'Such reliance on rankings means that universities are shaped not by the needs of society or by innovations driven from inside the international higher-education community, but by unappointed third-party ranking agencies' @lizziegadd.bsky.social in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Such reliance on rankings means that universities are shaped not by the needs of society or by innovations driven from inside the international higher-education community, but by unappointed third-party ranking agencies." New article by @lizziegadd.bsky.social. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

👀ICYMI: "the design of an approach to assess the societal impact of research requires more than an expert understanding of bibliometrics" #ResearchManagement #ResearchImpact #Bibliometrics @lizziegadd.bsky.social @tanjastrom.bsky.social

“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.👇🏻

💥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

If you wish to study the effect of #opendata in #researchevaluation, please consider this postdoc position in London #openscience ( @lizziegadd.bsky.social ) www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126965-...

Well said. Good to have informed comment on this vital issue, rather than the misdirection of someone from a murkily-funded lobby group (not a ‘think tank’).

“In the recent DSIT survey of the UK Research & Development workforce, only 52 per cent of higher education respondents said the culture of their organisation enabled them to perform their best work, compared to 85 per cent in the private sector.”

Adding my voice to the chorus battling to retain an increased focus on people, culture, and environment in the next REF... wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ba...

Where now for the Research Excellence Framework? Five different views are presented in @timeshighered.bsky.social, including from @catdavies.bsky.social @lizziegadd.bsky.social @uofgvc.bsky.social @ProfAThompson @milespadgett.bsky.social buff.ly/WpUNmoX #education #educationnews

"I think the advice I would offer is to remember that leadership is a service role. Your job as a leader is to support the people who work for you, to protect them, to listen to them, & prioritize them." ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025 www.arl.org/blog/john-un...

According to the Shanghai Ranking we come in 22nd this year. Based on a limited set of criteria, rankings can never really measure the true value of an institution. Tell us what you value most.

"but the impact on children is worse. The developmental damage is irreversible" "The process of development stops, the process of building a brain, of creating neurons that will establish cognitive ability, will stop" www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

The beauty of a menopausal brain is that you learn new things every day, many of which aren’t actually new. 😂

Thrilled to have been invited as a Fellow of the @berlinualliance.bsky.social in 2025/26 alongside Thed van Leeuwen! If you work in or around the Berlin area, do let me know if you would like to collaborate! www.berlin-university-alliance.de/en/items/202...

🎓 Our colleague Thed van Leeuwen has been invited for the “Research Quality and Open Science” fellowship programme by @berlinualliance.bsky.social, together with @lizziegadd.bsky.social from @lborouniversity.bsky.social. 🥂 Congratulations! www.berlin-university-alliance.de/en/items/202...

If all these new Head of Talent posts aren’t organising lunchtime variety shows then I think that’s a massive wasted opportunity.

Thrilled to welcome University of Bremen & the University of Oldenburg as new German #MoreThanOurRank signatories! Celebrate diverse excellence―learn more: inorms.net/more-than-ou... 🌍🙌 and shorturl.at/W6jja

For those of you, like me, who can never tell the difference between a swift and a swallow, please have the word swillow with my compliments.

I’m feeling quietly confident about my entry into this year’s family heart-shaped-stone-finding competition.

Is there a place for #AI in research #assessment? Elizabeth Gadd ( @lizziegadd.bsky.social) & Nick Jennings (VC & President @lborouniversity.bsky.social) ⬇️

Is there a place for #AI in research #assessment? Elizabeth Gadd (@lizziegadd.bsky.social) & Nick Jennings (VC & President @lborouniversity.bsky.social) write @lseimpactblog.bsky.social 👇

I’m not normally one to post my Wordle results, but this has got to be a first! Wordle 1,482 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

💥New: #AI is reshaping research, from proposals to peer review, amplifying both the need for & potential of reform Elizabeth Gadd ( @lizziegadd.bsky.social ) & (Nick Jennings VC & President) @lborouniversity.bsky.social, argue for AI-augmented assessment that supports, not replaces, human judgement

Thank you, #Metascience2025 & everyone who took the time to connect! We're delighted with sharing resources & meaningful connections at the DORA booth! @coarassessment.bsky.social @metaror.bsky.social @ginnybarbour.bsky.social @rnls.bsky.social @scurry.bsky.social @lizziegadd.bsky.social

It is now possible for participants to sign up for the "Unconference" focused on taking action on responsible research! Scientists, science managers, journal editors, policy makers & more - take a look at the 10 interesting projects that will be developed on site during the event! 🧪 🌟Please share!🌟

Doing the university open day rounds. Pleased to say that every time a ranking is mentioned, my 17yo flinches. #MyWorkHereIsDone

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not now, something pulsing beneath the earth

Brilliant to hear @catdavies.bsky.social talking both about what works and what DOESN'T work when it comes to research culture at Leeds. Soooo helpful. (And I love that image about failure).

Can anyone point me at succinct summary of problematic nature of CABS Academic Journal Guide? @lizziegadd.bsky.social @scurry.bsky.social

“Openness can only ever be researcher-led and contextual, not market-driven and indiscriminate.” Agree!

It doesn’t inspire much confidence when one of the first things Duolingo teaches you to say is “Oh, I don’t speak German”

Brilliant to hear @ludowaltman.bsky.social talking about the real-world impact of the @inorms-reg.bsky.social #SCOPE framework as described in one of Laura Himanen's PhD papers.

Sitting here, proud as punch, watching our fabulous @inorms-reg.bsky.social member, Laura Himanen defend her PhD thesis. Wishing I could be there in person.

Just had a flick through the ‘Top 100 Scholars’ in the ScholarGPS citation rankings. Only one is female and she died in 2017. So before you promote your institution’s ‘Top Scholars’ stop and think whether being male and highly cited is really your definition of ‘top’. scholargps.com/highly-ranke...

Today’s best acronym award goes to the Korean Association of Research Managers & Administrators. 👌🏻#MadeMyDay

Seems like this is relevant again

Reactionaries hate universities because they create open-minded liberated people open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Yeah, so everyone now wants to work for @drbeth.bsky.social

Great session from @drbeth.bsky.social about supporting researcher librarians. Very honest and supportive. #DARTS9

Absolutely loving this session from Catherine Dack, Kim Davies, Michelle O’Hara, and Leslie McRae at #DARTS9 on creating a culture of Librarians applying for research funding and doing research.

Not quite sure what to make of this. Thoughts? "Negative binomial regressions revealed enjoyment, boredom, disappointment, and frustration as significant predictors of bibliometric counts of publications and citations." www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This about sums it up.

So much good sense in here.

Great piece from @sallygimson.bsky.social highlighting the conflict of interests between @timeshighered.bsky.social ‘s reporting & ranking functions in view of their contract with the Hungarian government to get a university into the top 100 by 2030. www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/05/hung...

Great to see the University of Turku talking at #INORMS2025 about their use of @inorms-reg.bsky.social #SCOPE to evaluate their research ecosystem!

Massive irony klaxon at #INORMS2025 as Springer Nature cry crocodile tears about the dominance of publication-based assessment as reported in their latest survey, and then go on to promote their deeply-unhelpful publication-based Nature Index.

I couldn’t agree more with the below! When higher education is in such trouble, rankings should matter 0%.

If the misery facing the US higher education system is only serving to make the rest of the world salivate at the thought of a higher place in the global University rankings, then shame on us all. www.linkedin.com/posts/elizab...?