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Sarah de Rijcke @sarahderijcke.nl · 22/09/2026

What makes knowledge trustworthy? I explore that question in my Nature Comment “Six principles for supporting academic freedom in universities.” The piece offers six principles for assessing decisions that affect universities, including about funding, international collaborations and evaluations.

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Sarah de Rijcke @sarahderijcke.nl · 20/12/2024

Leiden University received 50k from @opensciencenl.bsky.social to integrate open science into strategic priorities of various institutes and translating this into HR policies. The method will be piloted at @cwts.bsky.social and the institute of psychology www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024...

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Leiden University will recognize and reward open science more

Leiden University has received a €50,000 grant from Open Science NL to develop a roadmap for integrating open science into the strategic priorities of various institutes and translating this into huma...

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Sarah de Rijcke @sarahderijcke.nl · 14/12/2024

Are social scientists truly social beings? Looking at our CWTS @unileiden.bsky.social end-of-year party, the answer is a resounding YES! 🎉

Pictures of joyful party with colleagues from CWTS at Leiden University

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Sarah de Rijcke @sarahderijcke.nl · 13/12/2024

The Dutch UNESCO Committee looks forward to a world with care for one another and shared values about peace and tolerance. We want to share these positive messages as widely as possible. Will you join us? Create your own version of this wish and share it with the hashtag #unescowens2025

Card with eye interlaced with rainbow. Message reads “My wish for 2025: Care for one another. Sarah de Rijcke, Dutch UNESCO Committee”

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Katharina @katharinabiely.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

#callforabstracts #STS conference Graz 2025. If you work on #actionresearch #systemsthinking & #sustainabilitytransition then this call is for you. stsconf.tugraz.at/calls/call-f... (ID4)

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Call for Abstracts – STS Conf Graz

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Ann-Christin Fischer @acfischer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

🌟 **Join us in Utrecht!** 🌟 Late BA, Master's students & early PhDs: *Forms of Knowledge and Values in Science and Society* at our Spring School, **13–17 May 2025**. ✅ Interdisciplinary discussions ✅ Networking with peers ✅ Inspiring talks & workshops 📍 Utrecht, Netherlands

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Sarah de Rijcke @sarahderijcke.nl · 08/12/2024

‘Many magazines have published an “innovation issue.” Limn 11 flips the script with an obsolescence issue.’

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Sarah de Rijcke @sarahderijcke.nl · 07/12/2024

Love Jana’s piercing analyses on higher education’s crisis of legitimacy janabacevic.net/2024/09/04/r... and on existing while female janabacevic.net/2019/06/12/e.... So true. I’ll proudly continue to practice my RBF. Relevant for dealing with both. @unsocialtheory.bsky.social

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Sarah de Rijcke @sarahderijcke.nl · 30/11/2024

What is good leadership in this day and age? And what role do universities and the social sciences play in this? As dean of a Faculty of Social Sciences, I find myself in the midst of a storm of debates about internationalization and the future of higher education.

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Sarah de Rijcke @sarahderijcke.nl · 01/02/2024

A wonderful opportunity at CWTS | Leiden University for a prospective PhD candidate who is interested in studying research assessment reform careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Leiden-P...

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

The first act in a large research project geared towards understanding diversity in conceptualisations of 'good science' is out now - a review of the dimensions of responsible research systems and cultures, by Sarahanne Field, Jackie Thompson, @sarahderijcke.bsky.social, Marcus Munafó and myself. 1/

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Sarah de Rijcke @sarahderijcke.nl · 16/01/2024

As part of my first week as dean I gave a short speech at the New Year’s reception last week, a tradition at our faculty. I wanted to create a bit of depth, but also wanted to give people a good ‘hook’ to approach me afterward. So I reached out with a colourful metaphor. tinyurl.com/35b8zxxm

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Sarah de Rijcke @sarahderijcke.nl · 29/11/2023

‘Crusaders against an outside foe’… In trying to coming to grips with our depressing election results, @jameswilsdon.bsky.social suggested I read Kenan Malik’s “Not so Black and White.” I started with his Guardian columns, f.i. on performative migration politics 🔥 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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DORA @dorassessment.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

PREreview created the Open Reviewers Toolkit to help responsible evaluation of research manuscripts. It has three 3️⃣ guides to assessment and writing of a research manuscripts' review. 🛠️ Guidance for bias assessment 🛠️ A framework for how to read & evaluate a manuscript 🛠️ A self-assessment rubric

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The Open Reviewers Toolkit is now openly available

September 20, 2021 – The PREreview team is very excited to announce the publication of the Open Reviewers Toolkit, three guides to help with the unbiased composition and assessment of research manus...

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James Wilsdon @jameswilsdon.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

The Research on Research Institute is hiring! 4 roles available in our core team @rorinstitute.bsky.social, based at UCL. We’re seeking an Operations Manager; a Research Fellow in Metascience; a Communications & Impact Manager; and an Administrator. More here: researchonresearch.org/rori-is-hiri...

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

If you're still wondering why those university rankings still make people's heads spin, despite everything we know about them, worry not—we've got you covered! 👉 link.springer.com/journal/1073...

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Sarah de Rijcke @sarahderijcke.nl · 18/10/2023

I love turning to @drmarkcarrigan.bsky.social for his sharp and reflexive writing on scholarly communication and all that is good, bad, and very ugly about social media platforms for academic communities.

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Sarah de Rijcke @sarahderijcke.nl · 16/10/2023

✨The Open Book Futures (OBF) project announces support & funding for 3 experimental book publishing pilots. These pilot projects will be developed with OBF’s Experimental Publishing Group supported by Coventry University and overseen by the Open Book Collective copim.pubpub.org/pub/expub-pi...

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Julian Hamann @julianhamann.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Multiple Competition in Higher Education - and Beyond: Here's the call for an international and interdisciplinary conference that will conclude our DFG Research Group on April 4-5. Keynotes by Christine Musselin and David Stark. Please consider submitting a contribution!

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Call for Proposals

Call for Proposals: International conference on “Multiple Competition in Higher Education – and Beyond”, April 4th and 5th 2024, University of Kassel, Germany

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Sarah de Rijcke @sarahderijcke.nl · 14/10/2023

Gripping call for concerted action and strong international support from #UnitedNations Secretary General António Guterres on #Gaza #Israel and the ongoing disaster. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/o...

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Sarah de Rijcke @sarahderijcke.nl · 12/10/2023

Does science need heroes or does it need to reform? I elaborate on this in a blog post. Idolizing heroes can worsen #bias, #inequality & #competition. Yet, it does require good #leadership to ignite structural change www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/doe...

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

✉️ Some science 🧪 buddies and I have written an open letter to the UK government, strongly opposing their “kicking woke ideology out of science” sentiments, which stand to damage the UK’s scientific standing and ability to deliver for public good. Please read and consider signing ✍🏻 t.co/H7rNzb0wGh

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Letter to Secretary of State re EDI in science

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Sarah de Rijcke @sarahderijcke.nl · 06/10/2023

Led by Anne Beaulieu, we (Kathleen Gregory, Matthew Mayernik, Christine Borgman) received funding for a nias-lorentz.nl/workshops/ on “How to evaluate emerging knowledge infrastructures.” KI’s pose challenges for assessment (eg they’re rarely duplicated, and plurality only exists within). Exciting!

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Sarah de Rijcke @sarahderijcke.nl · 04/10/2023

Call for Candidates for Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) Steering Board incl. one Vice-Chair position coara.eu/news/call-fo...

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Sarah de Rijcke @sarahderijcke.nl · 02/10/2023

Hi everyone, it’s a pleasure to meet you and to try out Bluesky 🙏 @dwh.bsky.social. My name is Sarah de Rijcke, and when I post it will probably be to share thoughts and experiences to do with STS, research governance, research culture, leadership, Open Science, and research assessment.

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