💥New: Research evaluation systems are too slow to measure AI accelerated research ✍️Tony Bader #ResearchEvaluation #HealthResearch #AcademicSky

👀ICYMI: "While communications training and individual outreach are valuable, real progress requires changes to systems, structures, and relationships." @camillegamboa.bsky.social #SocialScience #ResearchImpact

💥New: Automated warehouse or augmented service – How will AI change libraries and librarians? ✍️ Siddu Huded #ScholComm #AcademicSky #Libraries

👀ICYMI: "While communications training and individual outreach are valuable, real progress requires changes to systems, structures, and relationships." @camillegamboa.bsky.social #SocialScience #ResearchImpact

💥New: Can films do social theory? ✍️Kate Nash (@lsesociology.bsky.social) #SocialTheory #SocialScience #Sociology

👀ICYMI: "Bigfooters are engaging in a way of being that is often self-consciously ‘scientific’, even if this way of being is antagonistic to the institutions of mainstream science." @drjamielewis.bsky.social #Sociology #Science #Bigfoot

💥New: Automated warehouse or augmented service – How will AI change libraries and librarians? ✍️ Siddu Huded #ScholComm #AcademicSky #Libraries

👀ICYMI: "Bigfooters are engaging in a way of being that is often self-consciously ‘scientific’, even if this way of being is antagonistic to the institutions of mainstream science." @drjamielewis.bsky.social #Sociology #Science #Bigfoot

💥New: Can films do social theory? ✍️Kate Nash (@lsesociology.bsky.social) #SocialTheory #SocialScience #Sociology

"The technology exists. The standards are being discussed as part of various initiatives, including the @barcelonadori.bsky.social. What’s needed now is widespread adoption and a recognition that true funding transparency requires open metadata." Couldn't agree more!

👀 ICYMI: If this clerical work can now be automated, why do some journals continue to use it as a criteria for screening submissions? #PhDchat #ECRchat #AcWri

📑"Palantir regards big data, which after all is generated by many humans, as itself one big subject for interpretation." #DataSurfacing #DataScience

📑"On the one hand, who has a greater insight into social phenomena than those who have experienced them first-hand? But on the other, what is the role for sociologists relative to the realities we study?" #LivedExperience #Sociology

📑From January: "Despite limitations, in speed and reach, and vulnerabilities to biases or abuse, Community Notes is a fundamentally legitimate approach to moderation." #CommunityNotes #Moderation

📑From October: "Pierre Bourdieu famously described sociology as a “martial art“. With this phrase, he emphasised that academic practice is not only a search for truth, but also a form of struggle" #Bourdieu #ECRchat #AcademicSky

👀 ICYMI: If this clerical work can now be automated, why do some journals continue to use it as a criteria for screening submissions? #PhDchat #ECRchat #AcWri

🗃️From September: Gemma Derrick, Amy Devenney, Lizzie Ville and Rhian Pennie show how institutions have already begun to make positive changes as a result of the now changed PCE element of REF #REF2029 #ResearchManagement

💥New: Open funder metadata is essential for true research transparency ✍️ @hldejonge.bsky.social Katharina Rieck & Zoé Ancion #OpenResearch #ResearchFunding #ScholComm

We could not agree more! Our infrastructure is ready for everyone to use and start adding these funding connections en masse. Thanks Hans, Katharina, and Zoe, for highlighting this important need! 🙏🏼

👀ICYMI: "Our best chance of allowing statistics and other types of evidence to thrive is pursuing this openness" #QuantativeResarch #Stats #OpenScience

LSE Press is delighted to share our partnership with the Open Journals Collective 📚 "An equitable, sustainable, community-led alternative to corporate academic publishers." - Caroline Edwards 🔓 Read Caroline's article for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/3MnRyvx

💥New: Open funder metadata is essential for true research transparency ✍️ @hldejonge.bsky.social Katharina Rieck & Zoé Ancion #OpenResearch #ResearchFunding #ScholComm

🗃️From September: Gemma Derrick, Amy Devenney, Lizzie Ville and Rhian Pennie show how institutions have already begun to make positive changes as a result of the now changed PCE element of REF #REF2029 #ResearchManagement

Read about what social scientists think, what they think their peers and institutions think, and what might cause the difference.

👀ICYMI: "the British Library’s woes are a microcosm of a wider crisis across the UK’s knowledge sector" #ScolComm #Libraries #KnowledgeWork @simonxix.com

Short piece for the LSE impact Blog. My thanks to Michael working on the blog.

NEW✨ Is there an alternative to Big Tech’s control of the #SocialMedia space? The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can’t? by @couldrynick.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social reviewed by Dawa Tshering @edithcowanuni.bsky.social.

💥New: Why do social scientists pursue societal impact? ✍️ @camillegamboa.bsky.social #SocialScience #ResearchImpact #SocietalImpact

👀ICYMI: "Six papers accounted for nearly half of all research references across hundreds of articles" #Journalism #ResearchImpact #SciComm

💥New: Can understanding the search for Bigfoot help renew trust in science? ✍️ @drjamielewis.bsky.social & Andrew Bartlett #STS #SciComm #Experts

💥New: Can understanding the search for Bigfoot help renew trust in science? ✍️ @drjamielewis.bsky.social & Andrew Bartlett #STS #SciComm #Experts

👀ICYMI: "Six papers accounted for nearly half of all research references across hundreds of articles" #Journalism #ResearchImpact #SciComm

👀ICYMI: Carmen Nuzzo & Antonina Scheer (@tpicatlse.bsky.social) on how national climate plans can be made investable. #ClimateFinance #GreenFinance

British Library staff are on strike from the 8th to the 12th December 2025. Full solidarity with them, please don't cross the physical or digital picket lines. I wrote a little in my latest piece on the Library about how poor senior management has driven the staff to this position.

💥New: There’s no excuse for journals to require formatting ✍️Disha #AcWri #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing

💥New: There’s no excuse for journals to require formatting ✍️Disha #AcWri #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing

💥New: Public trust in statistics requires three kinds of openness ✍️ Ed Humpherson #Statistics #PublicStatistics #OpenResearch

👀ICYMI: Carmen Nuzzo & Antonina Scheer (@tpicatlse.bsky.social) on how national climate plans can be made investable. #ClimateFinance #GreenFinance

💥New: Public trust in statistics requires three kinds of openness ✍️ Ed Humpherson #Statistics #PublicStatistics #OpenResearch

"We often think of impact as visibility, but visibility can distort understanding. The studies that travel the farthest are not always the most representative of the field." Robin Neuhaus presents findings on which narratives in research on #ScreenTime gain traction @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

👀ICYMI: "[our findings] underscores the urgent need for libraries, archives, and information infrastructure providers to include scholarly blogs more systematically in their preservation strategies" @pampel.bsky.social & @catharinaochsner.bsky.social #ScholComm #Libraries #AcademicBlogs

🗃️"Academic publishing is no longer and can no longer be seen as a medium for communicating findings solely to other researchers." @jacoates.bsky.social #Trust #SciComm

"The screen time debate is a vivid reminder that research doesn’t speak for itself. It’s translated, framed, and shared by people, each with good intentions but different pressures. When we recognise those dynamics, we can build a communication system that supports nuance rather than fear." #nzpol

I've got a new piece at @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today following on from my previous piece about the British Library cyberattack and arguing that, since the UK Government clearly doesn't care about the UK knowledge sector, we need to develop our own community-led tech and infrastructure solutions.

👀ICYMI: "The worry here, of course, is that open access gets the blame for allowing AI and scholars begin to yearn, once more, for paywalls" #OpenAccess #ScholComm @eve.gd

💥New: Don’t rely on government to save the British Library ✍️ @simonxix.com #BritishLibrary #HigherEducation #ResearchInfrastructure

💥New: Why fear still sells research on screen time ✍️Robin Neuhaus #SciComm #ScreenTime #AcWri

The 'soft bigotry' of novel research: "research that is genuinely creative, interdisciplinary, or theoretically disruptive struggles to find space simply because it does not fit the polished template of “novel contribution.”" Great piece in @lseimpactblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

💥New: What makes national climate action investable? ✍️Carmen Nuzzo & Antonina Scheer (@tpicatlse.bsky.social) #ClimateAction #ClimateFinance #COP30

💥New: Why fear still sells research on screen time ✍️Robin Neuhaus #SciComm #ScreenTime #AcWri