We know that the task demands of cognitive tests most scores: if one version of a problem requires more work (e.g., gratuitously verbose or unclear wording, open response rather than multiple choice), people will perform worse.
WHO document drops on #SARS2 transmission, so I opened this up as if it was a tactical nuke needing defusing.
But holy cow...
WHO Airborne Risk Indoor Assessment (ARIA) Technical Advisory Group with LIDIA MORAWSKA as the CO-CHAIR!?!?
CERN?!?!?
WHO Environment and Engineering Control Expert Advisory Panel (ECAP) with Cathy Noakes on it and ASHRAE liason?
An actual model?
I do see the dreaded Dr. IPAC Droplets on the committee... hmm.
<now reading intensely, this is going to take a few minutes>
Indoor #airborne#risk#assessment in the context of #SARSCoV2 : description of airborne transmission mechanism and method to develop a new standardized model for risk assessment
"Intrigued by a citation-boosting service that we unravelled during our investigation, we contacted the service while undercover as a fictional author, and managed to purchase 50 citations. These findings provide conclusive evidence that citations can be bought in bulk, and highlight the need to look beyond citation counts."
I have no opinion (right now) on the new method. I just want to applaud the experiment. The foundation is using its old and new methods side by side for a time and plans to compare the results.
"There have been many calls to expand P&T to include more types of nontraditional scholarship…and to formally acknowledge that there are more ways to share knowledge than the written word. We’re calling for an even more expansive view of scholarship: one that invites, accepts, and celebrates the entirety of research, including datasets."
The Austrian 🇦🇹 climate-science community is writing a national #Climate#Assessment Report (#AAR2) following the process & structure of the #IPCC - and at @uniinnsbruck, we're hiring an #earlycareer researcher to support the co-chairs & authors!
#BSAM is the acronym for #Bluetooth#Security#Assessment#Methodology. BSAM is an open and collaborative methodology developed to standardize the security evaluation of devices using Bluetooth technology.
PS: We can all list some of the factors at work here, and we should. My start: Paying more attention to where a work is published, and the fact of publication itself, than to the quality of what is published.
"The University of Tokyo became the first Japanese university to sign the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (#DORA, @DORAssessment) on 1 December 2023."
The new system "will no longer consider only the impact factor [#JIF] of the journals in which scientists publish…And in an attempt to reduce the level of public funds being spent on publication costs, assessors will take into account papers published on noncommercial, #OpenAccess publishing platforms that don’t charge author fees [#APCs], such as Open Research Europe."
In addition to supporting #preprints, content #mining, and #DORA#assessment reforms, it applies #CCBY licenses to all research carried out at the institute.
"About a third [of respondents] said they saw no benefit to their careers in sharing work quickly and openly…41% of respondents thought that open research practices had “no influence” on #assessment."