Ilkay Holt @ilkayholt.bsky.social I am into #openaccess, #openresearch, #openGLAM. Currently #ScholComm Lead at the British Library and involved in several community works such as Open Repositories, Creative Commons's Open Culture Platform, CHOSN, ORCC, LIBER OAWG 🐾
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.
Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information @barcelonadori.bsky.social Community-driven action, based on a shared commitment: to make open research information the default. Signatories and supporters collaborate to deliver implementable action, based on our community roadmap.
https://barcelona-declaration.org
Crossref @crossref.bsky.social We are the 51 people behind the nonprofit custodian of >180 million open #DOI #metadata and relationships used billions of times monthly by just about every tool in #openscience. More at https://www.crossref.org. [PS we only follow orgs, to keep it easy!]
Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social Former librarian, still disputatious, still banging on about open research. Obsessive sports watcher and inveterate wanderer.
Megan Eve @meganeve.eurosky.social Existential non-thinker. Librarian. Winging life terribly - winging eyeliner better. Directed by two void cats. Never serious. Likes wine, whining, naps, & annoying myself. Described as "Eeyore as a scarecrow" & being "a bit whimsy in my goth"🔮🌙 she/her
Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social Open research person | feminist | writer
Loves books and cats
Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social Head of Research Services, Delft Uni Library 🇳🇱 | Open Science 🔭 | Technology 💾 | Digital Culture and Humanities 🎨
Andrew S. Hoffman @inter-apero-bility.bsky.social Service Scientist - Research Data Management @ CADS/CWTS, Leiden University. Avid tennis watcher. Accumulator of more LPs than I'll ever have the time to listen carefully to. Never not ethnographizing. maDMPs/NTROs/&c.
Hidden REF @hiddenref.bsky.social Celebrating all research outputs and everyone involved in their creation
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.
Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social The librarian formerly known (on twitter) as @Phdgeek. Into nerdy stuff, open research, EDI campaigning, powerlifting and climbing. 🏳️🌈
Ruth Harrison @ruthejh.bsky.social Head of Schol Comms in library services, crafter (knitting and weaving mostly), views own...
Research Data Alliance Europe @rdaeurope.bsky.social The European plug-in to the Research Data Alliance: building the social and technical bridges that enable global open sharing of data. 
Research Data Alliance (RDA) @researchdataall.bsky.social The Research Data Alliance builds the social and technical bridges that enable the global, open sharing and re-use of data.
Become a member today: https://www.rd-alliance.org/
CoARA @coarassessment.bsky.social The Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) is a collective of organisations committed to reforming research evaluation practices in line with the Agreement (ARRA). Learn more at www.coara.eu and join the coalition!
MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
Research project funded by AHRC, Wellcome Trust & Research England.
Co-delivered by Cambridge, Sheffield, Coventry & Southampton universities.
https://morphss.hcommons.org/
MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social MetaROR is a community initiative led jointly by RoRI and AIMOS. It provides a platform that leverages the publish–review-curate model to improve the dissemination and evaluation of metaresearch.
IASSIST @iassistdata.bsky.social International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) - An international organization of data professionals to support research and teaching in social sciences and beyond. 
Sarah Stewart @sarahastewart.bsky.social Sociologist of Data
DPhil Candidate @OIIOxford Digital collections, data and research infrastructures, scholarly communication, history of science
Naturalist. FLS @linneansociety @BSBIBotany
Wandering Bookish Type. Likes art and long walks.
CWTS | Leiden University @cwts.nl Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) @unileiden.bsky.social
Engagement & Inclusion | Evaluation & Culture | Information & Openness
🌐 cwts.nl
📌 Leiden, the Netherlands
librariannb.bsky.social @librariannb.bsky.social Librarian for Maths, Physics and Computing at Imperial Library. 
Rosie Higman @rosiehigman.bsky.social Open research nerd. Librarian. Part-time PhD student. Parent. Cycling in my spare time. LwiththeT
Martin Fenner @mfenner.bsky.social Founder of Front Matter, software and services for scholarly infrastructure. Launched the Rogue Scholar science blog archive in 2023.
Jisc @jisc.bsky.social Jisc: for the future of education and research
For more than 30 years, Jisc has pioneered digital solutions for UK education and research, transforming how knowledge is created, shared and used.
www.jisc.ac.uk
OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social Distributed Research Infrastructure for open scholarly communication in the European Research Area for Social Sciences and Humanities.
Visit OPERAS website: https://operas-eu.org
Peter Barr @tweeterbarr.bsky.social Associate Director - Collections and Digital Transformation, Library & Cultural Services, Manchester Metropolitan University. These views, though, are my own
ORCID @orcid.org Connecting research and researchers. https://linktr.ee/orcid_org
Megan @wiley9000.bsky.social Cardiff-based HE library director. Hobbies, greyhounds, being-mostly-vegan, ADHD. Have I mentioned I'm from Derbyshire?
Dr Natalie Wall (she/her) @realnataliewall.bsky.social Anti-racist scholar and impact professional in HE. Writes about Black Caribbean Canadian Women's Performance. Talks about research culture and impact. Published a book.
@RealNatalieWall
Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) supports using information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and intellectual productivity. Website at cni.org. Most posts by CNI's Paige Pope.
Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social A charity bringing together libraries, publishers, and publishing service providers to secure the diversity and financial futures of open access book production and dissemination.
https://openbookcollective.org/
Thoth Open Metadata @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social 👋🏽 Thoth is an open metadata management and dissemination platform for #OAbooks. Developed under the remit of @copim.bsky.social, we're now a non-profit CIC registered in the UK.
🐘: https://hcommons.social/@Thoth_metadata
🕸: https://thoth.pub
Doug Specht @dougspecht.bsky.social Chartered Geographer | Reader in Cultural Geography and Communication & Head of School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster | doug.specht.co.uk
Cassie Bowman @cassiebowman.bsky.social Cats and books
Tom corby @tomcorby.bsky.social Artist@Atmospheric Research Collective
https://www.atmospheric-collective.org, honorary visiting Professor, University of Westminster
Damyanti Patel @damyantipatel.bsky.social Librarian working in HE while eating all the chocolate. I mainly work with subscriptions, dabble in discovery, enthuse about eresources & meddle with metadata
richard m davis @onothimagain.bsky.social for it is he. in liverpool most days doing technology for digital libraries, archives, scholarship and e-learning so you don't have to.
Previously at https://twitter.com/onothimagen
Natalie Harrower @natalieharrower.bsky.social Canadian back from half a lifetime in Ireland. Executive Director https://crdcn.ca/. You many know me from https://dri.ie/ Happily up to my eyeballs in #ResearchInfrastructures #SSH #OpenScience #FAIR
Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social Ex-bioinformatician, ex-@nature, founded @altmetric (until 2018) and now CEO @Overtonio (analyzing v large databases of public policy). Part nerd
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Open knowledge enthusiast. Creates and maintains. Director of Open Access Programmes at Arcadia Fund.
Recognises that access to knowledge is a human right […]
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@rmounce on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Sharla Lair @lalair.bsky.social Lead Strategist, Open Scholarship, Lyrasis • https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharlalair/ • Views are my own
Christian Fuchs @fuchschristian.bsky.social Human, writer, critic, social researcher, professor, critical communication & social theory, https://fuchsc.net Editor: http://triple-c.at 
Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social Global research policy, funding & HE news from Research Professional News, including Research Fortnight, Research Europe and Research Africa. Part of Clarivate.
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
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.
Miranda L. Barnes @mirandab-oa.bsky.social Research Associate, Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences (MORPHSS), Uni. of Cambridge (Cambridge Digital Humanities & Cambridge University Library). Views my own.
[Find my poetry account at @luminousjune.bsky.social]
Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social University of St Andrews; Executive Chair, Arts & Humanities Research Council; International Champion and Creative Industries Sector Champion UK Research and Innovation
All views my own, but none of the poetry.
Adam Vials Moore @adamvialsmoore.bsky.social Sociotechnological autoethnographer, Research Identifiers, Repository and CRIS interfacer, Learning experience designer, mobile web, academic, dad, GEEK!!!
Copim @copim.bsky.social An international partnership building open, community-governed systems and infrastructures to support open access book publishing.
Find us at https://www.copim.ac.uk/
#OAbooks
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.
Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social 📚 Open research / research data / libraries / research culture //
✍️ Critical ancient world studies / feminisms and classical reception / Sylvia Plath //
LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social 💥A platform for those interested in increasing the impact of academic research. 📨 Subscribe to our newsletter here: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/subscribe-via-email/
The Scholarly Kitchen @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social What's hot and cooking in Scholarly Communications. Blog from the Society for Scholarly Publishing -- account run by Editor David Crotty
Chris Banks @chrisabanks.bsky.social Recently retired library director, somehow busier than ever being Co-Chair Besson Street Trust, soprano @LPChoir, #gardener, & continuing #OpenResearch #OA & #music interests
@NickPoole1 @nickpoole1.bsky.social Chief Exec of Ukie, championing the UK video game and interactive entertainment industry. Pronouns: he/him
Claire Knowles @cgknowles.bsky.social Acting Director of Library Services, University of Leeds | RLUK Digital Shift | IIIF Executive Committee | Open Research | Research Culture | Digital Creativity | Knowledge Equity | Coffee and Cake | Personal views | ORCID 0000-0002-6969-7382
Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social Currently on organizing committee of FORCE2026, Singapore, 3-5 June 2026.
I'm librarian + blogger from Singapore Management University. Social media, bibliometrics, analytics, academic discovery tech.
Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social Right then, this is the one. I'm all in.
Libraries, Higher Ed, communications, and life.
As a freelancer I run workshops on marketing, social media and presentation skills: https://www.ned-potter.com/training
David Prosser @davidprosser.bsky.social Executive Director of Research Libraries UK, supporting research libraries in the UK and Ireland. Chair of the Board for the Directory of Open Access Journals. He/him
Niamh Tumelty @niamhtumelty.bsky.social Director of LSE Library, Managing Director of LSE Press, Programme Director for LIBER Emerging Leaders. Cláirseach, gaeilge agus suathaireacht spóirt, here in personal capacity. Pronounced Nee-uv, it makes sense in Irish! Not on here much these days
Masud Khokhar @masudk.com Higher Education, Libraries, IT, Leadership, Digital, and Inclusion. Chief Digital and Information Officer at @universityofleeds.bsky.social. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/masudkhokhar/ All views are mine. Love Cats & Coffee!
Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org I research scholarly communication at Cambridge University Library / Cambridge Digital Humanities
PI: @morphss.bsky.social
New book: PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market
https://www.samuelmoore.org
Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social Proud Ballymena Professor. Senior Strategic Advisor at RoRI; Emeritus Prof at Imperial. Former DORA Chair. Husband, father, carer - 24/7. Also cares about science & equity. Personal a/c. Writes occasionally at http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/.
Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social Geoscientist | Occassionally on 📺 & 📻 talking about geoscience | I 🏃🏾♂️🚴🏾♂️ 🧗🏾♀️🎸🍺| he/him | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️| “Self-declared King of Geotwitter” (Palin, 2022) | Professional (East)Midlander 😎
Nick Sheppard @nickshepp.bsky.social Open research at University of Leeds. Amateur Wikimedian. Conscientious objector to the culture war.
#OpenResearch #OpenScience #KnowledgeEquity #Wikimedia 
Elizabeth Gadd @lizziegadd.bsky.social Research Culture & Assessment Loughborough University; Chair INORMS Research Evaluation Group; Vice-Chair CoARA; ARMA Res Eval SIG; Founder LIS-Bibliometrics; She/her;
@alicemeadows.bsky.social @alicemeadows.bsky.social US-based scholarly comms consultant. Passionate about open research, improving trust and transparency, DEIA. Work closely with @ore-consulting.bsky.social Views my own. She/her
Phill Jones, PhD @phillbjones.bsky.social Commercial operator supporting deep tech and life science startups from idea to Series A | Advisor to founders and investors
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