Join us at Metascience 2025 in London, June 30–July 2, 2025! Connect, share knowledge, and shape metascience priorities. Proposals for virtual pre-conference & in-person sessions are open. 🗓 Submit by Feb 7, 2025. 🔗 Details & submit your proposal today: metascience.info/cal... #Metascience2025

Call for Proposals - Metascience

The call for proposals for Metascience 2025 is open with a deadline of 7 February 2025.

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David Lynch died today. A brief retrospective with related articles and media.

Da padre e giocatore non posso che apprezzare molto: open.substack.com/pub/xgen/p/u... Grazie @alezampa.bsky.social !

Un anticipazione, e poi tutto il resto

Cross Gen parte il 22 gennaio, qua e su Final Round.

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Over 40 syllabi on Open and Reproducible Science courses taught by various instructors publicly available here osf.io/vkhbt/. Make sure to expand the "wiki" as well. Would be great to see pages like this with curated syllabi for other topics (e.g., science of rel't's, social psychology, and so on).

Course Syllabi for Open and Reproducible Methods

A collection of course syllabi from any discipline featuring content to examine or improve open and reproducible research practices. Email to join project, access articles, or add other syllabi. ...

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Colleagues, consider applying and/or sharing within your networks! 👉 Deadline 12 February 👈 @eui-eu.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social @naubertbonn.bsky.social @ssapcariu.bsky.social @lizziegadd.bsky.social @jameswilsdon.bsky.social @libereurope.bsky.social

HuMetricsHSS@humetricshss.bsky.social · 2y ago

Have a transformative project in higher education you’ve been thinking about with like-minded colleagues? Want some time and space to think through how to actually make it happen? Apply to the Values-Enacted Leadership Institute, to be held this coming July: humetricshss.org/values-enact...

Proposta: il Golfo di Trusk. Sembra più consono ai personaggi #trump #musk @matteobordone.bsky.social www.ilpost.it/2025/01/08/t...

Trump può davvero cambiare nome al Golfo del Messico? - Il Post

Tecnicamente sì, ma solo negli Stati Uniti: poi dovrebbe convincere il resto del mondo a usare il nuovo nome

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"A whopping 82% of people who used the library’s physical space and 79% of people who physically attended programs reported more optimism regarding the future, compared to only 58% of digital-only users." Our physical space and resources matter *greatly!* bookriot.com/innovative-s...

Innovative Study by UPenn and NYPL Finds That Public Libraries Positively Impact Community Health and Well-Being

"Our research found that patrons experience refuge, joy, connection, purpose, and expansion through their library use"

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Apropos of nothing at all -- Applications are now open for the inaugural Disinformation Summer Institute: disinfoinstitute.org. Applications are due January 31st, 2025.

Disinformation Summer Institute (DSI) - Disinformation Summer Institute

Disinformation Disinformation is false or misleading information created and spread to advance policy, political, economic or ideological goals. It is sometimes used by industries, governments, and ot...

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It is happening! 🎉 @opensciencenl.bsky.social just awarded 23 proposals dedicated to structurally embedding #openscience within the institutional recruitment and promotion policies! www.openscience.nl/en/news/know...

Knowledge institutions take action on open science in recruitment and promotion policies | Open Science NL

23 Dutch knowledge institutions are taking steps to recognise and reward open science. On 13 December, the Open Science NL Steering Board approved a total of 1.2 million euros in grants. This funding ...

openscience.nl

1/ 🚨 NEW PAPER! “Open Science at the Generative AI Turn” In a new study just published in Quantitative Science Studies, we explore how GenAI both enables and challenges Open Science, and why GenAI will benefit from adopting Open Science values. 🧵 doi.org/10.1162/qss_... #OpenScience #AI #GenAI

💥New: Where to start with AI in research management 👩‍💻Anna Aston #AcademicSky #ResearchManagement

Where to start with AI in research management

Generative AI is having a transformative effect on academic work, but it is also reshaping the professional services and research management sectors that support it. Here Anna Aston discusses where…

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Looking forward to watching this movie!

Sabina Leonelli@sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 2y ago

On Jan 16 join us for the Munich launch of the art film Data Shadows - born of a collaboration with Jacob van der Beugel & Oliver Page, it explores the lives of data in ways that I find magical ✨ info & trailers: opensciencestudies.eu/datashadowsf... To register: tumthinktank.de/event/data-s...

This is the way (sorry my nerd self kicked in) 💙

Mary G@libmaryan.bsky.social · 2y ago

Had a lot of fun co-facilitating a visioning exercise for @eui-eu.bsky.social Academic Service on Thursday. There were loads of great ideas but what really fills my cup is seeing colleagues having fun brainstorming & building meaning together. I’m thrilled to be part of such a great team! ♥️

REPORT: 'The Cost & Price of Public Access to Scholarly Publications: A Synthesis' Invest in Open Infrastructure: some findings: * The scholarly communications ecosystem is in a state of adaptive experimentation. * Cost and price transparency have become more common investinopen.org/blog/the-cos...

The Cost and Price of Public Access to Scholarly Publications: A Synthesis

Presenting the second part of our findings as part of IOI’s project to investigate “reasonable costs” for public access to United States federally funded research and scientific data, generously suppo...

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Are you working on making a meaningful change in your academic institution? You think people and values should be at the heart of the process? Then the Values-Enacted Leadership Institute is for you. Join my @humetricshss.bsky.social colleagues today for an info session at 18:00 CET!

HuMetricsHSS@humetricshss.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're holding VELI information sessions on Dec 16 at Jan 21 at 12pm Eastern. Sign up or find out more: humetricshss.org/values-enact...

We're holding VELI information sessions on Dec 16 at Jan 21 at 12pm Eastern. Sign up or find out more: humetricshss.org/values-enact...

Thanks to the generous support of the Mellon Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, attendance at VELI will be heavily subsidized. Learn more about our financial approach: humetricshss.org/our-pay-as-y... #highered

We are thrilled to invite applications from institutional teams for the inaugural Values-Enacted Leadership Institute (VELI), taking place in Oregon from July 13 - 18, 2025. Applications are due February 12. humetricshss.org/values-enact...

Hi there 👋, this is the blue sky over Florence, seen from the European University Institute! We’ve just landed here 🚀 and can’t wait to connect with all of you. Follow us to get the latest on research, events, and EUI campus life! 📲 @eui-eu.bsky.social

We can finally launch the history of #Malta collection. Books are now classified and they're being catalogued - find a link to a Zotero library in the blogpost. Many thanks to the researchers who gathered this book by book blogs.eui.eu/library/malt... @eui-history.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social

The EUI Library now has a Malta section! - The EUI Library Blog

Malta’s rich history may inspire you to search for new connections to your project. Researcher Gabriel Farrugia and alumnus Matthias Ebejer approached scholars and academic institutions based in Malta...

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Kevin Munger (Chair of Computational Social Science, EUI) piece on why universities shall abandon X www.chronicle.com/article/univ... #EUI #twitter #X

Universities Should Abandon Elon Musk’s X

In its place, we should be cultivating our own digital spaces.

chronicle.com

Should research assessment reform be ‘as aligned as possible, as diverse as needed’? Read the last piece in this series developed in conversation with awesome women in research evaluation: @lizziegadd.bsky.social Noémie Aubert Bonn, Claire Fraser, Haley Hazlett & Anna Hatch.

LSE Impact@lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 2y ago

💥New: Unanswered questions in research assessment 3 – Can global reform efforts be diverse and aligned? 👩‍💻Karen Stroobants #AcademicSky #ResearchCulture #ResearchEnvironments

Are we all metascientists now? Slides from my talk today at REvaluation 2024 www.revaluation2024.eu in Vienna rori.figshare.com/articles/pre... #REvaluation24 @rorinstitute.bsky.social #metascience

Best view on Florence, anyone? #EUI

Roeland Scholtalbers@rscholtalbers.bsky.social · 2y ago

What a stunning sight…rays of sunshine illuminating the centre of Florence on a grey day.

New paper out in Nature npj Science of Learning, with @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social, @sarageven.bsky.social, @thijsbol.bsky.social and Carla Haelermans. About COVID19 effects on track enrolment in NL, and relations of the pandemic effects with student motivation, 1/n

I'm hiring a postdoc at Cambridge to work on a new research project on open research in the humanities and social sciences. Starting in February for three years. Please share! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48788/

Since 2017, the #EUI has been a member of the #ScholarsAtRisk www.scholarsatrisk.org network, advocating for #academicfreedom globally. We are seeking crowdfunding contributions to support the inclusion of Scholars at Risk in our community. Please, share and contribute! www.eui.eu/en/public/ab...

Solidarity with scholars affected by the war

Solidarity with scholars affected by the war in Gaza

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What an energizing couple of days in Oregon with my @humetricshss.bsky.social colleagues @drbtd.bsky.social, @cplong.bsky.social, @simosacchi.bsky.social, @jasonrhody.bsky.social, Penny, & Bonnie, planning our 2025 Values-Enacted Leadership Institute (VELI) humetricshss.org/values-enact...

As CoARA (www.coara.eu) WG, we are collecting experiments in #research #assessment to pilot the best ones. We want everyone’s opinion, no matter how crazy or unconventional! Share your ideas here: uhasselt.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #researchassessment #researchculture Please repost!