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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 1d

💥New: Banning Sci-Hub highlights India’s unequal access to knowledge

✍️Rituparna Patgiri

#AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #SciHub

Banning Sci-Hub highlights India’s unequal access to knowledge - Impact of Social Sciences

The decision to block Sci-Hub in India brings inequalities in access to research based knowledge into sharp focus.

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 21h

👀 ICYMI: "Although the PCE won’t solve all the sector challenges, without it we are destined to support a sub-standard research culture and environment that will end up costing good research and researchers."

#REF2029 #PCE #ResearchCulture

The People Culture and Environment element of REF2029 is already changing the sector — we shouldn’t give up on it now - Impact of Social Sciences

The future of the People Culture and Environment element of REF 2029 is currently under scrutiny. Drawing on interviews with institutional decisionmakers as part of the COMET study, Gemma Derrick,…

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 1d

💥New: Banning Sci-Hub highlights India’s unequal access to knowledge

✍️Rituparna Patgiri

#AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #SciHub

Banning Sci-Hub highlights India’s unequal access to knowledge - Impact of Social Sciences

The decision to block Sci-Hub in India brings inequalities in access to research based knowledge into sharp focus.

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 2d

💥New: Academic careers have become a professional sport

✍️ @swallaschek.bsky.social

#AcademicSky #ECRchat #AcademicCareers

Academic careers have become a professional sport - Impact of Social Sciences

Academia like professional sports is increasingly a system defined by competition, precarity and quantification does this lead to a loss of meaning?

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 1d

👀 ICYMI: "For early-career scholars, especially those from marginalised backgrounds, the absence of a reply is not simply a neutral delay. It is a quiet act of exclusion"

#PhDchat #AcWri

Editorial silence is an unfair burden on early career and marginalised researchers - Impact of Social Sciences

Editorial silence can be particularly damaging for researchers at start of their careers and those working outside privileged institutions.

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Stefan Wallaschek @swallaschek.bsky.social · 2d

In the blog post below, I use this analogy to make sense of the current state of science with the constant competition, quantification and precarity.

LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 2d

💥New: Academic careers have become a professional sport

✍️ @swallaschek.bsky.social

#AcademicSky #ECRchat #AcademicCareers

Academic careers have become a professional sport - Impact of Social Sciences

Academia like professional sports is increasingly a system defined by competition, precarity and quantification does this lead to a loss of meaning?

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 2d

💥New: Academic careers have become a professional sport

✍️ @swallaschek.bsky.social

#AcademicSky #ECRchat #AcademicCareers

Academic careers have become a professional sport - Impact of Social Sciences

Academia like professional sports is increasingly a system defined by competition, precarity and quantification does this lead to a loss of meaning?

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10 17

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 5d

💥New: Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities

✍️ @niamhtumelty.bsky.social & @heroicendeavour.bsky.social

#OpenResearch #AcademicSky #HigherEducation (@lsepress.bsky.social)

Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities - Impact of Social Sciences

Why open educational resources should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement.

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10 19

LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 3d

👀 ICYMI: "While 92% of undergraduate students are using Generative AI, only 36% said they had been offered support by their university"

#AcademicSky #HigherEducation

A new academic year has begun, but UK universities are still struggling to respond to AI - Impact of Social Sciences

Mark Carrigan argues university staff are still struggling to develop coherent, contextual and disciplinary responses to AI’s impact on teaching and learning.

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 4d

🗃️ From May: Google Scholar launched in November 2004 with the goal of making it easier to access scientific knowledge. But did it live up to this aim or simply create new problems?

#GoogleScholar #AcademicChatter

How Google Scholar transformed research - Impact of Social Sciences

Google Scholar launched in November 2004 with the goal of making it easier to access scientific knowledge. But did it live up to this aim or simply create new problems? Kyriakos Drivas shows that…

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 4d

👀 ICYMI: By deciding how research is shared, who can access it, and how it connects to real-world challenges, they exert soft power through the values and choices embedded in how science is communicated.

#SoftPower #ScholComm #SciComm

How scholarly publishers wield soft power - Impact of Social Sciences

Scientific publishers exercise 'soft power' through their role in managing and curating research, but how is this role changing in an open research landscape?

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 4d

💥 New: The “least worst” exercise – What direction will research evaluation in Australia take?

✍️ Ksenia Sawczak

#HigherEd #ERA #ResearchEvaluation

The “least worst” exercise – What direction will research evaluation in Australia take? - Impact of Social Sciences

Will a seemingly light touch and data driven approach to Australia's research assessment exercise (ERA) prove effective?

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 5d

💥New: Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities

✍️ @niamhtumelty.bsky.social & @heroicendeavour.bsky.social

#OpenResearch #AcademicSky #HigherEducation (@lsepress.bsky.social)

Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities - Impact of Social Sciences

Why open educational resources should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement.

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10 19

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 8d

👀 ICYMI: How to use Overton to develop impact case studies

#ResearchImpact #ImpactCaseStudies #REF2029 @overton.io

How to use Overton to develop impact case studies - Impact of Social Sciences

Despite the lack of clarity surrounding the next round of the REF, university research offices are already collecting evidence and preparing. Tamsin Varney outlines three ways in which the policy…

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 6d

👀 ICYMI: "These consequences may remain even if there is not a relabelling of acetaminophen/paracetamol"

#Vaccines #SciComm #PublicHealth

The Tylenol/Paracetamol autism scare poses a grave challenge for science communicators - Impact of Social Sciences

By conflating causation and correlation recent announcements by the Trump administration may require many years of work to change health behaviours.

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 6d

👀 ICYMI: "These consequences may remain even if there is not a relabelling of acetaminophen/paracetamol"

#Vaccines #SciComm #PublicHealth

The Tylenol/Paracetamol autism scare poses a grave challenge for science communicators - Impact of Social Sciences

By conflating causation and correlation recent announcements by the Trump administration may require many years of work to change health behaviours.

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 6d

👋From our friends over at @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

#SocialScience

Helen Margetts @helenmargetts.bsky.social · 8d

AI needs social science. Cosmina Dorobantu and I explain why in a new blog post @lsedatascience.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Why AI needs social science | British Politics and Policy at LSE

AI is about humans, that's why it needs to be shaped not just by computer science, but by social science.

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 7d

👀 ICYMI: "This is not simply an issue of the model’s training data being out of date; the majority of the articles we tested were retracted long before the model’s knowledge cut-off date."

#AcWri #LitReview #AcademicSky

ChatGPT is blind to bad science - Impact of Social Sciences

A new study finds ChatGPT fails to take into account retraction notices across a wide range of research.

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 7d

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 8d

💥New: The People Culture and Environment element of REF2029 is already changing the sector, we shouldn’t give up on it now

✍️ @gemmaderrick.bsky.social Amy Devenney, Lizzie Ville & Rhian Pennie

#PeopleCultureEvironment #ResearchCulture #REF2029

The People Culture and Environment element of REF2029 is already changing the sector, we shouldn’t give up on it now - Impact of Social Sciences

The future of the People Culture and Environment element of REF 2029 is currently under scrutiny. Drawing on interviews with institutional decisionmakers as part of the COMET study, Gemma Derrick, Amy...

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 7d

👀 ICYMI: "This is not simply an issue of the model’s training data being out of date; the majority of the articles we tested were retracted long before the model’s knowledge cut-off date."

#AcWri #LitReview #AcademicSky

ChatGPT is blind to bad science - Impact of Social Sciences

A new study finds ChatGPT fails to take into account retraction notices across a wide range of research.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 8d

💥New: The People Culture and Environment element of REF2029 is already changing the sector, we shouldn’t give up on it now

✍️ @gemmaderrick.bsky.social Amy Devenney, Lizzie Ville & Rhian Pennie

#PeopleCultureEvironment #ResearchCulture #REF2029

The People Culture and Environment element of REF2029 is already changing the sector, we shouldn’t give up on it now - Impact of Social Sciences

The future of the People Culture and Environment element of REF 2029 is currently under scrutiny. Drawing on interviews with institutional decisionmakers as part of the COMET study, Gemma Derrick, Amy...

blogs.lse.ac.uk