Prof. Madeleine Pownall

"...We outline four reforms - foregrounding uncertainty, documenting discovery processes, supporting responsiveness to unexpected findings, and expanding epistemic scope - and identify practices that create clearer pathways for engaging with unanticipated observations."

Arts friends, this is relevant for us as well!

I incorporate this into a class engagement assignment asking students to email an author/creator of work that resonates with them. The footnote include my own note of gratitude to @eatingpolitics.bsky.social for inspiring this assignment.

I have received two (2) spontaneous compliments on papers I've written and you had better believe those are in the 'feel good folder' for when I need them! Go tell someone what you like about their work! No-one tells them!

Admire another researcher’s work? Tell them about it www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“I had assumed these messages would be nice things to receive; I hadn’t realized quite how rarely we send them.” Psychologist Madeleine Pownall who emailed several researchers she admired to tell them that their research had inspired her. Who inspired you?

Another special issue at Psych Science! We invite “submissions that advance the field through critical appraisal of articles previously published by Psychological Science” Please share! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

There is exhaustion and then there is whatever this feeling is. I have had a full day of being deeply overwhelmed with love, joy, kindness, and the very best of academia. I’ve never felt quite so lucky (and, weirdly, so energised to keep going and do a load more) 🥂💖

As of today I am a Professor of Open Scholarship in Psychology! 🥂🩷

The 2027 JOINT CONFERENCE for T-FUN and the Oxford Brookes Centre for Research About Learning in Higher Education (REAL-HE) is OPEN FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS 3 WEEKS TO GO until the submission deadline: 26/10/2026 Full information here: buff.ly/qwxUdwj #Teaching #Scholarship #HigherEd #Learning

Piccie of me and @maddipow.bsky.social at Raworths Salon North last week. I was talking about ghosts and she about the forgotten voices of women in psychology.

The day has been long and full of teaching, supervision and meetings, but at least there was an excellent haul of books in my mail tray today. @marekmcgann.bsky.social @craigspeelman.bsky.social @maddipow.bsky.social @sandersonspeaking.bsky.social

NEW on Wonkhe: Madeleine Pownall and Mary Hausfeld call for research teams to be more explicit, equitable, and reflective about how they assign scholarly credit buff.ly/9UBLVXo

www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/bring...

'The word traceability, in place of reproducibility, [...] refers to the extent to which the decisions made by the researcher are transparently documented, allowing readers to see how conclusions were reached' @maddipow.bsky.social in new paper 'Can open science speak qualitative?' ⬇️

Hearing now from @nickshepp.bsky.social and Thom Freeth repping @openresleeds.bsky.social who are talking about the Knowledge Equity Network and connecting “the opens” (Open Education, Open Science, Open Access and Open Infrastructure) #OpenFest2026

1. Feminist scholars “Feminist scholarship has been talking about bias, reflexivity, representation, and power long before contemporary Open Research discourse” #OpenFest26

Followed by an excellent talk from @maddipow.bsky.social on the marginalised researchers whose valuable expertise on openness should be better incorporated into our thinking on open research and research culture including women, indigenous scholars, and arts and humanities researchers.

Take home number 1: *Cite women *Undo injustice through citation *Consider historical and cultural dimensions of who we credit #OpenFest26

Nick has been expertly live Blue-Skying my keynote at #OpenFest2026! ⬇️

#OpenFest26 keynote: Who Built Open Research? Reclaiming the Intellectual Lineage of Open @maddipow.bsky.social

LIVE from OpenFest 2026: Our brilliant keynote speaker @maddipow.bsky.social asks us to confront why feminist scholars still struggle to be heard. What does this mean for open research, how is this serving us but more importantly, how can WE do better? #openfest26 #openscience #genderequity

Leeds is well represented at #OpenFest26 in Sheffield today with a keynote from @maddipow.bsky.social, and Thom Freeth (@knowledgeen.bsky.social) & @nickshepp.bsky.social talking about Knowledge Equity & Open Scholarship week #KEOS26 Full programme here libguides.shu.ac.uk/openresearch...

On my way to #OpenFest2026 to give a keynote on open research and intellectual lineage and I’ve seen that my paper with Sarahanne Field on open research language & qualitative methodologies was just published! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Should we still use the term "preregistration"? Our take here: osf.io/preprints/ps... tl;dr: we think yes! With @lspitzer.bsky.social, @lukaswallrich.bsky.social, and @josefinaw.bsky.social

Women as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08912432261466293

Open Research in Sheffield: People and Place: Join us for #OpenFest26 and hear keynote speaker Dr Madeleine Pownall from @universityofleeds.bsky.social present "Who Built Open Research? Reclaiming the Intellectual Lineage of Openness." Explore our full programme: libguides.shu.ac.uk/openresearch...

Thing I learned today: Do not save the expressionless dead-eyed selfie you took for a visa as "head shot" or you might accidentally provide that for a professional speaking event promotion

"Metascience needs psychology and we need to be better at communicating this need. Understanding how researchers actually develop and change may be one of the most missing pieces in understanding how science itself changes." www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Meta(science)-morphosis… Dr @maddipow.bsky.social on personal moments of change for researchers. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

I'll be at Raworths Salon North in September talking about why humans are drawn to the supernatural. Professor Adam Zeman will talk about imagination & @maddipow.bsky.social will talk about women in psychology. See you there! thestrayferret.co.uk/event/rawort...

Project Tier - Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research www.projecttier.org

Issue 54 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ filetree R package @tjmahr.com ➡️ Women as the First Open Scientists @maddipow.bsky.social ➡️ Accessibility for Data and Data Repositories @researchdataall.bsky.social ➡️ How to Share Qualitative Data @jenniad.bsky.social rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

New paper!🔓🌎 How are the Sustainable Development Goals integrated in training the future mental health workforce? What are the pedagogies? What's the practice? We reviewed the literature and found three core pedagogies & end with recommendations! iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“women in social science have long practiced and promoted principles now hailed as innovative, although their contributions are often left out of mainstream narratives”

I'm delighted to learn that this article on open science by @maddipow.bsky.social is just one taste of the collection of stories in her new book "Absent Minds" about women who changed psychology forever: www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

@maddipow.bsky.social this is fantastic work for the #openscience community helping bring important parts of its history(ies) to light journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"We open the issue with Madeleine Pownall’s article, 'Women as the First Open Scientists'.” @maddipow.bsky.social

Introduction to a special issue on feminist metascience and open science by Christin Munsch and @divreyes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0891...

New paper! Values such as openness, transparency, collaboration, clarity about conflict of interests have been promoted by women for *decades*, and now we have reframed this around the branding of 'open science' that we start to take them seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

P.S. if you liked this paper, I wrote a whole book about it (that's out now!) www.waterstones.com/book/absent-...

Just read this paper and thought it was excellent! Would recommend to anyone interested in the feminist foundation of open science practices.