Louise Chisholm

Inaugural Lecture: Professor Mohammad Shamsudduha RDR Monthly Event: Join us as Dr Mohammad Shamsudduha (Shams), Professor of Water Crisis and Risk Reduction, delivers his inaugural lecture at UCL.

How Data-Driven Science Transforms Lives: Spotlight on Water Security
13 May 6–8:30 pm, UCL
Join @uclrdr.bsky.social for an inspiring talk on how Prof Shams’ research evolved, focusing on his data-driven research in groundwater science, particularly in Bangladesh.
www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaste...

In the UK, many big datasets employ people to 'do research in their data'. And encourage people to 'think of ways to use our data'.

I don't think this is how we should do science.

I think we always start with formulating a research question, & then identify the best data to answer that question.

Journals must expand access to peer review data Empirical studies on peer review bias are primarily conducted by people from privileged groups and with affiliations with the journals studied. Data a…

"Empirical studies on peer review bias are primarily conducted by people from privileged groups & with affiliations to journals studied. Data access is a major barrier to conducting peer review research. We propose pathways to broaden access to peer review data to people from diverse backgrounds"

A blue slide with the text Open Science in Qualitative Research. Speakers: Professor Rebecca Campbell, Michigan State University. Dr Sharon Cox (University College London), Dr Sebastian Karcher (Syracuse University) and Professor Alex Stevens (University of Sheffield). And the BR-UK logo.

Join our next webinar to learn how address the ethical & practical challenges related to open science & sharing of qualitative data. We'll discuss real-world dilemmas, new frameworks & methodological approaches to handling sensitive data.
Register at: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

High visa fees putting skilled scientists and entrepreneurs off the UK Leading scientists have now called on ministers to review the upfront costs that must be paid by workers in science, technology, engineering and maths fields.

‘There is a worldwide shortage of scientists and because it’s a worldwide shortage, there’s worldwide competition,' says our Foreign Secretary Professor Alison Noble, as she warns that the UK's visa process and costs could put off scientists from moving to the UK: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

And he's launching it on our turf too

Call for Proposals - Metascience The call for proposals for Metascience 2025 is open with a deadline of 7 February 2025.

Call for Proposals: Metascience 2025

Be part of the biggest Metascience meeting yet! We're inviting proposals for:
✅ Virtual symposia
✅ In-person panels
✅ Talks & posters

⏰ Submit by 7 Feb 2025
🔗 Full details: metascience.info/call-for-pro...

"When those who hold the most power over the AI ecosystem give up on the net-zero challenge, what can be done and by whom?" New blog from BRAID partner ALI is interesting read, and the authors include BRAID Fellow @fedelucivero.bsky.social Good show! #AIgovernance #Sustainability #ClimateChange

We work in socio-technical systems. Very often our improvement efforts over-focus on the technical (strategies, priorities, processes, methods, metrics) & under-focus on the socio (collaboration, agency, relationships, culture). See nateschloesser.medium.com/people-over-.... By Nate Schloesser.

"Open science advocates should broaden their recommendations to include qualitative researchers and accommodate the paradigmatic differences among post-positivist and interpretivist social science, for example, by incentivizing a broader range of open science practices."

#MetaSci #Methodology

Infographic showing 8 ways to speed up knowledge mobilisation

Coproduction is increasingly becoming part of the research process.

As part of our @nihr.bsky.social Knowledge for Public Health work, Liz Such and @joelangley.bsky.social compiled 8 tips to speed up that process and I turned it into a infographic.

Find out more at know-ph.ac.uk

I've been working with Goran Henriks to identify enabling factors for systemic, profound change (at a deeper level than incremental improvement). One of our themes is "leading people through transitions in situations of uncertainty". Great to see this focus in a new article in HBR: lnkd.in/eX2piq3g.

Measuring the soft underbelly of science - @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social ponders how we could use existing tech infrastructure such as ORCID to start to track the impact of the trainings individuals participate in lifescitrainers.org/2024/02/14/m...

The Role of Stewards of Trust in Facilitating Trust in Science: A Multistakeholder View - Journal of Academic Ethics Trust in science post-Covid appears to be a complex matter. On the one hand, the COVID-19 pandemic added value to the epistemic trustworthiness of scientific opinion and its potential to drive evidenc...

Interesting insights of how different actors can be "stewards of trust" & contribute to an ecosystem of trust in science.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The crucial role of bioimage analysts in scientific research and publication Summary: We examine the importance of bioimage analysis, obstacles to wider adoption of these important methods and ways to ensure that bioimage analysts receive the career support they need.

Important commentary on computational analysis in bioimaging

Highlights how biology is now a data science (omics, imaging, structure, epidemiology, clinical...)

This has major implications for education, training, research culture & infrastructure

journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...