Fine weather for leading an unusual tour for a group invited by Nick Sheppard University of Leeds to take photos to add to #Wikimedia coverage of Leeds. Participants can also enter a competition. #WikiMonuments

Springfield House

Architect George Corson - also see Leeds Central Library

St George’s Church - John Clark

“Porte cochere” at LGI

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Lost my seat mid ride 🤷‍♂️

I’ll only accept “person dead” (wouldn’t matter* if they’d archived in a repository) *well, it’s sad they’re dead. Obviously. But at least they’d live on through their DOIs

"Open access improves the dissemination of science: Insights from Wikipedia" Key result: Wikipedia increasingly relies on OA articles. Relatedly, OA articles have a higher likelihood of being cited in Wikipedia. The effect is particularly strong for highly cited or newly

Ok, here we go: Much of my work concerns the history and return of scientific racism. I’ve written extensively about attempts to resurrect the shuffling corpse of race science and eugenics for many years. Bigotry dressed up as biology. 1/n

View of Leeds from ⁦Horizon Leeds⁩ on a dreary Sunday…. Learning about ⁦OpenRefine⁩ with ⁦Wikimedia UK⁩

We are now on bluesky…which may be approaching critical mass for #ScholComms Follow at: bsky.app/profile/openre…

How long does Histropedia take to update to reflect edit to a Wikidata item? Is there a way to force update?

Feels like things starting to happen #Scholcomm wise over there now. Only posting here to say go over there…

This oddly started accruing likes over 3 years later…my legacy as I gradually withdraw from X

As we all await the outcome of what feels like a make-or-break election, I want to offer some perspective, if you’ll hand a fellow with eight-plus decades the mic for a moment.

Join the eXodus

Excellent in person Research Culture event earlier launching our Open Research Champions Network & Open Research Hub. Great talks by @NickPlantLeeds Nick Sheppard, Claire Knowles, Emily Goodall, Eike Mark Rinke has moved to Bluesky & @cat_davies #openresearch

Jordan Peterson, a psychologist, doing little to reassure that Psychology is indeed a ‘science’

Expect some tiresome Musk fanboys bleating some bullshit about free speech