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Laborjournal @laborjournal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#PeerReview galt immer als Goldstandard der #Forschungsförderung. Aber musste er das je beweisen? @finnluebber.bsky.social und @soerenkrach.bsky.social erklären in unserem Essayheft, warum ausgerechnet eine Lotterie fairer, billiger und robuster sein könnte: 👉 www.laborjournal.de/rubric/essay...

Titelseite eines Laborjournal-Essays mit dem Titel „Das Los der Wissenschaft: Warum die Forschungsförderung sich nie beweisen musste – und Lotterien es könnten" von Finn Lübber & Sören Krach, Lübeck. Rechts eine Illustration: eine Hand hält eine Mehrkanalpipette wie einen Würfel oder ein Losobjekt.

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

🔥 A lottery-first system 🎲 makes research grants allocation cheaper, faster, and boosts funding for women, while "traditional" (patriarcal?) peer review drags everyone down. 🤔 Maybe randomness is fairer than the experts. 🔄 Time to rethink the whole game! 💣 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

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Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line - Nature Communications

The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among fund...

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Ketika Garg @ketikagarg.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

1st post on bsky - about bsky! I was fascinated with academic starter packs and made an interactive network to see academic communities and how they connect - a map of knowledge! link to an interactive & searchable network: ketikagarg.github.io/blueSkyAcade...

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

"our scientific representations are not, as many hoped in the heyday of logical empiricism, a super vending machine to which we can feed in facts about the questions we are interested in, turn the crank of logical derivation, and pick up answers that fall out." —Cartwright, The Tangle of Science

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