2023 recap: @biorxivpreprint & @medrxivpreprint posted >45k new preprints. We launched new features and social media, partnered with new journals, & ran a user survey. We also celebrated bioRxiv's 10th anniversary 🎉
Thank you for being part of this open and equitable endeavor! #OpenScience#preprints
@biorxivpreprint@medrxivpreprint even if these are not the only preprint server out there, both titles have really changed the scientific publishing landscape & mentality, normalising the idea of sharing research findings before peer reviewed publication.
Peer review is important but often shapes the presentation of findings rather than totally redefining them. As such, delaying the release of that research makes little sense. #academicchatter@academicchatter
"Brooke Wilkinson, director of academic initiatives within the Division of Undergraduate Education, said she also consulted disability studies programs at other universities and drew upon the expertise and research interests of faculty at UCLA.
Marks and Wilkinson, both professors involved in adding the disability studies major in the fall, said they also considered topics that are increasingly discussed in society.
“(There was) a sense that disability, civil rights and disability justice had become not only a campus issue and not only a legal issue but part of our social discourse in a very profound way.” Marks said."
Come January 2024, all members of the supervision team and committee during a PhD ceremony at the University of Amsterdam @uva_amsterdam can wear the original gown / toga.
Former Stanford president retracts Nature paper as another gets expression of concern
"The two Nature papers – which have together been cited more than 1,000 times, according to Clarivate’s Web of Science – were among five the university investigation examined on which Tessier-Lavigne was the principal author. The other three have been retracted – two from Science and one from Cell."
What is the German word for the intense feeling of melancholy that hits when you should feel flattered by a request to write or speak on an area of your scholarly expertise, but instead end up depressed by the reminder that your career has veered off into wildly unfulfilling admin work and away from the things you really care about? Asking for a friend. @histodons#academicchatter
Hey, #AcademicChatter, Anyone working on migration statistics/economics knows of any research trying to estimate the total global costs of visas? That is, how much money is spent in applications, language certificates, translation services, health examinations, etc.? Also on salaries of people who's job is to help others with the process.
Update on the National Science Foundation (#NSF) stance on #AI in review and proposal writing.
"A key observation for reviewers is that sharing proposal information with generative AI technology via the open internet violates the confidentiality and integrity principles of NSF's merit review process."
New study warns "that protracted PhDs and lengthy postdoctoral stints are holding back even the best scientists from 'achieving independence and tenure'."
Author argues that "universities should have more flexible rules that allow them to promote people quicker if they prove to be 'really outstanding in their early steps' [...and that] funding should shift to younger scientists,"
The controversy over university presidents who gave lawyerly answers in Congress about punishing students who call for genocide reflects the reality of college free speech codes that try to both encourage debate and stop hatred.
On the #enshitification of #academic#publishing. Where scientists burn the candle at both ends, paying to read and publish their work, in what is the ultimate grift.
I'm creating an extra credit question and I'm mocking up studies that sound good in media reporting but when you look closer, they're heavily flawed. I already did a scenario of teen social media and mental health. Suggestions for others that would be covered as causal in media?
Just attended a graduate group meeting intended for grad students, led by our student group rep and the dept chair. Very informal, held at a time that wasn't totally, unreasonable. Attendance was poor, yet I learned a LOT about structure, governance, budget by asking at this mtg.
If you think things could be going better @ your school, remember that showing up is an important part of change. Even emailing to say you need a better time for the mtg if you do. @academicchatter#AcademicChatter
Can someone tell me that having the outcome I want is more important than being right?
I really struggle with letting go of someone putting the blame on me and saying that they will be gracious as the blame is shared, but it's not worth antagonising them... #AcademicChatter#Fairness@academicchatter