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alexrushforth.bsky.social
Sociologist of Science, CWTS, Leiden University. Senior research fellow, Research on Research Institute.
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"In addition to high prices the "big five" multinational ebook publishers "throttle" access to ebooks by selling them to libraries for either a limited time or a limited number of circulations — sometimes both." Just as with academic publishing, a small number of big publishers dominate the market

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Hello! We're the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research at the University of Manchester, and we're excited to be on Bluesky 👋 Follow us for updates from across the Institute — we can't wait to connect with you! www.mioir.manchester.ac.uk

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Israel declared a free fire zone in northern Gaza, as the US did in central Vietnam. The result is the same: war crimes. Massacred civilians are declared “enemy” and units compete for higher body counts.

submitted 77 days ago • 6 comments

Dutch science faces a structural budget cut of 1 billion euros—equivalent to one large university or two smaller ones. Academics are raising alarms about the potential impact. @wimpouw.bsky.social & @bnbakker.bsky.social propose an open access revolution in the Dutch academic landscape. 1/2

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

A plea on behalf of journal editors everywhere.. When you receive a request to review, answer it. Declining is (from everyone's perspective) far preferable to not answering at all, which just leaves everyone - not least the author - in limbo. You wouldn't your paper delayed. Don't delay others'.

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

The #DOAsummit2024 declaration -- deliberately brief, as the mighty Reggie Raju told us, so that we can remember it! Anyone can comment on the declaration, via this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/1hhH...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Excellent piece

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What is good leadership in this day and age? And what role do universities and the social sciences play in this? As dean of a Faculty of Social Sciences, I find myself in the midst of a storm of debates about internationalization and the future of higher education.

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Hi BlueSky! We at RMZ Berlin analyse how scientific knowledge is produced and how science is embedded in social processes. We will post about events, contributions of our team etc. on this platform and look forward to meet the #sts #sociologyofscience #sciencepolicy #bibliometrics communities here!

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

@ingaulnicane.bsky.social and I are planning a workshop on the role and uses of AI in evidence-based policymaking in spring 2025. Get in touch if you’re interested in joining us!

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Just out: “Globalising Plant Knowledge Beyond Bioprospecting” (collection on Ethnoscience hosted by History of Anthropology Review). 1st of a series of papers on extractive epistemologies which my next monograph will treat in detail - comments warmly welcome! histanthro.org/notes/global...

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

With all the new influx of users, I’d love to see a community around #sciencepolicy #scipol #bibliometrics #scientometrics #scisci #metascience. Please share if you want to be part of it, use the tags to find others, or just say hi 👋

submitted 104 days ago • 4 comments

We are looking for a #PhD candidate in #STS focusing on the topic of #energy #transitions - based in the Human-Centred Innovation section at the Technical University of Denmark. ⚡️Please help us spread the word⚡️

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

submitted 108 days ago • 4 comments

As always, @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social is extremely on point 👇

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Seems like it is a day to reissue the @britishacademy.bsky.social report from 2012 on the efficacy of league tables in the public sector and especially to flag this point: often the level of statistical uncertainty involved renders them meaningless www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

submitted 112 days ago • 5 comments

#ResearchIntegrity folks, join us for this hybrid seminar! If you come to Leiden you can get oliebollen at the station 😉

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

Fun fact: If someone quotes a post of yours in a way that is unwelcome (as is commonplace on Twitter/X) there is a tool to combat the unwanted attention. Simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post. Useful to know, do share!

submitted 114 days ago • 524 comments

For instance: I am really ambivalent about the concept of "starter packs". For all I see, they serve to reproduce in-groups/networks of power/prestige (check, for instance, how many people not from dominant institutions are in each). At least open to others, if you are doing this.

submitted 114 days ago • 6 comments

This beautiful boy will be available in paperback, February 2025. Available in all the usual places.

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments