Really interesting history piece accompanying launch of the UK #Metascience Unit's first report by @rorinstitute.bsky.social's James Wilsdon, @ludowaltman.bsky.social, Andre Brasil and the unit's own Ben Steyn assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/685bcd... One small correction though...

Both funny and scary idea in this paper that authors might insert hidden text into their papers instructing LLM peer reviewers to say how great the paper is and recommend acceptance. arxiv.org/html/2412.01...

🎯 Does early success in science funding shape the rest of your career? New RoRI study says yes. The ‘Matthew effect’ — early winners keep winning — holds across funders & countries. 📄 Read more: researchonresearch.org/largest-stud...

📢 Our new study challenges the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing! Read the preprint: Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe. doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Happy to be able to participate online at RESSH2025 Conference in Helsinki in spite of last-minute unforeseen circumstances! Thanks a lot to Ginevra Peruginelli and @jpolonen.bsky.social for making it possible. Enjoy the conference and hope to connect soon 💬

GREAT OPPORTUNITY: Please do some individual outreach for this position, and please apply even if you do not meet all the requirements. Postdoc studying #peerreview #preprints #scholcomm. www.scholcommlab.ca/join-us/hiri... Let's get the word out! Send on your mailing lists and social media!

¿Cómo? ¿Que los parques eólicos marinos hacen que aumente la vida acuática en la zona por el veto a la pesca en esas áreas? No me lo puedo creer, quién se lo hubiera imaginado.

📢INGENIO SEMINARS CONFLICTING RATIONALES IN THE GOVERNANACE OF GRANT PEER REVIEW @pablosastron.bsky.social, Interuniversity Institute for Advanced Research on the Evaluation of Science and the University 📆Today ⌚12 h. 📌 @cpinnovacion.bsky.social ✅Free access @upv.es @csic.es @dicv.csic.es

For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

🚨 New PhD position at CWTS! We're excited to announce a fully-funded PhD position on a crucial topic: Paper Mills and Systematic Manipulation in Research Publishing 📄 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Lo del Torneo de Primavera de la @ligabasketcoop.bsky.social ayer 😍

Super iniciativa👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

I’m working on a piece about funding basic science and if you’ve never explored spinoff.nasa.gov, I would really encourage you to do so. Even though I’ve been doing this for 20 years, it really is humbling and informative to see the ways in which space science works its way into our daily lives.

This is such an interesting piece on the big resistance on basic research funding and how difficult is to move policymakers from the rationale of competitive funding despite its ineffectiveness 👇👇

US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks. https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu

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My colleague Richard Woolley is hiring a PhD student! If you want to do a PhD on the relationship between research evaluation and epistemic change, as part of a great team led by Professor Jochen Gläser at Technical University Berlin, contact him at: [email protected].

Creo que la fuerte dependencia geográfica y política del cambio climático y la descarbonización nos empujan a recorrer vías ibéricas al ecosocialismo para construir un futuro habitable. He escrito una cosita no muy larga sobre ello: politicasdeladescarbonizacion.substack.com/p/las-vias-i...

"if you are a tenured academic, you should be devoting a bunch of your time to cultivating alternatives to the usual money-sucking journal racket."

Great guide and movement from NWO to materialise non-profit journals, hope the rest of the 'northern' countries jump in with this type of initiatives

Love that a funder has set up a 'boring fund' to fund the boring stuff such as maintaining existing technology that no one ever funds but is essential for impact. (Even better - just fund core costs) wildlabs.net/funding-oppo... (HT Tom Steinberg who I don't think is here yet)