We have this odd thing whereby public funding calls focus more & more on us demonstrating how our research will have societal impact
While government & big business push back at enacting the radical socioeconomic changes we have demonstrated are needed to counter the climate & nature crises
Economic benefits of a research ecosystem in which research elements, including data, code, software, workflows, methods, and publications, are openly shared and valued 44092021.hs-sites.com/hubfs/Brand/... @technopolis-group.com @plos.org
Prompted to look for a Canadian equivalent: the National Judicial Institute's Science Manual for Canadian Judges, last updated in 2018, appears to be a different kind of resource, focused on judicial methods rather than on specific topics www.nji-inm.ca/index.cfm/pu...
A chapter on climate science has been stripped from the federal judicial reference manual for the first time since 1994.
US judges are now being kept from climate science. This is far more than censorship. It is sovereign repositioning by the US to nullify climate obligations.
"People trust data with a location and a photograph more than a datapoint alone." The FUSS framework for communicating hydrological science from @iahs-aish.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @oriescc.bsky.social @soham-adla.bsky.social @iaguirre.bsky.social
Painting of Forest in Finland, 1903- by Jan CiΔ gliΕski - MP 1838 MNW - National Museum in Warsaw.jpg, via Wikimedia Commons, in the public domain
Lessons from Nordic universities: two approaches to knowledge brokering: science-policy interaction adapting to principles, practices, and symbols of the academic world, or academic knowledge shaped and steered by market and managerial logics brill.com/downloadpdf/...
'Analog' research processes: yes I miss library shelf browsing, too π
Missed this first time around: examples of critical knowledge attainable only through long-term studies @cnrs.fr
An integrated approach to climate services product development, combining user-centered design and co-production: lessons from human-computer interaction research www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
[RECAP] Guided by a local Mpondo, the authors blend #hiking, listening, and visuals through auto-ethnography and voice notes to unpack the layers of privilege, care, and connection in eco-tourism. Read the full article here: ow.ly/KA9r50Yk5pS #Imidibaniso #SciCom | @tandfresearch.bsky.social
How transdisciplinarity has been conceptualized and operationalized across 61 international water research programmes
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Text emphasizing evidence-based policy beginning with Canadian research, accompanied by logos of Canadian Science Publishing, Coalition Publica, Γrudit, and University of Toronto Press.
#ICYMI: We recently shared a new collection that highlights Canadian research supporting government decision-making. If you didnβt catch it during #CSPC2025, you can revisit here βΆοΈ https://ow.ly/p2Qg50Xw0sO
Canadian Science Policy Centre University of Toronto Press #SciencePolicy
Good work, also supported through research by Stellenbosch University's Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology
Explicit attention to power, trust, and reciprocity, not assumptions that goodwill suffices
genuine co-production throughout the research lifecycle, not consultation at convenient moments
Diverse skills across partners, not concentrated in individuals
Research partnerships require: dedicated coordination infrastructure, not ad-hoc arrangements, plus
"... financial institutions will continue to chronically under-price climate risks, and pension funds and taxpayers will remain dangerously exposed". Thanks for sharing @tobyabgreen.bsky.social
The way ahead for tracking use of scholarly publications: " machine-consumable 'knowledge objects' with explicit context and provenance as the new unit of scholarly use"
β¨ NEW blog post: Being open isn't enough - true "research information citizenship" requires building & maintaining a robust, genuinely #OpenResearch infrastructure, writes our VP of Research Futures, Simon Porter.
π‘ Here's what it will take to achieve: https://ow.ly/6U3Y50YcJ3J
Potential for LLMs to save some labour in the evidence synthesis process but core challenges include complex information, subjective judgments: lessons from environmental evidence synthesis link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@ryanhodgson.bsky.social @josephkb.bsky.social @dalalhanna.bsky.social
A huge shout out to our data analyst Kat Hart for her work on this! Using Overton Index, Kat investigated how evidence travels through global policy networks in times of crisis and the patterns that emerge in the research to policy interface.
Find the full piece below β¬οΈ
The need for strategies to counter a trend that reduces ability to track use of scholarly publications
"Finding the sure ground between automation and human agency is not simple, but charting some basic principles can help us determine whether specific uses of AI cross a line."
Early sharing of research through conference presentations may indicate quality, trustworthiness: "honest signals of a researcherβs willingness to expose their work to scrutiny"
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/28/p... @dataseerai.bsky.social
@danbrockington.bsky.social
From the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada: "Data domains can be based on disciplines, and are
most valuable when they build bridges between
disciplines in support of national priorities." science.ised-isde.canada.ca/site/science...
It's not unheard of to find errors in your data after publishing it. While it's not fun when this happens, this one-pager can help guide you through the process of updating data, code, and publications when errors are found.
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Measuring benefits of maintaining non-academic collaborations for research productivity rdcu.be/e0NrS
From @memorialu.bsky.social
: field guide for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador gazette.mun.ca/research/boo...
