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San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment. Advancing practical and robust approaches to research assessment globally and across all scholarly disciplines. Sign the Declaration at https://sfdora.org/sign and join the movement.
Can we scale experiments and pilots in research assessment? Enrique recognizes that absolutely, and Anna recognizes that part of the scaling efforts is about listening to what others are doing, and checking if it's right for your fit for your organization.
November 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Can we scale experiments and pilots in research assessment? Enrique recognizes that absolutely, and Anna recognizes that part of the scaling efforts is about listening to what others are doing, and checking if it's right for your fit for your organization.
Are you eligible to apply? You can check at the website ma3challenge.org and the ORCA team is ready to help you! All four goals of the Challenge must be met to win! Beyond discussion, into implementation - if you are ready for action in #ResearchAssessment out of the U.S., this might be for you.
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Are you eligible to apply? You can check at the website ma3challenge.org and the ORCA team is ready to help you! All four goals of the Challenge must be met to win! Beyond discussion, into implementation - if you are ready for action in #ResearchAssessment out of the U.S., this might be for you.
What's the number one thing that will move the needle? Tenure and promotion! Caitlin Schleicher from @orca-open.bsky.social shares about the funding opportunity at ma3challenge.org. But before: recognizing that reform faces many challenges through a personal anecdote!
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
What's the number one thing that will move the needle? Tenure and promotion! Caitlin Schleicher from @orca-open.bsky.social shares about the funding opportunity at ma3challenge.org. But before: recognizing that reform faces many challenges through a personal anecdote!
Professional development can be a tool for culture change! Anna Hatch shares about the #5 action, the transparent and open peer review professional skills development programme that trains ECRs to openly review preprints: learning and doing peer review.
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Professional development can be a tool for culture change! Anna Hatch shares about the #5 action, the transparent and open peer review professional skills development programme that trains ECRs to openly review preprints: learning and doing peer review.
Anna Hatch is next, sharing a series of actions from @hhmi.org to shift academic incentives! What innovations in responsible research assessment you think can be relevant to your institutions?
November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Anna Hatch is next, sharing a series of actions from @hhmi.org to shift academic incentives! What innovations in responsible research assessment you think can be relevant to your institutions?
Anonymization helps mitigate bias when hiring for academic positions: templates where shared with candidates to help them submit through this experiment done in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. A drastic change to the applicant pool was observed.
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Anonymization helps mitigate bias when hiring for academic positions: templates where shared with candidates to help them submit through this experiment done in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. A drastic change to the applicant pool was observed.
What we perceive as excellence? Enrique De La Cruz shares his innovations when chairing his Department at Yale - a change to the hiring practices that had been done for 25 years.
November 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
What we perceive as excellence? Enrique De La Cruz shares his innovations when chairing his Department at Yale - a change to the hiring practices that had been done for 25 years.
@rnls.bsky.social is kicking us off! Why is #ResearchAssessment so important?
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
@rnls.bsky.social is kicking us off! Why is #ResearchAssessment so important?
We're delighted to be hosted in Pisa, Italy, for the final conference of the GraspOS Project! If you're around, we'd love to have a chat.
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
We're delighted to be hosted in Pisa, Italy, for the final conference of the GraspOS Project! If you're around, we'd love to have a chat.
Want to learn about practical innovations in responsible research assessment in the US? 🇺🇸
Join us online on Nov 20, 1pm ET, to hear about innovations in tenure, open peer review training, and the Modernizing Academic Appointment and Advancement (MA3) Challenge!
Register 👉 bit.ly/RRA-innovati...
Join us online on Nov 20, 1pm ET, to hear about innovations in tenure, open peer review training, and the Modernizing Academic Appointment and Advancement (MA3) Challenge!
Register 👉 bit.ly/RRA-innovati...
October 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Want to learn about practical innovations in responsible research assessment in the US? 🇺🇸
Join us online on Nov 20, 1pm ET, to hear about innovations in tenure, open peer review training, and the Modernizing Academic Appointment and Advancement (MA3) Challenge!
Register 👉 bit.ly/RRA-innovati...
Join us online on Nov 20, 1pm ET, to hear about innovations in tenure, open peer review training, and the Modernizing Academic Appointment and Advancement (MA3) Challenge!
Register 👉 bit.ly/RRA-innovati...
Aproveitem bem o dia! Fica aqui o flyer em português do nosso Guia Prático - em breve esperamos ter o Guia também em português. Sucesso!
October 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Aproveitem bem o dia! Fica aqui o flyer em português do nosso Guia Prático - em breve esperamos ter o Guia também em português. Sucesso!
🇨🇳 Curious about developments in research evaluation in China?
💡 Learn how CAS, with +100 independent research institutes, has been using institute evaluations as a vital management tool, shifting from quantitative-driven approaches to assessment.
Read the new case study 👉 bit.ly/CAScasestudy
💡 Learn how CAS, with +100 independent research institutes, has been using institute evaluations as a vital management tool, shifting from quantitative-driven approaches to assessment.
Read the new case study 👉 bit.ly/CAScasestudy
October 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🇨🇳 Curious about developments in research evaluation in China?
💡 Learn how CAS, with +100 independent research institutes, has been using institute evaluations as a vital management tool, shifting from quantitative-driven approaches to assessment.
Read the new case study 👉 bit.ly/CAScasestudy
💡 Learn how CAS, with +100 independent research institutes, has been using institute evaluations as a vital management tool, shifting from quantitative-driven approaches to assessment.
Read the new case study 👉 bit.ly/CAScasestudy
‼️ Global call 🌍 DORA is seeking new Steering Committee members! We especially welcome applications from Africa, Asia, and Latin America/Caribbean.
Help shape the future of responsible research assessment.
Submit your self-nomination by October 31: forms.gle/rqjCBeFbPHak...
Help shape the future of responsible research assessment.
Submit your self-nomination by October 31: forms.gle/rqjCBeFbPHak...
October 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
‼️ Global call 🌍 DORA is seeking new Steering Committee members! We especially welcome applications from Africa, Asia, and Latin America/Caribbean.
Help shape the future of responsible research assessment.
Submit your self-nomination by October 31: forms.gle/rqjCBeFbPHak...
Help shape the future of responsible research assessment.
Submit your self-nomination by October 31: forms.gle/rqjCBeFbPHak...
Meet our new Executive Board members Sandra Bendiscioli (@embo.org), Roheena Anand (@plos.org), and Stuart Lane (@snsf.ch)! They join our Steering Committee Chairs to provide strategic oversight, shaping DORA’s long-term priorities and activities. Short bios on our blog 👉 sfdora.org/2025/09/30/n...
September 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Meet our new Executive Board members Sandra Bendiscioli (@embo.org), Roheena Anand (@plos.org), and Stuart Lane (@snsf.ch)! They join our Steering Committee Chairs to provide strategic oversight, shaping DORA’s long-term priorities and activities. Short bios on our blog 👉 sfdora.org/2025/09/30/n...
We're kicking off "Localising the Global: Towards Responsible Research Assessment in Brazil" 🇧🇷 A whole day discussing with researchers, universities and funders on how to advance RRA principles! @rnls.bsky.social now presenting on why RRA matters. Thanks @uspoficial.bsky.social for hosting us!
September 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
We're kicking off "Localising the Global: Towards Responsible Research Assessment in Brazil" 🇧🇷 A whole day discussing with researchers, universities and funders on how to advance RRA principles! @rnls.bsky.social now presenting on why RRA matters. Thanks @uspoficial.bsky.social for hosting us!
Our partnered project 'Breaking Barriers in Research Funding Applications: Evaluating Narrative CVs and Co-designing Solutions' has come to an end! Thanks @edicaucus.bsky.social @daphnejacksontr.bsky.social University of Surrey. Here's an overview of what we have been working on and our key findings
September 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Our partnered project 'Breaking Barriers in Research Funding Applications: Evaluating Narrative CVs and Co-designing Solutions' has come to an end! Thanks @edicaucus.bsky.social @daphnejacksontr.bsky.social University of Surrey. Here's an overview of what we have been working on and our key findings
Are you in Bristol next week for #STIENID2025? Then come and share your thoughts on developing success indicators research performing orgs can use to monitor and assess the progress of their #ResearchAssessment! 👉 11:15-12:30, Wed 3 Sept, Room 9, Ground Floor
@cwts.nl @justinaxelberg.bsky.social
@cwts.nl @justinaxelberg.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Are you in Bristol next week for #STIENID2025? Then come and share your thoughts on developing success indicators research performing orgs can use to monitor and assess the progress of their #ResearchAssessment! 👉 11:15-12:30, Wed 3 Sept, Room 9, Ground Floor
@cwts.nl @justinaxelberg.bsky.social
@cwts.nl @justinaxelberg.bsky.social
Join us in São Paulo on September 15, 9-16:30, to advance #ResponsibleResearchAssessment in Brazil! 🇧🇷
Hosted by @uspoficial.bsky.social in collaboration with Projeto Métricas, with representatives from public universities and funding agencies. Register now 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Hosted by @uspoficial.bsky.social in collaboration with Projeto Métricas, with representatives from public universities and funding agencies. Register now 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
August 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Join us in São Paulo on September 15, 9-16:30, to advance #ResponsibleResearchAssessment in Brazil! 🇧🇷
Hosted by @uspoficial.bsky.social in collaboration with Projeto Métricas, with representatives from public universities and funding agencies. Register now 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Hosted by @uspoficial.bsky.social in collaboration with Projeto Métricas, with representatives from public universities and funding agencies. Register now 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
There's still time to register your interest to join the EU High-Level Conference on #ResearchAssessment! It is primarily in-person but if you are unable to attend or prefer to stream the conference, you have the opportunity to follow the majority of the conference online.
👉 www.cerra.aau.dk
👉 www.cerra.aau.dk
August 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
There's still time to register your interest to join the EU High-Level Conference on #ResearchAssessment! It is primarily in-person but if you are unable to attend or prefer to stream the conference, you have the opportunity to follow the majority of the conference online.
👉 www.cerra.aau.dk
👉 www.cerra.aau.dk
Join DORA Vice-Chair @rnls.bsky.social at the UK @coarassessment.bsky.social National Chapter Meeting “Moving Principles Into Practice, Together”
3rd Sept, in London & online!
Register 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1469153370...
Rebecca will share about our Practical Guide for HEIs 👉 bit.ly/DORA-Guide
3rd Sept, in London & online!
Register 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1469153370...
Rebecca will share about our Practical Guide for HEIs 👉 bit.ly/DORA-Guide
July 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Join DORA Vice-Chair @rnls.bsky.social at the UK @coarassessment.bsky.social National Chapter Meeting “Moving Principles Into Practice, Together”
3rd Sept, in London & online!
Register 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1469153370...
Rebecca will share about our Practical Guide for HEIs 👉 bit.ly/DORA-Guide
3rd Sept, in London & online!
Register 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1469153370...
Rebecca will share about our Practical Guide for HEIs 👉 bit.ly/DORA-Guide
We’re excited to announce a new accessibility feature on our website: optional automatic translations! Powered by Google Translate, this is part of our ongoing commitment to making our content more accessible and inclusive for our global community 🌍
Feedback welcome! 👉 sfdora.org/2025/07/10/a...
Feedback welcome! 👉 sfdora.org/2025/07/10/a...
July 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
We’re excited to announce a new accessibility feature on our website: optional automatic translations! Powered by Google Translate, this is part of our ongoing commitment to making our content more accessible and inclusive for our global community 🌍
Feedback welcome! 👉 sfdora.org/2025/07/10/a...
Feedback welcome! 👉 sfdora.org/2025/07/10/a...
Thank you, #Metascience2025 & everyone who took the time to connect! We're delighted with sharing resources & meaningful connections at the DORA booth! @coarassessment.bsky.social @metaror.bsky.social @ginnybarbour.bsky.social @rnls.bsky.social @scurry.bsky.social @lizziegadd.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Thank you, #Metascience2025 & everyone who took the time to connect! We're delighted with sharing resources & meaningful connections at the DORA booth! @coarassessment.bsky.social @metaror.bsky.social @ginnybarbour.bsky.social @rnls.bsky.social @scurry.bsky.social @lizziegadd.bsky.social
Our Co-Chair Kelly Cobey presents our new Practical Guide for Research Performing Organizations in the session "The many dimensions of rethinking research assessment" at #Metascience25 - have you already explored it? You can download it at bit.ly/DORA-Guide
July 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Our Co-Chair Kelly Cobey presents our new Practical Guide for Research Performing Organizations in the session "The many dimensions of rethinking research assessment" at #Metascience25 - have you already explored it? You can download it at bit.ly/DORA-Guide
How about a group photo of the RRA community at #Metascience2025? If you're around, we'd love to have a group photo with you! Make sure to drop by Jeffrey Hall, UCL IOE during the coffee break tomorrow July 02, at 11am! Today we got some good ones of the DORA team with @coarassessment.bsky.social 🤩
July 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
How about a group photo of the RRA community at #Metascience2025? If you're around, we'd love to have a group photo with you! Make sure to drop by Jeffrey Hall, UCL IOE during the coffee break tomorrow July 02, at 11am! Today we got some good ones of the DORA team with @coarassessment.bsky.social 🤩
@wellcometrust.bsky.social CEO John-Arne Røttingen shared how Wellcome got interesting results with partial randomization in research funding in the final panel of #MS25! We explored this topic in our Funders Group earlier this year - you can read about this practice at sfdora.org/funder-discu...
June 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
@wellcometrust.bsky.social CEO John-Arne Røttingen shared how Wellcome got interesting results with partial randomization in research funding in the final panel of #MS25! We explored this topic in our Funders Group earlier this year - you can read about this practice at sfdora.org/funder-discu...