How should we evaluate research? 📊 ISSI President Giovanni Abramo on what to measure, how to measure it, and what to avoid: FSS, MNCS, the h-index, rankings, and peer review.

🗓 Oct 8, 9–10 AM EDT / 21:00 Beijing
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Question: what is the difference between a “logic” and an “algorithm”? If I have a “logic of discovery” versus an “algorithm for discovery“ how are they different? I want to give summary bullet points to students in a course. But we don’t use these concepts in physics.

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Had an interesting panel discussion on "Where Should #AI Stop in #Science?" with fellow panelists David Resnik, Rory McGreal, Catherine Chen, and Javier Ramirez.

Here is the link to the video: www.youtube.com/live/VqcnZbf...

#metascience #responsibleAI #ScAISci #scisci #academia #publishing

Too many of us share this experience. (+1)

If you haven’t seen this Instagram post from Hassan Ihssan at the Perimeter Institute on how much what we hear as students and say as professors affects us as scientists it’s worth a read.

#academicsky #physics #scisci

www.instagram.com/p/DdjtEI8lm2...

More than 50,000 submissions to @iclr-conf.bsky.social this year? That's more than all the previous iterations combined. This is after the limit they imposed of 20 max paper per author.

With this rate, we will have more than 100k next year. Need better reforms urgently.

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Interesting reading. But this line from the author felt piercing, “note: I personally view wanting to be first to a discovery as a relatively fixed behavioral quality of scientists for at least the next few generations.” When did we become about priority > purpose? #scisci #metascience #histsci

Fascinating reading. We hope to see more needed studies like these.

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Aloha Bluesky!

I'm Bernadette, founder of The Insightful Scientist. We help researchers use scientific discovery as a force for good. Also, we’re based in Hawai’i. Happy to join researchers and thinkers here. What discoveries are on your mind right now?

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