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Round-up of some excellent #OpenScience, #ResearchIntegrity and #ResearchCulture pieces that came out in 2020 
“The COVID-19 response illustrates that traditional academic reward structures and metrics do not reflect crucial contributions to modern science” by @AdamJKucharski et al
A compelling example of how academia’s incentives select against rigour and impact https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000913
A compelling example of how academia’s incentives select against rigour and impact https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000913
If you need more data to support this claim that our reward structure selects against quality, see
"Research integrity: a landscape study" by @Vitae_news for @UKRI_News
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/vitae-publications/research-integrity-a-landscape-study
"Research integrity: a landscape study" by @Vitae_news for @UKRI_News
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/vitae-publications/research-integrity-a-landscape-study
This paper spells out exactly which indicators *should* be used to assess research quality
"The Hong Kong Principles for assessing researchers: Fostering research integrity” by @dmoher et al https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000737
"The Hong Kong Principles for assessing researchers: Fostering research integrity” by @dmoher et al https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000737
"How to implement responsible and fair approaches for research assessment"
@wellcometrust has a new mandate for all institutions they fund. It's avante garde and has to be in place *this month* https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/guidance/research-organisations-how-implement-responsible-and-fair-approaches-research
@wellcometrust has a new mandate for all institutions they fund. It's avante garde and has to be in place *this month* https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/guidance/research-organisations-how-implement-responsible-and-fair-approaches-research
“Research Culture: Setting the right tone” by @tanitacasci & @researchdreams
Describes exactly what actions Uni Glasgow has taken to change research culture (and IMO they are the UK leaders for getting sh*t done in this space) https://elifesciences.org/articles/55543
Describes exactly what actions Uni Glasgow has taken to change research culture (and IMO they are the UK leaders for getting sh*t done in this space) https://elifesciences.org/articles/55543
Every year UK unis pay the top ten publishers ÂŁ1,000,000,000 so we can access our own research.
Go see what your uni spends, in data collected by Freedom of Information requests by @lawsonstu https://zenodo.org/record/3657776#.Xwbl2ShKhPY
Go see what your uni spends, in data collected by Freedom of Information requests by @lawsonstu https://zenodo.org/record/3657776#.Xwbl2ShKhPY
How could we better spend that billion a year? Read this excellent essay by @brembs
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/scholarly-publishing-infrastructure-reliability-affordability-functionality/
And listen to this @hertzpodcast podcast with @mbeisen https://everythinghertz.com/122
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/scholarly-publishing-infrastructure-reliability-affordability-functionality/
And listen to this @hertzpodcast podcast with @mbeisen https://everythinghertz.com/122
This OECD report makes a solid case that unis need better infrastructure for sharing scholarhship (and better career paths & reward structures)
“Building Digital Workforce Capacity and Skills for Data-Intensive Science”
https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/science-and-technology/building-digital-workforce-capacity-and-skills-for-data-intensive-science_e08aa3bb-en
“Building Digital Workforce Capacity and Skills for Data-Intensive Science”
https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/science-and-technology/building-digital-workforce-capacity-and-skills-for-data-intensive-science_e08aa3bb-en
Could you judge research quality by reading a paper in 3 minutes?
A delightful tirade from someone who is very good at doing that. Read through to the radical proposed changes to incentives
“Reflections After Reading 2578 Papers” by @AlvaroDeMenard https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with-social-science-and-how-to-fix-it/
A delightful tirade from someone who is very good at doing that. Read through to the radical proposed changes to incentives
“Reflections After Reading 2578 Papers” by @AlvaroDeMenard https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with-social-science-and-how-to-fix-it/
And finally: So we need to make change. Where to start?
“How to Introduce and Implement Policy in Your Institution (and still have friends afterwards)” by @dannykay68 and @sshreeves https://osf.io/4yz79/
“How to Introduce and Implement Policy in Your Institution (and still have friends afterwards)” by @dannykay68 and @sshreeves https://osf.io/4yz79/
