ICYMI: 📢DORA has released new guidance on responsible use of quantitative indicators in research assessment.
💡This guidance includes 5 principles for use: be clear, be transparent, be specific, be contextual and be fair. Read all about it👇
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“If we shouldn’t use Impact Factors, what should we use instead?”

Today, DORA is releasing new guidance on research indicators, including Journal Impact Factor, citations, h-index, altmetrics, and more. 🧵1/3

bit.ly/DORAindicators

📣 NEW Data and Code Availability Policy

It is now a condition for publication of accepted manuscripts at Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences presenting original results that authors make publicly available all data and code needed to reproduce those results via an online data repository.

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#OpenData

👏Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences👏

'Given Canada’s commitment to #opendata and research data management, we are proud to introduce this policy at a flagship journal for fisheries and aquatic sciences in Canada.'

Great to see this happening in collaboration with SORTEE !

blog.cdnsciencepub.com/open-data-and-…

Thanks to Michael Smith Health Research BC for the opportunity to participate. Kudos Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) Prof Stirling Bryan Dr Bev Holmes. Follow Dr James Wilsdon for more on Metascience including #Metascience2025

Cool - I know what I'm doing today!

How reliable is this research? Tool flags papers discussed on PubPeer nature.com/articles/d4158…

Good debate happening over at Dynamic Ecology regarding the state of academic publishing in general and the impact of OA/pay-to-publish more specifically.

dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/the…

I was privileged to be in the room with the greats such as Dame Kelly Cobey. 🇨🇦 She's also co-chair of DORA DORA along with Dr Ginny Barbour Ginny Barbour MJA) #Metascience2025 James Wilsdon Brian Nosek (@[email protected])

So exciting to see SSHRC supporting #Metaresearch in 🇨🇦 and fostering these discussions.

Tommy Norin will be in Prague to receive the 2024 President Medal from SEB.

His exceptional work in Animal biology highlights his unwavering dedication and excellence, serving as a beacon for researchers 🎉

More information:
sebiology.org/resource/meet-…

#ScienceExcellence

New paper: As we break away from journal-based metrics, we need to ensure that new forms of research assessment have been shaped by the community and are monitored and improved over time. nature.com/articles/d4158…

📢 SAVE THE DATE for our 4th SORTEE conference: 15-16th Oct 2024! 

Registration & content submission (unconferences, hackathons, workshops) will soon open. 

Keep an 👁️ on: i.mtr.cool/tzixfbgizf 

#SORTEE2024

Last Friday UK Reproducibility Network was officially 5 years old - we launched at King's College London on 8th March 2019. Today, the global community of Reproducibility Networks consists of 18 countries (and growing) and one region (@africanrepro)...

Two more papers by Dixson and Munday get Editorial Expressions of Concern for raw data issues. These papers have previously been flagged as having unrealistic variance for fish behaviour.

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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🔊 #SORTEEcodeclub is ON

We meet on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. Our next #CodeClub will be on March 19th (9:00-10:00 UTC): we will build a library of code mistakes;  join us! #opencode #openscience

For more, read the debrief of the kick-off meeting: i.mtr.cool/iusnxeqibk

Find the latest webinar hosted by EUA, introducing the #CoARA Working Group Reforming Academic Career Assessment!
▶️📽️bit.ly/4a2SWdu

📝The WG is seeking your input! Fill out the survey on mapping initiatives of academic #careerassessment : bit.ly/42wGW1i

Last year SORTEE (together with Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar) was awarded with AEET 'Open Science' Award. SORTEE website includes now AEET's institutional support for this initiative for open, reliable and transparent science.

sortee.org/supporters/

“Until now, sleuths facing legal bills often relied on finding a lawyer to work pro bono, launching a crowdfunding campaign, or convincing an employer to financially support their cases.
“We are hoping to change the incentives for whistleblowing””

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Most of the talks of the 6th Perspectives on Scientific Error conference are now online!
youtube.com/playlist?list=…

All these talks, from across scientific disciplines, were so interesting! I’ll link to each talk in this thread: 👇🧵

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We have an amazing international team & are full of energy to 💪 ecological research

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