NEW✨ Three lessons from a climate diplomat going into #COP30 in Brazil. Alejandra Padín-Dujon @carbonpulse.bsky.social reviews The Climate Diplomat: A Personal History of the COP Conferences by Peter Betts @profilebooks.bsky.social. Read more 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb... Image: Shutterstock

Methods don’t make meaning. Theory does. Better methods won’t eradicate the slot machine. Put the tools to the use of theory. Thanks to @lseimpactblog.bsky.social for featuring my post. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

💥New: Quantitative political science shouldn’t favour tools over meaning ✍️ @silje-hermansen.bsky.social #PolSci #AcademicSky #QuantitativeMethods

👀ICYMI: "As funding cuts squeeze arts programs across universities, research councils double down on ‘evidence-based’ approaches that often cannot capture the nuanced realities art illuminates" #Arts #Evidence #QualitativeResearch

“The term “responsible” in research assessment cannot be co-opted and marketed, it must be earned—through transparency, context sensitivity, authentic engagement, mixed-methods evidence, & ongoing evaluation & reform." Using @inorms-reg.bsky.social #SCOPE we test Clarivate’s responsibility claim.👇🏻

🗃️ "As one panel demurred: “this impact is crazy” leading to a downgrading of the application." #ResearchImpact #ResearchEvaluation

💥New: How responsible is Clarivate’s “responsible” impact assessment framework? ✍️ @lizziegadd.bsky.social, Erica Conte, Reingis Hauck Giovanna Lima, Racquel Salviati, Esther De Smet, & @tanjastrom.bsky.social #ResearchImpact #Metrics #AcademicSky @inorms-reg.bsky.social

👀ICYMI: "Part of the tyranny of economic thinking about Africa stems from the sense that every piece of data, every story that comes out of the continent has to be tinged with a sense of tragedy." #EconSky #Africa #EconomicHistory

🗃️"these pressures to produce efficient and risk averse research compliment a standardised and unsurprising style of writing fostered by IMRaD." #AcWri #PhDchat

💥New: How responsible is Clarivate’s “responsible” impact assessment framework? ✍️ @lizziegadd.bsky.social, Erica Conte, Reingis Hauck Giovanna Lima, Racquel Salviati, Esther De Smet, & @tanjastrom.bsky.social #ResearchImpact #Metrics #AcademicSky @inorms-reg.bsky.social

👀ICYMI: "As funding cuts squeeze arts programs across universities, research councils double down on ‘evidence-based’ approaches that often cannot capture the nuanced realities art illuminates" #Arts #Evidence #QualitativeResearch

🗃️From the archive: "Academic freedom had progressively increased from the 1940s to the 2010s, but it reversed and started to decline in the last decade both at the global level and in the 25 leading countries in science." #AcademicFreedom

💥New: Can the Edinburgh Race Review be a model to decolonise UK higher education? ✍️ @proftjcurry.bsky.social #HigherEd #AcademicSky #BlackHistoryMonth

🗃️"these pressures to produce efficient and risk averse research compliment a standardised and unsurprising style of writing fostered by IMRaD." #AcWri #PhDchat

🗃️ "As one panel demurred: “this impact is crazy” leading to a downgrading of the application." #ResearchImpact #ResearchEvaluation

👀ICYMI: "Moore leads the reader through these developments with an argument focused on how the concept of the commons could lead to more equitable, less market-driven academic publishing." @thomasgraves.bsky.social reviews Publishing Beyond the Market #OA #ScholarlyCommons #AcademicPublishing

Grateful for the opportunity to discuss the methodological approach and research findings of the Edinburgh Race Review with the LSE Impact Blog.

💥New: Can the Edinburgh Race Review be a model to decolonise UK higher education? ✍️ @proftjcurry.bsky.social #HigherEd #AcademicSky #BlackHistoryMonth

👀ICYMI: "Wikibooks’s readership is considerable and genuinely international – 469 million page views worldwide in the last year alone, from more than 11 million devices." @heroicendeavour.bsky.social on why academics should take another look at Wikibooks #AcWri #OABooks #ScholComms

Can economics shake off its misconceptions about Africa? Drawing on her British Academy Book Prize–shortlisted Africonomics, Bronwen Everill makes the case for how new economic histories can reframe our understanding of African economies for the better.

👀ICYMI: "When members of Reddit’s r/schizophrenia discovered their posts had been analysed in a published paper ~ the backlash was swift." @drsbrooke.bsky.social & Nick Oh, on doing ethical AI research. #AIResearch #PublicData #ResearchEthics blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

👀ICYMI: "Wikibooks’s readership is considerable and genuinely international – 469 million page views worldwide in the last year alone, from more than 11 million devices." @heroicendeavour.bsky.social on why academics should take another look at Wikibooks #AcWri #OABooks #ScholComms

What does a £180,000 job ad for a private tutor *for a baby* reveal about the global education arms race? Lee Elliot Major assesses the issue and considers what can be done to level the playing field. Could tutoring – ironically – be part of the solution? #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/dAisTWb

💥New: Can economics shake off its misconceptions about Africa? ✍️Bronwen Everill #EconSky #EconomicDevelopment #Africa @britishacademy.bsky.social

👀ICYMI: "When members of Reddit’s r/schizophrenia discovered their posts had been analysed in a published paper ~ the backlash was swift." @drsbrooke.bsky.social & Nick Oh, on doing ethical AI research. #AIResearch #PublicData #ResearchEthics blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

💥New: Can economics shake off its misconceptions about Africa? ✍️Bronwen Everill #EconSky #EconomicDevelopment #Africa @britishacademy.bsky.social

💥New: Art as Knowledge – Why research needs a non-aligned revolution ✍️Annalena Oppel (@lseinequalities.bsky.social) #Art #AcademicSky #Knowledge

👀ICYMI: "We found a vulnerable, fragmented system with a hotchpotch of arrangements across the system of independent bodies." ✍️@chrischirp.bsky.social & @martinmckee.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Populism

💥New: Art as Knowledge – Why research needs a non-aligned revolution ✍️Annalena Oppel (@lseinequalities.bsky.social) #Art #AcademicSky #Knowledge

💥New: Who should control open access, the markets or the commons? ✍️ @thomasgraves.bsky.social reviews Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (@uofmpress.bsky.social) by @samuelmoore.org #OpenAccess #OAWeek25 #ScholComms

"Relying on LLMs for literature summaries without independent verification could lead to the unknowing citation and perpetuation of false information." #AcWri #SciComm

📝 "In their most straightforward guise, citation databases like Overton can be used to produce metrics and attractive reports, but when used with nuance they can be something much more interesting" #Bibliometrics #ResearchImpact

👀ICYMI: "while most students intellectually recognise that AI dependency might reduce their critical thinking, they still develop patterns of excessive reliance." #HigherEducation #EdTech #AcademicSky

👀 ICYMI: "Although the PCE won’t solve all the sector challenges, without it we are destined to support a sub-standard research culture and environment that will end up costing good research and researchers." #REF2029 #PCE #ResearchCulture

💥New: Who should control open access, the markets or the commons? ✍️ @thomasgraves.bsky.social reviews Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (@uofmpress.bsky.social) by @samuelmoore.org #OpenAccess #OAWeek25 #ScholComms

👀ICYMI: "The Nobel Prize announcement, rather than being a neutral academic event, functioned as a reminder of the state’s role as a backstop for the financial system" #EconSky #Banking #Markets

Ooh convenient time to give a shout-out to the Open Scholarship Press, which experiments with publishing via Wikibooks here: en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Open_Sc... 😉🤓

💥New: Does academia need a wakeup call on Wikibooks? ✍️ @heroicendeavour.bsky.social #AcademicSky #OAWeek #OABooks #WikiBooks

💥New: Does academia need a wakeup call on Wikibooks? ✍️ @heroicendeavour.bsky.social #AcademicSky #OAWeek #OABooks #WikiBooks

👀ICYMI: "Like the rancher focused on preventing theft, policymakers concentrate on immediate, historical and measurable threats. Meanwhile, the long-term costs are ignored" #ResearchSecurity #ScienceDiplomacy

💥New Post | A practical blueprint for legal and ethical AI research ✍️ @drsbrooke.bsky.social & Nick Oh #AIResearch #SocialMediaResearch #ResearchEthics

👀ICYMI: "Like the rancher focused on preventing theft, policymakers concentrate on immediate, historical and measurable threats. Meanwhile, the long-term costs are ignored" #ResearchSecurity #ScienceDiplomacy

💥New Post | A practical blueprint for legal and ethical AI research ✍️ @drsbrooke.bsky.social & Nick Oh #AIResearch #SocialMediaResearch #ResearchEthics

How safe are UK research institutions from politicisation? Answer - not at all. A Reform government could do the worst of Trump2 in a couple of weeks. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

💥New: How safe are UK research institutions from politicisation? ✍️ @chrischirp.bsky.social & @martinmckee.bsky.social #ResearchPolicy #Expertise #Politicisation @uclpolicylab.bsky.social

👀ICYMI: "If we want to know where the next transformative piece of evidence will come from, we need to look at how, and whether, it will be funded." #ResearchFunding #InternationalDevelopment #MetaResearch

really pleased to be able to write about our latest report on strengthening the resilience of our public bodies for LSE! Written with @martinmckee.bsky.social . Report here www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n... blog here blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

💥New: How safe are UK research institutions from politicisation? ✍️ @chrischirp.bsky.social & @martinmckee.bsky.social #ResearchPolicy #Expertise #Politicisation @uclpolicylab.bsky.social

💥New: Are we teaching students AI competence or dependence? ✍️Thorsten Fröhlich #AcademicSky #HigherEducation #University

🗃️ From June: "People say a picture paints a thousand words. Data visualisation paints a thousand data points or more." #DataViz #ResearchImpact