Thing is this is one of the few "jobs" that people can get. The job market is brutal - not helped by the behaviour of some employers.
I've not done this but my savings are vanishing rapidly and I've applied for a lot of jobs at this point.
Meant to send all of that from this account...🤷♂️
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Love this. I have a play the APC right game (based on play your cards right) but it's designed for in person atm.
Top down approaches are necessary but must occur in conjunction with exceptionally strong grassroots advocacy.
This is perhaps the clearest message from my years of experience and the conversations I’ve had. It is reflected in data and I sincerely hope the preprint space can get back on this track
Indeed, many conversations I’ve had with researchers about open science more broadly have surfaced a lot of negative views and opinions, which the space must face up to.
These range from issues with decisions being made, lack of adherence to values/real change and the hypocrisy of some advocates
As my recent report outlines, preprinting really is at a crossroads. Without some very tough discussions, a much greater effort to be inclusive and bring in diverse views, and better education, engagement and advocacy efforts, I think the movement is really going to struggle and stall further.
However, the flip side to being passionate is that things can also become personal. Over the past year I’ve allowed that to happen and the personal toll has simply become too high now. This is a space that I don't feel comfortable operating within anymore, sadly.
It was a great privilege to be able to work on something I’m so passionate about. I’ve gotten to collaborate and interact with some fantastic people who really are working to make academia and publishing a better place.
I’m going to be stepping away from the preprint space and advocating for preprint adoption for the foreseeable future.
This includes all social media too. I'm taking a long digital detox.
To get through this thing called life...
Things have definitely gotten crazy.
I'm going to be focusing more on trust indicators and moving beyond peer review this year :)
Over the last 4 months I've out-produced and out-performed other advocacy orgs in the preprint space - all without any funding at all and entirely on my own.
The potential for meaningful change with the resources of a position and institution/funding is immense.
You would be getting one of the world's leading experts in preprints/open science, which, in such a position, could make you one of the leading institutions for open science practices!
Don't just hire another admin person - hire someone who already has a deep and strong reputation in the space
I've just released a huge report on the state of preprints (zenodo.org/records/1832...), have extensive experience across academia, open science and research culture.
I'm actively searching for roles along the lines of "head of open research/science" across the UK or globally (working from home).
#academicchatter #preprints #openscience #job
And on the back of this....I'd make a fantastic head of open science/research somewhere.
You'd be getting one of the world leading experts in open science, with strong connections to active researchers. Together we could make your institution the leader in open science in the UK...
Just sayin :)
Thanks to @altmetric.com for providing data access for some of this and huge thanks to @openrxiv.bsky.social for making their APIs so usable and data public!
This takes a really deep dive into @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social in addition to some @europepmc.org data & Open Alex
There's a huge amount of data in this. If you're interested in preprints at all it's a must read.
I've heard good things about the new green leader but come on now. This is wildly misleading as a chart.
You don't (or shouldn't) win by misleading. There's enough of that and lies in politics
Repeatedly and for years surely.
Releasing on the 31st Jan is our (very) detailed report on the state of preprints in the life sciences. This is the first in a yearly series we plan to run and includes the most up to date data in addition to look towards 2026.
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It's been 2 months of fairly hard work to put this together (I wasn't a great coder at the start) so really looking forward to its release at the end of the month
New study on perceptions of preprints (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)
I'd love to see how perceptions changed after an intervention where participants were given training around preprints or the evidence on peer review/quality of preprints.
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Is anyone aware of any papers, blogs, reports, etc, arguing against age-based awards, lecture competitions, etc? Thanks!
Fully concur with this. If you host any academic event in the US you cannot claim to be inclusive. It simply isn't a safe country and is far too restrictive to the rest of the world now.
Check it out: bit.ly/preprint_evi...
If you use Zotero and advocate for preprints then this is a library filled with the evidence you need!
Updated regularly :)
And there's a hat trick for @hansonmark.bsky.social et Al!
