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"we speak a secret language" Do we hide behind #STS jargon? What a great first day at #STSNL26, the first STS conference of dutch #WTMC. Our deep dive on science reform and metascience reminds us to be self-reflective and critical of our own field. #STSNL #STSNLOne

Important finding and hint at what I argue for years: People are not stupid and they don't want to be considered stupid. But all the ELIF / "spare the details" - vibe does exactly that!

I don't know about all the nuances of the word "Annals" in English. But "Annalen" is a very big word in colloquial German which makes it quite entertaining when #predatoryJournals choose names like "Annals of Case Reports".

Some products reveal more about society than any sociologist ever could!

I just reviewed the article 'Implicit reporting standards in bibliometric research: what can reviewers' comments tell us about reporting completeness?' by @dimitystephen.bsky.social and colleagues. I like the article a lot! Article: arxiv.org/abs/2508.162... Review: prereview.org/reviews/1739...

Just finished my @metaror.bsky.social journey – two rounds of #OpenPeerReview, valuable feedback, a stronger paper, and finally a journal submission. Open review takes time, but it’s worth every week for the transparency and trust it brings. doi.org/10.70744/Met... #OpenScience #Publishing

I just published my first paper on MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review). The #PublishReviewCurate model brings reviewing and editorial decision making into the open. To me, it can become a real game changer in #ScholarlyCommunication. I got great reviews and look forward to revise my manuscript!

Let's develop a theory about how methodological developments in research are motivated by the evergrowing urge to not leave the lab and not having social interactions.

Haha, this Springer certificate for #PeerReview is cute. However, I haven't found out where to put my IBAN... 🧐

#ChatGPT wants me to be polite to #GoogleAPI?! So it begins! They are banding together...

I am in the final phase of editing my dissertation and wonder if I should add - [ ] decrease amount of references to Ioannidis' papers to the editing todo list. And yes, citation is politics!

#STS and #SociologyOfScience have shown how contextually nuanced and discursive forms of argumentation are not integral to the sciences/medicine. At the same time we criticize the strong and reductive language found in #Metascience and #ScienceReform. I think we should be less surprised!

Did you know Bluesky's founder has an #STS degree? In a new article, Erin Burkett and I explain why, despite current threats to humanities and social science, "STEM-in-Society programs" like STS are more important than ever. And we guide funders and university leaders how to better support them.

📣 Starting today: Science Maps. Bibliometrics between understanding and visualization We'll have traditional, current, and critical perspectives on one of the most iconic forms of #DataViz data in #Bibliometrics and #NetworkAnalysis.

#ChatGPT said some of my P-values are "astronomically small" and I am confused if this is just tone or if it refers to whatever amount of sigmas they use as threshold in astronomy

Sometimes I have the impression I am the only one in #bibliometrics who cares about "measurement error", especially when apply traditional statistics. But I get that the assumption is often: big data averages out any bias. It tells much about the epistemology of #DataScience and #BigData

I love this post about science and metascience. A lot of quotables but I’ll lead with this: “Those seeking a scientific method – one that can be written down and followed mechanically […] – betray a kind of childish impatience with a process they clearly don’t understand.”

„Ah — that explains it completely“ I guess I mansplained #ChatGPT and #CodeCompanion. I hope mansplAIning is not yet a thing.

Two thoughts after reading through several studies on metrics-based #ResearchEvaluation and evaluative #Bibliometrics (thread, 1/5)

I don't get why people dislike Richard Whitley's "The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences" Yes, it is pure theory and yes it is often empirically thin. But do people really expect him to validate all of this on his own? Is that how theory books are supposed to work?

If you are currently writing your opinion paper on how performance-based funding and research evaluation ruined modern academia: Don't forget (like so many) that not only evaluation systems evaluate. Individuals judge and evaluate all the time, too!

People discuss publication ethics and research culture in #Metascience. Meanwhile I have to adjust my #bibliometric analysis for authors who have co-authored 17 #SystematicReviews (six times first author!) in a single year.

Though, it makes data analysis more complicated as I have to hunt down these issues and consider them in my code...

I love #bibliometrics. Seeing papers by Ivy league professors in Ivy league journals with thousands of citations but misspelled names, double authorships, paper-self-citations etc. brings you back down to earth. You can literally see how data demystifies academia!

I do not get why there are so many critical accounts of metrics-based funding in science while more and more universities introduce JIF-based assessments in their PhD regulations.

I am on my way back from #ISAForum25. Over 4000 sociologists! I am very impressed by the many in-depth discussions during the sessions. There was methods and theory talk on a very high level. I certainly miss that in #STS. I hope I can join ISA again next time.

I hope the enlighted seniors then don’t forget to kick out such frauds of cabalist inauguration ceremonies (academic recruitment processes)

Germany is aching under high temperatures. I guess I‘ll have just four rather than five cups of coffee today. Just to be sure.

Sociologist Peter Galison wrote about „intersecting searchlights“ that illuminate a phenomenon from different angles. I can also recommend Peter Kosso‘s „Detecting Extrasolar Planets“, if Philosophical reasoning is more convenient in this regard.

Anyone else here going to #ISAforum25?

Companies complain about public administration but the error message in outlook I am confronted with ends with: "please try again later"

I just came back from a gloomy week in England. It started with Fortress Festival in #Scarborough, then we head over Robin Hood’s bay to #Whitby and also visited #York. Beautiful country!

Looking for a positive outcome from all this, the political exploitation of the #metascience movement could raise awareness for the narratives that are circulated, or even encourage the field to reflect on its language and the meaning of things.

Have fun, American science. It gets worse. I‘ll play some Austra in reminiscence „For the purposes of this order, Gold Standard Science means science conducted in a manner that is: …(vi) structured for falsifiability of hypotheses; …(ix) without conflicts of interest…“

Interested in a badly aged statement? In 2012, US metascientists wrote: "science operates as a ‘trust me’ model that would be seen as laughably quaint for ensuring responsibility and accountability in state or corporate governance” No blame, but it shows how much of a weapon language can be...

Publish or perish; and the ultra-competition dominates and reshapes all aspects of the science system

Big leap for german research information: My colleagues released an OpenAlex-based dataset with curated data for the German research landscape. Now, everyone can work with high quality address & institution information in their bibliometric assessments.

At the Robert Merton Centre, Berlin University Alliance Workshop “Let’s Talk about Science Reform!” at @humboldtuni.bsky.social today

On my way to @hu-rmz.bsky.social to join the workshop on science reform! „Let’s Talk about Science Reform! A Workshop on Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Investigating the Open Science Movement“

I observed them for 95 minutes. There were 16 feeding events, 10.1/h. Both parents fed all four chicks and mostly left directly afterwards <20sec. Sometimes one of the parents stayed for longer (27min max). Impossible to discriminate between the parent crowd.

How to focus on science when there is heavy crow parenting directly in front of my office window?

Why does critique of AI focus so much on the hallucinations? I don’t get it. How is this a new phenomenon by any chance?

Transparency and critical reception and all that is fine. But way to little emphasis is put on responsibility and the curation that comes after publishing. I‘d like to see a system that rewards authors who take care of what they published in the past.

(preview) Are Geneticists senior and stubborn? A #SystematicReview in Genetics is authored by 10.65 authors. Their median academic experience is 14 years with 8% newcomers. Only 5% of SR authorships use PRISMA but when they do, they are 7 years younger! #Genetics #Metascience #Bibliometrics

One of my qualitative interview participants occurred to me in my dream last night. I haven‘t given consent to this!

As a non-native speaker, I really enjoy the writing assistance of deepl.com/write. But I find its "academic style" somewhat clunky. Its suggestions make sentences dry and harder to understand.

Ever wondered what to do with the >80k citations of the PRISMA standards for #SystematicReviews and #MetaAnalysis? I did a bibliometric analysis of authors who use PRISMA. Join my presentation next week!

Bold take for today: *All the debates about the metascientific movement get more annoying, the more history of science you read.* If you want to feel annoyed, you can start with the histories... - ...of experimentalism in science (Shapin and Schaffer 1984) - ...of clincial evaluation (Marks 2000)

🦠 Does science rely on early career researchers for more technical and specialized tasks? In our next seminar, @aschniedermann.bsky.social will present results for the field of biomedicine. 🎧 Make sure to join! 📅 Friday, 11.04.2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CEST) www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...