LSE Impact Blog

💥 New: FAIR for research software (FAIR4RS) – Can funders keep up with open science developments? ✍️ Eric A. Jensen & Daniel S. Katz of @UofIllinois #OpenResearch #FAIR4RS #ResearchFunding ow.ly/NNo950WKjLl

💥New: How #authoritarian states co-opt academic modernisation and bibliometrics for control ✍️ Aikerim Bektemirova @GWtweets @Cambridge_Uni #HigherEducation #AcademicFreedom #Bibliometrics ow.ly/n25g50WKbYs

💥New: What Ifá, an Indigenous binary knowledge system, can teach us about AI ✍️ @UyiosaOM #AI #IndigenousKnowledge #DecolonialAI #TechEthics #AIandSociety #Innovation #KnowledgeSystems ow.ly/zNnA50WKceG

Untold Stories of Britain's queer South Asians Desi Queers: South Asians & Cultural Belonging in Britain by @churnjeet @UniStrathclyde @RKDasgupta @LSEGenderTweet & @djritu1 @HurstPublishers Review by @Kanchi_16 @LSEReviewBooks #SouthAsianHeritageMonth ow.ly/z4f650WHoI2

💥New: Are newsletters the new academic social media? Drawing on a global survey, Deirdre Watchorn & Marion Schnelle @degruyter_brill find early career researchers increasingly favor traditional, more controlled forms of academic socialising #Newsletters blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

From the archive: The best peer review reports are at least 947 words #PeerReview #ScholComm ow.ly/mBzs50WACXt

From the archive: #Randomisation can resolve the uncertainty at the heart of peer review #PeerReview #ScholComm ow.ly/7rGj50WACSV

From the archive: If generative AI accelerates science, peer review needs to catch up #PeerReview #ScholComm #AI ow.ly/eG2J50WACN1

💥New: Nature’s decision to publish positive peer review reports only gives half the picture #PeerReview #ScholComm #OpenScience blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

Is there a strain on peer review? – It’s more complicated than you think #PeerReview #ScholComm ow.ly/zxzP50WACJT

Germany, EU fiscal rules and the illusion of objectivity #Germany #EU ow.ly/Kq2W50WAE3B

💥New: As @Nature moves to publish peer review reports for accepted papers, Bodo Stern argues this partial openness falls short of true transparency in scholarly communication. #PeerReview #ScholComm ow.ly/ib7H50WACyz

From the archive: Telling the truth, uniting behind the science – #Climate coalitions and science’s place in society ow.ly/nTHq50WzYoR

Separating religion from #climate communication leads to failure ow.ly/hYyu50WzYlb

From the archive: By sidelining climate misinformation COP29 undermines #climate action ow.ly/xomQ50WzYjS

Solution-orientated simulations can drive real action on the #climate crisis ow.ly/g02p50WzYhv

The #Trump administration is aggressively rolling back #climate action: erasing data, slashing #research funding, and scrubbing “climate change” from federal websites. Pallavi Sethi (@LSEnews @GRI_LSE) maps the rollback timeline. Full post👉 ow.ly/xAcI50WzQUs

We are all losers in #Trump’s ‘common sense’ war on social science ow.ly/mhkk50WzqF6

Is the quest for net-zero a form of scientism? ow.ly/uw8E50WzqMl

Is federal #funding still a viable research assessment indicator in the age of #Trump? ow.ly/eXhh50Wzqt7