“for women in biology, the likelihood of leaving science after ten years was 58%; for men, it was nearly 49%.”
Nearly 50% of researchers quit science within a decade, huge study reveals
A recent study found that the number of researchers leaving science within the first decade is nearly 50%. And women are twice as likely as men to leave the field. “When you have this kind of big data, it becomes more compelling to recognize that this is a problem,” says Joya Misra, a sociologist at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, who studies gender and inequality in academia. Nature attempts to untangle it all: https://flip.it/2ZSKZC
#Science #Research #ScienceNews #Researchers #Academics #Academia
Is #MDPI a predatory publisher?
(Asking in general, but feel free to mention specific journals)
(I know you want to, but let’s not discuss other publishers there 🙏)
Here’s a Wikipedia attempt at defining predatory publishing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_publishing
#Academia #Research #AcademicChatter
@academicchatter
The strain on scientific publishing 📄:
The publishing sector has a problem. Scientists are overwhelmed, editors are overworked, special issue invitations are constant, research paper mills, article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?
Myself, @pablo, @Paolo, and @Dan have spent the last few months investigating just that.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884
A thread🧵1/n
#AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #Elsevier #Springer #MDPI #Wiley #Frontiers #PhDAdvice #PhDChat #SciComm
If you are #new to the #fediverse and look for colleagues from a wide array of academic disciplines, you might want to have a look at these individually curated (opt-in) lists collected by @hendrikerz:
https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon #Academia @academicsunite @academicchatter
I maintain the list for #sociology, which can be found here: https://trutzig89182.github.io/Mastodon-Sociologists/ @sociology #Introduction
Just the last century
@academicchatter @academicworld @academicalnerd @academicsunite @academia_carnet