An die deutsche Wissenschaft: (k)ein Liebesbrief Liebe deutsche Wissenschaft, wir müssen reden.

Liebe dt. Wissenschaft, von mir verlangst Du seit Jahren vollstes Commitment. Von Dir bekomme ich im Gegenzug nichts als maximale Unverbindlichkeit. So kann es mit uns nicht weitergehen. Deshalb schreibe ich Dir diesen Brief — nachzulesen heute in meinem Newsletter #ArbeitInDerWiss!

#IchBinHanna

PKP is hiring a Managing Director - Public Knowledge Project The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director

📢Employment opportunity at PKP!

PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact.

If you are interested, learn more at:
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

What is the h-index and what are its limitations? Or: Stop using the h-index [Animation] YouTube video by ScholCommLab

First paper is form the #MetricsLiteracy project. They tested the use of videos to educate on the h-index. You can see one here:
youtu.be/HSf79S3XkJw?...
#StiEnid2025

Really lovely little video! I felt very sorry for the poor sad English professor.

Towards an inclusive Open Science: examining EDI and public participation in policy documents across Europe and the Americas | Royal Society Open Science National, international and organizational Open Science (OS) policies are being formulated to improve and accelerate research through increased transparency, collaboration and better access to scienti...

1/5🧵After a long trip through peer review limbo, our paper on inclusion and public participation in Open Science policy is finally out!
📖 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

2/5 We analyzed 52 policy documents from Europe and the Americas. We found that most make broad claims about democratizing knowledge, but offer little in the way of concrete measures to support inclusion or public engagement.

3/5 That is, inclusion is often treated as secondary—something that might follow from openness, rather than something requiring its own commitments and actions.
Publics are named, but rarely centered. Our findings suggest that without more intentional policy, this won’t change.

4/5 Being able to read or reuse research isn’t the same as being able to contribute to it—or shape the systems that govern it. As governments question the value of inclusion, it’s urgent we ask who Open Science is for—and who gets to shape it.

5/5 Grateful to Reviewer 1 for their thoughtful and constructive feedback.

Co-authored with @juancommander, @estebanmorales.bsky.social, @fleerackers.bsky.social, @idorsch.bsky.social, @stephenpinfield.bsky.social & @masimard.scholcommlab.ca

JOIN US! Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity on Preprints and Open Peer Review. Multi-year project. Come with work @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @mariomalicki.bsky.social, me, and the rest of #ScholCommLab. Apply by May 23rd!

bit.ly/SCLpostdoc2025

Please share widely!

Our upcoming Open Research Seminars in May, June and July on the German Excellence Initiative, measuring disruption in science and evaluative bibliometrics in the DORA/CoARA context:

#OPENIT

Come and work with us on #openaccess and, in particular, the analysis of open access policies, the study of different scientific publishing models and the modelling of long-term economic dynamics. More information is below.

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

This collaborative project involved talents of #Concordia film student Julie-Ann Déry and doctoral student Marie-Josée Archambault as well as @uottawa.bsky.social students Maddie Hare (@mbhare.bsky.social), Alyssa Jeffrey, Tristan Lamonica and postdocs Isabelle Dorsch (@idorsch.bsky.social),.. (2/x)

Screenshot of journal article in Canadian Journal of Communication, displaying the following bibliographic information: Fleerackers, A.*, Chtena, N., Oliveira, M., Dorsch, I., Alperin, J. P., & Pinfield, S. (2025). Open data in data journalism: Opportunities and future directions. Canadian Journal of Communication, 50(1), 145–161. DOI: 10.3138/cjc-2023-0040 [Peer-reviewed Commentary]

⭐New publication alert!⭐

Out now in Canadian Journal of Communication, our commentary argues for more research at the intersection of #opendata and #datajournalism (🧵)

w/ @nataschachtena.bsky.social Monique Oliveira
@idorsch.bsky.social @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @stephenpinfield.bsky.social

Look out, our educational videos about the h-index are available! Did you ever want to explain to someone the problems of the h-index? You can find the links to the videos below👇🏻

What is the h-index and what are its limitations? Or: Stop using the h-index [Animation] YouTube video by ScholCommLab

Sometimes the best that comes out of 4-year #SSHRC project are 2 amazing educational videos. Learned so much & trained students from information science, education, film, theatre... and we had tons of fun!

Watch for yourself WHY YOU SHOULD STOP USING THE #H-INDEX: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSf7...

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🔔 Deadline alert!

Got big ideas about reconciliation in science and it’s measurement?

Propose a session for STI-ENID in Bristol, 3-5 Sept 2025!!

⏳ Deadline: 28 Feb - don’t miss out!

Submit now: www.stienid2025.org

Are you interested or working in the field of #openaccess? Check out our project on analyzing the scholarly publishing market! 👇👇👇

#openscience #scholcomm

Don't miss the #STI2025 👇👇👇 #scholcomm #scienceindicators #openscience #openaccess #researchevaluation #informationscience

Submissions are open. 💯📝

It's a pleasure to be on board!

Very excited about this partnership between STI-ENID2025 and #MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review), the open peer review platform set up by @aimosinc.bsky.social and @rorinstitute.bsky.social!

Looking forward to working together with @gemmaderrick.bsky.social and Neil Jacobs at University of Bristol.

Job Offer – Postdoctoral position at LISIS (Paris, France) Contract duration: 22-month fixed-term contract Salary: 2000-2400 euros gross per month depending on experience Employer: École nationale des ponts et chaussées (see institutional website) Location: L...

📢 We are pleased to announce a #postdoctoral position at #LISIS (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Science, Innovations, and Societies), Paris, to work on the #ROR² project focused on #OpenScience and #Research_Integrity.

ℹ️ For more details, please see: ror2.hypotheses.org/247

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After Springer in 2022, now Elsevier forbids OpenAlex to store abstracts of Closed Access papers.

github.com/ourresearch/...

We think this is a worrying trend, hindering the discoverability of research. @relx.bsky.social Is this what you mean with 'Empowering Open Science' ?

And we are live!

www.stienid2025.org

Call for Special Sessions and Papers open January 2025.

Spread the news and see you there!

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 👋

ASIS&T SIG MET is hosting a webinar about #Gender in Quantitative Science Studies! It is scheduled for May 1, 2024, from 9:30 to 10:30 AM (EST). Participation
is open to all and free of charge via Zoom at
tennessee.zoom.us/j/81706140596.
The recording of the webinar will be made available.

🤓 #OpenScience Folks and those who want to know more. My colleagues will give a webinar:
Join us on Jan 24 from 10:00-11:30 PST for "Talking Open Science: OS debates and policies during the pandemic."

Register here: sfu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I like this metapher!

Did you ever hear about metrics literacies? Have a closer look here: thebibliomagician.wordpress.com/2023/12/06/d... #metricsliteracies #scienceofscience #researchevaluation #researchassessment

Join our team: tinyurl.com/mrsj3j9p