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🔎 Vacancy: PhD candidate Reconfiguring Research Quality Are you interested in studying #ResearchAssessment reform movements? We have an exciting PhD position opening up at CWTS | Leiden University ! The deadline for application is on February 27, 2024. careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Leiden-PhD…

Extremely interesting job post at CWTS Leiden. Deadline this week! CWTS | Leiden University careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Leiden-PhD…

Do Nudges Work? Debate over the effectiveness of ‘nudge’ provides a salutary lesson on the influence of social science #Nudge wp.me/p4m9em-bLa

Mark Reed And being cited in policy documents is not a good predictor of policy impact. It is only a fraction of science advice that ever gets cited: the rest gets circulated, translated, and co-opted in so many other important ways that creates impact and policy change

🆕 Interesting paper published about practising responsible research assessment. 👏 Congrats to Alex Rushforth & Sarah de Rijcke 📰 Read the paper here 👉academic.oup.com/rev/advance-ar…

Very pleased to be involved with this exciting new work area of CWTS!

Pet moan: journals that only let you enter 150 word abstracts on their systems. Any reason why it couldn't be 200 or 250?

Interview with J. Cole on sociology of science: founding and development of the field !

Many thanks to CWTS in Leiden for inviting me to talk about the issue of administrative burden at universities next Friday at 3pm CEST. As part of this, I will present some of the key findings from our admin burden survey conducted across Australian universities last year.

Re-plugging this afternoon's CWTS seminar by Peter Woelert on administrative burden in universities. 3pm (CEST). If you would like to join online, the link is can be found here... cwts.nl/seminars/annou…

🎉We are excited to announce that our Step C colleagues @ThomasFranssen, Alex Rushforth & judit varga co-developed the brand-new bachelor's programme “Science for Sustainable Societies” with several colleagues across Leiden University. More information here 👉 universiteitleiden.nl/en/education/s…

In this week's nature, we're asking readers to reflect on the PI funding model: Is it fundamentally broken? If it is, what might the alternatives be? The editorial nature.com/articles/d4158… includes a survey for research hiring managers: and a poll: linkedin.com/showcase/natur…

Problems with paying to publish Publication fees have made many journals inaccessible to scholars worldwide at a time when #openscience is widely promoted! What are the issues with this model? Read this article by Thed van Leeuwen & André Brasil @andre-brasil.bsky.social hdl.handle.net/11250/3136467

Is the pay-to-publish model for open access pricing scientists out? science.org/content/articl…

#Anthropic getting in trouble for scraping websites without permission according to Financial Times || ft.com/content/07611b…

Universities need to pivot to teaching retired people more: (i) wealthy growing share of the population with time to spare (ii) huge potential for de-radicalization by putting them in touch with recent research - they vote more, they can't live in a parallel information universe

Future-proof Open Access Publishing in NL: petition is open to sign. A call to commit to community values and #openscience principles in new publishing contracts 👉openscienceretreat.eu/call-to-commit… This petition was initiated during the Open Science Retreat in Schoorl in March 2024.

Very pleased to appear in this volume alongside so many STS luminaries! Sarah de Rijcke and I have a chapter on performance indicators in academia.

What is disruption in science? I am looking for a prospective PhD student to study disruption theoretically, qualitatively and quantitatively at Aarhus University. If interested in developing your own project under our open call, in collaboration with me, please get in touch.