The thing that bothers me most about the moving of Margaret Thatcher's portrait is that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are at their highest level in 3m years, temperature records keep being toppled, and our food systems and infrastructure are not prepared for what comes next.

📢 Register for two webinars on responsible assessment on Monday 2 September 2024: ✅ Narrative CV (10:00-11:00 CEST) with Dr Karen Stroobants & Sean Sapcariu: vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/webi… ✅ Publication metrics (12:00-13:00 CEST) with Emanuel Kulczycki: vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/webi… CoARA

For the first time ever today I was on a flight when they asked if there were any doctors on board. I volunteered but it turned out it wasn’t a copyright in scholarly communications type emergency.

⁦The big ⁦Dr Elizabeth Gadd @lizziegadd.bsky.social⁩ on #university rankings. Each slide more and more evident on the devil effect of #rankings ⁦CoARA⁩ ⁦TWIN4MERIT⁩

And now the fabulous Eva Méndez drawing on my favourite metaphor - the naked emporer - to illustrate how we all know the publication system is broken, but pretend it isn’t, because we all have to do well under that system. #SInnoPSis TWIN4MERIT

Love Eva Méndez’s simple framing of the CoARA Agreement. It’s an agreement and a community.

Honoured to have spoken at the #SInnoPSis TWIN4MERIT Conference this morning on the intersection of university rankings and research assessment. Just leaving my closing statement here.

Erin Hengel now talking about how metrics are subject to measurement error that correlates with gender. #SInnoPSis @Twin4Merit

LOL. Meet the faculty and meet the staff at Stanford Medicine Great slide from Mattias Nielsen at SInnoPSis conference.

Is ‘greatness and excellence’ gendered? Asks Alexia Panayiotou. TLDR, yes.

In response to some misunderstandings about CoARA’s position on the role of metrics, we’ve written a clarification. We hope this will pave the way for the whole community to work together to define how qual & quant methods can be combined to form robust assessments.

A recent article discussion provides important context to Commitment 2 of the Agreement: “Base research assessment primarily on qualitative evaluation for which peer review is central, supported by responsible use of quantitative indicators.” Collaboration is key! (1/3)

How can qualitative assessment responsibly rely on quantitative approaches to maximize quality in research? CoARA Steering Board members Luciana Balboa Dr Elizabeth Gadd @lizziegadd.bsky.social Eva Méndez Janne Pölönen @[email protected] Dr Karen Stroobants and Program Manager Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra join the ongoing discussion. (2/3)

Read the full text of the Agreement here: zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/ze… (3/3)

Nice reading related to discussions on #CoARA commitment 2. Thanks for citing the recent work by our Academic Career Assessment Working Group “which has already identified that 70% of universities are looking to rely on balanced use of qualitative assessment and metrics.” ✨

Brilliant to hear Stanford University’s John Ionnadis describing global university rankings as a “horrible idea” at the #SInnoPSis @Twin4Merit conference. They “perpetuate misleading thinking about what we are trying to do.”

Brilliant to hear Stanford University ‘s John Ionnadis describing global university rankings as a “horrible idea”. #SInnoPSis @Twin4Merit Conference.

If Mike Thelwall submits his research on the assessment of research in the REF for assessment in the REF, will the system internally combust?