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Mel Chivers
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Librarian living in Kirikiriroa, Aotearoa.
Likely to post about politics, food, library-stuff, exercise (bouldering, cycling...), crafting (knitting, crochet, mending) and life in-between.
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This great quote from our 2023 report on one of the many reasons why relying on metrics for research evaluation is problematic dx.doi.org/10.15663/UoW...
#PBRF #TREF
Text reads: "I don't thinki of it as my own publication. But obviously the way metrics and citations work, that doesn't matter."
September 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Reading back through the article my team published last year in light of the PBRF/TREF news #ReducedToANumber
doi.org/10.31273/eir...
Text reads: We’re not writing for scope and scale, we’re writing for quality of a knowledge system, we’re writing because we want to bring that [Indigenous] voice forward. Now, if I was going to be really tactical, I would abandon all of that and just write for scale and write to have the broadest citation marketplace appeal—so as many consumers of my work would be interested in citing it. So, to me, that’s a fundamental tension in the way that citations are used to grade a scholar’s quality of work.
September 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Walked up a maunga yesterday. So good but wow my legs hurt today!
Photo of view from the summit of Te Aroha
March 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Climbed up Maungatautari today - so lovely to be out in the ngahere. Feeling physically tired and recharged
Sweaty Mel with mountain backdrop
February 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Lost some skin this morning but I still got to the top! 🧗‍♀️ 💪
#bouldering
Flapper
January 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Winning in the garden!
Passionfruit on vine
January 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM