Edinburgh Open Research

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An interesting approach to moving from assessing researchers by where they publish to what they publish - what do you think? buff.ly/3AjRGG9

A lovely evening presenting at the Citizen Science Showcase at @EdinburghUni with @EdOpenResearch ✨ Thank you for inviting me along to talk about @GroundswellCon and @OurOutdoorsUK, alongside some other amazing speakers!

Why not turn the 5th of June into your own unofficial participatory research day? A fantastic event from "Next Steps for Public Engagement" is running online that afternoon: eventbrite.co.uk/e/next-steps-s… Perhaps pop along before joining us for the showcase?

🗞️New blog: A New Model for Exploring the use of Collections in Participatory Research By Nel Colman, Citizen Science Engagement Officer at Edinburgh University AND facilitator of our Participatory Research events! Read here🔗 bit.ly/4bCV4JG

Events season has truly begun in Edinburgh - why not join us for an evening of participatory research? Flash Fiction, Art workshops, and lightning talks (oh, and free drinks and nibbles!) …tizenscienceshowcase.eventbrite.co.uk June 5th, 2024 – 6pm-8pm

We have a new addition to the OR Conference - why not join the Research Cafe team for lunch & a chat about AI Futures? researchcafe_ai.eventbrite.co.uk While you're at it... why not just stick around whole conference? eor2024.eventbrite.co.uk

We're excited to meet our young advisors tonight to shape a new loneliness exhibition in partnership with @EdUniLibraries & @CRC_EdUni. We'll be displaying some incredible pieces of art & sharing why they resonate with us as part of the Loneliness in the Digital World Study.

ONE DAY LEFT to apply and become one of the ECS CITIZEN SCIENCE AMBASSADORS. Friends from #Austria, #Estonia #Germany, #Slovakia and #Sweden, we still miss you. Info here: eu-citizen.science/call_ambassado… @EU_Commission @REA_research @EUScienceInnov

Celebrate #CitizenScience with us at the 5th ECSA conference in #Vienna, 3-6 April. Early Bird tickets are available until 22nd January, so don't miss out! #ECSA2024 2024.ecsa.ngo/info/registrat… @CSAustria @BOKUvienna @NHM_Wien

The UKRI MRC wants to hear your views on their draft strategy for public partnerships - this includes involvement and participation in research. This is your chance to share your views and help to ensure that it is fit for purpose: edin.ac/3RXfMeX

A great opportunity for citizen science (or "participatory research"!) funding!

We are excited to announce that the 2nd @impetus4cs call for #citizenscience projects is now ... Open! We are on the search for #citsci projects to support and celebrate via our #accelerator program and the #EUprize for #citsci Learn more here: impetus4cs.eu/opencall/

Finally, I earned my @protocolsIO laptop sticker by publishing our first protocol dx.doi.org/10.17504/proto…

Hey, guys! Have a look: Issue 1⃣1⃣ of the Edinburgh Open Research Newsletter is out: mailchi.mp/6ce7de0e7e4c/e… . Inside, you'll find contributions by 🔸Rebecca Wojturska🔹Mandy Wigdorowitz🔸Simon Smith🔹Iti Agarwal🔸Robin Rice. @EdOpenResearch 👌

Interested in learning about library publishing? Join the new @alpsp Library Publishing Special Interest Group led by @BeckyWojturska (@EdinburghUni) & @Cath_Marlowe (@LJMU). Members & non-members welcome! Apply now: alpsp.org/Special-Intere… #SIG #LibraryPublishing #OpenAccess

New! On the Datablog, an enjoyable account of @EdinburghUni's second annual Open Research Conference, by Neil Coleman from @EdOpenResearch. libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/datablog/2023/… Direct links to the slides and recording below.

Missed the Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2023 or want to rewatch? You can now find all the PowerPoint slides and recorded presentations from our annual conference here: journals.ed.ac.uk/eor/issue/view… #OpenResearch #OpenScience #OpenAccess

Encouraging progress for #OpenAccess from @UKRI_News ukri.org/news/ukri-upda… @EdOpenResearch @edinburgh_open @Edinburgh_Tea

Want to learn more about Edinburgh Diamond and how we grew our Diamond Open Access library-based hosting service? @BeckyWojturska has written an article for the Medical Library Forum exploring this very topic, and it's out now! Read it here: doi.org/10.34738/mlf.0…