💥New: How to use Overton to develop impact case studies ✍️Tasmin Varney #ImpactCaseStudies #REF2029 #ResearchManagement @overton.io

👀ICYMI: "by solely focusing on the “big wins”, we risk overlooking the more gradual pathways through which research creates change" #SocialScience #ResearchInfrastructure @evietabor.bsky.social

💥New: How to use Overton to develop impact case studies ✍️Tasmin Varney #ImpactCaseStudies #REF2029 #ResearchManagement @overton.io

💥New: ChatGPT doesn’t think like a human, so why does it speak like one? ✍️George Gaskell (@lsemethodology.bsky.social) #ChatGPT #Ethics #ConversationAnalysis

🗃️ From the archive: "Many of those who build big profiles have something to sell" #Wellness #Influencers #Health

🗃️ From the archive: "When implemented without democratic oversight, global performance metrics risk becoming tools of centralisation" #Bibliometrics #ResearchAssessment

I have always hated the way smart speakers and chatbots mimic amicability and draw people in to talking to them as if there is a person there. Great to read a scholarly exploration, using dear old Gigerenzer and Grice to set out the problem 🌟

🗃️ From July: "if a global research audience was truly engaged in editorial positions and in peer review – there would be less strain on publishing activity." #PRW25 #PeerReview

💥New: ChatGPT doesn’t think like a human, so why does it speak like one? ✍️George Gaskell (@lsemethodology.bsky.social) #ChatGPT #Ethics #ConversationAnalysis

"Acknowledging influence in impact assessments is an important first step toward building a more inclusive and realistic narrative of research impact."

🐝 A move from the wisdom of the gatekeeper to the wisdom of the (expert) crowd RoRI researchers wrote for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social about our study with @volkswagenstiftung.de, testing distributed peer review as an alternative to traditional funding panels:

🗃️ From the August: "in today’s rapidly changing landscape of scientific communication, the decision feels less like a visionary leap and more like an uninspired nod to the status quo" #PRW25 #PeerReview

💥New: Distributed Peer Review – How the wisdom of the crowd can allocate grant funding ✍️ Melanie Benson Marshall, Anna Butters, @stephenpinfield.bsky.social @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy #PeerReview #PRW25 #ResearchPolicy

💥New: Lack of geographic diversity in peer review skews “publishable” research ✍️ @jamesmzd.bsky.social & Misha Teplitskiy #PeerReview #PeerReviewWeek #PRW25 #AcademicSky

🗃️ From the August: "in today’s rapidly changing landscape of scientific communication, the decision feels less like a visionary leap and more like an uninspired nod to the status quo" #PRW25 #PeerReview

💥New: Lack of geographic diversity in peer review skews “publishable” research ✍️ @jamesmzd.bsky.social & Misha Teplitskiy #PeerReview #PeerReviewWeek #PRW25 #AcademicSky

💥New: “Dancing in the Rain” – How to better recognise the impact of longitudinal studies and research infrastructure ✍️ Charis Bridger Staatz & @evietabor.bsky.social #ResearchImpact #LongitudinalData #SocialScience @clscohorts.bsky.social

💥New: “Dancing in the Rain” – How to better recognise the impact of longitudinal studies and research infrastructure ✍️ Charis Bridger Staatz & @evietabor.bsky.social #ResearchImpact #LongitudinalData #SocialScience @clscohorts.bsky.social

What do #researchers acknowledge #ChatGPT for in their papers? Publishers increasingly require, and academics are increasingly willing to credit, the role played by #LLMs in their papers. But a significant amount of this activity also goes unreported. Kayvan Kousha for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

💥 New: The universalist approach to research ethics poses challenges and opportunities for doctoral research outside the Global North ✍️ Udita Bose #ResearchEthics #PhDchat

Unfunded research can also maximise the utility of existing datasets by supporting secondary analyses. Plus, it can support the generation of new hypotheses for future funded research.

👀 ICYMI: "digging deeper into what people want from digital technology, we can see that the version of convenience they offer up is not the faster, smarter, automated vision" #AIDevelopment #DigitalAssistands #STS @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social

💥 New: The universalist approach to research ethics poses challenges and opportunities for doctoral research outside the Global North ✍️ Udita Bose #ResearchEthics #PhDchat

🗣️"Undertaking unfunded research might be the only way of seeing through a commitment to projects that would benefit communities and small groups where very little or no funding was available." #AcademicSky

💥New: Shaking up the scholarly publishing market – Why caps on APCs could backfire ✍️@stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca @eschares.bsky.social, @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca Flavia Camargo, @lmatthia.bsky.social Lucía Céspedes, Constance Poitras & Dorothea Strecker #AcademicSky #ScholComm #OpenAccess

🗣️"Undertaking unfunded research might be the only way of seeing through a commitment to projects that would benefit communities and small groups where very little or no funding was available." #AcademicSky

Our analysis on possible effects of APC caps, which would limit grant money spending on publication fees, just like the NIH is considering for their updated public access policy, in the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today 👇🏼#ScholCommLab #openaccess #publishingmarket

💥New: Shaking up the scholarly publishing market – Why caps on APCs could backfire ✍️@stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca @eschares.bsky.social, @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca Flavia Camargo, @lmatthia.bsky.social Lucía Céspedes, Constance Poitras & Dorothea Strecker #AcademicSky #ScholComm #OpenAccess

💥New: What do researchers acknowledge ChatGPT for in their papers? ✍️Kayvan Kousha #AcademicSky #AcWir #ScholComm blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

👀 ICYMI: @jacoates.bsky.social outlines how a constellation of static and dynamic indicators could provide a means for assessing the trustworthiness of published research #SciComm #Trust #AcademicPublishing

🤖Two recent thoughts on the applicability of AI to REF: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... & on Impact Case studies blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #REF2029 #ResearchAssessment

💥New: What do researchers acknowledge ChatGPT for in their papers? ✍️Kayvan Kousha #AcademicSky #AcWir #ScholComm blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

💥New: The unethical burden of public engagement and the ‘alt-output’ problem. ✍️ @birte-vogel.bsky.social, Larissa Fast & Jessica Field #ResearchImpact #ResearchEthics #DevelopmentStudies

💥New: The unethical burden of public engagement and the ‘alt-output’ problem. ✍️ @birte-vogel.bsky.social, Larissa Fast & Jessica Field #ResearchImpact #ResearchEthics #DevelopmentStudies

Could you be the next Managing Editor of LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social? Applications for the position (part-time, 28 hrs/week) are open, closing at 23:59 tomorrow 9 September. Find the the job spec and information on how to apply below. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

💥New: Can we measure trust in scientific publications? ✍️ @jacoates.bsky.social‬ #AcademicSky #OpenScience #PeerReview blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

✍️ "With such rewards from manipulating the metrics, who needs improved performance from authors?" #AcademicSky

💥 New: Public views on the ‘convenience’ of AI tools are not the same as AI developers and policymakers ✍️ Kathleen O'Brien (@digitalgoodnet.bsky.social) #AI #AIethics #Convenience

7 principles to avoid common pitfalls for responsible engaged research in urban contexts. Targeting Research fatigue; "Hit and run" research and Exclusion of marginalised voices Via shiwei-chen.com/ @LSEImpactBlog blogs.lse.ac.uk/impa... 1/9

💥 New: Public views on the ‘convenience’ of AI tools are not the same as AI developers and policymakers ✍️ Kathleen O'Brien (@digitalgoodnet.bsky.social) #AI #AIethics #Convenience

New from @ripplingideas.bsky.social! The current proxies used to assess research result in an unhealthy culture, decreasing trust in outputs and do little to inform readers. How might be change this? I've put a lot of thought into what this might look like 👇 #academicsky #preprints #scipub

👀 ICYMI: "Perhaps this incoming r(apid)evolution will beg the meta-measurement question: How to manage societies’ transitioning from one ‘system’ of measurement to another? " #EconSky #Stats

💥New: Can we measure trust in scientific publications? ✍️ @jacoates.bsky.social‬ #AcademicSky #OpenScience #PeerReview blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

“This double bind – needing to be present but sceptical of the value – is a defining feature of the current moment.”

💥New: "As the UN moves to update its System of National Accounts, Georgia Meyer outlines how these changes are affecting underlying approaches to measuring national economies" #EconSky #NationalStatistics #Stats blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

👀 ICYMI: Ifá insists on social interpretation, embedding consultation and dialogue, not replacing it. #IndigenousAI #STS #AcademicSky 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

👀 ICYMI: "In authoritarian regimes, by contrast, the same instruments are deliberately entwined with political control, leaving no avenues for independent critique or contestation" #AcademicSky #HigherEducation

💥New: "As the UN moves to update its System of National Accounts, Georgia Meyer outlines how these changes are affecting underlying approaches to measuring national economies" #EconSky #NationalStatistics #Stats blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

💥New: What Ifá, an Indigenous binary knowledge system, can teach us about #AI ✍️ Uyiosa Omoregie Read more here 👉 ow.ly/mj1V50WKcj1 #IndigenousKnowledge #DecolonialAI #TechEthics #AIandSociety #Innovation #KnowledgeSystems

👀 ICYMI: "Can we assume then that building open science knowledge graphs, by merely aggregating more venues and types of research products, will automatically provide the research assessment indicators we require?" #knowledgeMaps #Bibliometrics