I don't know why, but I really like epigraphs in scientific articles.  For example, I think these are wonderful words for a work on student success:

“You keep asking why your work isn't enough, and I don't know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and just marvel at it. You don't need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”

-A Psalm for the Wild Built (Chambers, 2021).

#student #success #voices #libraries #services

Kyiv was under attack again this morning. 💔 A couple stands before the shattered remains of their home. Their son is still buried beneath the rubble.

So, dear Europeans, when your Russian visiting professors complain they are also victims — because they couldn’t fly from Berlin to Moscow to celebrate “May 9th” — remember this image.

There is a chasm between hypocrisy and terror.

#StandWithUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #StopRussiaNow #RussianWarCrimes #RussiaInAcademia

A deep dive into the careers of 1647 Chinese 🇨🇳 and 75 Japanese 🇯🇵 academicians (1994–2019) reveals two distinct models of scientific excellence: one rooted in continuity & tradition, the other in rapid development & institutional diversity:

 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2025.101689

In #Japan, becoming an academician doesn't require studying abroad - yet it often leads to #Nobel Prizes. In #China, the path is faster, younger, n fuelled by state-driven talent policies.

#SciencePolicy #Careers #ResearchElite

“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