A "two legged" academic does both education and research- but is it really possible to balance them? And are two legs enough?
A blog post on life as a bipedal academic https://rebeccanordquist.edublogs.org/2026/02/20/the-two-legged-academic/
@academicchatter #higherEd #HigherEducation #RecognitionRewards #WorkLifeBalance #VetEd #teaching
The Dutch Network for #ResearchIntegrity is hosting a keynote and panel discussion on reforms in #recognitionrewards in #Maastricht on 9 April 2025 and registrations are still open! This topic ties in with current debates about budget cuts and changing priorities in #HigherEducation more generally, so we hope that many more people sign up! Everyone is welcome --- including visitors from outside academia and outside UM.
"Recognition and rewards should be embedded into the PhD assessment at the same rate as it is incorporated into other academic career paths,.."
https://hetpnn.nl/en/actueel/essay-divers-doctoral-assessment/
Datasets and software repositories for thesis chapters! Outreach and citizen science projects counted as part of the thesis! Translation, mentoring and teaching fully included in the dissertation evaluation!
What is holding us back?
Het opleiden van zelfstandige onderzoekers is een belangrijk aspect in het bevorderen van de ambitie van Nederland om een kenniseconomie te behouden (1). …
Today, I'm spending the morning at the Dutch #ResearchDataAlliance meeting, held at the university library of @utrechtuniversity. 📚
I enjoyed the keynote by Paul Boselie @boselie who highlights the importance of leadership, team spirit, and taking personal responsibility in order to move towards Open Science.
Utrecht University will no longer promote people to the highest professor position unless they have proven leadership expertise!
I'm proud to share the output that I contributed to during the #OSR24NL last week!
Recognising Open Science practices in higher education staff assessment https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10904114
This is a guidance document to encourage and take into account Open Science practices during assessment interviews.
It was a pleasure to work on this with Florian, Tanya, Zafer and @nsunami!
Onwards to the next #OpenScience retreat: can't wait!
During the Open Science Retreat in 2024 in the Netherlands, the authors formed the 'Recognition & Rewards / Open Science Assessment group' to develope a guidance document to encourage and take into account Open Science practices during assessment interviews, such as annual reviews. To make the transition to Open Science, it is important that Open Science practices are recognised during assessments. In the document we propose guiding questions to help supervisors to take into account Open Science practices during the assessment. In drafting the document, we took into account various existing efforts on Open Science assessment and annual review documents shared by Open Science retreat participants. We have also included a list of definitions of several Open Science practices to assist supervisors. We will continue to develop the published version by promoting and improving the document in our own local settings and in the Open Science communities! Feedback is still welcome via a google document and may result in an updated version.
Very interesting long read on “value capture” — when measurements like grades, citation counts, or step counts take over the true values (learning, writing, health) you actually care about. Also related to “stop the numbers game” by David Parnas (“Counting papers slows the rate of scientific progress”).
https://philarchive.org/rec/NGUVCH
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=a185c913482fc0d0e42291bec4748e24438c130b
Via @smallcircles, @aredridel
#ErkennenWaarderen #RecognitionRewards
Utrecht Uni practicing what is preached #RecognitionRewards
Maybe I should switch universities... 🤔 Utrecht already made headlines with their plans to abolish the academic/service staff distinction: https://www.uu.nl/en/news/from-academic-staff-wp-and-support-staff-obp-to-colleagues Then earlier this week, they withdrew from the terrible THE ranking: https://akademienl.social/@MsPhelps/111144405231435322 And now they eliminate the horrible archaic gown convention where only full professors were allowed to wear them. Now all members of the 'corona' can (the assessment committee - yes, unfortunate name 😬): https://www.uu.nl/en/news/entire-assessment-committee-is-allowed-to-wear-gowns-from-now-on
Recognising and rewarding contributions to research is changing in the Dutch academic landscape. With the position paper ‘Room for everyone’s talent’ (2019) the knowledge sector… Continue reading → Recognising and rewarding professional support roles – an experiment into understanding the status quo
More ammunition for SF-DORA and #RecognitionRewards: "the number of papers cited at least as well as those appearing in high-impact factor journals vastly exceeds the number of papers published in such venues" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.07.556750v1
(via @firn)
BTW this puts precise numbers to my mock-up in a blog post on why article level metrics are better if you want to value merit and talent over privilege and luck https://ideophone.org/why-article-level-metrics-are-better-than-jif-if-you-value-talent-over-privilege/
Rebecca Nordquist
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Arie van Deursen 🇪🇺🇳🇱
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Open Science NL
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