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Gemma Derrick

@gemmaderrick.bsky.social
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Professor (Research Policy and Culture) at University of Bristol. Meta- research, peer review, academic audit and knowledge systems. Epistemological boundary rider and curious pragmatist towards evidence for research culture change.

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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Universities rarely use research evidence in their decision-making, so why do they expect anyone else to? @gemmaderrick.bsky.social Amy Devenney and Lizzie Ville for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
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Universities rarely use research evidence in their decision-making, so why do they expect anyone else to? - LSE Impact
Despite universities’ important role as evidence-producing organisations, they rarely draw upon research evidence for internal decision making, why?
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
💥New | Why we built the Journal of Research on Research and what it cost us ✍️ @gemmaderrick.bsky.social, @penders.bsky.social, Serge Horbach & Tony Ross-Hellauer #AcademicPublishing #Metascience #OpenAccess
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Why we built the Journal of Research on Research and what it cost us - LSE Impact
Gemma Derrick, Bart Penders, Serge Horbach & Tony Ross-Hellauer reflect on the choices, challenges & compromises of launching the Journal of Research on Research
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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research, is live! @gemmaderrick.bsky.social @tonyrh.bsky.social
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Austrian Platform for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation @fteval.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
1/2 We’re happy to start introducing our members of the #ScientificCommittee. In no particular order, we’ll share our members who will guide us through the upcoming: Scouting Paths on Shifting Maps, #REvaluation27 Conference. Our first introducee is @gemmaderrick.bsky.social.
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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
🚨Today 4pm CET🚨 PCI Webinar: The Drain of Scientific Publishing: why publishing is becoming a burden for science and how to fix it An overview talk based on three papers on #ScientificPublishing, where it stands & how to fix it. Plus dad jokes and bad acronyms. peercommunityin.org/pci-webinar-...
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science ✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca #AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
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Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science - Impact of Social Sciences
Have the interests of commercial publishers now become antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge?
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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 13/11/2025
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk 🎤 If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 10/10
The four-fold drain of scientific publishing: Money, Time, Trust, and Control.
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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 13/11/2025
We’re asking research funders & universities to step up because together, they have the leverage - and frankly, the responsibility - to stop the drain and redirect billions currently flowing to commercial publishers 💸 back into community-owned systems that serve science, not profit. 9/n
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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 13/11/2025
Many call on researchers to behave differently. But researchers are dispersed across disciplines, institutions & countries. Let's face it, we are hard to coordinate. So we call on the actors with real power: Funders and institutions. 💪 They can set the policies and reshape incentives. 8/n
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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 13/11/2025
Re-communalization = community-owned & governed, w/ surplus going back to academic communities, not shareholder pockets. 7/n
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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 13/11/2025
So what now? 💥 We argue that scholarly publishing needs to be re-communalized. No, not communism, just academia taking back control of: 1) its journals (hello breakaway journals) 2) its assessment systems (hello @barcelonadori.bsky.social) 6/n
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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 13/11/2025
So why hasn’t this happened yet? 🤷‍♀️ Because for-profit publishers have distorted Open Access so thoroughly that many authors now believe their only OA option is to pay astronomical APCs. And we ask researchers to publish OA… while rewarding prestige controlled by the same oligopoly. 5/n
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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 13/11/2025
How? 🛠️ Good news: we already have everything needed to fix the system. Alternative models without paywalls? ✔️ Preprints, diamond journals. Open infrastructure at production cost not prestige markup? ✔️ @pkp.sfu.ca @scielo.org @redalyc.bsky.social @erudit.org Community-run, community-governed. 4/n
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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 13/11/2025
Can you imagine what else we could do with that money? Fund researchers, students, labs, infrastructure… which all sounds better to me than enriching a publishing oligopoly. 3/n
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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 13/11/2025
Why? 🤑 In just the last 5 years, 4 publishers made $US 41 billion in revenue and $14.7B in profit - money that largely comes from taxpayer-funded research budgets. For context: the entire 2024 NSF budget was $9B USD. @elsevierconnect.bsky.social made $3.9B that year at a 38% profit margin. 2/n
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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 13/11/2025
Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing. Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
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Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
So interdisciplinary and international! Thanks @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca @lariviev.bsky.social @paolocrosetto.bsky.social, @gemmaderrick.bsky.social, @pagomba.bsky.social @stephenpinfield.bsky.social @jameswilsdon.bsky.social, @danbrockington.bsky.social, Fernanda Beigel, Christine Noe
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Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Other parts of the world had different histories of academic journal publishing (and of research and universities), and so (in some cases/places) can have a different relationship to for-profit publishers. I wish we knew more about mid/late-20thC journal publishing practices globally.
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Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
... and the reason that for-profit journal publishers are such a feature of the UK/European/NAmerican scientific ecosystem (in particular) is... history! Commercial practices saved struggling non-profit journals in the 1950s/60s (as I've shown doi.org/10.1177/0073...), but what happened next?
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Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
New preprint on the drain that for-profit publishers place on the scientific ecosystem. We also point out that, though it's often presented as a global problem, it's actually a Global North problem: there are parts of the world with strong diamond #OA non-profit alternatives arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
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The Drain of Scientific Publishing
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The Drain of Scientific Publishing details very clearly how for-profit publishers making >30% profit margins have corrupted any solution the research community has attempted. Let's cut ourselves free. Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: bit.ly/StrainQSS Oligopoly: bit.ly/OligSciPub 12/12
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The Drain of Scientific Publishing
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Thanks to all my wonderful co-authors and especially @danbrockington.bsky.social for spearheading this essential piece of scientific discussion. Coauthors in next posts. #ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #OpenAccess #AcademicSky #PhDchat #AcademicChatter #SciPub #ResearchIntegrity #PublishOrPerish
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Wonderful work @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca, @lariviev.bsky.social, @paolocrosetto.bsky.social, @gemmaderrick.bsky.social, @pagomba.bsky.social, @aileenfyfe.bsky.social, @stephenpinfield.bsky.social, @jameswilsdon.bsky.social & Fernanda Beigel, Christine Noe (not on Bsky). It was a privilege.
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
💥New: The People Culture and Environment element of REF2029 is already changing the sector, we shouldn’t give up on it now ✍️ @gemmaderrick.bsky.social Amy Devenney, Lizzie Ville & Rhian Pennie #PeopleCultureEvironment #ResearchCulture #REF2029
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The People Culture and Environment element of REF2029 is already changing the sector, we shouldn’t give up on it now - Impact of Social Sciences
The future of the People Culture and Environment element of REF 2029 is currently under scrutiny. Drawing on interviews with institutional decisionmakers as part of the COMET study, Gemma Derrick, Amy...
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Hidden REF @hiddenref.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Next, Gemma Derrick on how Heuristics can be used to judge what is a quality research output @gemmaderrick.bsky.social errick.bsky.social
Intro slide for the Heuristics talk showing Gemma Derrick with the microphone.
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John Morgan @johnmorgan3.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
With work on REF paused, should getting rid of the whole thing be on agenda? Is it QR's defence, or outdated policy's "monster"? Views from @gemmaderrick.bsky.social, @kieronflanagan.bsky.social and others, in @fionamcintyre.bsky.social analysis. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
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REF at a crossroads: revamp or get rid? - Research Professional News
Pause intensifies debate on whether exercise is QR’s essential defence or outdated policy’s “monster”
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29th Annual Conference on Science and Technology Indicators @stienid2025.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
In the lead up to this year's STI-ENID Conference in Bristol (3-5 September 2025), we are happy to announce this year's Women in Science Policy (WISP Event). Read more here: www.stienid2025.org/wisp And don't forget to register to take part!
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Women in Science Policy (WISP) | STI-ENID2025
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29th Annual Conference on Science and Technology Indicators @stienid2025.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
In the lead up to this year's STI-ENID conference in Bristol (3-5 September, 2025). Thanks to our generous sponsors @wellcometrust.bsky.social, Digital Science, @clarivate.com, University of Bristol @soebristol.bsky.social, @overton.io, UKRN, @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social and @elife.bsky.social
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 15/07/2025
Americans are more likely to have a negative view of swearing than Australians or Britons Americans: 43% have a negative view Australians: 34% Britons: 33% yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 15/07/2025
Britons are more regular swearers than Australians or Americans, but what are their top swear words? Britons F*ck: 67% use regularly Sh*t: 65% Bloody: 54% Australians Sh*t: 61% F*ck: 56% Bullsh*t: 52% Americans Damn: 55% Sh*t: 54% F*ck: 47% 👇 more in chart below yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
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29th Annual Conference on Science and Technology Indicators @stienid2025.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The 29th Annual #STI2025 isn’t just great talks — it’s about community + fun too! 📍 Bristol, Sept 3–5: 🏃‍♀️ Morning harbour run 🎨 Banksy treasure hunt 🎲 ‘Publish & Perish’ game 🖼️ Poster bingo Come for the research, stay for the people. Join us! 👉 stienid2025.org/registration-1
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Cassidy R. Sugimoto @crsugimoto.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
The program looks amazing! Looking forward to an engaging and productive dialogue on S&T policy in Bristol!
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29th Annual Conference on Science and Technology Indicators @stienid2025.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Excited to share that Digital Science is sponsoring the 29th Annual STIENID Conference in Bristol, 3–5 Sept 2025! Digital Science has always been a big part of our community — special thanks to Dan Hook for serving on this year’s Scientific Committee. See you in Bristol! #STIENID2025
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29th Annual Conference on Science and Technology Indicators @stienid2025.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Thrilled to welcome @clarivate.com as a sponsor for STIENID2025 in Bristol, 3–5 Sept! Even more special: Clarivate will sponsor our Inaugural Eugene Garfield Memorial Lecture 2025 — honouring his legacy at the heart of our community. @bristoluni.bsky.social #STIENID2025 #EugeneGarfieldLecture
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29th Annual Conference on Science and Technology Indicators @stienid2025.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
@bristoluni.bsky.social University of Bristol is hosting & sponsoring STIENID2025, 3–5 Sept! The perfect place to rethink our research policy, in a city that lives its values & social justice at its core. Come for the ideas, stay for the people. www.stienid2025.org/conferenceinfo #STIENID2025
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Conference information | STI-ENID2025
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29th Annual Conference on Science and Technology Indicators @stienid2025.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
📣 Clarivate presents the 2025 Inaugural Eugene Garfield Memorial Lecture! Prof Mike Thelwall, a true gentleman of bibliometrics, shared: “Eugene Garfield inspired me. I met him once and was in awe. This means so much to me.” A fitting tribute. #STIENID2025
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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
The MetaROR team will also attend @stienid2025.bsky.social. MetaROR is a partner of STI-ENID 2025. We invite authors of papers presented at the conference to submit their work to MetaROR. www.stienid2025.org/metaror Hope to meet you on September 3-5 in Bristol, UK! @gemmaderrick.bsky.social
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MetaRORpartnership | STI-ENID2025
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
We are calling on the UK Government to not introduce a levy on higher education provider income from international students, reduce visa costs to attract global talent, and to review higher education funding to create a sustainable model www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...
• Discontinue the idea of introducing a levy on higher education provider income from international students.
• Reduce visa costs to ensure they are at least as competitive in cost as other leading science nations, and preferably have a target to become the mos competitive in the G7.
• Provide immediate clarity that the current time length for Indefinite Leave to Remain is kept in place for current and future Global Talent visa holders and their dependents.
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Vague rules will not dispel the REF’s climate of caution. Inclusive assessment needs stronger backing, say Gemma Derrick, Elizabeth Gadd, Simon Hettrick and James Baker. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
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Vague rules will not dispel the REF’s climate of caution - Research Professional News
Inclusive assessment needs stronger backing, say Gemma Derrick, Elizabeth Gadd, Simon Hettrick and James Baker
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Wenceslao Arroyo Machado @wences91.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I’ll be at the @stienid2025.bsky.social this September with @diazfaes.bsky.social 🦦 to present something cool we’ve been cooking up that bridges scientific 📚, social 🌍, and epidemiological 🦠 attentions.
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29th Annual Conference on Science and Technology Indicators @stienid2025.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Dearest gentle readers, The STI-ENID 2025 conference (3–5 Sept, Bristol) is heating up. Accepted authors have been informed, keynote reveals are imminent, and yes… Lady Whistledown will be there. Register now or risk missing the gossip: www.stienid2025.org/registration-1 #STIENID2025
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29th Annual Conference on Science and Technology Indicators @stienid2025.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Prof Keri Facer will open the 29th Annual Science and Technology Indicators Conference on 3 Sept! Her keynote — “Measuring what matters: reimagining research for a shared future” — invites us to think bigger about research, time and transformation. Register at www.stienid2025.org/registration-1
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Gemma Derrick @gemmaderrick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
After 2 reminders that my review for a journal with an APC of £3K+ (of which reviewers, or editors do not profit), was overdue I kindly wrote back that since I was completing this review for free, that imposing deadlines on my time, was inappropriate. My weekend. My time. My choice.
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29th Annual Conference on Science and Technology Indicators @stienid2025.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
👀 Ever wondered what happens when research meets Gossip Girl? We reimagined the topics of the upcoming Bristol Conference on Research Assessment (3–5 Sept) with a bit of sass and scandal — and it weirdly works. 💅📊 www.stienid2025.org/themes Read the blog. Book your spot. See you in Bristol xoxo
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Spotted! 2025 paper themes | STI-ENID2025
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Gemma Derrick @gemmaderrick.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
👀 Ever wondered what happens when research meets Gossip Girl? We reimagined the topics of the upcoming Bristol Conference on Research Assessment (3–5 Sept) with a bit of sass and scandal — and it weirdly works. 💅📊 www.stienid2025.org/themes Read the blog. Book your spot. See you in Bristol xoxo
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Rubén Ruiz-Rufino @rubenruizrufino.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
My book Democracy Under Strain is finally out, and I couldn’t be happier. 🥳 It’s been a long, challenging journey—but one that’s shaped me deeply as an academic. Here’s what it’s about 🧵 #DemocracyUnderStrain (1/11)
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Steve Jones @profstevenjones.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Sign up here for "The Implications of Polycrisis for Higher Education," an online event co-organized by the CHES@UCL and CHET@Bristol. Panellists are Sharon Stein, Basma Hajir and me; the discussant is Richard Hall. #HigherEd, #UKHE, #AcademicSky www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-implic...
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The implications of polycrisis for higher education
This event is part of the #HigherEdSeminarSeries
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Educational Research@Lancaster Uni @edreslancaster.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Very many congratulations to Alma Cardi who successfully defended her thesis on 17/2. She completed a #TRRPHD and was supervised by @gemmaderrick.bsky.social. Many thanks to the Examiners @amhwork.bsky.social and James Robson. www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
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29th Annual Conference on Science and Technology Indicators @stienid2025.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The local organising committee touring the conference site this morning for The STI-ENID 2025 in Bristol (3-5 September, 2025). You know you want to be with us basking in this sunshine! Papers, papers in progress and posters due 4 April! stienid2025.org #stienid2025
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29th Annual Conference on Science and Technology Indicators @stienid2025.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The deadline for Special Sessions for the 29th STI-ENID Conference in Bristol (3-5 Sept) is THIS FRIDAY, 28th Feb! ⏳ Don’t let the deadline become another thing in need of reconciliation. 📢 Submit now! ➡ www.stienid2025.org/submissions
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