👀ICYMI: "Binary decisions are inevitable, in the choice to read, cite, or disregard something, but they are not fit as proxies for scientific validity" @georgealfredcurrie.bsky.social & @damianpattinson.bsky.social #OpenResearch #PeerReview #AcademicChatter

"Universities have a choice: do they engage with these complexities and learn together with other urban residents – or stand back and risk defining their own irrelevance to the immediate communities around them?" New blog post on the value of reform coalitions from our CEO Diana Mitlin 👇

💥New | Reform coalitions can bridge the gap between community and academia ✍️ Diana Mitlin #AcademicSky #UrbanStudies #Universities @africancities.bsky.social @globaldevinst.bsky.social

🗃️"With a dismissive review, a scholar assures an audience that little or no previous research exists on a topic or, if it does, it is so poorly done it is not worth citing." #AcWri #LitReviews

🗣️"retractions are not simply moral verdicts. They are administrative outcomes embedded in a system shaped by hierarchy, prestige and power." #Retractions #ResearchEthics

✍️Statistics play a vital role in informing and shaping public policy and decision making. Ed Humpherson argues that for government statistics to be trusted they need to be more than just openly available. #PublicStatistics #OpenResearch

🗣️"retractions are not simply moral verdicts. They are administrative outcomes embedded in a system shaped by hierarchy, prestige and power." #Retractions #ResearchEthics

ADVICE: If universities want their journals to be sustainable, and to serve scholarship well, three practical implications follow. First, treat journals as infrastructure. Second, invest in metadata as a public good. Third, recognise diversity as a feature, not a failure.

👀ICYMI: "The underlying rationale, as anthropologist Chip Colwell says, looks in two directions: to gain or maintain awareness of a troubled past, and to lay the groundwork for building an equitable future." ✍️ @drhelenkara.bsky.social #AcademicSky

💥New | University journal publishers – global, messy and underestimated ✍️ Maryna Nazarovets @mikaellaakso.bsky.social & @zehrataskin.bsky.social #AcademicPublishing #UniversityPresses #AcademicSky

🗃️"With a dismissive review, a scholar assures an audience that little or no previous research exists on a topic or, if it does, it is so poorly done it is not worth citing." #AcWri #LitReviews

A huge shout out to our data analyst Kat Hart for her work on this! Using Overton Index, Kat investigated how evidence travels through global policy networks in times of crisis and the patterns that emerge in the research to policy interface. Find the full piece below ⬇️

💥New | University journal publishers – global, messy and underestimated ✍️ Maryna Nazarovets @mikaellaakso.bsky.social & @zehrataskin.bsky.social #AcademicPublishing #UniversityPresses #AcademicSky

Now the #OpenJournalsCollective catalogue is live time to revisit @theblochian.bsky.social's @lseimpactblog.bsky.social article abt why it matters, why #TheFutureIsDiamond & how you can join our movement Read the blog & follow links to the #OJC website for more info blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

👀ICYMI: "Scientific writing isn’t the packaging around knowledge. It’s one of the key places of knowledge production itself." #AcWri #SciComm

👀ICYMI: "Scientific writing isn’t the packaging around knowledge. It’s one of the key places of knowledge production itself." #AcWri #SciComm

👀ICYMI: Rather, than lose the proverbial forest through the trees, researchers can ask more important questions, such as: why is a review needed, and where does it aim to take a field? ✍️ Gorgi Krlev, @timothyrhannigan.bsky.social & @andrespicer.bsky.social #LitReviews #AcWri

💥New | How does evidence travel through global policy networks? ✍️ @kat-hart.bsky.social #EvidenceForPolicy #ResearchImpact #Policymaking

👀ICYMI: "Just four metropolitan areas —New York, Boston, London, and the San Francisco Bay Area— account for 12% of the world’s top scientific talent." ✍️ @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social, Leiboyu Xiang & @neillee.bsky.social #AcademicSky #ResearchPolicy #EconomicGeography

👀ICYMI: Rather, than lose the proverbial forest through the trees, researchers can ask more important questions, such as: why is a review needed, and where does it aim to take a field? ✍️ Gorgi Krlev, @timothyrhannigan.bsky.social & @andrespicer.bsky.social #LitReviews #AcWri

I wrote this piece for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social and I would love to know what you think.

💥New | How does evidence travel through global policy networks? ✍️ @kat-hart.bsky.social #EvidenceForPolicy #ResearchImpact #Policymaking

"Binary decisions are inevitable, in the choice to read, cite, or disregard something, but they are not fit as proxies for scientific validity. Traditional journals conflate review and curation, making publication the primary signal of quality rather than peer evaluation itself."

💥New | @rschrobuk.bsky.social reflects on the demise of a platform that united the UK research community in one thing: complaining about it. #ResearchFish #AcademicSky #ResearchFunding

💥New | We need to move beyond the accept/reject binary in peer review ✍️ @georgealfredcurrie.bsky.social & Damian Pattinson #PeerReview #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing

👀ICYMI: "Just four metropolitan areas —New York, Boston, London, and the San Francisco Bay Area— account for 12% of the world’s top scientific talent." ✍️ @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social, Leiboyu Xiang & @neillee.bsky.social #AcademicSky #ResearchPolicy #EconomicGeography

💥New | @rschrobuk.bsky.social reflects on the demise of a platform that united the UK research community in one thing: complaining about it. #ResearchFish #AcademicSky #ResearchFunding

💥New | We need to move beyond the accept/reject binary in peer review ✍️ @georgealfredcurrie.bsky.social & Damian Pattinson #PeerReview #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing

So pleased to be able to share this at last - @ojcollective.bsky.social is officially launched! And very glad that @lsepress.bsky.social journals are part of the launch collection. Read the press release 👇and then join the movement! #DiamondOpenAccess #TheFutureIsDiamond

👀ICYMI: "It is not one law we need. It is a rethinking of the system of power rooted in a US ‘growth only’ business model." ✍️ @bloggeronpole.bsky.social #SocialMedia #MediaRegulation

💥New | Do we need a wealth and labour acknowledgment in the UK? ✍️ @drhelenkara.bsky.social #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

🗣️"Too often, the credibility of a research article or researcher is judged through weak proxies linked to publication venue" #ScholComm #OpenScience

🗣️"Reading and discussion are part of the same life-world. Education is not a discrete system marked by credits and deliverables, but a way of inhabiting time." #AcademicSky

🗃️From the archive: "Institutional libraries are the principal funders of academic publishing, yet the vagaries of the market afford them little control or influence" #DiamondOA #OpenJournalsCollective

👀ICYMI: "It is not one law we need. It is a rethinking of the system of power rooted in a US ‘growth only’ business model." ✍️ @bloggeronpole.bsky.social #SocialMedia #MediaRegulation

💥New | Do we need a wealth and labour acknowledgment in the UK? ✍️ @drhelenkara.bsky.social #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

👀ICYMI: "there is little to no empirical evidence that inclusionary commitments such as joining equality charters and engaging with inclusion-oriented organisations have an impact on UK universities’ student and staff demographic composition" #AcademicSky #HigherEducation

👀ICYMI: "there is little to no empirical evidence that inclusionary commitments such as joining equality charters and engaging with inclusion-oriented organisations have an impact on UK universities’ student and staff demographic composition" #AcademicSky #HigherEducation

👀ICYMI: "Rapport is ~ bundled together with ~ two ideas. One, that rapport increases with more time spent with participants. Two, that rapport leads to more honest and open responses. Neither of these assumptions are as warranted as they seem to be." ✍️ @aliyarao.bsky.social #ResearchMethods

💥New | What we lose when we outsource scientific writing ✍️ Marcel Knöchelmann & Cornelia Schendzielorz #AcWri #SciComm #Ghostwriting

👀ICYMI: "Rapport is ~ bundled together with ~ two ideas. One, that rapport increases with more time spent with participants. Two, that rapport leads to more honest and open responses. Neither of these assumptions are as warranted as they seem to be." ✍️ @aliyarao.bsky.social #ResearchMethods

💥New | What we lose when we outsource scientific writing ✍️ Marcel Knöchelmann & Cornelia Schendzielorz #AcWri #SciComm #Ghostwriting

💥New | Why write a literature review if AI can do it for you? ✍️ Gorgi Krlev, @timothyrhannigan.bsky.social & @andrespicer.bsky.social #AcWri #SocialScience #LitReviews

✍️"It has undoubtedly been triggered by the financial difficulty that UK higher education finds itself in, but it is also indicative of unresolved issues in academic publishing." #AcademicSky #ScholComm

Made my debut on the LSE Impact blog! I discuss one of my main sources of frustration as an #onlineharms researcher: ad hoc #socialmedia regulation that backfires on marginalised communities *without* targeting the real cause - a business model grounded in US technoimperialism and privatisation.

💥New | Why write a literature review if AI can do it for you? ✍️ Gorgi Krlev, @timothyrhannigan.bsky.social & @andrespicer.bsky.social #AcWri #SocialScience #LitReviews

👀ICYMI: "To speak of the “demise” of the UK university is not to suggest its disappearance, but its transformation into something increasingly unrecognisable." #AcademicSky #HigherEducation #Universities

💥New | The brutal geography of global elite scientific research ✍️ @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social, Leiboyu Xiang & @neillee.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Innovation #Geography

👀ICYMI: "To speak of the “demise” of the UK university is not to suggest its disappearance, but its transformation into something increasingly unrecognisable." #AcademicSky #HigherEducation #Universities