“It’s mine, my own, my precious!” Turns out Gollum isn’t just a character from Tolkien  — he lives in academia too. A global study finds that 44% of ecologists & conservation scientists have faced territorial behaviour: data hoarding, blocked access, stolen ideas.

📄 https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(25)00140-X

It’s called the Gollum Effect — and it’s pushing early-career & marginalized researchers out of science.

#OpenScience #ScienceEquity #Ecology

My new article in 📘 Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe reviews academic uses of ruscism – not just rhetoric, but a way for Ukrainian scholars to name & understand Russia’s ideology of aggression.

 https://doi.org/10.1080/25739638.2025.2515076

This is about the intellectual front – the struggle to build Ukraine’s own epistemology of war, one that captures not only the effects but the origins of evil.

#geopolitics #RussoUkrainianWar #neoimperialism #ruscism #rashism #RussiaIsATerroristState

🚀 The #INNBI project keeps gaining momentum — our third meeting just wrapped up with energy and shared purpose!

Partners from 🇺🇦 🇦🇲 🇬🇪 🇲🇩 🇩🇪 are working together to move open science, high-quality metadata, and responsible bibliometrics forward — grounded in national contexts, but globally connected.

Together, we’re building a future where research infrastructures are open, interoperable, and inclusive.

🔗 Project info: https://www.dzhw.eu/en/forschung/projekt?pr_id=756

#OpenScience #Bibliometrics @DZHW

Academics aren’t just choosing between home and office - they’re navigating spatial trade-offs shaped by discipline, task, and infrastructure. A massive study (7,800+ 🇮🇹 researchers) finds that access to labs pulls natural scientists to campus, while writers and analysts thrive at home - if conditions allow.

A must-read for universities rethinking space in a post-pandemic, war world:

 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2025.105269

It’s not about laziness vs discipline. It’s about spatial fit.

#RemoteWork