Social Psychologist, CPsychol AFBPsS, FHEA, doing psychosocial research in cancer at the University of Surrey. Open Research champion. Health inequalities. Risk communication. Qualitative methods. Co-production.
Dr Afrodita Marcu 🇷🇴🇬🇧🇪🇺
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RoRI’s @jameswilsdon.bsky.social joins @andytattersall.bsky.social’s Under Review podcast to discuss how generative AI could transform research funding, challenge traditional grant systems, and force a rethink of how excellence is assessed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWbp...
The French have a lot of common sense:
“Our students are very lucky when you look at what happens in other countries.”
“It’s not just a question of making life easier for those at university, but also a question of social and public health."
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
As it happens, it's my favourite French cheese, which I got to know thanks to my French father-in-law. Shame it's not available in the UK.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Tools such as ChatGPT and Claude have made everyone’s cover letters and résumés look better—and look the same, @annielowrey.bsky.social writes. She reports on how AI is contorting the labor market:
1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.
Psst: I’ve got an alternative suggestion for how to reduce late-stage cancer diagnoses: STRENGTHEN PRIMARY CARE.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
It what other profession are highly qualified individuals expected to provide their expertise to for-profit companies for free, getting only the ‘honour’ of having helped and perhaps their name mentioned in a back cover once a year, which no one will read nor care about?
Join us for this online seminar, 'Tools for data FAIRification', organised by our Research Data Steward @qsaikia.bsky.social - link to the sign up form below 👇
Research on Research Institute (RoRI)
It’s a thumbs up from the country’s 3 million students, who can now buy cheap meals up to twice a day
Maybe flawed people were better than brute algorithms.
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"The goal is not just more capable AI, but AI that is more intelligible, accountable, and aligned with human aims. The window for achieving that future is narrowing," argue Eric Horvitz and Robert West in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4oaIYig
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly changing academic research, raising questions
of who is adopting these tools and under what conditions. Th...
Paying peer reviewers works.
Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social:
• 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews
• ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript
• no reduction in editor-assessed review quality
• similar acceptance rates
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Science Magazine
Stefan Marciniak
You are welcome to join us for an online seminar, 'Tools for Data FAIRification - overcoming barriers in data discoverability and reuse' on Tuesday, 23rd June, 13:00 - 15:00 (BST).
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
