I'm giving evidence to the at 9:30 about how we can improve UK research quality
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I want to focus on improving incentives - lavish rewards for teamwork, error detection, and results-blind publication
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Lead, Networked Data Lab + . Love useful, rigorous, open science & good research culture. @JessButler@mastodon.social
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🎙️ on BBC Scotland!
Talking about our latest paper bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com
Listen here from 16:40
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Children’s medical records are spread across the NHS system so it can be tricky to get a clear sense of mental health needs.
Ideally, we go on to use this research to help prevent poor mental health before children need specialist services.
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Mental health presciptions for children are up 60%. The vast majority of medication is given to boys, mostly for ADHD. But girls have a big spike in anti-depressants when they get older.
Children living in the poorest neighbourhoods are given twice the medication and referrals.
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Lead by , our team at have a new paper on inequalities in children's mental health care
We linked 7 years of mental health prescribing + psychiatric referrals for the 100k children in
bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11
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Mental health prescriptions for children have gone up by nearly 60 percent and there are clear inequities according to gender and those living in poverty according to new research from the University. Read the full story - bit.ly/3Zt5lmh
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My take after a month on Mastodon is that it's as busy as Twitter used to be for open science, research culture, R, and stats. For NHS and public health, about 50% of the people I followed have moved over. But not many institutions have arrived yet.
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If you're missing your tweeps who moved to Mastodon, you can read their posts without having an account yourself
mastodon.social/@JessButler
If you prefer RSS, you can follow anyone's posts by adding .rss to the same URL
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Mastodon works well in my web browser. Some say the offical app isn't great - use Metatext or Tusky instead.
Before you follow people - add a picture and bio.
Your first post is traditionally tagged #introduction. Pin it to your profile. Then folks will boost and follow!
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The best explanation I've read for choosing a server is to think of it like an email provider. You get an address with the server's name in it. But you can interact with anyone on any server.
I use mastodon.social. It's big, stable, and basic.
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Use this to find your tweeps on🐘
pruvisto.org/debirdify/
Top servers my people are on
mastodon.social
fosstodon.org
mastodon.online
mstdn.social
scicomm.xyz
nerdculture.de
fediscience.org
scholar.social
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Lively discussion with local leads this morning! Working out how to be politically influential enough to get changes made in research culture.
Can I persuade more of us to join Mastodon?
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This is the best tool I've tried for finding your twitter people on Mastodon
pruvisto.org/debirdify/
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Lots of R, stats, and open science people over on Mastodon now.
Come along NHS, public health, epi people, it's nice!
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Everyone moving from twitter to mastodon is very likely to fail because it is a collective action problem, benefits depend on others actions.
Here's how it can succeed. It will require your commitment for 1 month to do a few things. Read and retweet if you commit to do them.
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Even if the Mastodon migration only affects #academictwitter, it could be a great success.
Social media is like the local pub. The food quality is irrelevant. As long as the people I want to talk to and hear from are there, I'm happy.
I'm at: nerdculture.de/web/@briannosek
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Take on Mastodon so far:
big academic twitter influx
nice, geeky vibe
excellent pet pics
mastodon.social is fine if you're over-thinking it
get started with a post tagged #introduction
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Over at Mastodon too
You can find your twitter people with this tool fedifinder.glitch.me
Put your mastodon handle in your bio here so you can be found!
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Great animations used in this piece to prove fraud.
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This image, from a paper discussing a method for fighting cancerous tumors, contains regions that appear to have been copied and pasted, as well as duplicated and flipped. nyti.ms/3SOWmaz
See if you can spot it in this video:
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I didn’t know Wellcome had a grad scheme until I started here and it’s amazing! 2 years with four 6 month rotations. 💰35k/year. Explore different areas including research, comms, policy, finance etc. Deadline 13th Nov! Please apply or share 😀.
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Just one week until #SODU2022.
Ticket sales close very soon. Don't miss out. Book today.
buff.ly/3CxGe7s
#opendata #education #data #collaboration #innovation #wikidata #GIS
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And really looking forward to hearing
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This is happening tomorrow!
Sneak peak of my contribution - "Open Data, towards a purpose-driven approach", featuring @ondatait, #DatiBeneComune, #DataFeminism
twitter.com/OpenResearchUo…
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Today at 10 - a bold line up!
My talk's argument:
Most research is wrong
Openness will improve quality
Our promotions committees, REF panels & academic publishers don't reward quality
So we need to organise to make culture change
And uni librarians are key allies in this fight
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2 weeks today we'll be rounding off our week of events for #UoAOAWeek
Join our Friday session to hear a fantastic group of speakers discuss Open Research and making data open 
@watty62 @MarkHahnel @pcmasuzzo @JessButler284 and our own Hazel Hay (DORA)
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Our brilliant OpenFest keynote talks from and @viroviacum are now available to view online at doi.org/10.15131/shef. and doi.org/10.15131/shef.. Take a look for ideas on how we can improve research culture and reimagine the landscape of scholarly publication...
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"Previously, membership has been invite-only. However, for this round we are welcoming applications from individuals who wish to nominate themselves for involvement in future UKRI talent schemes."
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Could you play a key role in identifying the UK’s next generation of research and innovation leaders? If yes, we’re recruiting for the UKRI Talent Peer Review College and Panel College.
Applications open until 4 November - orlo.uk/jWW75
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This is a huge moment for as we mark #OAWeek2022 by enabling to become an open access publisher.
So much work has gone into reaching this moment, and I couldn't be prouder of the team of professional and academic colleagues who've achieved it!
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Aberdeen University Press is launching today as an #OpenAccess publisher! 
This will support @aberdeenuni commitment to be 'Open to all'. Visit our new website at abdn.ac.uk/aup and follow us @AbdnUniPress
#OpenAccess #OpenResearch #UoAOAWeek #OAWeek2022
This will support @aberdeenuni commitment to be 'Open to all'. Visit our new website at abdn.ac.uk/aup and follow us @AbdnUniPress
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I generally thought it was silly to obsess about fraud, and that bad science isn't due to malice, but rather to sloppiness and perverse incentives.
Then comes 's new work on the UBIQUITY of papermills (100% fake, 100% fradulent research).
A terrifying talk 👇
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Join us online next Thurs 27 Oct from 11 - 12:30pm for the Maynooth Open Research Inaugural Lecture by Prof. Dorothy Bishop on Open Research Practices in the Age of a Papermill Pandemic.
More info: ow.ly/RQoy50L5VMC
@MaynoothUni #OAweek #openaccessweek @maynoothOpenRes
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Paid for open peer review!
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Starting today, we will begin highlighting comments containing incisive scientific discussion by putting them on the PubPeer front page. We will also reward the best of those comments with prizes of $300.
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How to configure Zotero to use Sci-Hub to automatically download full-text PDFs
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A quick look makes me think this is a lot less of a cabal and a lot more of Times Higher Ed taking advantage of unis.
Membership involves paying £7000 to Times Higher Ed for web analytics
"Members get priority access to the World 100 Reputation Tracker"
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This. is. wild.
A club of unis who are working together to maximise their world rankings twitter.com/LizzieGadd/sta…
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Sorry - this is where you can get the JOURNALS AREN'T REAL t-shirts.
mbeisen.myspreadshop.com/journals+arent
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"We should remember that when we identify statistical disparities, we’re looking at symptoms of injustice, not the disease."
"Most of our time should be spent collecting & interrogating datasets, and simply describing those datasets, rather than building fancy models."
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I was invited to give this year’s James Baldwin lecture at Princeton. My message: quantitative methods have become tools to justify discrimination and excuse inaction. If quantitative scholars want to help, we must radically change our ways. Transcript: cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks
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Fine I'll read 40,000 words on "metascience entrepreneurship" but I really want fully-automated luxury gay space communism metascience? I need you nerds to recommend some long-reads in that direction too
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We’re happy to announce the first public release of Data Safe Haven! 🥳
This is an open-source codebase that allows you to deploy a trusted research environment (TRE) like the one used here at the Turing Institute.
There are a few things you can do to get involved 🧵
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"The harmful product industries are way more skilled than you at influencing policy."
Recordings:
Introduction to commercial determinants of health
How do commercial determinants of health affect individuals & society?
Industry behaviour and responses
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Recordings now available!
Presentations from our recent #webinar on the commercial determinants of health with @ADPHUK are now available on our website
Watch again at spectrum.ed.ac.uk/news-insights-
@felly500 @LindaBauld @UK_PRP #CDoH #PublicHealth
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