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The 'soft bigotry' of novel research: "research that is genuinely creative, interdisciplinary, or theoretically disruptive struggles to find space simply because it does not fit the polished template of “novel contribution.”" Great piece in @lseimpactblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Do “novel contributions” to research mean anything anymore? - Impact of Social Sciences
A key criteria for academic publications is that they make a novel contribution to their field. However, as Adam Arian argues the wide interpretation of novelty applied by editors and reviewers has le...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The 'soft bigotry' of novel research: "research that is genuinely creative, interdisciplinary, or theoretically disruptive struggles to find space simply because it does not fit the polished template of “novel contribution.”" Great piece in @lseimpactblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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💥New: What makes national climate action investable?
✍️Carmen Nuzzo & Antonina Scheer (@tpicatlse.bsky.social)
#ClimateAction #ClimateFinance #COP30
✍️Carmen Nuzzo & Antonina Scheer (@tpicatlse.bsky.social)
#ClimateAction #ClimateFinance #COP30
What makes national climate action investable? - Impact of Social Sciences
How can evidence-based ASCOR research inform investor-sovereign engagement and and drive government investment in climate action?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
💥New: What makes national climate action investable?
✍️Carmen Nuzzo & Antonina Scheer (@tpicatlse.bsky.social)
#ClimateAction #ClimateFinance #COP30
✍️Carmen Nuzzo & Antonina Scheer (@tpicatlse.bsky.social)
#ClimateAction #ClimateFinance #COP30
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👀ICYMI: "The choice for discretion is not driven by a desire to hide problems, but by a pragmatic response to the realities of academic life."
@freddie2310.bsky.social #Corrections #AcWri #ResearchEthics
@freddie2310.bsky.social #Corrections #AcWri #ResearchEthics
Do acts to correct the scientific record need to move out of the shadows? - Impact of Social Sciences
Scientists prefer to correct errors in the scientific record informally, but is this a sustainable mechanism in expanding world of global research?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
👀ICYMI: "The choice for discretion is not driven by a desire to hide problems, but by a pragmatic response to the realities of academic life."
@freddie2310.bsky.social #Corrections #AcWri #ResearchEthics
@freddie2310.bsky.social #Corrections #AcWri #ResearchEthics
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💥New: Do “novel contributions” to research mean anything anymore?
✍️Adam Arian
#AcademicSky #AcWri #ResearchMethods
✍️Adam Arian
#AcademicSky #AcWri #ResearchMethods
Do “novel contributions” to research mean anything anymore? - Impact of Social Sciences
A key criteria for academic publications is that they make a novel contribution to their field. However, as Adam Arian argues the wide interpretation of novelty applied by editors and reviewers has le...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
💥New: Do “novel contributions” to research mean anything anymore?
✍️Adam Arian
#AcademicSky #AcWri #ResearchMethods
✍️Adam Arian
#AcademicSky #AcWri #ResearchMethods
💥New: Do “novel contributions” to research mean anything anymore?
✍️Adam Arian
#AcademicSky #AcWri #ResearchMethods
✍️Adam Arian
#AcademicSky #AcWri #ResearchMethods
Do “novel contributions” to research mean anything anymore? - Impact of Social Sciences
A key criteria for academic publications is that they make a novel contribution to their field. However, as Adam Arian argues the wide interpretation of novelty applied by editors and reviewers has le...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
💥New: Do “novel contributions” to research mean anything anymore?
✍️Adam Arian
#AcademicSky #AcWri #ResearchMethods
✍️Adam Arian
#AcademicSky #AcWri #ResearchMethods
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The backlash from researchers whose work has been used to train #LLMs has re-opened questions around how scholarly works are licensed & the merits of open licenses.
But #CreativeCommons licenses & copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI, writes @eve.gd @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
But #CreativeCommons licenses & copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI, writes @eve.gd @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI - Impact of Social Sciences
Considering the legal standing of creative commons licenses & copyright, Martin Eve suggests legal protections for academic work are unlikely to be forthcoming.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The backlash from researchers whose work has been used to train #LLMs has re-opened questions around how scholarly works are licensed & the merits of open licenses.
But #CreativeCommons licenses & copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI, writes @eve.gd @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
But #CreativeCommons licenses & copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI, writes @eve.gd @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
👀Interesting to see the budget earlier this week confirming funding for @ukri.org trial of #DistributedPeerReview, we featured a post from @rorinstitute.bsky.social discussing their recent work on the subject back in September 👇
Distributed Peer Review – How the wisdom of the crowd can allocate grant funding - Impact of Social Sciences
New research shows engaging the applicants in funding review processes can resolve and reframe many issues facing peer review.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
👀Interesting to see the budget earlier this week confirming funding for @ukri.org trial of #DistributedPeerReview, we featured a post from @rorinstitute.bsky.social discussing their recent work on the subject back in September 👇
💥New: What makes national climate action investable?
✍️Carmen Nuzzo & Antonina Scheer (@tpicatlse.bsky.social)
#ClimateAction #ClimateFinance #COP30
✍️Carmen Nuzzo & Antonina Scheer (@tpicatlse.bsky.social)
#ClimateAction #ClimateFinance #COP30
What makes national climate action investable? - Impact of Social Sciences
How can evidence-based ASCOR research inform investor-sovereign engagement and and drive government investment in climate action?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
💥New: What makes national climate action investable?
✍️Carmen Nuzzo & Antonina Scheer (@tpicatlse.bsky.social)
#ClimateAction #ClimateFinance #COP30
✍️Carmen Nuzzo & Antonina Scheer (@tpicatlse.bsky.social)
#ClimateAction #ClimateFinance #COP30
👀ICYMI: "The choice for discretion is not driven by a desire to hide problems, but by a pragmatic response to the realities of academic life."
@freddie2310.bsky.social #Corrections #AcWri #ResearchEthics
@freddie2310.bsky.social #Corrections #AcWri #ResearchEthics
Do acts to correct the scientific record need to move out of the shadows? - Impact of Social Sciences
Scientists prefer to correct errors in the scientific record informally, but is this a sustainable mechanism in expanding world of global research?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
👀ICYMI: "The choice for discretion is not driven by a desire to hide problems, but by a pragmatic response to the realities of academic life."
@freddie2310.bsky.social #Corrections #AcWri #ResearchEthics
@freddie2310.bsky.social #Corrections #AcWri #ResearchEthics
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👀ICYMI: "It matters less that Grokipedia succeeds than whether it helps to delegitimise Wikipedia."
@gildersleve.uk #Grok #Wikipedia #Knowledge
@gildersleve.uk #Grok #Wikipedia #Knowledge
Grokipedia falls flat, but AI is already rewriting Wikipedia’s future - Impact of Social Sciences
Launched as a competitor to Wikipedia, Grokipedia is one of the first LLM based encyclopaedias, but how does it compare to the last best place on the internet?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
👀ICYMI: "It matters less that Grokipedia succeeds than whether it helps to delegitimise Wikipedia."
@gildersleve.uk #Grok #Wikipedia #Knowledge
@gildersleve.uk #Grok #Wikipedia #Knowledge
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💥New: Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI
✍️ @eve.gd
#CreativeCommons #ScholComm #AcWri
✍️ @eve.gd
#CreativeCommons #ScholComm #AcWri
Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI - Impact of Social Sciences
Considering the legal standing of creative commons licenses & copyright, Martin Eve suggests legal protections for academic work are unlikely to be forthcoming.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
💥New: Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI
✍️ @eve.gd
#CreativeCommons #ScholComm #AcWri
✍️ @eve.gd
#CreativeCommons #ScholComm #AcWri
👀ICYMI: "if the drain has a particular history and geography, it means that it is not inevitable. It can be resisted."
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #ScholComm
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #ScholComm
Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science - Impact of Social Sciences
Have the interests of commercial publishers now become antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
👀ICYMI: "if the drain has a particular history and geography, it means that it is not inevitable. It can be resisted."
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #ScholComm
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #ScholComm
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Productivity will be central to today's Budget. But what even is economic productivity? And why has the UK's productivity been flagging over the past 15 years? blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
What is economic productivity? | British Politics and Policy at LSE
Productivity powers economic growth and raises living standards. But the UK has witnessed a prolonged period of stagnation, marked by weak productivity growth.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Productivity will be central to today's Budget. But what even is economic productivity? And why has the UK's productivity been flagging over the past 15 years? blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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Good explainer from @eve.gd. I especially appreciated the explanation of ‘transformative’ use, explanations of which are hard to come by.
Though I still don’t understand how ‘transformative’ use isn’t still a massive breach of copyright.
Though I still don’t understand how ‘transformative’ use isn’t still a massive breach of copyright.
💥New: Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI
✍️ @eve.gd
#CreativeCommons #ScholComm #AcWri
✍️ @eve.gd
#CreativeCommons #ScholComm #AcWri
Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI - Impact of Social Sciences
Considering the legal standing of creative commons licenses & copyright, Martin Eve suggests legal protections for academic work are unlikely to be forthcoming.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Good explainer from @eve.gd. I especially appreciated the explanation of ‘transformative’ use, explanations of which are hard to come by.
Though I still don’t understand how ‘transformative’ use isn’t still a massive breach of copyright.
Though I still don’t understand how ‘transformative’ use isn’t still a massive breach of copyright.
👀ICYMI: "[our findings] underscores the urgent need for libraries, archives, and information infrastructure providers to include scholarly blogs more systematically in their preservation strategies"
@pampel.bsky.social & @catharinaochsner.bsky.social #ScholComm #Libraries #AcademicBlogs
@pampel.bsky.social & @catharinaochsner.bsky.social #ScholComm #Libraries #AcademicBlogs
The case for preserving scholarly blogs - Impact of Social Sciences
Poor preservation threatens the scholarly blogging ecosystem. What makes scholarly blogs sustainable and how can these practices be promoted?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
👀ICYMI: "[our findings] underscores the urgent need for libraries, archives, and information infrastructure providers to include scholarly blogs more systematically in their preservation strategies"
@pampel.bsky.social & @catharinaochsner.bsky.social #ScholComm #Libraries #AcademicBlogs
@pampel.bsky.social & @catharinaochsner.bsky.social #ScholComm #Libraries #AcademicBlogs
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I basically think this is the edge of a pretty bad storm of copyright conservatism and a reopening of the license wars (which may make no difference due to transformative use). However, if you put up a paywall to acquire, AI companies have to acquire legally in current court rulings. Problematic.
💥New: Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI
✍️ @eve.gd
#CreativeCommons #ScholComm #AcWri
✍️ @eve.gd
#CreativeCommons #ScholComm #AcWri
Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI - Impact of Social Sciences
Considering the legal standing of creative commons licenses & copyright, Martin Eve suggests legal protections for academic work are unlikely to be forthcoming.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I basically think this is the edge of a pretty bad storm of copyright conservatism and a reopening of the license wars (which may make no difference due to transformative use). However, if you put up a paywall to acquire, AI companies have to acquire legally in current court rulings. Problematic.
👀ICYMI: "It matters less that Grokipedia succeeds than whether it helps to delegitimise Wikipedia."
@gildersleve.uk #Grok #Wikipedia #Knowledge
@gildersleve.uk #Grok #Wikipedia #Knowledge
Grokipedia falls flat, but AI is already rewriting Wikipedia’s future - Impact of Social Sciences
Launched as a competitor to Wikipedia, Grokipedia is one of the first LLM based encyclopaedias, but how does it compare to the last best place on the internet?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
👀ICYMI: "It matters less that Grokipedia succeeds than whether it helps to delegitimise Wikipedia."
@gildersleve.uk #Grok #Wikipedia #Knowledge
@gildersleve.uk #Grok #Wikipedia #Knowledge
💥New: Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI
✍️ @eve.gd
#CreativeCommons #ScholComm #AcWri
✍️ @eve.gd
#CreativeCommons #ScholComm #AcWri
Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI - Impact of Social Sciences
Considering the legal standing of creative commons licenses & copyright, Martin Eve suggests legal protections for academic work are unlikely to be forthcoming.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
💥New: Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI
✍️ @eve.gd
#CreativeCommons #ScholComm #AcWri
✍️ @eve.gd
#CreativeCommons #ScholComm #AcWri
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💥New: Do acts to correct the scientific record need to move out of the shadows?
✍️ @freddie2310.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #Corrections #AcWri
✍️ @freddie2310.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #Corrections #AcWri
Do acts to correct the scientific record need to move out of the shadows? - Impact of Social Sciences
Scientists prefer to correct errors in the scientific record informally, but is this a sustainable mechanism in expanding world of global research?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
💥New: Do acts to correct the scientific record need to move out of the shadows?
✍️ @freddie2310.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #Corrections #AcWri
✍️ @freddie2310.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #Corrections #AcWri
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We summarized the Drain paper in an LSE Impact blog post this week. Please share in your networks, ideally with those we are calling to action: research funders and university leadership
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ScholComm
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ScholComm
November 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
We summarized the Drain paper in an LSE Impact blog post this week. Please share in your networks, ideally with those we are calling to action: research funders and university leadership
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ScholComm
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ScholComm
👀 ICYMI: "The social sciences, more than hard sciences, have methodologically and philosophically depended on forms of work that unfold slowly."
#Academia #Acceleration #SocialScience
#Academia #Acceleration #SocialScience
In defence of boredom – Why the social sciences need time to “waste” - Impact of Social Sciences
Why has boredom, or simply the opportunity to linger over research, become a key issue in shaping the kinds of knowledge academics produce?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
👀 ICYMI: "The social sciences, more than hard sciences, have methodologically and philosophically depended on forms of work that unfold slowly."
#Academia #Acceleration #SocialScience
#Academia #Acceleration #SocialScience
💥New: Do acts to correct the scientific record need to move out of the shadows?
✍️ @freddie2310.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #Corrections #AcWri
✍️ @freddie2310.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #Corrections #AcWri
Do acts to correct the scientific record need to move out of the shadows? - Impact of Social Sciences
Scientists prefer to correct errors in the scientific record informally, but is this a sustainable mechanism in expanding world of global research?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
💥New: Do acts to correct the scientific record need to move out of the shadows?
✍️ @freddie2310.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #Corrections #AcWri
✍️ @freddie2310.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #Corrections #AcWri
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👀ICYMI: "That the majority research publications have authors in Low and Middle-Income Countries is unprecedented."
#AcademicSky #ResearchPolicy
#AcademicSky #ResearchPolicy
Are we ready for a multipolar world of research? - Impact of Social Sciences
The majority of research now takes place outside the Global North. How should research institutions globally position themselves in this new multipolar order?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
👀ICYMI: "That the majority research publications have authors in Low and Middle-Income Countries is unprecedented."
#AcademicSky #ResearchPolicy
#AcademicSky #ResearchPolicy
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💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science
✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca
#AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca
#AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science - Impact of Social Sciences
Have the interests of commercial publishers now become antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science
✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca
#AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca
#AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing