Really appreacing the latest output by @leamariaf.bsky.social and colleagues at @helmholtzosoffice.bsky.social - a narrative CV template for researchers that steers away from overuse of poor metrics. Great work Helmholtz OS Office! doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Open for reuse. #ResearchAssessment

Helmholtz Open Science Office@helmholtzosoffice.bsky.social · 2w ago

🆕 The Helmholtz Modular Curriculum Vitae Template provides a flexible framework for designing CVs for tenure, hiring, and promotion processes. 👥 Helmholtz Task Group Research Assessment & Open Science Office 🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #OpenScience #ResearchAssessment (lmf)

Based on a survey from GDCh's Young Chemists Network @jungchemikerforum.bsky.social 61% of Germany’s chemistry PhD students consider quitting their degrees www.chemistryworld.com/news/61-of-g... 13% claimed public humiliation by a supervisor 80% worked >40 hrs/wk "Alarming" is an understatement

61% of Germany’s chemistry PhD students consider quitting their degrees

Unhealthy supervisor-student relationships driving poor mental health outcomes among chemistry researchers

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Optimizing lead-free solder joints through nickel alloying: This study reveals how nickel (Ni) alloying can improve the reliability of lead-free solder joints. These alloying strategies could directly impact product longevity and failure rates. 👉 https://tinyurl.com/m6ju6bsh #BJNANO 💎🔓

Getting started here at the 2026 #ncAFM Conference at CCB of the Universität Innsbruck. Looking forward to the next days of scientific discussions on #AFM and related topics/techniques!

🌍 How can local communities help raise awareness of #DiamondOA? As an EDCH Advocate, @barbarahissa.bsky.social has promoted #DiamondOA through presentations, online outreach, and advocacy across her community. ➡️ Read more about our Advocates programme: tinyurl.com/4h345sbw

Our Managing Editor @barbarahissa.bsky.social will talk about “A true open-access route: how to go diamond in the nanoscience field?” at the NC-AFM 2026. 📍 Innsbruck, Austria 📅 August 4, 2026 🕔 5:20 pm CEST ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/5h8cvbhx #EditorsTalk #ScientificPublishing #BJNANO 💎🔓

🔎 Looking for participants - #DiamondOA journals study! A recent discussion in the EDCH Forum highlighted a call looking for key actors in #DiamondOA journals to inform an upcoming qualitative study. ➡️ Interested in participating? More details tinyurl.com/2c9fv3tm ➡️ Join the community: forum.edch.eu

We are delighted to share the ARC has signed DORA and launched its Commitment to Responsible Research Assessment! 🇦🇺 By prioritizing assessment processes are fair, meaningful, and inclusive and values plural characteristics of quality, the ARC is helping to evolve research culture across Australia 👇

Australian Research Council@arc-gov-au.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The ARC has published its Commitment to Responsible Research Assessment and signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). This marks an important step in ensuring our assessment processes are fair, meaningful, and support a diverse research culture. More: shorturl.at/xPtbr

Editor-in-Chief Gerhard Wilde & Managing Editor @barbarahissa.bsky.social will give an invited talk for the Israel Vacuum Society (IVS) spring/summer series 2026. 📅 June 25, 2026, 1:00 pm CEST (Online) Free participation: ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/2jrk9rk9 #EditorsTalk #ScientificPublishing #BJNANO 💎🔓

Any other publishers interested in joining us? It is a reasonably sized group and you would have plenty of opportunity to shape the future direction of #FAIRdata for chemistry in publishing.

NFDI4Chem@nfdi4chem.de · 2mo ago

Editors4Chem moves into the next phase: at the workshop, publishers, infrastructure providers and the chemistry community discussed concrete steps towards FAIR, machine-readable and re-usable research data. More: https://t1p.de/oz6vx #Editors4Chem #FAIRData #OpenScience

Editors4Chem moves into the next phase: at the workshop, publishers, infrastructure providers and the chemistry community discussed concrete steps towards FAIR, machine-readable and re-usable research data. More: https://t1p.de/oz6vx #Editors4Chem #FAIRData #OpenScience

Join us online, starting tomorrow!

Beilstein-Institut@beilstein-institut.bsky.social · 2mo ago

⌛ Starting tomorrow: Beilstein Dialogues Symposium “Representation and reality: Rethinking scientific models” in Rüdesheim, Germany. There is still time to sign up for the FREE livestream 🎬: 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/394eayy2 #BeilsteinDialogues2026

🕓 Next ALMASI webinar: Thursday 11ᵗʰ June 2026 at 16:30 CEST. In the opening talk, @zehrataskin.bsky.social from Hacettepe University (Turkey) will focus on Preprints and Publish-Review-Curate initiatives. 📝Discover the entire program and register to attend: almasiproject.org/news-and-eve...

Our Managing Editor Dr. Barbara Hissa @barbarahissa.bsky.social ‬will give an online talk during the International Conference on Advanced Nanoparticle Generation and Excitation by Lasers in Liquids (ANGEL) on May 24, 2026 at 2 pm CEST. ➡️ https://angel-conference.org/program/ #EditorsTalk #BJNANO 💎🔓

🗞️Now published: Bengaluru Roadmap & Action Plan on #DiamondOA A major global milestone for community-led scholarly communication. EDCH proudly contributed through our Co-coordinator @johanrooryck.bsky.social, who served on the International Oversight Committee. 💎Read more: bit.ly/4nyroEK

📣 EDCH Registry Spotlight! We’re delighted to feature the @beilstein-institut.bsky.social, a member of the Registry, supporting the advancement of the chemical sciences through #DiamondOA journals, data standardisation, and open infrastructure projects and scientific events.

Andrzej Budziak and co-researchers show data on the thermal reduction of reduced #graphene oxide paper for an optimized synthesis as an electrode material. Their results show how fine-tuning thermal reduction can transform energy storage ⚡🔋. ➡️ tinyurl.com/mvdvufmf #LithiumIonBatteries #BJNANO 💎🔓

📢 We are excited to announce the onboarding of three new Early Career Editorial Board Members at the #BJNANO 💎🔓: Omur E. Dagdeviren @etsmtl.bsky.social, Vini Gautam, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Samuel S. Veroneau @upenn.edu. Welcome aboard! 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/mr2sxvej #ECAB

The Beilstein-Institut is offering an award to young investigators to attend and give an invited talk at the Beilstein Nanotechnology Symposium "Shaping the future of nanotechnology” in Limburg, 🇩🇪. 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/etc3n9xx Application deadline 📅 March 15, 2025 #BeilsteinNanotechnology2026

📢 Reformation of Science Publishing: The Beilstein-Institut has signed The Stockholm Declaration!  Together, we plea for reform to ensure that publishing serves science, not profit and metrics. 👉 https://sciii-it.org/stockholm-declaration/ #StockholmDeclaration #ScientificPublishing #BJOC #BJNANO 💎🔓

We warmly welcome Omur E. Dagdeviren @etsmtl.bsky.social, as a member of our #ECAB for #BJNANO 💎🔓. 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/4pwy2yhm Omur is co-editing the thematic issue "At the cutting edge of atomic force microscopy" https://tinyurl.com/4fr7b4s7 Contact Omur if you are interested in submitting.

Our Managing Editor Dr. Barbara Hissa @barbarahissa.bsky.social‬ joins the event “Bio mit Zukunft” run by the @kit.edu, on Feb 19, 2026, starting at 6 pm. She will talk about “The road from academia to diamond open access publishing”. ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/ys9cpubx #EditorsTalk #EdiTours #BJNANO 🔓

It's only a week away to the TCC Africa Webinar "Reframing University Rankings: Visibility, Open Science & Global South Leadership." Our PM Giovanna Lima will share about the interplay between responsible assessment and rankings. You can register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🎉The EDCH Registry just reached 200 registrations! A key milestone showcasing the expertise and capacity of European organisations in Diamond OA. 🔹Explore the organisations part of the registry: registry.diamas.org/organisation... 🔹Join our growing community: registry.diamas.org/registry #DiamondOA

📢 The first articles of the thematic issue “#Superconducting artificial neural networks and quantum circuits” edited by Anatolie S. Sidorenko in the #BJNANO 💎🔓 are online: 👉 https://tinyurl.com/4t4s7rah More to come soon!  #spintronics #nanoelectronics #QuantumElectronics

In the context of #CeRRA2025 and @coarassessment.bsky.social 3rd anniversay, we are delighted to publish a joint statement on how we partner for #ResearchAssessment change! Our growing community shows the vibrancy and momentum for reform. Read more 👉 sfdora.org/2025/12/04/d...

There’s still time to register for TODAY’s FREE online #BeilsteinTalk “The value of data-sharing for reaction discovery and development” with Simon Coles and Sally Bloodworth, University of Southampton. 📅 Dec 4, 2025 🕒 3–4 pm CET 🔗 […] [Original post on hessen.social]

Great to hear from Ana Persic on open science at #CeRRA2025 To transition to open science we need to change the culture of science. Hence we must reform #researchassessment - and this is a critical part of the #OpenScience Recommendation

ALMASI Project webinar @almasiproject.bsky.social Reclaiming Knowledge: Why Diamond Open Access Matters 📢 Join the inaugural webinar of the Discussion Series on Scholar-led Publishing, co-hosted with the Global Young Academy. Details and registration: cnrs.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Each quarter, DORA hosts a Community of Practice (CoP) for International Initiatives advancing RRA. Four research groups shared insights on narrative CVs - applicant experience, reviewer behavior & cultural change. Watch & read here 👉 sfdora.org/2025/11/30/e... #ResearchAssessment #NarrativeCV

Building the evidence base for narrative CVs | DORA

Four research groups shared their work on Narrative CVs, offering perspectives on: applicant experiences, reviewer behavior and decision-making in NCV-based assessments, and systemic challenges in dri...

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