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jdrakephd.bsky.social
Fascinating new paper shows that when researchers “pivot” to new areas of work the outcome is less impactful.

#ScienceOfScience

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The pivot penalty in research - Nature
An analysis of millions of scientific papers and patents reveals a ‘pivot penalty’ when researchers shift direction, with the impact of studies decreasing rapidly the further they move from their prev...
www.nature.com
June 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
robysinatra.bsky.social
Today is the (hard) deadline for the postdoctoral call listed below! Join us #postdoc #scienceofscience #AI #networkscience
robysinatra.bsky.social Roberta Sinatra @robysinatra.bsky.social · Mar 4
🌍 Join us in Copenhagen - fantastic city for work-life balance and awesome science.

I am hiring PhD students & Postdocs in my group at SODAS Univ of Copenhagen to explore AI, network science & the science of science.

📍 Start: flex summer 2025
📌 Info&Apply: www.robertasinatra.com/2025/03/02/p...
April 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
ertrunnell.bsky.social
📣 NIH has multiple new “Highlighted Topics” for researchers or groups interested in #MetaResearch / #ScienceOfScience ❣️

Full details for each topic:
grants.nih.gov/funding/find...

#MetaScience #ResearchOnResearch #bioethics #scipol #reproducibility #replicability #implementation #AcademicSky
June 8, 2026 at 8:04 PM
diegokoz.bsky.social
10/
🔍 TL;DR
Citation behaviour isn’t a meritocracy.
It’s shaped by social ties and topic overlap.
Let’s rethink how we evaluate research impact.
📚 Full paper → journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
#Bibliometrics #ScienceOfScience #ResearchPolicy
October 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
csh.ac.at
Come and join @robysinatra.bsky.social this summer in Copenhagen! CSH external faculty member Roberta Sinatra is co-organizing the @icssi.bsky.social and she welcomes abstracts and papers about any topic related to #ScienceOfScience and #innovation.
robysinatra.bsky.social Roberta Sinatra @robysinatra.bsky.social · Feb 4
Join us in Copenhagen in June!
icssi.org ICSSI @icssi.org · Jan 31
Join us at #ICSSI2025 in Copenhagen!
Our website is now updated, the call for abstracts is online:
www.icssi.org

📅 June 16-18, 2025
📍 Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, DK

Stay tuned for keynote speaker announcements! #ScienceofScience #Metascience #STS
February 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
nerdsitu.bsky.social
We have several open positions, both Phd & Postdoc: nerds.itu.dk/positions/

On the topics of epidemic preparedness, and network science & AI & #ScienceOfScience #SciSci
Deadlines in April and May!
nerds.itu.dk
March 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
iphilluh.bsky.social
Reminder: In June, #ForumWissenschaftsreflexion will open its doors. We are excited to move into our new research building dedicated to the #ScienceOfScience, and want to celebrate with you!
For this purpose, we are hosting our Inaugural Conference from June 17-19.
#PhilSci #HPS #SocSky #STS
Poster advertising the inaugural conference of the Forum Wissenschaftsreflexion: http://go.lu-h.de/wissConf
May 23, 2026 at 9:51 AM
hannahottenrott.bsky.social
CfP for the next workshop on the Organisation, Economics and Policy of Scientific Research is out! 18-19 April 2024 in Torino! Looking forward to it :D woeps.carloalberto.org #scienceofscience #innovationeconomics
October 16, 2023 at 5:23 PM
icssi.org
Join us at #ICSSI2025 in Copenhagen!
Our website is now updated, the call for abstracts is online:
www.icssi.org

📅 June 16-18, 2025
📍 Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, DK

Stay tuned for keynote speaker announcements! #ScienceofScience #Metascience #STS
International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation
www.icssi.org
January 31, 2025 at 7:57 AM
innovation.bsky.social
Folks, we're hiring in *AI for science and society*, very broadly defined!

Perfect job for a #computationalsocialscience and/or #scienceofscience person
Tenure track or tenured 👌

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October 31, 2023 at 1:33 AM
hlageek.bsky.social
📣What's new? The Novelty and Inequalities in Science symposium will be held in Prague (Oct. 8–9, 2026)!
Please consider proposing an abstract on the topics of recognizing and rewarding novelty in science. More details: stss.flu.cas.cz/novelty2026
#scienceofscience #metascience #sociologyofscience 🧪
Novelty and Inequalities in Science
stss.flu.cas.cz
May 6, 2026 at 9:38 AM
aaronclauset.bsky.social
Something I find very exciting about our results in this paper : they show that ** homophily is not destiny ** , and we shouldn't assume that it is! Scientists (people) are more adaptable than that, to the great benefit of science as a whole #sociologyofscience #scienceofscience
aaronclauset.bsky.social Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · Apr 21
🎉 Our new paper "Gender and racial diversity socialization in science" @natcomputsci.nature.com with @weihuali.bsky.social, H Zheng and @jenniebrand.bsky.social studies how early-career experiences with diversity drive more diverse teams later in a career 👉 /1
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
"Gender and racial diversity socialization in science", a new published article by Weihua Li, Hongwei Zheng, Jennie E. Brand, and Aaron Clauset. Abstract: Scientific collaboration networks are a form of unequally distributed social capital that shapes both researcher job placement and long-term research productivity and prominence. However, the role of collaboration networks in shaping the gender and racial diversity of the scientific workforce remains unclear. Here we propose a computational null model to investigate the degree to which early-career scientific collaborators with representationally diverse cohorts of scholars are associated with forming or participating in more diverse research groups as established researchers. When testing this hypothesis using two large-scale, longitudinal datasets on scientific collaborations, we find that the gender and racial diversity in a researcher’s early-career collaboration environment is strongly associated with the diversity of their collaborators in their established period. This diversity-association effect is particularly prominent for men. Coupled with gender and racial homophily between advisors and advisees, collaborator diversity represents a generational effect that partly explains why changes in representation within the scientific workforce tend to happen very slowly.
April 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
aaronclauset.bsky.social
Video for my @mit.edu IDSS Distinguished Speaker seminar "Networks untangle gender differences in productivity and prominence among scientists" on 4 Nov, with a lovely audience (see thread below for slides) #scienceofscience
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPXl...
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
hlageek.bsky.social
Novelty and Inequalities in Science symposium
Prague, Oct. 8–9, 2026
📆Extended deadline: June 30, 2026

👉Submit an abstract on the topics of recognizing and rewarding novelty in science or find more details:
🔗 stss.flu.cas.cz/novelty2026

#scienceofscience #metascience #sociologyofscience
🙏Repost🧪
Call for Abstract for Novelty and Inequalities in Science International Research Symposium on Recognizing and Rewarding Novelty in Science. October 8-9, 2026 Prague, Czech Republic. The text can be read in full at https://stss.flu.cas.cz/all/events/novelty2026
June 22, 2026 at 1:15 PM
rouhiroo.bsky.social
Intro to #ScienceOfScience in China context by Lin Zhang, Professor of Information Management, Wuhan University & Co-Editor, Scientometrics at #metascience25

"State-led model of systematic knowledge development."
July 1, 2025 at 8:58 AM
hfarruda.bsky.social
📢 I'm happy to share our editorial for the "Science of Science: A Complex Network Perspective" research topic! 🚀
Grateful to my co-editors Sandro Reia & @filipisilva.bsky.social 🙌

🔗 www.frontiersin.org/journals/res...

#SciSci #NetworkScience #Bibliometrics #ScienceOfScience
April 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
qornik.bsky.social
What could be better than a #DataScience #job in open scholarly #metadata with @crossref.bsky.social? Well – two such jobs of course!
Interrogate the data to deliver #scienceofscience work, enhance our understanding of the scholarly ecosystem, apply your insights in our infrastructure and practice.
crossref.bsky.social Crossref @crossref.bsky.social · Jan 21
Come and join us and help establish a new #datascience team and function at Crossref. All that scholarly metadata just sitting there waiting to be analysed… by you!?
ginsta.bsky.social Ginny Hendricks @ginsta.bsky.social · Jan 18
Heads up if you're into data and passionate about the science of science! @crossref.bsky.social seeks TWO Data Scientists for this new team. You'll collaborate to glean insights from and detect gaps in scholarly metadata and help build the research nexus. Join us! www.crossref.org/jobs/2025-01...
January 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
sarahbratt.bsky.social
CFP! Join us at NetSci 2025! Submissions to "Networks in the Science of Science" the 3rd annual satellite workshop due Feb 7, 2025. netscisci.github.io/cfp
@netscisociety.bsky.social #scienceofscience #CFP
January 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
aespinosarada.bsky.social
2/n Our chapter bridges #STS @4sweb.bsky.social and the #ScienceOfScience @icssi.bsky.social, exploring how a social network perspective on scientific networks fosters a productive and exciting dialogue between these fields.
January 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
joelchan86.bsky.social
I’m curious if any #scienceofscience folks have seen estimates of the rate/level/pathways of diffusion of methods research into methods practice!

(Secretly also wondering if modular research could improve diffusion)
pwgtennant.bsky.social Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · Jul 14
I cannot believe how many of these RCTs used a change/percent change outcomes.

Because the literature is so clear on the topic I honestly thought this issue was resolved!

@f2harrell.bsky.social @stephensenn.bsky.social
July 15, 2026 at 5:14 PM
lluisdanus.bsky.social
🚨 Still around for the last parallel session at @ic2s2.bsky.social ?

Don’t miss our talk on formal vs informal collaboration structures in the Science of Science III track!

📍 Vingen 3+4
🕝 14:30

#ic2s2 #ScienceOfScience
July 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
icelabumu.bsky.social
Bias in scientific productivity and prominence - it's about your network.
@aaronclauset.bsky.social's IceLab talk showed how collaboration networks shape the gender productivity gap in academia.
Watch here: play.umu.se/media/t/0_40...
#ScienceofScience #Networks @umeauniversitet.bsky.social
Aaron Clauset presents with a screen behind him, facing a crowd of researchers sitting down.
October 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
sam-workman.bsky.social
This is really good work by folks who might be familiar to you. 😎
We are on the @PSJ_Editor blog. Especially of interest for #scienceofscience and publicly engaged scholars. #publicpolicy #governance #LLM #politicalscience #datascience 🌐 🏛️ 🗺️ #SciPol #Science4Policy policysky #metasci
September 25, 2024 at 4:51 PM
icelabumu.bsky.social
Why do the most diverse computer science teams get fewer citations? Join us for a talk February 3rd by Ana Jaramillo of @csh.ac.at on patterns of diversity, segregation, and citation impact in CS research. www.umu.se/en/events/ic...
#complexsystems #networkscience #scienceofscience
January 28, 2026 at 8:33 AM
jamesyoungevans.bsky.social
Analysis of 7,973 psychologists demonstrates these divides. Scientific consensus isn't just about data—our cognitive architectures filter how we process evidence, bolstering persistent divides that resist resolution. #ScienceofScience #CognitiveScience #Conflict #Confusion #CollectiveIntelligence
April 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM