimediaUK, NLISN. Easily swayed by rainbows, cupcakes, cats, Cheetos, unicorns, and all things sparkly and fabulous.
Ruth Harrison @ruthejh.bsky.social Head of Schol Comms in library services, crafter (knitting and weaving mostly), views own...
Josh Sendall @jsendall.bsky.social Acting University Librarian & Keeper of the Brotherton Collection @UoLLibrary @LULGalleries & Trustee @UKSG #OpenScience #MadeByDyslexia - personal views
Tasha Mellins-Cohen @tashamc.bsky.social Exec Director of COUNTER Metrics, Founder at Mellins-Cohen Consulting, big fan of standards, data, and sustainable open access. Inveterate textile nerd and housekeeper to a triad of demanding moggies. Posts are my own opinions.
Jessica Gardner @jessicagardner.bsky.social University Librarian and Director of Library Services, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College. Loves libraries, archives, research and all things books and learning. Reads a lot of books.
Rob Johnson @rschrobuk.bsky.social Managing Director at Research Consulting. I help universities, funders, publishers and not-for-profits manage, disseminate and deliver impact from research.
Bethany @bethanylogan.bsky.social Associate Director at University of Sussex Library. UKSG Trustee.
Toby Green @tobyabgreen.bsky.social Publisher, Policy Commons @policycommons.bsky.social and Applied Science Commons. Co-Founder Coherent Digital. Formerly Publisher, OECD. 🇬🇧 in 🇫🇷. ALAW (if you know, you know).
Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social #OpenAccess & #OpenInfrastructure advocate. Professor in #STS at Lancaster University. Managing Director at Open Book Collective. Trustee/Editor at Mattering Press. Heading up the @copim.bluesky.social Open Book Futures project
Kira Hopkins @kirahopkins.bsky.social LSE library, formerly of the Copim project, OA enthusiast, publisher (sometimes!) - all views expressed are personal
Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Literature & Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Executive Director of @openlibhums.org & @ojcollective.bsky.social. Utopia, mushrooms, trees, sci-fi, weird stuff, open access, higher ed.
Niels Stern @nielsstern.bsky.social Managing Director of OAPEN Foundation - @oapenbooks.bsky.social - providing open infrastructure services for scholarly books. Not-for-profit. Not-for-sale. POSI adopter. Co-director of DOAB @doabooks.bsky.social
Tom Morley @tmorley24.bsky.social Research Culture and Open Monographs Lead at Lancaster University Library. UKSG eNews co-editor.
Lesley English @lesley-e.bsky.social Head of Academic Engagement & Teaching Services at Man Met Uni. Posts about HE libraries, EDI, wellbeing & belonging. Views my own.
Sara Bosshart @seascientist.bsky.social Head of Open Access @roysocchem.bsky.social. Love of all things water, travel, science and #OpenAccess (#OA). Views expressed are my own!
Meagan Phelan @meagan-g-phelan.bsky.social Curious human. Communications Director at the Science family of journals. Interested in what makes good leaders—& good jokes.
Varina @varinajr.bsky.social Librarian and open knowledge advocate at UofAberdeen. Lover of cats, yarn, tea, and liberation for all. All views my own, and do not reflect the views of my employer. 🍵💙💜💗✡️🫒🍉
Livvy @missoliviareads.bsky.social Academic Liaison Librarian at the University of Wales Trinity St David (Birmingham). Former FE Library Manager and Secondary English teacher. UK 🇬🇧 Get in touch - missoliviareads@outlook.com
Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social Manchester Metadata Maven #Metadata Librarian (UK) #OpenAccess & #OpenInfras supporter. Discovery drives the Collection; Metadata drives Discovery; #MetadataMatters Opinions my own. https://linktr.ee/emmabooth https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1390-2720
Jo Fitzpatrick @jofitz.bsky.social Research Data Manager at Lancaster University and Co-chair of NLISN.org
Mike Jones @thatlibraryman.bsky.social Academic librarian with interests in information literacy, library marketing and the impact of AI on the research process!
Jennie-Claire Crate @jencrate.bsky.social Libraries, books, cats, sleeping, cake. Library Hub and NBK manager @ Jisc.
Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social The librarian formerly known (on twitter) as @Phdgeek. Into nerdy stuff, open research, EDI campaigning, powerlifting and climbing. 🏳️‍🌈
Kirsty Wallis (she/her) @kirstywallis.com Head of Research Liaison, UCL Office for Open Science & Scholarship. Librarian. PhD Student in DIS at UCL. Neurodivergent. Photographer. Anthropologist. Bullet Journal Enthusiast. Baker. Nerd. www.kirstywallis.com
Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social Librarian at large. Chair of CILIP ILIG. Used to be a Slavonic librarian. Posts a random mix of libraries, Russia, food (gluten free) and the joys of life in Tooting. https://hcommons.org/members/lesleypitman/
Rupert Gatti @rupertgatti.bsky.social Fellow in Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge. Open Access advocate, co-founder/director of several non-profit enterprises incl. @openbookpublish.bsky.social, @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social, @openbookcollective.bsky.social, @ojcollective.bsky.social.
Andrea Chiarelli @drachiarelli.bsky.social Associate Director at Research Consulting. Open research, scholarly communication & research policy. Based in Nottingham, UK. ORCID: 0000-0001-7336-8330
Rosie Higman @rosiehigman.bsky.social Open research nerd. Librarian. Part-time PhD student. Parent. Cycling in my spare time. LwiththeT
Terry Bucknell @terrybucknell.bsky.social Sales at overton.io (policy impact, grey lit discovery and that kind of thing). Ex-librarian. The Fall. Essex boy who pretends to be a northerner. Daughter says he’s posh.
Sybille Geisenheyner @sybilleg.bsky.social Berlinerin. Special interest in scholarly publishing and open access. All views are my own. #wirsindmehr #fckafd #gruen
OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social openingthefuture.net is a funding model for open access books. Designed for small/med scholarly publishers, it is free to use by any Press seeking a low-risk move towards OA. Doesn't rely on BPCs, is equitable, sustainable, & part of the Copim Community.
ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social Copim 'Open Book Futures' Project. Helping presses flip to OA monographs through 'Opening the Future' 🔗openingthefuture.net Academic publishing, scholarly comms, HE, open access. @copim.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social
@mandystfc.bsky.social @mandystfc.bsky.social Research Support Librarian at Cranfield University, Chair of DARTS (Discover Academic Research, Training and Support) committee, supporter of Swindon Town FC.
Dr Emma Ashworth @emmaashworth.bsky.social Associate Prof in Child & Adolescent Mental Health - Liverpool John Moores University | school-based interventions, SEND, suicide prevention, risk, co-production | she/her
Dr Anna Powell @annapowellphd.bsky.social Postdoc at Liverpool John Moores University (UK), and The Pandemic Institute. Researching flu vaccine hesitance. PhD in cognitive function and alcohol use. Other interests = behaviour change and health inequalities. Also love cats. Views my own. She/Her.
Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social Development and engagement manager @jisc.bsky.social Outreach & Engagement committee @uksg.bsky.social ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7210-3199
@cathymonty-psy.bsky.social @cathymonty-psy.bsky.social
Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social Neurodiversity, disability, access, medical humanities, genre fiction. "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI. Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Dawn Pike @dawnpike.bsky.social Open Research Librarian. Interested in copyright, open research and digital preservation.
Siobhan Corrin (previously Linsey) @slaintesiobhan.bsky.social Librarian, lover of ideas and access to knowledge.
Sam Nesbit @samnesbit.bsky.social Research & Open Scholarship at University of Sussex; books; film; music; anything that brightens the dark times we live in, even momentarily. Oh and wine. All the wine.
@kelseyjohnston.bsky.social @kelseyjohnston.bsky.social
CILIP International Library & Information Group @cilip-ilig.bsky.social ILIG is the International Library and Information Group of CILIP: the library and information association.
Open Research Leeds @openresleeds.bsky.social Posts from Research Services Team at @UoLLibrary / UKRN@Leeds #openaccess #opendata #openresearch #openscience #openeducation #UKRN #UKRNLeeds #ReproducibiliTea
Paula Kennedy @paulakennedy.bsky.social Head of Publishing @uolpress.bsky.social. Interested in all things books, humanities and open access (amongst other things…). Chair of @oipassoc.bsky.social. T1D.
Rachel Anderson @rach-anderson.bsky.social Special Collections and Archives Assistant @ Newcastle Uni Library / Heritage Researcher @ Natural History Society of Northumbria / PhD’ing @ Durham Uni History ✨
Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social Director of of Journals Publishing at Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social. Cat servant to 3, I like books, running, horror films and big cups of tea (all views are my own).
Philippa Grand @philippagrand.bsky.social Head of Publishing @lsepress.bsky.social. Non profit open access publishing for the social sciences. Find out more about publishing with us at https://press.lse.ac.uk.
Dr Theresa Oakley @archaetexts.bsky.social Work: Special Collections & Archives Librarian at Uni of Worcester, UK Non-work: Archaeologist with PhD on sheela-na-gigs. Ancient & historic buildings & landscapes, music (rock & metal, folk), dance, plants, art - all passions. Devon maid/crone 📚
Dhara Snowden @dharasnow.bsky.social Textbook Manager @uclpress.bsky.social / Non Exec Board @404ink.bsky.social / @the-bookseller.bsky.social #RisingStars Class 2019⭐/ Publishing Award🏆 and Freeman of the @stationerscomms.bsky.social 📚 tweets my own
Lindsey Metcalf McGrath @lmetcalfmcgrath.bsky.social Criminologist/ Sociologist @LJMU. Current work on medical cannabis and UK drugs policy. Amateur genealogist and vegan cake specialist (she/her)
Mark Hahnel @hahnel.org Figshare Founder
Aberdeen University Press @abdnunipress.bsky.social We publish high quality open access research across all disciplines and fields of enquiry from scholars world. https://aberdeenunipress.org/
Scottish Universities Press @scotunipress.bsky.social SUP is a fully open access and not-for-profit university press coordinated through SCURL and managed by 20 university libraries across Scotland and Northern Ireland. https://sup.ac.uk Sign up to our mailing list: http://eepurl.com/i0AoJA
Goldsmiths Press @goldsmithspress.bsky.social Our publishing cuts across disciplinary boundaries and blurs the distinctions between theory, practice, fiction and non-fiction
LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social 🔓 Social sciences publisher. Equitable open access. Based at @lselibrary.bsky.social | press.lse.ac.uk
Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org The Open Library of Humanities. Building a sustainable, diamond open access future for the humanities. Part of Birkbeck, University of London & makers of Janeway
UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social UCL Press is the first fully #openaccess #universitypress in the UK. We are UCL's #openaccess publishing house. Reposting or liking ≠ endorsement.
University of Huddersfield Press @hudunipress.bsky.social University of Huddersfield Press, publishing peer reviewed open access journals, monographs and music.