Funding can build world-class research centers. But what happens when the funding ends? In our study published in Research Policy, Arsev Umur Aydınoğlu and I examined 8 centers from Japan's World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI) covering both funding and post-funding periods.

@euspri-forum.bsky.social @euspri2026.bsky.social ECRs encouraged | possible support via YSI @ineteconomics.bsky.social 🗓️ Call opens 12 Jan #SciencePolicy #InnovationStudies #STS

📣 Call for Abstracts | #EuSPRI2026 @ozgurkadir.bsky.social and I are co-chairing a session on "The role and governance of STI organisations in innovation policy: addressing grand societal challenges" at the Eu-SPRI Annual Conference 2026 (10–12 June, Valencia). 🔗 shorturl.at/PJOm4

My analysis of his year's Economics Nobel is out in EPW! What's wrong with the Economics Nobel this time around? I've written a little commentary arguing that the Prize rewards Eurocentric foundations for (innovation-driven) growth and supports a technology fetish. PDF: ingridhk.com/wp-content/u...

It is up to ordinary citizens in the West to do all we can to stop one of history’s great crimes. Italian workers have shown all of us how it can be done.

Excited to share our research on Türkiye’s solar energy research network (1991–2020) with Yelda Erden Topal & Gülşah Karakaya! 🌞 Key findings below ⬇️ #SolarEnergy #RenewableEnergy #ScienceOfScience

How CRISPR patent issues block Indian farmers from accessing biotech benefits www.nature.com/articles/d41...

lol at last line of caption: "This figure is not intended to suggest that science is a race." The treachery of images! (source doi.org/10.1371/jour...)

Science of Science in Copenhagen, June 2025 #scisci

Proteins fold in bits and pieces, first forming small structures that eventually coalesce into the native state. But the path is fraught with local traps: the protein must escape these to find the global minimum. If you want a feel for this search process, you should play Quintimble. quintumble.com

Finally! Zotero is now available in beta form for android devices, play.google.com/store/apps/d..., get it while it´s hot, they are still limiting the number of downloads during the beta testing phase.

🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Türkiye Bilim Çalışmaları Başlangıç Paketi. Yeni insanlar Bluesky'a geldikçe ekliyorum ancak gözümden kaçanlar olabiliyor. Eksikleri bildirirseniz sevinirim. go.bsky.app/9KgsdQe #Türkiye #Turkey

I made a starter pack with as many of the Twitter folk I follow that I could find: go.bsky.app/9u9wdBc

SciSci starter packs! Adding a second starter pack here since we ran out of capacity with the first one: go.bsky.app/NeZvnb5 The first one can be found here: go.bsky.app/2R1E4TD Please nominate or self-nominate with an example work. Please share! #AcademicSky #SciSci #SciPol #metascience

Here is the starter pack for folks in science of science, meta science, STS, philosophy of science, history of science, economics of science, science policy, AI+science, and so on. Feel free to nominate and self-nominate! #SciSci #STS #MetaScience #SciPol #AI4Science #ScAISci go.bsky.app/2R1E4TD

We adapt social media tracking as platforms come and go or become places for research comms. We also track a bunch of other pretty interesting metrics like policy, news, Wikipedia and patents. So hopefully it wouldn’t be *completely* meaningless!

I started an economics of science and innovation starter pack, let me know who to add! go.bsky.app/HETnNr5

We were surprised by a recent #Frontiers blog. They make derogatory statements, accuse us of data manipulation & mischaracterize our comms with them. 😔 Critiques of our work are welcome. Falsehoods about us and our work are not. Here we set the record straight. 1/7 #SciPub #AcademicSky #PeerReview

Too little, too late apple.news/AzX-v4U36RMK...

I know the post is about short turnaround times for MDPI articles, but scarier to me is how long the tail is for some of these distributions. We are talking about almost 2 years sometimes. How on earth is the career of an ECR supposed to survive that? #Academicsky

Guest Post — There is More to Reliable Chatbots than Providing Scientific References: The Case of ScopusAI scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/02/21/g...

Did you know Scopus has an #AI tool, called ScopusAI? Teresa Kubacka gave it a try. Read the Scholarly Kitchen blog post to learn more: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/02/21/g...

The only ethical "AI" chat bot: CatGPT catgpt.wvd.io

Join us on 3 Apr 2024 14h CET for a free webinar to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Helsinki Initiative on #Multilinugalism in #ScholarlyCommunication. Presentations by Emanuel Kulczycki, Ismael Ràfols, Joanna Ball, Laura Rovelli & me! Registration info: helsinki-initiative.org/en/events/3r...

'Moderna clearly does not feel that the billions it received in public funds came with any obligation to serve the public interest. The company falsified its patent applications, omitting the NIH scientists who co-developed the vaccine, claiming sole ownership:' pluralistic.net/2023/01/25/n...

🥳We are excited to invite you to submit abstracts for our panel "Transformed Social Differentiation Through Digital Transformation" at the upcoming @EASST/4S Conference 🔔ℹ️ Detailed info about the panel and to submit your abstract untill 12.2.2024 ➡️ www.easst4s2024.net/open-panels/...

Wellcome Trust gave many UK unis £1M each to improve research culture. Now those unis are hiring people to help them make and measure change jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFJ796/r... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFJ796/r... h/t @catdavies.bsky.social

BBC: No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland who were given their first dose at age 12-13 years buff.ly/3vKpLNo HPV vaccine stops women in Scotland from getting cervical cancer 🩺🛟#Episky

Hey, since we care so much about academic integrity in the Ivy League, how about we cover an actual academic fraud scandal? arstechnica.com/science/2024...

To make science work, scientists must trust each other. How does this change with Open Science? Last chance to submit an abstract to our Panel “A.2 Trust within (open) science” at STS Graz (deadline = today!) stsconf.tugraz.at/calls/sessio...

How private vs public spaceflight is going is reminiscent of private vs public healthcare systems.

Great editorial in the journal Nature about the controversial decision to allow deep-sea mining in Norway, and how the scientific recommendations were completely ignored: doi.org/10.1038/d415... #SciPol 🧪

Have you seen this one from 1896 before? This ones directly from a story from Mamie Dickens about Charles Dickens' beloved cat (name unknown, but he was deaf and described as Dickens' shadow) putting out the candle so Dickens would stop working and pet him instead. Naturally, it worked perfectly.

Normal. I go through 5 phases when writing: This is great. This is terrible. This is boring. This will have to do. Submit.

1. Write daily 2. Make small goals & meet them 3. When you're stuck, keep writing 4. Avoid virtuous procrastination. 5. Make fear an ally 6. Start poor, finish rich 7. Treat revision (and even research) as writing 8. Take this advice! -- Eric Hayot, The Elements of Academic Style

Some universities require graduate students to pass a ‘comprehensive exam’ before they can progress. Here are some tips by Kristin Hynes 1) Think about the exam early on 2) Meet your examiners 3) ​Form a study group Read more, #sponsored by Paperpile thephdplace.com/advice-for-p...

I never imagined Keanu Reeves writing a book, let alone a science fiction one co-authored with the greatest China Miéville! Nevertheless, the news is accurate. I'm actually very curious and looking forward to reading it when it's out. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/j...

‘A bully’: the billionaire who led calls for Claudine Gay’s Harvard exit www.theguardian.com/education/20...

So pleased to see my paper out! It surveys 50+ years of randomized control trials in criminal justice and shows that almost no interventions have lasting benefit -- and the ones that do don't replicate in other settings. 1/ www.bu.edu/bulawreview/... #econsky #polisky #metascience #philsci