Meta Cramer

Interested in platforms, data integration, and scientific infrastructure?

This Wednesday at RMZ, at 11:00 AM (Berlin time), Amelia Acker will present her research on the topic.

It's hybrid!

Details below 👇

Predatory publishing practices: Paper tigers or actual threats from evaluation systems? (09/2024 - 08/2028)

This is the first argument we developed in the recently started collaborative project on global publishing cultures www.rmz.hu-berlin.de/en/research/...

On my way to Helsinki to co-present with M. Reinhart on research evaluation systems from a global perspective at #RESSH: we think about who steers science through evaluation, the role of transnationality & governmentality. Excited for the discussion, preprint available zenodo.org/records/1496...

Wissenschaftliches Personal an der Belastungsgrenze Diese Nachricht erscheint im Newsletter der BUA im April 2025.

Neues aus dem Berlin Science Survey: In ihrer Mitteilung stellen unsere Kolleg:innen Ergebnisse bzgl. des Stresslevels von Wissenschaftler:innen vor: Gut die Hälfte der Befragten fühlt sich regelmäßig von der Arbeit körperlich oder emotional erschöpft. www.berlinsciencesur...

We are happy to announce the programme of our Jour Fixe for the upcoming semester! Every other Wednesday at 11am, different scholars present their current work on science studies and we have a discussion. Registration is not necessary and you can join us via zoom or in person at the RMZ!

This morning's reading😍
"forcing replication based on a foreign (quantitative) notion of research quality into qualitative research communities can be seen as epistemic trespassing: infringing on local principles of proper (non-positivist and non-realist) qualitative research"
osf.io/preprints/so...

Die Nachrichten aus den USA sind so furchterregend, dass man sich ja einfach nur noch wegducken will. Wer es ein wenig geordnet & kompakt haben möchte: Mir wurde heute der DFG Newsletter Nordamerika empfohlen, den Tipp gebe ich gerne weiter. Kann man abonnieren.

Nach den Imperien? Soziologie und Postkolonialität »Es geht in dieser Diskussion nicht allein darum, Kolonialismus und Imperialismus stärker ins Zentrum soziologischer Forschung zu rücken oder einige kanonische Texte durch andere zu ersetzen, sondern ...

Vielversprechende Ausgabe zu Soziologie und Postkolonialität @mittelweg36.bsky.social herausgegeben u.a. von
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social: www.hamburger-edition.de/zeitschrift-...

"Nicht mehr internationale Spitze"

Jedes Jahr wird weltweit überprüft, wie frei Wissenschaftler arbeiten können. Jetzt ist Deutschland beim "Academic Freedom Index" aus der Spitzengruppe gefallen. Was steckt dahinter? Ein Interview.

Im Tagesspiegel & im #WiardaBlog: www.jmwiarda.de/2025/03/13/n...

Student-led protests: Part of a broader fight for justice The nationwide protests led by Serbian students are rooted in local realities but resonate globally. They highlight the critical role of students and ...

I won't lie if I tell you that I am a little bit proud of having brought Cyrillic script to the homepage of today's University World News 😊

#students #serbia @uniworldnews.bsky.social

spannender Vortrag morgen zur neuen Wissenschaftsmacht China, die innerhalb der letzten 30 Jahre in wissenschaftlichen Rankings Spitzenplätze einnahm und dessen autoritäres Wissenschaftsmodel viele landläufige Annahmen und Normen in der OECD-Welt herausfordert. Teilnahme wie immer offen - freu mich!

In this week's episode Dimity Stephen (DZHW) and @metacramer.bsky.social (HU) talk about how debates on predatory publishing lack empirical substantiation and ignore geopolitical inequalities as well as researchers’ motivations.

blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks...

the article shows how much is to be learned from Latin America where a "autonomous and resilient regional circuit favors the close relationship between the journals and the publishing institution, their insertion into public universities, and their management in public infrastructures."

The transformative relation between publishers and editors: Research quality and academic autonomy at stake Abstract. The prevalence of scientific journals amid the expansion of digital platforms and mega-infrastructures features the persistent will of scholars to give part of their time to this endeavor, w...

fantastic new article by F. Beigel on the "global dispute" about "the definition of the academic editors’ place in scholarly publishing, the establishment of the institutional owners of the journals, and the limits of the role played by the publishers" direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

this wednesday, 08.01, 11am!
I will speak about the new project I'm working on investigating transnational& global publishing cultures, #predatorypublishing, metrics, the "pressure to publish", #governmentality and critique :) Join us in Berlin or via zoom www.rmz.hu-berlin.de/de/termine/r...

ever wondered what predatory publishing has to do with disciplinary publishing cultures, global inequalities and moral panics?
Together with D.Stephen & M.Reinhart, I will speak about our new project on Predatory Publishing on 08.01, 11am @hu-rmz.bsky.social
www.rmz.hu-berlin.de/en/news-and-...

gern!:) der ganze Bericht ist hier einsehbar, die diesjährige Befragung von ca 2.800 Wissenschaftler:innen in Berlin und ca 2.500 an Vergleichsuniversitäten dreht sich zentral um "die Frage, was gute Rahmenbedingungen für die Wissenschaft
sind". www.berlinsciencesurvey.de/de/ergebniss...

Befragte Wissenschaftler:innen geben an, dass sie gezwungen sind "aufgrund der Fülle der Aufgaben genau bei den Teilaufgaben [Forschung & Lehre] Qualitätsabstriche zu machen, die ihnen selbst besonders wichtig sind. Das kann ziemlich frustrierend und auf Dauer auch demotivierend sein"

super wichtige neue empirische Daten untermauern die Forderungen nach besseren Arbeitsbedingungen in der Wissenschaft! Hohe Arbeitsbelastung führt zu Qualitätsabstrichen @ngawiss.bsky.social @nnwiss.bsky.social @amreibahr.bsky.social
#IchBinHanna Bericht aus dem Berlin Science Survey.

Glückwunsch @onurerdur.bsky.social, freue mich sehr!! hatte nämlich dieselbe Situation wie @heikedrotbohm.bsky.social auch schon öfters!:)

Provincializing Impact : From Imperial Anxiety to Algorithmic Universalism: Osiris: Vol 38 Abstract During the Cold War bibliometrics took on a privileged role in the discourse of global scientific development. This essay locates a key condition of possibility for this development in the co...

re-reading this article again, so I might as well share it: check out @acsiszar.bsky.social fantastic contribution on the historical genealogy of bibiometrics and its entanglement with international bureaucratic projects fueled by European imperial anxieties www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

check out the new podcast "Science Works" by @hu-rmz.bsky.social in which guests at our Centre talk about their work in #sciencestudies.
In the first episode, Thomas Wahl (Mälardalens Universitet, Sweden) speaks about "Re-imagining humanness. Popular science narratives of AI futures".

my team is on BlueSky! follow @hu-rmz.bsky.social for updates on talks we host, contributions by our team members and other activities of the Robert K. Merton Centre for Science Studies at Humboldt University Berlin!
we are broadly interested in understanding how scientific knowledge is produced :)

When does local resistance to Big Science persist and raise wide-spread attention? Lessons learned from the Thirty Meter Telescope controversy. Anna-Lena Rüland Large science projects, also known as “Big Science”, are typically presented as a win-win for all stakeholders involved, including for the local community. Yet research has shown that...

Thanks @ingaulnicane.bsky.social for featuring my blog post on local resistance to #Big #Science on the Europe for Knowledge blog 🙏 If you are interested in the science-society interface, go check it out: era.ideasoneurope.eu/2024/11/25/w....

Yes, unfortunately. (The survey will be in German)

Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) im Projekt „Transfersurvey“ mit vorauss. Vollzeit - E 13 TV-L HU (Drittmittelfinanzierung befristet für 4 Jahre)

come join our team! :) my colleague Jens Ambrasat is hiring a survey researcher to work in a project on science transfer in Berlin - 4 years, great city, really nice team & good vibes :) haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...

Here is the starter pack for folks in science of science, meta science, STS, philosophy of science, history of science, economics of science, science policy, AI+science, and so on.

Feel free to nominate and self-nominate!

#SciSci #STS #MetaScience #SciPol #AI4Science #ScAISci

go.bsky.app/2R1E4TD

Would love to be added! Thanks for putting this together!:)

Nice, danke! Wäre auch gerne dabei :)

two persons standing smiling in front of a large screen with the dissertation titel displayed.

Time for summa cum laude smiles :)
I'm delighted to have finally defended my PhD thesis: Many, many thanks to my amazing supervisor @manuelaboatca.bsky.social and the numerous colleagues & friends who supported me over the last few years!