1/ Let's come back to this discussion with @brembs in which the topic of apathy regarding the cost (in this instance economic, but it applies to human cost too) came up. Let's put this in light of the almost 10,000 signatures gathered to castigate @antoine_petit_.https://twitter.com/brembs/status/1197175316202098688 …
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4/ In its many retorts, the research community said it needs more cooperation, not more competition; it needs more recurrent funds, more stability, etc. All true, all things research does need. But in that case, why has the community long been complicit in going the other way?
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5/ This week it was revealed that the French library consortium
@Couperin_consor will pay €139million to Els*vier over the next 4 years. We can estimate more than €40million of that to be pure profit; public money poured into private interests. What reaction from the community?pic.twitter.com/I1j9SR7p73Prikaži ovu nit -
6/ €40 million is 16 ERC grants, or in "recurrent" terms, hundreds of salaries for technicians and engineers. So where were the 10,000 signatures mobilized against this? This is concrete action researchers can commit to that will increase the amount of resources in science.
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7/ The problem is that it's much, much easier to ask someone else to change their way of doing things, pretend that there is a big bad wolf who must be taken down. It's much more difficult to accept responsibility for the impact changing our own behaviour could have.
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8/ You want less competition in research? Then stop seeking after superficial "prestige" when it comes time to publish; stop valuing this superficial prestige when it comes time to hire staff and to allocate funding; stop propping up a system that feeds off desire to "win"!!!
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9/ In short, this all means that
@antoine_petit_'s real crime, as is so often the case, was getting caught. If you have 10,000 scientist signatures anywhere today, you can be guaranteed a good proportion of them live proudly off competition because they feel like winners.Prikaži ovu nit -
10/ So,
@brembs I'm afraid is right; the community simply doesn't care, and its reaction towards this latest villain only makes it more obvious to those of us who fight for a culture change within the research community.Prikaži ovu nit -
11/ Want more funds? Change your publishing practice. Want less competition? Change your assessment practices (and we mean *really* change them, just signing the
@DORAssessment because it's the current done thing doesn't count for anything in itself; e.g. the@CNRS is on there!)Prikaži ovu nit -
12/ 10,000 signatures is only meaningful if it translates to 10,000 individuals who are willing to change their own behaviour if that's what it takes to improve science. But since, when it's a question of gathering support for such change, voices are thin on the ground...
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13/ Voilà - it's all very disheartening, very disillusioning to see, but that's how it is. It would be nice to see more researchers who genuinely f**king LOVE science and less who love what they get out of it. France is the illustration here, but this all applies globally.
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Apologies for the deeply unpopular views, but it's really time the scientific enterprise grew up, took responsibility for itself, and became the beacon of most rational practice it really should be. What other group do we expect to show the example??
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Pour les scientifiques francophones qui sont motivé(e)s, commencez par vous manifestez ici ; nous vous enverrons ensuite un mail avec plusieurs ressources au sujet de la mise en pratique de la
#scienceouverte :https://forms.gle/3xiNvCuBdS3UBy1i6 …Prikaži ovu nit
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