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A platform for those interested in increasing the impact of academic research. Managing Editor: @MichaelTaster
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Joined March 2011
š„New: Natureās decision to publish positive peer review reports only gives half the picture. #PeerReview #ScholComm #OpenScience.
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As the journal Nature moves to publish peer review reports for accepted papers, Bodo Stern argues this partial openness falls short of true transparency.
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š„ New: FAIR for research software (FAIR4RS) ā Can funders keep up with open science developments? . āļø Eric A. Jensen & Daniel S. Katz of @UofIllinois. #OpenResearch #FAIR4RS #ResearchFunding
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A new survey of international funders finds recognition of the FAIR principles for research software lags well behind the FAIR framework for data management.
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š„New: How #authoritarian states co-opt academic modernisation and bibliometrics for control. āļø Aikerim Bektemirova @GWtweets @Cambridge_Uni . #HigherEducation #AcademicFreedom #Bibliometrics
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Do bibliometric performance metrics, which underpin global higher education policies, also provide a means for authoritarian states to coerce academics?
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š„New: What IfĆ”, an Indigenous binary knowledge system, can teach us about AI. āļø @UyiosaOM . #AI #IndigenousKnowledge #DecolonialAI #TechEthics #AIandSociety #Innovation #KnowledgeSystems
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Uyiosa Omoregie argues, Indigenous knowledge systems, such as IfĆ”, provide an alternative lens through which to understand AI & its impact on society.
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Untold Stories of Britain's queer South Asians. Desi Queers: South Asians & Cultural Belonging in Britain by @churnjeet @UniStrathclyde @RKDasgupta @LSEGenderTweet & @djritu1 @HurstPublishers. Review by @Kanchi_16 @LSEReviewBooks. #SouthAsianHeritageMonth
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Desi Queers: LGBTQ+ South Asians and Cultural Belonging in Britain fills documents the experiences and activism of South Asian queer communities in Britain.
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š„New: Are newsletters the new academic social media?. Drawing on a global survey, Deirdre Watchorn & Marion Schnelle @degruyter_brill find early career researchers increasingly favor traditional, more controlled forms of academic socialising. #Newsletters
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A new reports finds growing interest in more traditional and controlled forms of academic socialisation amongst early career researchers.
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From the archive: The best peer review reports are at least 947 words. #PeerReview #ScholComm
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How long are the best peer review reports? Abdelghani Maddi argues that on average peer review of 947 words or more a more closely related to better papers.
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From the archive: #Randomisation can resolve the uncertainty at the heart of peer review. #PeerReview #ScholComm
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Discussing a new study into uncertainty peer review choices, Adrian Barnett, suggests embracing randomisation could improve peer review processes.
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From the archive: If generative AI accelerates science, peer review needs to catch up. #PeerReview #ScholComm #AI
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Simone Ragavooloo argues that editors and reviewers should embrace AI tools to undertake the heavy lifting of statistical and methodological review.
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Is there a strain on peer review? ā Itās more complicated than you think. #PeerReview #ScholComm
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The significant growth of academic publishing in recent years has led some to argue the system is reaching a breaking point, but is it this simple?
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š„New: As @Nature moves to publish peer review reports for accepted papers, Bodo Stern argues this partial openness falls short of true transparency in scholarly communication. #PeerReview #ScholComm
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As the journal Nature moves to publish peer review reports for accepted papers, Bodo Stern argues this partial openness falls short of true transparency.
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From the archive: Telling the truth, uniting behind the science ā #Climate coalitions and scienceās place in society
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In recent years, a new wave of climate activist groups, such as Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future and the Sunrise Movement have reshaped public debates on climate action. In so doing they...
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Separating religion from #climate communication leads to failure
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Kristian Noll argues that for climate communication to be effective, religious understandings of climate change cannot simply be ignored.
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From the archive: By sidelining climate misinformation COP29 undermines #climate action
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Pallavi Sethi argues governments have a key role in creating conditions that mitigate the impacts of false narratives around climate change and action.
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Solution-orientated simulations can drive real action on the #climate crisis
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As the world confronts the catastrophic risks of surpassing 2Ā°C of warming, tools like EnāROADSāa global climate simulator that lets users test the impact of climate policies in real timeāoffer a...
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We are all losers in #Trumpās ācommon senseā war on social science
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Beyond their short-term implications, Trump's executive orders represent a concerted effort to undermine scientific enquiry across all fields of research.
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Is the quest for net-zero a form of scientism?
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Climate policy is often reduced to a quest to achieve Net Zero, what would a more epistemically diverse approach look like?
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