🎧 New #OpenScience Bites #podcast episode on #reproducibility!
Felipe Romero, #philosopher of #science at @facultyofphilosophygroningen, shares why he thinks reproducibility is undervalued, how reproducibility has advanced in recent years, and what needs to change for reproducibility to become part of everyday #scientific practice.
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/research/openscience/podcast/#Romero
#academicChatter #AcademicMastodon #philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #MetaScience
I've always found the typical "conflict of interest" statements somewhat lacking, in that they only mention (a lack of) financial conflicts. There is also a potential for non-direct professional gains, theoretical interests, supporting previous publications, researcher career interests, etc. Are there any best-practice statements to describe a wider breadth of conflicting interests?
#ConflictsOfInterests #ConflictOfInterest #conflict_of_interest #conflicts_of_interest #COI #AcademicPublishing #AcademicPublishingAccountability #AcademicChatter
I've always found the typical "conflict of interest" statements somewhat lacking, in that they only mention (a lack of) financial conflicts. There is also a potential for non-direct professional gains, theoretical interests, supporting previous publications, researcher career interests, etc. Are there any best-practice statements to describe a wider breadth of conflicting interests?
#ConflictsOfInterests #ConflictOfInterest #conflict_of_interest #conflicts_of_interest #COI #AcademicPublishing #AcademicPublishingAccountability #AcademicChatter
Meeting planning, emails (generating further meetings). Monday morning as usual #academicChatter
Ah, Google Documents.. So convenient.. But #Google is bad and the current US government is crazy.
What is the closest existing alternative to GDocs which is not owned by an american for-profit?
So far, Libre Office docs could be a replacement but there doesn't seem to be an integrated way to do co-editing online with it?
Conditions:
Procurement Before Prestige: How audit rules and public #infrastructure could break #science’s #publishing monopolies.
https://bjoern.brembs.net/2026/01/procurement-before-prestige/
An English version of my post in German for the Verfassungsblog:
https://verfassungsblog.de/rechnungshof-statt-redaktionsschluss/
Procurement Before Prestige: How audit rules and public #infrastructure could break #science’s #publishing monopolies.
https://bjoern.brembs.net/2026/01/procurement-before-prestige/
An English version of my post in German for the Verfassungsblog:
https://verfassungsblog.de/rechnungshof-statt-redaktionsschluss/
Can anyone who has experience with US grad school and Finnish grad school give me your take on the major differences between them? Does Finnish PhD funding actually stretch well to covering the Finnish cost of living? #AcademicChatter
Can anyone who has experience with US grad school and Finnish grad school give me your take on the major differences between them? Does Finnish PhD funding actually stretch well to covering the Finnish cost of living? #AcademicChatter
Do you know of examples of professional societies using something more private (and with no AI) other than Zoom to host online seminars/events?
I'm just curious to see if folks are trying to break free of that near-monoply... #AcademicChatter
Do you know of examples of professional societies using something more private (and with no AI) other than Zoom to host online seminars/events?
I'm just curious to see if folks are trying to break free of that near-monoply... #AcademicChatter
Does any university have good metrics for measuring and rewarding faculty for research impact (not quantity), mentorship of junior colleagues (faculty, grad, and undergrads), and impact of public engagement? We must change the reward system. #academia #academicchatter #universities #PhD
Does any university have good metrics for measuring and rewarding faculty for research impact (not quantity), mentorship of junior colleagues (faculty, grad, and undergrads), and impact of public engagement? We must change the reward system. #academia #academicchatter #universities #PhD
Die DPGPhysik@wisskomm.social und die vdw_ev@mastodon.social sind die neuesten wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften auf #mastodon
Herzlich willkommen!
Vielleicht gibt es den einen oder die andere hier, die vieleicht ihre eigene Gesellschaft auf das Fediverse aufmerksam machen könnten?
Argumente gäbe es ja genügend, seit ein paar Jahren sogar eine wissenschaftl. Publikation:
Gerade gelernt, dass seit vergangenem Jahr auch die Hochschulrektorenkonferenz #neuhier auf #mastodon vertreten ist:
Bislang haben sie noch nichts geschrieben, aber vielleicht brauchen sie ja nur ein wenig Willkommenskultur, dass man sie auch hier als "Stimme der Hochschulen gegenüber Politik und Öffentlichkeit" hören kann?
Is your lab doing code reviews? I'd like to learn from your experiences and practices!
In our teams, we're establishing internal peer-reviews of our research software. Our focus is on the correctness of our "one-off" analysis scripts that our results are based on. Because of that, the usual, patch-centered review processes don't quite work, nor does the tooling on the Git forges, as they only work for Git diffs, not the "finished" script.
Please also let me know about any practical procedures and materials that explain how to organize and document such reviews. So far, I've found stuff from the software industry, including the "IEEE Standard for Software Reviews
and Audits", but that's very abstract and not easy to translate into the context of small teams and projects like ours, in the behavioral and psychological sciences...
Presenting the RESQUE (Research Quality Evaluation) framework:
Responsible Research Assessment I: Implementing #DORA and #CoARA for hiring and promotion in #psychology
https://conferences.lnu.se/index.php/metapsychology/article/view/4601
Responsible Research Assessment II: A specific proposal for hiring and promotion in psychology
https://conferences.lnu.se/index.php/metapsychology/article/view/4604
Responsible Research Assessment (Parts I and II): Responses to the Commentaries
https://conferences.lnu.se/index.php/metapsychology/article/view/4603
by @nicebread et al.
Who would have guessed that lottery style distribution of grants leads to a fairer outcome for everyone? Well, except for those friends of the reviewers, anyways.
