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Robert K. Merton Centre for Science Studies @humboldtuni.bsky.social
https://www.rmz.hu-berlin.de/en/rmz
Posts in German and English.
Podcast: Science Works https://www.rmz.hu-berlin.de/de/podcast ; https://open.spotify.com/show/2dUjTTUtytDJHWI4skfXDW
In our new #podcast episode, J. W. Schneider (Aarhus University, DK) speaks about questionable Research Practices, what are they and so should we worry?
The talk is based on the article „Is something rotten in the state of Denmark?" journals.plos.org/pl...
blogs.hu-berlin.de/s...
@ibi-hu.bsky.social
Is something rotten in the state of Denmark? Cross-national evidence for widespread involvement but not systematic use of questionable research practices across all fields of research
Questionable research practices (QRP) are believed to be widespread, but empirical assessments are generally restricted to a few types of practices. Furthermore, conceptual confusion is rife with use and prevalence of QRPs often being confused as the same quantity. We present the hitherto most comprehensive study examining QRPs across scholarly fields and knowledge production modes. We survey perception, use, prevalence and predictors of QRPs among 3,402 researchers in Denmark and 1,307 in the UK, USA, Croatia and Austria. Results reveal remarkably similar response patterns among Danish and international respondents (τ = 0.85). Self-reported use indicates whether respondents have used a QRP in recent publications. 9 out of 10 respondents admitted using at least one QRP. Median use is three out of nine QRP items. Self-reported prevalence reflects the frequency of use. On average, prevalence rates were roughly three times lower compared to self-reported use. Findings indicated that the perceived social acceptability of QRPs influenced self-report patterns. Results suggest that most researchers use different types of QRPs within a restricted time period. The prevalence estimates, however, do not suggest outright systematic use of specific QRPs. Perceived pressure was the strongest systemic predictor for prevalence. Conversely, more local attention to research cultures and academic age was negatively related to prevalence. Finally, the personality traits conscientiousness and, to a lesser degree, agreeableness were also inversely associated with self-reported prevalence. Findings suggest that explanations for engagement with QRPs are not only attributable to systemic factors, as hitherto suggested, but a complicated mixture of experience, systemic and individual factors, and motivated reasoning.
journals.plos.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Join us on Wednesday for a talk by @c-bz.bsky.social & Jie Xu:

"The big transformation? Early Career Researchers as they race in the open scholarly world. Perspectives from France and China"

Nov. 12 | 11 AM CET | on Zoom or at Schönhauser Allee 10-11 in Berlin

More in the link below 👇
RMZ Jour fixe/ The big transformation? Early Career Researchers as they race in the open scholarly world. Perspectives from France and China
Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri (Département Informatique, Université Lyon, France) & Jie Xu (School of Information Management, Wuhan University, China)
www.rmz.hu-berlin.de
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Our new podcast episode presents @greiffenhagen.bsky.social's talk on "quick opinions in mathematical peer review" - check it ou if you missed his talk in person!
blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks...
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Next week, C. Boukacem-Zeghmouri and J. Xu present their collaborative work on "The big transformation? Early Career Researchers as they race in the open scholarly world. Perspectives from France and China"
www.rmz.hu-berlin.de...
12.11.25, 11:00 CEST, join in person/ via zoom!
@ibi-hu.bsky.social
RMZ Jour fixe/ The big transformation? Early Career Researchers as they race in the open scholarly world. Perspectives from France and China
Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri (Département Informatique, Université Lyon, France) & Jie Xu (School of Information Management, Wuhan University, China)
www.rmz.hu-berlin.de
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Now available as our new podcast episode: M. Krause's talk on "Model Cases" in global science.
blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks...
October 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
In next week's Jour Fixe, @alexcsiszar.bsky.social (Harvard University) will present on "Exporting publication standards: Eugene Garfield's global travels"
www.rmz.hu-berlin.de...
29.10.25, 11 CET, join us in person/ via zoom (link on website)!
@ibi-hu.bsky.social
RMZ Jour fixe/ Exporting publication standards: Eugene Garfield's global travels
Alex Csiszar (Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, USA)
www.rmz.hu-berlin.de
October 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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We are excited to kick off our Jour Fixe series for the winter semester next week with a talk by @greiffenhagen.bsky.social on "Judging importance before checking correctness: quick opinions in mathematical peer review"
www.rmz.hu-berlin.de...
15.10.25, 11:00 CEST, join us in person/ via zoom!
RMZ Jour fixe/ Judging importance before checking correctness: quick opinions in mathematical peer review
Christian Greiffenhagen (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
www.rmz.hu-berlin.de
October 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
We are excited to kick off our Jour Fixe series for the winter semester next week with a talk by @greiffenhagen.bsky.social on "Judging importance before checking correctness: quick opinions in mathematical peer review"
www.rmz.hu-berlin.de...
15.10.25, 11:00 CEST, join us in person/ via zoom!
RMZ Jour fixe/ Judging importance before checking correctness: quick opinions in mathematical peer review
Christian Greiffenhagen (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
www.rmz.hu-berlin.de
October 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
In der aktuellen Folge "Science Works" spricht @julianhamann.bsky.social über die Situation von Postdocs in einem durch Wettbewerb geprägten Wissenschaftssystem.
blogs.hu-berlin.de/s...
October 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Bye bye Duisburg! Wir hatten eine tolle Woche mit vielen Vorträgen und spannenden Diskussionen auf dem #dgs2025
jetzt geht bald das Semester und damit unser #jourfixe wieder los und wir freuen uns über und auf Gäste und weitere Gespräche!
September 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Morgen stellen 4 Kolleg:innen aus unserem RMZ-Team ihre aktuelle Arbeiten auf dem #dgs2025 vor! 09:00 in LX1203 - wir freuen uns auf die Diskussionen zum Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Politik in Transition!
Für Freitag, 26.09, um 09:00, habe ich mit @martinreinhart.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy eine Ad-Hoc Gruppe zum 'Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Politik in Transition' organisiert und stelle zu einem gemeinsamen Artikel zur Steuerung der Wissenschaft vor.
www.conftool.com/dgskongress2...
DGS Kongress 2025 - ConfTool Pro - BrowseSessions
www.conftool.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Themenwechsel: Jens Ambrasat klärt auf über Selektion & Selbstselektion unter prekären Rahmenbedingungen in der Wissenschaft.
September 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Several (yes, 6!) of our team members will be present at the #dgskongress2025 @dgsoziologie.bsky.social next week and present in an Ad-Hoc group on Friday (AdH 105) and in the Sektionsveranstaltung @wisstechdgs.bsky.social (Sek 62) on Thursday afternoon! Looking forward to the discussions! :)
Für Freitag, 26.09, um 09:00, habe ich mit @martinreinhart.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy eine Ad-Hoc Gruppe zum 'Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Politik in Transition' organisiert und stelle zu einem gemeinsamen Artikel zur Steuerung der Wissenschaft vor.
www.conftool.com/dgskongress2...
DGS Kongress 2025 - ConfTool Pro - BrowseSessions
www.conftool.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In unserer neuen #scienceworks #podcast Folge spricht T. Bogusz (Universität Hamburg) über die Exploration von Meereswissen am Beispiel von heterogenen Kollaborationen an der Station Marine Concarneau. blogs.hu-berlin.de/s... @ibi-hu.bsky.social überall wo es podcasts gibt!
August 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
We're super excited to announce the programme for our Jour Fixe in the upcoming semester! Every other Wednesday at 11am, guest speakers will present their current work on science and we are thrilled to welcome fantastic colleagues! Everyone is welcome, zoom links on our website. @ibi-hu.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Our colleague Stephan Gauch published a collection of notes on core concepts in #bibliometrics directed at newcomers to the field. They are also a valuable resource for administrators, policymakers and other people interested in "how the sausage is made".
Bibliometrics Quick Notes
bibliometrics-quick-notes.github.io
August 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
now released as our latest podcast episode: @devezer.bsky.social talk on "Claims about scientific rigour require rigour" blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks... @ibi-hu.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Our Jour Fixe with Monika Krause starts in an hour, you're welcome to join as always.
hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6613771246...
July 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM
In our new podcast episode, Amelia Acker (University of Texas at Austin, US) speaks about the timely topic of "Platform Power and Data Integration Services in Scientific Infrastructure". blogs.hu-berlin.de/s... @ibi-hu.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
In our last Jour Fixe this semester, Monika Krause (LSE London), will speak about "The model systems of global science" building on her recent monograph (press.uchicago.edu/u...). Join us for discussion on 09.07.2025 at 11am in-person or online. www.rmz.hu-berlin.de... @ibi-hu.bsky.social
Model Cases
In Model Cases, Monika Krause asks about the concrete material research objects behind shared conversations about classes of objects, periods, and regions in the social sciences and humanities. It is well known that biologists focus on particular organisms, such as mice, fruit flies, or particular viruses when they study general questions about life, development, and disease.  Krause shows that scholars in the social sciences and humanities also draw on some cases more than others, selecting research objects influenced by a range of ideological but also mundane factors, such as convenience, historicist ideas about development over time, schemas in the general population, and schemas particular to specific scholarly communities.    Some research objects are studied repeatedly and shape our understanding of more general ideas in disproportionate ways: The French Revolution has profoundly influenced our concepts of revolution, of citizenship, and of political modernity, just like studies of doctors have set the agenda for research on the professions. Based on an extensive analysis of the role of model cases in different fields, Krause argues that they can be useful for scholarly communities if they are acknowledged and reflected as particular objects; she also highlights the importance of research strategies based on neglected research objects and neglected combinations of research objects and scholarly concerns.    
press.uchicago.edu
July 2, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Our latest episode takes up the recent debate on Trump’s executive order on #openscience - M. Reinhart & F. Hesselmann explore the historical evolution of scandals related to #academicintegrity and their implications for the relationship between science and politics. blogs.hu-berlin.de/s...
June 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Next Monday (23.06, 4pm) our team member S. Bartscherer co-organises a Pre-Conference Virtual Symposium on "Critical #Metascience: Does Metascience Need to Change?" bringing together key voices from a variety of disciplines. Register in the link below:
nomadit.co.uk/confer... @ibi-hu.bsky.social
VS06: Critical Metascience: Does Metascience Need to Change?
Despite broad uptake, metascience and the Open Science reform movement have garnered ample criticism. Such criticism is also known as critical metascience. We will reflect on central critiques by bringing together key voices from a variety of disciplines, asking what needs to change, how and why?
nomadit.co.uk
June 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Our team of the Berlin Science Survey explores the experiences and assessments of scientists in the Berlin research area through a large survey and we are pleased that their results are mentioned in a recent article by @nature.com on power abuse www.nature.com/artic...
Can Germany rein in its academic bullying problem?
Nature - Researchers and administrators are exploring ways to restructure a rigid hierarchy that can breed power abuses.
www.nature.com
June 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
In next week's Jour Fixe, @devezer.bsky.social (University of Idaho) presents her work on "Claims about scientific rigour require rigour" www.rmz.hu-berlin.de.... Join us on Wednesday, 25.06.25, 11am online or in person in Berlin. @ibi-hu.bsky.social
RMZ Jour fixe/ Claims about scientific rigour require rigour
Berna Devezer (University of Idaho, United States)
www.rmz.hu-berlin.de
June 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
New episode just dropped: last month, B. Hammarfeldt & G. Nelhans (University of Borås, Sweden) presented their recent article on "Styles of valuation: Disciplinary differences in assessing research" in our Jour Fixe and you can now listen to their talk
blogs.hu-berlin.de/s... @ibi-hu.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM