Dr. Bertha Vallejo

🚀 Day 2 of #MAR2PROTECT #GeneralAssembly! WP updates + #DemositeLeaders sharing latest results, and co-creating our next Parliamentary Session with IAB & COP. Aligning progress across all sites 🌍 Stay tuned! ✨

For decades, peer review has been treated as the gold standard of scientific validation. Yet many scientists know the reality: the system is far from perfect. Peer review is broken and sometimes even corrupted. The process can be slow, inconsistent, and vulnerable to bias. Reviewers are sometimes asked to judge work outside their true expertise. In other cases, they may be evaluating ideas that challenge the very paradigm in which they were trained. And occasionally, reviewers are simply competitors. Ironically, the most prestigious journals can also be the most conservative. Truly new ideas are often met with skepticism, while safer work that fits the current narrative moves more easily through the system. Increasingly, papers are judged less by the originality of the idea and more by the volume of data, the sophistication of statistics, and the beauty of the figures. Science risks becoming data-rich but idea-poor. But there is an important reality to remember: journals do not ultimately decide the impact of scientific work. Impact is decided later, by the community. By the scientists who read it, test it, debate it, and cite it. In the end, citations and ideas determine the legacy of a paper, not the impact factor of the journal that first published it. Science has always advanced by questioning assumptions. Perhaps it is time we also question the system that filters scientific ideas.

Estoy revisando protocolos de tesis en este momento y me parece que sobre eso no existe mucha literatura ni tampoco apoyo didáctico en castellano, por lo que ahí les va un #RPVTips sobre cómo formular un protocolo de investigación (ya sea de licenciatura, maestría o doctorado)

Attending the #INNOCOMP Project Final Meeting at @GRIPS_English on #VaccinesWork #Development during the #COVID crisis. With scholars from several organizations.

Jongeman beroofd en mishandeld met vuurwapen, vier minderjarigen aangehouden 112nederland.nl/2025/06/14/jon…

#Tilburg zojuist een melding gekregen van een mogelijk schietincident omgeving Piushaven. (Nog) geen gewonden getroffen. We starten een onderzoek. Weet u iets van mogelijke verdachten bel dan nu 112

Bringing together #civilsociety and #institutional actors. Lessons from @more4nature @ihedelft #Euspri2025 @Euspri_Forum @HdHf_TUDortmund

@raulpacheco Silence

When you write, do you listen to music or do you prefer silence? #AmWriting #GetYourManuscriptOut #AcWri

@raulpacheco Son bases, pero ya cambiaron las cosas

Is the literature on global commodity chains (GCCs) a la Gary Gereffi all but obsolete? I used his work for my doctoral dissertation but that was a lifetime ago…

@raulpacheco Segun yo, asi es

Según yo, el lado correcto para poner el guisado en el taco es en el lado que se muestra en la fotografía de la izquierda.

Delighted to share my new book which calls attention to renewed efforts for a resurgent Nigeria economy. Nigeria had GPD/Capita six times China’s in 1980. It’s Fortune had been reversed and a big factor in lack of Leadership: political, bureaucratic etc.

@BanjiOyeyinka @VisserLola @akin_adesina @AfDB_Nigeria @FinMinNigeria @PBATMediaCentre @SAPZcompactNGR @smugera @EmekaAnuforo @AbdulBKamara3 @NEPAD_Agency Congratulations!

Resulta exasperante tener que compartir esto repetidamente con gente que cree que estos patanes del poder legislativo realmente tienen los intereses del pueblo en su mente, pero pues habrá que seguir haciéndolo.

@raulpacheco Ya somos dos :-)

Why does this ALWAYS happen to me? #AcWri #AmWriting #GetYourManuscriptOut

@raulpacheco Muy comun en Europa ....🥴

Me especializo en la gobernanza de sanitarios y DETESTO el inodoro con escalón.

En preparación para el #INC5, Azul colaboró con @raulpacheco, PhD, en un informe destacando cómo la mercantilización del agua embotellada de plástico ha permitido a los gobiernos abdicar de su responsabilidad de disponer de agua potable segura y limpia. #PlasticsTreaty

@BanjiOyeyinka @akin_adesina @VisserLola @AfDB_Nigeria @diekoye @Cabas81 @akande_debo @AbdulBKamara3 @beth_dunford @SAPZNigeria @fmanng_ Congratulations

Honored to join H.E. Makinde & Oyo state officials for the groundbreaking ceremony of the Eruwa ATC November 21. The facility supports farmers productivity that ensures sustainable SAPZ Hub at Ijaiye. Congrats to all partners. Africa will industrialize!

Gracias TOPOS