✍️'In a way, then, a credence is not directly about an object or person, but rather about that object or person ‘under a designator’.'

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✍️'we advocate that the ESRC keeps the data deposit by default mandate, while better acknowledging the ‘tiers of sensitivity’ of data.'

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Professor Angela Daly and colleagues discuss how research data policies in social science can keep up with developments in open data on the eve of the publication of the Economic and Social Research Council Research Data policy review in the LSE Impact Blog this week: buff.ly/3WFuxXJ

🗣️'For qualitative researchers, navigating the formalised, regulated and institutionalised data sharing landscape is challenging, largely because the process is governed by quantitative data management practices'

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💥New: Names that contain multitudes – Why policymakers should care about objects of credence

Anna Mahtani (LSE Philosophy) #Policymaking #DecisionMaking wp.me/p4m9em-d0B

✍️'while expressions of vulnerability on LinkedIn are partly a critical reaction to an insecure labour market, they are concurrently an instrument to survive amidst these forces of precarity'

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👀ICYMI: Dr Caitlin Hafferty Ursula Pool & Pedi Obani, PhD FHEA question whether the conceptual vagueness and historical origins of the word ‘stakeholder’ means it time to find better alternatives

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The British Library hack is a warning for all academic libraries

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✍️'even among those dedicated to improving academic research, we continue to refer to academic outputs as “last-name-of-first-author’s paper”

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💥New: 'when we calculate the expected costs and benefits for an individual it matters how we designate that person'

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What’s the point of co-production when all your participants agree with you?

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'Issues with the term “stakeholder” go beyond its ambiguity; it has deep ethical implications stemming from its colonial roots and its association with Western power dynamics.'

💥New: Names that contain multitudes – Why policymakers should care about objects of credence

Anna Mahtani (LSE Philosophy) #Policymaking #DecisionMaking wp.me/p4m9em-d0B

🗃️From the archive: Publishing and Perishing – Does a new generation of social scientists have to publish more to achieve less?

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I can endorse most heartily the strength of feeling that resonates in this article. The Women’s Library collection is to be treasured both for what it is - a marvellous, accessible resource - & for what it stands for - the idea of memorialising all aspects of women’s history.

Dashboards have the power to make complex research accessible to the public and policymakers

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If journals are to be purged of racist and sexist work, who decides where to draw the line?

#AcademicFreedom wp.me/p4m9em-cQk

✍️'the dearth of tenure-track lines relative to the population of recent PhDs means that the ECR labour market is very much a buyer’s market.'

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Is it ethical to use generative AI if you can’t tell whether it is right or wrong?

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