Marc Robinson-RechaviI'm appalled by the ideas put forward by Michael Hill, head of grant management at @snsf_ch, in this "world view" article. I note with relief that SNSF has posted that these are his "personal views, which are not necessarily those of the SNSF", but it is still scary that the head of grant management at our main 🇨🇠funding body for fundamental research seems to understand so little about fundamental research. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02070-1
The clarification of @snsf_ch https://social.anoxinon.de/@snsf_ch/110620929673440889
SwissNationalScienceFoundation (@[email protected])
As stated in Nature, Michael Hill’s article sets out the author’s personal views, which are not necessarily those of the SNSF. That said, we welcome open debate and new ideas regarding the many challenges for research funding in the coming years. https://sohub.io/e81o
Flo DébarreIncidentally, Mastodon's utility for scientific discussion will stay limited as long as it's impossible to search for URLs. I had a look at the discussion of this article over at Twitter (several of my colleagues are also very negative), but I have no way of doing that here.
Peter Cock@marcrr Yes! There’s a GitHub issue about this, and the idea of tweaking the #hashtag rules to include a #doi (or at least the saner ones avoiding < and > etc?). https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19992
@pjacock Thanks. I know this github discussion but there doesn't seem to be much progress and I really think it's a major limitation to making Mastodon relevant to scientific discussions. See also https://fediscience.org/@biocs/110632058534034323
Michael Kuhn (@[email protected])
@[email protected] I agree! There's been some discussion on that before https://mastodon.social/@hauschke/109797113363351848 and a related issue https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19992 which didn't gain any traction as far as I can see. Even if URL search were implemented (instead of some DOI hashtag) it'd be quite clunky. Do you search for the DOI, the DOI URL or the journal's URL? Not to mention PubMed ... it would need some sort of algorithm to check the URL and find related posts, and I'm not sure this is ever going to be added to Mastodon :-(
Brian Pierce MD