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Jess Butler May 10, 2023

The House of Commons has released a thoughtful, critical report on UK research quality

The recommendations to government are excellent, both practical and progressive

Highlights:

Make all research open access

Require data and code accompany all publications

Move peer-review and publication acceptance before data collection

Specifically fund replications

Remove “originality” from REF, instead require transparency

Impose a 3-year minimum term for all postdocs

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmsctech/101/summary.html

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Martin Michaelis (he/him)

@JessButler I can see the logic behind this. What is missing is research on reproducibility. I am not aware of any evidence that would tell us what level of reproducibility is technically feasible in a given system. Moreover, we will have to change completely the way in which academic positions are filled. What will be the selection criteria? How will/ can we define good research? Do we really want to get completely rid of originality?