Strife at eLife: inside a journal’s quest to upend science publishing https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00831-6
I admire what @eLife is doing. It should inspire all of us to think in bold ways about better approaches to scholarly publishing!
Doesn't the fact that some people are unhappy about the developments at eLife just confirm the truly transformational nature of these developments?
Narrative CVs allow researchers to contextualize their career. In a 5-day workshop, a collective of researchers, funders, policy makers and administrators reflected on this type of CV, including open questions, but also opportunities of the format.
Now they report on the workshop in a joint blog post - we have never had that many contributors to a blog post before!
https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/narrative-cvs-a-new-challenge-and-research-agenda
Narrative CVs allow researchers to offer contextual accounts of their career. Ideally, they bring about more inclusive forms of research evaluation. In this collective blog post, we report on a 5-day workshop organized to reflect on narrative CVs and the many questions and opportunities they raise.
It was really great to host @jameswilsdon in Perth with COKI last week. In an effort to get down some general thoughts and concerns on Responsible Research Evaluation (and Australia's ranking obsessions) we wrote this for Campus Morning Mail:
https://campusmorningmail.com.au/news/rankings-tail-wags-the-strategy-dog/
#ResponsibleResearchAssessme #rra #era #OpenData #coara #rankings
Another opportunity for Learned Societies who berate APCs...
The MIT Press announces new initiative to flip existing subscription-based journals to a diamond open access publishing model
https://mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-press-announces-new-initiative-to-flip-existing-subscription-based-journals-to-a-diamond-open-access-publishing-model/
The paper about how science is becoming 'less disruptive' over time is the perfect example of confirmation bias in science. Instead of looking at the article critically (which only some have done, and they found serious problems) most people will just respond 'oh how surprising, wink wink, of course this is due to whatever I already thought the problem with science is!'
The problem with science is your confirmation bias.
If an article says what you want to be true, be extra critical.
Ludo Waltman
Leiden Madtrics
Cameron Neylon
James Wilsdon
Martin Paul Eve
Daniel Lakens