As we look to the year ahead, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to former Vice Chair @lizziegadd.bsky.social for her dedication, vision, and leadership over the past 3 years!

Learn more about Dr. Lizzie Gadd's contributions to CoARA and next steps for reform here: www.coara.org/news/project...

It’s been a real career highlight to act as one of the inaugural Vice Chairs of the @coarassessment.bsky.social Steering Board.

In this interview I enjoyed reflecting on my three year term on the Board. 👇🏻

Please don’t dilute my rant with your facts. 😉

Very selfless of you, Jon, thank you. 😉

European friends, I love you, but can you please stop adding chocolate to your muesli? Chocolate cereals are for children and muesli is for grown-ups. Thank you.

Before we automate REF there are three issues we need to talk about Lizzie Gadd and Dan Parsons argue that if AI is to be embedded into REF it should reflect sector values not just technological possibility

Highly recommend this piece from @lizziegadd.bsky.social and @bedforms.bsky.social on the new report on #GenerativeAI and #REF2029

wonkhe.com/blogs/before...

"The challenge, now, is to ensure that its integration reflects sector values, not just technological possibility."

If we *really* believe that diverse research teams lead to better research, at what point do we reject research that has not adhered to those principles?

Currently at an absolute loss as to how Research England can demand equality impact assessments from the HEIs they fund through REF and then recruit an all-male team (3 senior and white) to investigate the use of AI in REF. chet.bristol.ac.uk/research/ref...

Ha! Thank you

Ha! Hope you’re doing well. Great news about your new appointment!

To reform universities, first tackle global rankings Universities are in thrall to a rankings system that prioritizes narrow aspects of academic life. Three changes would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working.

'Such reliance on rankings means that universities are shaped not by the needs of society or by innovations driven from inside the international higher-education community, but by unappointed third-party ranking agencies'

@lizziegadd.bsky.social in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

To reform universities, first tackle global rankings Universities are in thrall to a rankings system that prioritizes narrow aspects of academic life. Three changes would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working.

"Such reliance on rankings means that universities are shaped not by the needs of society or by innovations driven from inside the international higher-education community, but by unappointed third-party ranking agencies."

New article by @lizziegadd.bsky.social.

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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How responsible is Clarivate’s “responsible” impact assessment framework? - Impact of Social Sciences How responsible is Clarivate’s Responsible Framework for Evaluating the Societal Impact of Research according to the INORMS SCOPE framework?

👀ICYMI: "the design of an approach to assess the societal impact of research requires more than an expert understanding of bibliometrics"

#ResearchManagement #ResearchImpact #Bibliometrics @lizziegadd.bsky.social @tanjastrom.bsky.social

“The term “responsible” in research assessment cannot be co-opted and marketed, it must be earned—through transparency, context sensitivity, authentic engagement, mixed-methods evidence, & ongoing evaluation & reform."

Using @inorms-reg.bsky.social #SCOPE we test Clarivate’s responsibility claim.👇🏻

How responsible is Clarivate’s “responsible” impact assessment framework? - Impact of Social Sciences How responsible is Clarivate’s Responsible Framework for Evaluating the Societal Impact of Research according to the INORMS SCOPE framework?

💥New: How responsible is Clarivate’s “responsible” impact assessment framework?

✍️ @lizziegadd.bsky.social, Erica Conte, Reingis Hauck Giovanna Lima, Racquel Salviati, Esther De Smet, & @tanjastrom.bsky.social

#ResearchImpact #Metrics #AcademicSky @inorms-reg.bsky.social

Post Doctoral Research Associate, “Between Economy and Democracy: Reorganising Research Evaluation through Metadata in the Digital Era” | King's College London

If you wish to study the effect of #opendata in #researchevaluation, please consider this postdoc position in London #openscience ( @lizziegadd.bsky.social ) www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126965-...

To be fair, I do make the point that culture is our second biggest issue after finance. However, I think REF will always be a lever no matter the state of an institution’s finances simply *because* it’s linked to funding. And there is a lot of unpicked low hanging fruit in the culture space…

Thanks @scurry.bsky.social

Well said. Good to have informed comment on this vital issue, rather than the misdirection of someone from a murkily-funded lobby group (not a ‘think tank’).

“In the recent DSIT survey of the UK Research & Development workforce, only 52 per cent of higher education respondents said the culture of their organisation enabled them to perform their best work, compared to 85 per cent in the private sector.”

The battle for people, culture and environment Lizzie Gadd makes the case for embracing People, Culture and Environment and sets out why reverting to REF 2021 would be a mistake

Adding my voice to the chorus battling to retain an increased focus on people, culture, and environment in the next REF... wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ba...

Where now for the REF? The Research Excellence Framework has been postponed for three months ‘to take stock and ensure alignment with the UK government’s priorities and vision for higher education’. But how radical should…

Where now for the Research Excellence Framework? Five different views are presented in @timeshighered.bsky.social, including from @catdavies.bsky.social @lizziegadd.bsky.social @uofgvc.bsky.social @ProfAThompson @milespadgett.bsky.social
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#education #educationnews

Writing to invite them to join #MoreThanOurRank as we speak!

Portrait of John Unsworth in a suit, standing in sunlight with a shadowed background.

"I think the advice I would offer is to remember that leadership is a service role. Your job as a leader is to support the people who work for you, to protect them, to listen to them, & prioritize them."

ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025

www.arl.org/blog/john-un...

Yes I believe that’s what they’re looking at which I think is right. I still think there is a need for rewarding effort and ambition, however. I do hope that’s not off the cards in any new iteration.

According to the Shanghai Ranking we come in 22nd this year. Based on a limited set of criteria, rankings can never really measure the true value of an institution. Tell us what you value most.

Really hoping they will join at some point!!

'No longer able to cry': Inside Gaza's scarily silent clinics Doctors and aid workers say the world's concern over the aid blockade in Gaza has come too late. Many of the children you've read about probably can't be saved.

"but the impact on children is worse. The developmental damage is irreversible"

"The process of development stops, the process of building a brain, of creating neurons that will establish cognitive ability, will stop"

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

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The beauty of a menopausal brain is that you learn new things every day, many of which aren’t actually new. 😂