Dirk Derom
@dirkderom.bsky.social
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“When there’s so much misinformation around and distrust about science, it’s more important than ever that we are transparent about how exactly science goes on” - RoRI's @scurry.bsky.social calls on the research sector to end the “publication bias” against negative results: tinyurl.com/ux5xtm4d
October 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
“When there’s so much misinformation around and distrust about science, it’s more important than ever that we are transparent about how exactly science goes on” - RoRI's @scurry.bsky.social calls on the research sector to end the “publication bias” against negative results: tinyurl.com/ux5xtm4d
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"The university will stop sharing the data required to be included in the ranking as of 2026. As a result, Sorbonne University will no longer feature in future rankings produced by THE, which include the World University Rankings, the Rankings by Subject or the Impact Rankings."
Excellent!
Excellent!
Sorbonne University decides to withdraw from the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings
As of 2026, Sorbonne University will no longer submit data to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. The decision comes as part of a wider approach to promote open science and ref...
www.sorbonne-universite.fr
September 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"The university will stop sharing the data required to be included in the ranking as of 2026. As a result, Sorbonne University will no longer feature in future rankings produced by THE, which include the World University Rankings, the Rankings by Subject or the Impact Rankings."
Excellent!
Excellent!
VUB 🇧🇪 is hunting for a Postdoc / Research Engineer who vibes with NLP + ontologies.
We juggle:
💻 Python & transformers
🗂️ Ontology craft
🔍 Knowledge-graph wizardry
Partial remote? Totally cool.
DM me if you’re curious and feel free to boost! 🚀 #NLP #SemanticWeb
We juggle:
💻 Python & transformers
🗂️ Ontology craft
🔍 Knowledge-graph wizardry
Partial remote? Totally cool.
DM me if you’re curious and feel free to boost! 🚀 #NLP #SemanticWeb
June 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
VUB 🇧🇪 is hunting for a Postdoc / Research Engineer who vibes with NLP + ontologies.
We juggle:
💻 Python & transformers
🗂️ Ontology craft
🔍 Knowledge-graph wizardry
Partial remote? Totally cool.
DM me if you’re curious and feel free to boost! 🚀 #NLP #SemanticWeb
We juggle:
💻 Python & transformers
🗂️ Ontology craft
🔍 Knowledge-graph wizardry
Partial remote? Totally cool.
DM me if you’re curious and feel free to boost! 🚀 #NLP #SemanticWeb
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🎯 Does early success in science funding shape the rest of your career?
New RoRI study says yes.
The ‘Matthew effect’ — early winners keep winning — holds across funders & countries.
📄 Read more: researchonresearch.org/largest-stud...
New RoRI study says yes.
The ‘Matthew effect’ — early winners keep winning — holds across funders & countries.
📄 Read more: researchonresearch.org/largest-stud...
Largest study of its kind shows that the ‘Matthew effect’ in science funding holds true - Research on Research
New RoRI paper shows that researchers who win funding early in their career are more likely to get funded in the future
researchonresearch.org
June 12, 2025 at 11:12 AM
🎯 Does early success in science funding shape the rest of your career?
New RoRI study says yes.
The ‘Matthew effect’ — early winners keep winning — holds across funders & countries.
📄 Read more: researchonresearch.org/largest-stud...
New RoRI study says yes.
The ‘Matthew effect’ — early winners keep winning — holds across funders & countries.
📄 Read more: researchonresearch.org/largest-stud...
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Papers mills and other manipulative practices are major problem in scientific publishing system. Addressing this problem requires in-depth system-level understanding of dynamics leading to these practices. At @cwts.nl we have PhD position to work on this!
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
PhD Paper Mills and Systematic Manipulation in Research Publishing
PhD candidate Paper Mills and Systematic Manipulation in Research PublishingThe past decade has seen the rise of distinct new challenges for research integrity in the context of scientific publishing....
www.universiteitleiden.nl
April 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Papers mills and other manipulative practices are major problem in scientific publishing system. Addressing this problem requires in-depth system-level understanding of dynamics leading to these practices. At @cwts.nl we have PhD position to work on this!
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
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Looks like NCBI, BLAST, Pubmed etc are gone now. Wowzers. Remember that you can get all the Genbank data from EU mirrors - www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/.... How does local BLAST work again..? 🫣
ENA Browser
ENA Browser
www.ebi.ac.uk
March 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Looks like NCBI, BLAST, Pubmed etc are gone now. Wowzers. Remember that you can get all the Genbank data from EU mirrors - www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/.... How does local BLAST work again..? 🫣
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It seems PubMed has disappeared. This is the digital equivalent of burning a library.
March 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
It seems PubMed has disappeared. This is the digital equivalent of burning a library.