Alex Rushforth @alexrushforth@qoto.org
Sociology of science, CWTS, Leiden University
@alexrushforth Alex, great to see that you are preprinting your work and sharing it publicly! This offers anyone the opportunity to provide feedback on your paper, for instance by posting preprint peer reviews. #PublishYourReviews
And of course it's interesting to see how a paper about reform movements is itself contributing to reform!
🚨🚨A new preprint by myself and
@hammarfelt
in which we sketch out the rise of responsible metrics as a professional reform movement - with help from sociology/STS of social movements https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/cdmqz
What a treat to focus on one topic (the CV) for an entire week with a fantastic group of researchers, funders, coaches and artists at the Lorentz centre in Leiden! @cwts
Scientific #reform is all about commitment to, and innovation of, #process and the need to #display both commitment and innovation. The social dynamic surrounding these displays is the topic of my new paper “Process and #bureaucracy: Scientific reform as #civilisation”: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02704676221126388
UKRI signs Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment (mt/@elpug Twitter).
Interesting to see if this has any effect on the future of the REF - is the competitive ranking of research units really compatible with the logic of this agreement?
https://www.ukri.org/news/ukri-signs-agreement-on-reforming-research-assessment/
We are delighted to announce the establishment of a UNESCO Chair on Diversity and Inclusion in Global Science! https://www.cwts.nl/news?article=n-s2x234
The Chair group will be led by Ismael Rafols with Ingeborg Meijer focusing on policy and @rodrigocostas1 focusing on an observatory of scholarly communication. They outline their ideas in this blogpost:
https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/why-are-diversity-and-inclusion-important-for-global-science
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Abuses of power
Over the past few days, and starting with this brave post by Claudia, people started to publicly speak up about the #toxic #academic climate at the Harvard #STS department. I want to express my solidarity and call on all academics in positions of power to help change the structural problems in how science is governed. Don’t be part of the problem. https://medium.com/@claudia_gertraud/on-its-20th-anniversary-my-testimonial-on-the-harvard-sts-program-64100f6caac7
Sociology of science, CWTS, Leiden University
