👀ICYMI | "In a policy environment that foregrounds evidence-based regulation, a more fundamental question arises regarding who is realistically positioned to generate that evidence" #AIRegulation #Media #DataScience @alexgrwords.bsky.social

"If we hand off the work to computational probability and the profit motive, we may reproduce, or perhaps worsen, an academic 'class structure' with all of its accumulated (and now hidden) injustices." 🔥

💥New | The Matthew effect in AI summary ✍️ @jpooley.bsky.social #ScholComm #Libraries #AcademicSky

This is s corking read for all #HE and those looking to change assessments. Being Audhd snd dyslexic can say I double masked in my first degree as I was worried I would be seen as less, was awful. And agree extra time isn't always helpful at all when assessments are just the same. ⬇️👏👏👏👏

👀ICYMI | "In an ideal world, participating in, reading, and reading about polls cultivates a sense of democratic praxis and accountability" #Polls #PolSci #SciComm

💥New | Is it really bad that only 50% of social science papers are reproducible? ✍️ Ilka Gleibs (@lsepbs.bsky.social) #SocialScience #AcademicSky #OpenResearch

Great insights into how academics can build relationships and creative positive impact in communities! Although interesting name/title give the current political situation in the UK! #ParticipatoryResearch #Community #CoProduction

👀ICYMI | "In an ideal world, participating in, reading, and reading about polls cultivates a sense of democratic praxis and accountability" #Polls #PolSci #SciComm

🗣️"if we want impact to be understood, we need to build bridges from abstract benefit to lived experience" #ResearchFunding #RandD

💥New | Is it really bad that only 50% of social science papers are reproducible? ✍️ Ilka Gleibs (@lsepbs.bsky.social) #SocialScience #AcademicSky #OpenResearch

"Designing for neurodiversity does not redistribute advantage from one group to another. It expands the conditions under which all students can demonstrate genuine learning."

🗣️"to believe that only STEM drives progress and economic growth reflects something wrong in education and our public culture, a remarkable degree of ignorance about how the world really works" #STEM #EconSky #AcademicSky

🗣️"reform coalitions present a clear example of how academics can bridge divides, particularly with disadvantaged communities." #CoProduction #UrbanStudies #Geography

🗣️"Binary decisions are inevitable, in the choice to read, cite, or disregard something, but they are not fit as proxies for scientific validity." #PeerReview #AcademicSky

🗣️"We tend to picture publishing as something done by large commercial companies, big learned societies or a handful of famous university presses. But universities also publish at scale, across disciplines and in many languages" #AcademicPublishing #ScholComm

🗣️"his engagement would be hard to fit into a REF case study: there is no discrete pathway from research output to impact, no identifiable institutional intervention, and no moment of translation that could be claimed as “impact activity.”" #ResearchImpact #SkyStorians

🗣️"to believe that only STEM drives progress and economic growth reflects something wrong in education and our public culture, a remarkable degree of ignorance about how the world really works" #STEM #EconSky #AcademicSky

🗣️"Institutional research impact exercises are unpopular partly because they focus on auditing what can be counted, rather than what researchers see as meaningful contributions" #ResearchImpact #SocietalImpact

👀ICYMI | "the micro-climate of the university matters for macro-outcomes" #AcademicSky #EconSky

💥New | Extra time is not inclusion – Why redesigning assessments benefits all students ✍️ Malak Benslama-Dabdoub #AcademicSky #HigherEducation #Assessment

👀ICYMI | "the micro-climate of the university matters for macro-outcomes" #AcademicSky #EconSky

💥New | Extra time is not inclusion – Why redesigning assessments benefits all students ✍️ Malak Benslama-Dabdoub #AcademicSky #HigherEducation #Assessment

👀ICYMI | "Rather than just extending the reach of research, social media is quietly reshaping what academic work becomes, often in ways that run against the very values academia claims to uphold" #AcademicSky #AcademicSocialMedia

💥New | Qualitative research can and should be more open and reproducible ✍️ @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social & @twm.bsky.social #OpenResearch #QualitativeResearch #AcademicSky

👀ICYMI | "Rather than just extending the reach of research, social media is quietly reshaping what academic work becomes, often in ways that run against the very values academia claims to uphold" #AcademicSky #AcademicSocialMedia

Reminds me of a discussion I had some years ago over at the other place in which some German qualitative sociologists argued that and why it would be impossible to have open qualitative data. Not sure I understand this sentence (from the 1st paragraph), though: 1/2

💥New | Qualitative research can and should be more open and reproducible ✍️ @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social & @twm.bsky.social #OpenResearch #QualitativeResearch #AcademicSky

🗣️"The sector has become a hybrid institution caught between public expectations and market imperatives, governed by leaders rewarded for financial agility, rather than intellectual integrity" #AcademicSky

🗨️ "Britain and the United States no longer indulge in gruesome executions to punish errant readers and printers. But plenty of people still think we just can’t trust more or less anyone to read more or less anything." 🔗 Don Herzog writes for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social https://bit.ly/41NMjd0

👀 ICYMI | "By analysing more than 750 major discoveries across the sciences, including all Nobel-prize discoveries, we observe a striking pattern: breakthroughs are consistently preceded by the development or first use of a new method or tool" #Innovation #SciencePolicy #AcademicSky

💥New post | Legal jeopardy shouldn’t determine who can research digital platforms ✍️ @alexgrwords.bsky.social #SocialMediaRegulation #DataScience #DataAccess

👀 ICYMI | "By analysing more than 750 major discoveries across the sciences, including all Nobel-prize discoveries, we observe a striking pattern: breakthroughs are consistently preceded by the development or first use of a new method or tool" #Innovation #SciencePolicy #AcademicSky

💥New post | Legal jeopardy shouldn’t determine who can research digital platforms ✍️ @alexgrwords.bsky.social #SocialMediaRegulation #DataScience #DataAccess

💥New | Polls are a “public good”, they deserve to be better understood ✍️ @ozankuru.bsky.social #PolSci #SciComm #Polls

👀ICYMI | "AI may well be able to generate code, but building usable, secure, and context-sensitive research tools depends on human judgement, domain expertise, and sustained oversight." #QualitativeMethods #SocialScience #DigitalMethods

👀ICYMI | "AI may well be able to generate code, but building usable, secure, and context-sensitive research tools depends on human judgement, domain expertise, and sustained oversight." #QualitativeMethods #SocialScience #DigitalMethods

💥New | Polls are a “public good”, they deserve to be better understood ✍️ @ozankuru.bsky.social #PolSci #SciComm #Polls

🗣️"If a translation is not in a database, it is functionally invisible. For smaller languages, this is not a technical inconvenience. It is a form of cultural erasure." #Translation #Bibliodiversity

💥New | The costs of limiting academic freedom ✍️ Chirantan Chatterjee #AcademicFreedom #AcademicSky #FreedomofSpeech

🗣️"Rankings are notorious for producing distortions, a fact now widely acknowledged in India after more than a decade of the ranking regime. Yet, trapped Indian institutions chase them for symbolic gains." #UniversityRankings #AcademicSky

🗣️"By analogy with predatory journals, these rankings exploit institutional vanity. They offer a “free” alternative to the official verified audit data" #UniversityRankings #Bibliometrics

Understanding what conditions enable scientific discoveries – from the structure of DNA to cancer research – are vital. New tools and methods, not just intellect or large teams, are what drive breakthroughs, argues Alexander Krauss @lsephilosophy.bsky.social on @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

🗃️From the archive | Do Community Notes work? #Misinformation #CommunityNotes

🗣️"If a translation is not in a database, it is functionally invisible. For smaller languages, this is not a technical inconvenience. It is a form of cultural erasure." #Translation #Bibliodiversity

🗣️"For me, the more interesting angle that CSS addresses is the insider/outsider aspects of social research, asking the question: who is a social scientist and who gets to do social research?" #SocialScience #CitizenScience

I already wrote what I'd write about Canvas and Instructure last year. The British Library; university cyberattacks; Canvas: it's all the same problem and we all already know a solution. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

💥New | The costs of limiting academic freedom ✍️ Chirantan Chatterjee #AcademicFreedom #AcademicSky #FreedomofSpeech

👀ICYMI | "There is a real risk that without adequate infrastructure and funding behind them, mandates will simply push institutions towards the cheapest compliant option, which may well be large commercial publishers" #OpenAccess #OpenBooks #ScholComm @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social

💥New | From microscopes to AI? New tools spark scientific discovery ✍️Alexander Krauss (@lsephilosophy.bsky.social) #Metascience #STS #AcademicSky

👀ICYMI | "There is a real risk that without adequate infrastructure and funding behind them, mandates will simply push institutions towards the cheapest compliant option, which may well be large commercial publishers" #OpenAccess #OpenBooks #ScholComm @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social