LSE Impact Blog

A platform for those interested in increasing the impact of academic research. Managing Editor: @MichaelTaster

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💥 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 https://t.co/5wubU8gSYP

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💥New: How #authoritarian states co-opt academic modernisation and bibliometrics for control

✍️ Aikerim Bektemirova @GWtweets @Cambridge_Uni

#HigherEducation #AcademicFreedom #Bibliometrics https://t.co/SUqArS3o6c

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💥New: What Ifá, an Indigenous binary knowledge system, can teach us about AI

✍️ @UyiosaOM

#AI #IndigenousKnowledge #DecolonialAI #TechEthics #AIandSociety #Innovation #KnowledgeSystems https://t.co/GLB2EGId0M

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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 https://t.co/aPju4IsUhT

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💥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 https://t.co/WN2CVjZJvK

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From the archive: The best peer review reports are at least 947 words

#PeerReview #ScholComm https://t.co/2wlpTg77Be

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From the archive: #Randomisation can resolve the uncertainty at the heart of peer review

#PeerReview #ScholComm https://t.co/NYNHsmJ3BS

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From the archive: If generative AI accelerates science, peer review needs to catch up

#PeerReview #ScholComm #AI https://t.co/Y8LeVZX0Mj

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💥New: Nature’s decision to publish positive peer review reports only gives half the picture

#PeerReview #ScholComm #OpenScience

https://t.co/Nwtvvjbn9u

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Is there a strain on peer review? – It’s more complicated than you think

#PeerReview #ScholComm https://t.co/w9KELIrlYe

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Germany, EU fiscal rules and the illusion of objectivity

#Germany #EU https://t.co/rD9DQTIzEF

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💥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 https://t.co/zYWm9CX8Rm

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From the archive: Telling the truth, uniting behind the science – #Climate coalitions and science’s place in society https://t.co/QkYHviRs7P

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Separating religion from #climate communication leads to failure https://t.co/W6CCcl3DdK

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From the archive: By sidelining climate misinformation COP29 undermines #climate action https://t.co/hDGcJPNxBZ

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Solution-orientated simulations can drive real action on the #climate crisis https://t.co/Tte9GnlNa7

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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👉 https://t.co/NLRuO2Nh9n

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We are all losers in #Trump’s ‘common sense’ war on social science https://t.co/JdJ9edB9kR

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Is the quest for net-zero a form of scientism? https://t.co/wTQYFfhuj6

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Is federal #funding still a viable research assessment indicator in the age of #Trump? https://t.co/5dTYbUGEiR