UKSG speakers and attendees
A collection of people who may be talking on here about UKSG 2025 content.
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@drbeth.bsky.social
@joannaball.bsky.social
Managing Director @DOAJ | Open access, open infrastructure | Librarian | DK/UK | My views
@librarianth.bsky.social
University of York Acquisitions Librarian. Professional Northerner. Bang on about armchair politics, books, ebooks, coffee, & Boro. Views/opinions personal. UTB
@jemerypdx.bsky.social
Librarian by day, smart ass pragmatic Gen Xer always. Living my best life possible.
@emmabooth.bsky.social
Manchester Metadata Maven UK Librarian & Open Access supporter. Discovery drives the Collection; Metadata drives Discovery; #MetadataMatters https://linktr.ee/emmabooth https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1
@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
@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.
@jencrate.bsky.social
Libraries, books, cats, sleeping, cake. Library Hub and NBK manager @ Jisc.
@thatlibraryman.bsky.social
Academic librarian with interests in information literacy, library marketing and the impact of AI on the research process!
@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
@varinajr.bsky.social
Librarian and open knowledge advocate at UofAberdeen. Lover of cats, yarn, tea, and liberation for all. All views my own. 🍵💙💜💗✡️🫒🍉
@meagan-g-phelan.bsky.social
Curious human. Communications Director at the Science family of journals. Interested in what makes good leaders—& good jokes.
@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!
@lesley-e.bsky.social
Head of Academic Engagement & Teaching Services at Man Met Uni. Posts about HE libraries, EDI, wellbeing & belonging. Views my own.
@tmorley24.bsky.social
Research Culture and Open Monographs Lead at Lancaster University Library. UKSG eNews co-editor.
@paulakennedy.bsky.social
Head of Publishing @uolpress.bsky.social. Interested in all things books, humanities and open access (amongst other things…). Vice-Chair of @oipassoc.bsky.social.
@rosiehigman.bsky.social
Open research nerd. Librarian. Part-time PhD student. Parent. Cycling in my spare time. LwiththeT
@philippagrand.bsky.social
Head of Publishing @lsepress.bsky.social. Non profit open access publishing & open social science.
@nielsstern.bsky.social
Managing Director of OAPEN Foundation - providing open infrastructure services for scholarly books. Not-for-profit. Not-for-sale. POSI adopter.
@rupertgatti.bsky.social
Fellow in Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge. Open Access advocate, co-founder & director of Open Book Publishers, Thoth Open Metadata and the Open Book Collective. Working in COPIM/OBF project developing infrastructure for OA book publishing. He/him.
@theblochian.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature & Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Executive Director of @openlibhums.bsky.social & Co-Director of @ojcollective.bsky.social. Utopia, mushrooms, trees, sci-fi, weird stuff, open access, higher ed.
@kirahopkins.bsky.social
Scholarly Publishing Outreach Officer for Opening the Future at Copim, OA enthusiast, publisher (sometimes!)
@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
@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).
@rschrobuk.bsky.social
Managing Director at Research Consulting. I help universities, funders, publishers and not-for-profits manage, disseminate and deliver impact from research.
@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.
@msiowaintheuk.bsky.social
Iowan, adopted Liverpudlian, mum, and librarian who loves open research, public libraries, live music and cycling on my Brompton.
@cathdishman.bsky.social
Librarian who loves open access, open journals, repositories and running (not necessarily in that order). Also Content Officer for LIRG cilip special interest group
@tashamc.bsky.social
Founder at Mellins-Cohen Consulting, Exec Director of COUNTER Metrics, big fan of sustainable open access. Inveterate textile nerd and housekeeper to a triad of demanding moggies. Posts are my own opinions.
@jsendall.bsky.social
Director of Library Services @UoLLibrary @LULGalleries & Trustee @UKSG #Diversity 🏳️🌈 #OpenScience #MadeByDyslexia - personal views
@ruthejh.bsky.social
Head of Schol Comms in library services, crafter (knitting and weaving mostly), views own...
@jofitz.bsky.social
I do the Accessibility work package for Copim/Open Book Futures at Lancaster University | Open Research librarian | Co-chair of NLISN.org | Actually autistic | I ❤️ divergency and wyrdness and all the magickal things | Profile photo is my cat Little Bruce
@heroicendeavour.bsky.social
Academic Librarian, SFHEA, #ebookSOS campaigner, WikimediaUK trustee, NLISN committee member. UK Wikimedian of the Year 2020, JISC Community Champion 2025.
@siobhanh.bsky.social
Publishing Technologies Librarian. Open Access, Publishing, Diversity, IT, Libraries & (Digital) Collections. Tech & Hiking | She/Her | Views (unfortunately) my own.
@rickanderson.bsky.social
Latter-day Saint, librarian, clawhammer banjo player, writer, speaker. University Librarian at Brigham Young University. Posts reflect my own opinions.
@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
@kathleenor.bsky.social
Academic, queer, digital culture, technoscience, science and media studies. Sea swimming. Based in the UK.
@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
@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.
@drbeth.bsky.social
The librarian formerly known (on twitter) as @Phdgeek. Into nerdy stuff, open research, EDI campaigning, powerlifting and climbing. 🏳️🌈