We’re proud to announce a milestone at the Intelligent Manufacturing Kuala Lumpur (IMKL) event! IMKL and David Romero of the World Manufacturing Foundation have signed a collaboration agreement to promote sustainable growth in ASEAN.
#manufacturing#innovation#IMKL
It's a pleasure working w/ @Ericsson to raise awareness of #5G &other 21st-century technologies. We want to contribute to the development of a skilled 5G-ready workforce. To do so, we must train faculty in 5G so we can help students build the 5G ICT skills demanded by the market.
Anyone else had a #terrible#experience checking in to @Aeromexico + @KLM flights? #Seats available and then just error message! Spent 2 hours trying to #reserve a #seat next to my wife on 15h MEX-AMS AM25, through AM, KLM -> error. At airport: No seats available! @Aeromexico ???
@DeryaTR_@GaryMarcus I appreciate the irony of yet another hyped technology classified as the "Greatest advance in human History". Still waiting for the Washing Machine presented as one of the greatest inventions (which it actually was) and who would ban it today for redrawing the job market?
In today's noisy world, so many opinions are expressed all around us. Having views on things often shows that you care, and a healthy debate can widen our perspective. But it's important for opinions and arguments to be based on facts that can be scientifically validated, as far as possible. People are entitled to have their own views, but they are not entitled to have their own facts.
#quotes #science #facts #knowledge
This week, we welcome back the UK to the Horizon family. A win-win for global scientific progress.
Starting from 1 January 2024, UK researchers will be able to participate in @HorizonEU, the EU’s research and innovation programme.
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Labour shortage, skill gaps and difficult hunt for talent is dramatic for many manufacturing industries globally. What does this mean for sustainable innovation and what can we do to transform our future? #upskilling#work@EU_Commission@EITManufactur
https://t.co/wfeQZZE9QC
The @yml_network - such an amazing community of young and promising leaders in European manufacturing research and industry!!! With you there is hope for future competitiveness and sucess for Europe!
#manufacturing@EU_Commission
The Young Manufacturing Leaders’ Summit 2023 has come to a close after a stimulating afternoon of discussions led by the next generation of industry leaders tackling some of the biggest issues facing manufacturing, like AI and clean technology.
#YML#worldmanufacturingforum
The Young Manufacturing Leaders’ Summit 2023 has come to a close after a stimulating afternoon of discussions led by the next generation of industry leaders tackling some of the biggest issues facing manufacturing, like AI and clean technology.
#YML#worldmanufacturingforum
Cristina Oyón has just presented the findings of the 2023 SPRI & WMF Special Report: “Women in Manufacturing: Impact of Women in Industrial Competitiveness”, concluding that gender equality matters in terms of economic profitability in the manufacturing sector. #WomeninMFG
Huge potential benefits in establishing net zero industry value chains for #batteries in Europe. A huge market and god fit for the green deel.
#netzeroindustryact @CarolineViarouge @EITManufactur
WMF is honoured to announce that Milan Kumar (ZF Commercial Vehicles (CVS)) and Ken Somers (McKinsey & Company) will be exploring net-zero value at this year’s eminent event along with Caroline Viarouge (EIT Manufacturing). Sign up now to take part: https://t.co/4BI5fpVo9M
Overpublishing puts enormous stress on students and PIs.
And brings tons of money to publishers in STEM.
A new study shows that the number of papers is increasing FASTER than the number of #PhD graduates.
It’s an amazing work with very useful statistics. Huge kudos to the authors!
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Main outcomes:
1️⃣ In 2022 the number of articles is 47% higher than in 2016. The amount of writing, reviewing and editing workload per scientist is increased enormously.
2️⃣ “Special issues” is a strategy for publishing lots of papers with reduced review time. This is possible due to the “publish or perish” pressure and clearly benefits the publishers.
3️⃣ The publishing time varies widely!
MDPI = 37 days. Frontiers = 72 days. Elsevier = 134 days. Springer = 157 days. Nature = 185 days.
4️⃣ The article rejection rates do not seem to correlate with publisher growth. However, rejection rates decline with increased use of special issue publishing.
5️⃣ Certain for-profit gold-open-access publishers create an increasing number of special issues, with uniquely reduced turnaround times, and in specific cases, high impact inflation and reduced rejection rates.
6️⃣ The authors suggest a new metric - Impact Inflation, which is reflected in self-citation within the same journal. For example, MDPI has a high impact inflation due to excessive self-citation compared to other publishers.
Conclusions and my opinion:
- Scientists have to spend a lot more time on reviewing and writing than before (on average).
- The more papers are published, the more the quality is compromised.
- Scientific progress has become partially bound to the business models of publishers and their revenue (a sad reality today).
- There is a huge lack of transparency. Much of these data had to be ‘web-scraped’ from numerous sources in order to get a full picture. We clearly need regulators to mandate open access to publisher’s statistics.
- Reduce the number of special issues! Those typically have low standards.
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Science, publishing and funding make a trio that is very hard to disentangle.
However, research quality is controlled by the community.
This is why preprint + community review can make a big difference.
#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter
Today our Community of Practice brought together 100+ stakeholders to move Industry 5.0 to the next level.
This's a strong platform where we can work together on transforming traditional business models into more impactful ones.
More on this here: https://t.co/ZXVgfCFZ9x