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

Join us at Metascience 2025 in London, June 30–July 2, 2025! Connect, share knowledge, and shape metascience priorities.

Proposals for virtual pre-conference & in-person sessions are open.

🗓 Submit by Feb 7, 2025.
🔗 Details & submit your proposal today: metascience.info/cal...

#Metascience2025

David Lynch died today.

A brief retrospective with related articles and media.

Un anticipazione, e poi tutto il resto Cross Gen parte il 22 gennaio, qua e su Final Round.

Da padre e giocatore non posso che apprezzare molto: open.substack.com/pub/xgen/p/u...

Grazie @alezampa.bsky.social !

Course Syllabi for Open and Reproducible Methods A collection of course syllabi from any discipline featuring content to examine or improve open and reproducible research practices. Email to join project, access articles, or add other syllabi. ...

Over 40 syllabi on Open and Reproducible Science courses taught by various instructors publicly available here osf.io/vkhbt/. Make sure to expand the "wiki" as well. Would be great to see pages like this with curated syllabi for other topics (e.g., science of rel't's, social psychology, and so on).

Colleagues, consider applying and/or sharing within your networks!
👉 Deadline 12 February 👈
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Trump può davvero cambiare nome al Golfo del Messico? - Il Post Tecnicamente sì, ma solo negli Stati Uniti: poi dovrebbe convincere il resto del mondo a usare il nuovo nome

Proposta: il Golfo di Trusk. Sembra più consono ai personaggi #trump #musk @matteobordone.bsky.social

www.ilpost.it/2025/01/08/t...

Innovative Study by UPenn and NYPL Finds That Public Libraries Positively Impact Community Health and Well-Being "Our research found that patrons experience refuge, joy, connection, purpose, and expansion through their library use"

"A whopping 82% of people who used the library’s physical space and 79% of people who physically attended programs reported more optimism regarding the future, compared to only 58% of digital-only users."

Our physical space and resources matter *greatly!*

bookriot.com/innovative-s...

Disinformation Summer Institute (DSI) - Disinformation Summer Institute Disinformation Disinformation is false or misleading information created and spread to advance policy, political, economic or ideological goals. It is sometimes used by industries, governments, and ot...

Apropos of nothing at all -- Applications are now open for the inaugural Disinformation Summer Institute: disinfoinstitute.org. Applications are due January 31st, 2025.

Knowledge institutions take action on open science in recruitment and promotion policies | Open Science NL 23 Dutch knowledge institutions are taking steps to recognise and reward open science. On 13 December, the Open Science NL Steering Board approved a total of 1.2 million euros in grants. This funding ...

It is happening! 🎉

@opensciencenl.bsky.social just awarded 23 proposals dedicated to structurally embedding #openscience within the institutional recruitment and promotion policies!

www.openscience.nl/en/news/know...

Screenshot of paper "Open Science at the generative AI turn: An exploratory analysis of challenges and opportunities" by Mohammad Hosseini, Serge P. J. M. Horbach, Kristi Holmes and Tony Ross-Hellauer Crossmark: Check for Updates Author and Article Information Quantitative Science Studies 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00337 Abstract Technology influences Open Science (OS) practices, because conducting science in transparent, accessible, and participatory ways requires tools and platforms for collaboration and sharing results. Due to this relationship, the characteristics of the employed technologies directly impact OS objectives. Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly used by researchers for tasks such as text refining, code generation/editing, reviewing literature, and data curation/analysis. Nevertheless, concerns about openness, transparency, and bias suggest that GenAI may benefit from greater engagement with OS. GenAI promises substantial efficiency gains but is currently fraught with limitations that could negatively impact core OS values, such as fairness, transparency, and integrity, and may harm various social actors. In this paper, we explore the possible positive and negative impacts of GenAI on OS. We use the taxonomy within the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to systematically explore the intersection of GenAI and OS. We conclude that using GenAI could advance key OS objectives by broadening meaningful access to knowledge, enabling efficient use of infrastructure, improving engagement of societal actors, and enhancing dialogue among knowledge systems. However, due to GenAI’s limitations, it could also compromise the integrity, equity, reproducibility, and reliability of research. Hence, sufficient checks, validation, and critical assessments are essential when incorporating GenAI into research workflows.

1/ 🚨 NEW PAPER! “Open Science at the Generative AI Turn”
In a new study just published in Quantitative Science Studies, we explore how GenAI both enables and challenges Open Science, and why GenAI will benefit from adopting Open Science values. 🧵
doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
#OpenScience #AI #GenAI

Where to start with AI in research management Generative AI is having a transformative effect on academic work, but it is also reshaping the professional services and research management sectors that support it. Here Anna Aston discusses where…

💥New: Where to start with AI in research management

👩‍💻Anna Aston #AcademicSky #ResearchManagement

Looking forward to watching this movie!

This is the way (sorry my nerd self kicked in) 💙

The Cost and Price of Public Access to Scholarly Publications: A Synthesis Presenting the second part of our findings as part of IOI’s project to investigate “reasonable costs” for public access to United States federally funded research and scientific data, generously suppo...

REPORT: 'The Cost & Price of Public Access to Scholarly Publications: A Synthesis' Invest in Open Infrastructure: some findings:
* The scholarly communications ecosystem is in a state of adaptive experimentation.
* Cost and price transparency have become more common
investinopen.org/blog/the-cos...

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Are you working on making a meaningful change in your academic institution? You think people and values should be at the heart of the process? Then the Values-Enacted Leadership Institute is for you. Join my @humetricshss.bsky.social colleagues today for an info session at 18:00 CET!

We're holding VELI information sessions on Dec 16 at Jan 21 at 12pm Eastern. Sign up or find out more: humetricshss.org/values-enact...

Thanks to the generous support of the Mellon Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, attendance at VELI will be heavily subsidized. Learn more about our financial approach: humetricshss.org/our-pay-as-y... #highered

We are thrilled to invite applications from institutional teams for the inaugural Values-Enacted Leadership Institute (VELI), taking place in Oregon from July 13 - 18, 2025. Applications are due February 12. humetricshss.org/values-enact...

Hi there 👋, this is the blue sky over Florence, seen from the European University Institute!

We’ve just landed here 🚀 and can’t wait to connect with all of you. Follow us to get the latest on research, events, and EUI campus life!

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The EUI Library now has a Malta section! - The EUI Library Blog Malta’s rich history may inspire you to search for new connections to your project. Researcher Gabriel Farrugia and alumnus Matthias Ebejer approached scholars and academic institutions based in Malta...

We can finally launch the history of #Malta collection. Books are now classified and they're being catalogued - find a link to a Zotero library in the blogpost.
Many thanks to the researchers who gathered this book by book blogs.eui.eu/library/malt...
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Universities Should Abandon Elon Musk’s X In its place, we should be cultivating our own digital spaces.

Kevin Munger (Chair of Computational Social Science, EUI) piece on why universities shall abandon X www.chronicle.com/article/univ... #EUI #twitter #X

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Should research assessment reform be ‘as aligned as possible, as diverse as needed’?

Read the last piece in this series developed in conversation with awesome women in research evaluation: @lizziegadd.bsky.social Noémie Aubert Bonn, Claire Fraser, Haley Hazlett & Anna Hatch.

Are we all metascientists now? Slides from my talk today at REvaluation 2024 www.revaluation2024.eu in Vienna rori.figshare.com/articles/pre... #REvaluation24 @rorinstitute.bsky.social #metascience

Best view on Florence, anyone? #EUI

New paper out in Nature npj Science of Learning, with @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social, @sarageven.bsky.social, @thijsbol.bsky.social and Carla Haelermans. About COVID19 effects on track enrolment in NL, and relations of the pandemic effects with student motivation, 1/n

I'm hiring a postdoc at Cambridge to work on a new research project on open research in the humanities and social sciences. Starting in February for three years. Please share!

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48788/

Solidarity with scholars affected by the war Solidarity with scholars affected by the war in Gaza

Since 2017, the #EUI has been a member of the #ScholarsAtRisk www.scholarsatrisk.org network, advocating for #academicfreedom globally.
We are seeking crowdfunding contributions to support the inclusion of Scholars at Risk in our community. Please, share and contribute! www.eui.eu/en/public/ab...