It’s now mandatory in the UK to wear face masks on public transport. Face coverings have added to my anxiety as lipreading is impossible #Inaccessible pls consider people like me & wear this type of #FaceCovering #Accessible #CovidSafe #Axschat

UX Cambridge is going virtual as part of our first UCD Gathering conference UCDGathering 15-16 October 2020

Today the report from the January #bioPreprints2020 workshop is released for public feedback! Here’s a summary of the major best practice recommendations for preprint servers and other stakeholders. osf.io/8dn4w

Track and search COVID-19 grants using Europe PMC’s grant finder tool. To ensure that #COVID19 grants are more widely available and accessible, the Medical Research Council, worked with UKCDR and GloPID-R, to provide COVID-19 grant data to Europe PMC. Read more: bit.ly/3jJJUZr.

We're really excited to have started indexing and displaying full text preprints on COVID-19 in Europe PMC this month. Ensuring the latest research discoverable alongside related journal published literature. #preprints

You can already find over 300 full text #COVID19 preprints displayed in Europe PMC bit.ly/2XJsov5. #preprints #SARSCoV2 #openscience #lifesciences

My team at NHS Test & Trace are urgently hiring an Information Architect to help us make it simpler and easier for people to find COVID guidance and services. Meaty job to create in record time a clear user-centred IA than ties together multiple channels and websites

Deep breath, my views on the SARS CoV2 Mutation story in London/South East. It's a fast moving story (at least for phylogeography); I'm a one step-away from experts, aiming here to provide some light.

This is huge. So much creative work can be done on the research literature when the metadata and content are open. Elsevier citations have been a huge missing piece. I frankly didn't think they'd ever do this. Glad to be wrong. #openscience

In other news Doug has many emotions over his new Christmas hat

Why is East West Rail ignoring a northern route for the EWR? Ensure East West Rail explores a northern approach to EWR in Cambridge. Sign the petition to lobby Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps for fair & full evaluation of routes proposed by CamBedRailRoad alongside option E ow.ly/WfgQ50CQoSQ

We’re making #COVID19 research more discoverable for the world’s scholarly community. More than 4,500 of our full-text COVID-19 preprints are indexed in Europe PMC, an #openaccess research repository. Discover more bit.ly/2XpU7QL #clinicalresearch Europe PMC

Despite working from home the team have achieved a lot this year. My highlight has been the addition of more than 13k full text COVID-19 preprints to supplement the 6.5 million peer reviewed articles already in Europe PMC.

Help support Frontline19 to provide psychological support for frontline NHS workers during these unprecedented times: gofundme.com/f/emotional-su…

We're looking for a Database Engineer. Lots of interesting challenges and you'll be working on a valuable service used by scientific researchers. DM me if you have questions.

Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience !

Introducing the Great Wall of #Cambridge. Spanning 16KM, it's barely mentioned in the new consultation and only emerges when scrutinising further drawings. If allowed to continue it will split communities that have stood for a 1,000 years. #EastWestRail cambridgeapproaches.org/the-great-wall/

At the webinar ‘Preprints 101 for authors’ Iratxe Puebla, ASAPbio Fellow Sumeet Pal Singh & Maria Levchenko from Europe PMC will cover how to best post, find, cite and follow #preprints. Join us on June 21, registration: bit.ly/Preprints101au…

Our call for speakers is still open and the form will be available over the weekend for anyone that needs a bit more time. ucdgathering.net/call-speakers

Such an exciting collaboration and a fantastic new resource for the life sciences community.