Podcasts about digital science

Traditional metrics like downloads and citations have long been the standard for measuring research impact. But with advancements in AI and sentiment analysis, medical publication professionals can now uncover deeper insights—how research is perceived, discussed, and acted upon.In this episode, guest host Dr. Carrie Brubaker is joined by Julia Mutygullina and Carlos Areia of Digital Science to explore how sentiment analysis is transforming medical communications. Tune in as they discuss how AI-driven insights go beyond numbers to reveal the quality and emotional tone of engagement, helping publication professionals understand real-world impact.To join ISMPP, visit our website at https://www.ismpp.org/ This Special Edition Topic episode is generously sponsored by Digital Science. Altmetric, part of Digital Science, is pleased to now have clinical guidelines as an attention source. Find out more here.

This episode is sponsored by Digital Science, a global leader in AI-driven technology, providing advanced software and data solutions that empower researchers, universities, and organizations across the research ecosystem. Born out of the research community itself, Digital Science was founded by researchers who sought to solve the challenges they were facing. Now Digital Science is dedicated to making open, collaborative, and inclusive research a reality, partnering with academic institutions to provide pioneering AI-powered tools that enhance decision-making, foster innovation, and help shape a future where trusted, collaborative research drives progress for all. Learn more at https://www.digital-science.com/. Today's episode features Caroline Goldsmith, Associate Director, Charleston Hub, who talks with Dr. Leslie McIntosh, Founder, Ripeta, and VP, Research Integrity, Digital Science.  Leslie talks with us about how she defines research integrity, and the major issues she sees currently facing the scholarly communication industry around research integrity.  Leslie dedicates her work to improving research and investigating and reducing mis- and disinformation in science. She founded Ripeta in 2017 to improve research quality and integrity using algorithms which lead in detecting trust markers of research manuscripts. Leslie has given hundreds of talks to the US-NIH, NASA, and World Congress, and her work was the most read Retraction Watch post in 2022.  She also talks about the work being done at Digital Science and the new tool, Dimensions Author Check, which supports publishers with the author verification process.   The video of this interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/x8lA-59Zi08 Social Media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-goldsmith-94459112/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/leslie-mcintosh/ Keywords: #DigitalScience, #digital, #ResearchTransformation, #Research Quality, #ResearchEthics, #OpenResearch, #ResearchInnovation, #EmergingTechnologies, #AcademicResearch, #DigitalLibrarian, #DigitalLibrary, , #ResearchReliability, #ResearchIntegrity, #PublishingIntegrity, #PoweringResearch, #ScientificMisconduct, #Retractions, #AuthorVerification, #ScienceTalks, #Misinformation, #Disinformation, #knowledge,  #awareness, #efficiency, #innovation, #partnerships, #CommunityEngagement, #collaboration, #scholcomm, #ScholarlyCommunication, #libraries, #librarianship, #LibraryNeeds, #LibraryLove, #ScholarlyPublishing, #AcademicPublishing, #publishing, #LibrariesAndPublishers, #podcasts

Today Caroline Goldsmith, Associate Director of the Charleston Hub welcomes back Dr. Mark Hannell, who's the Vice President of Open Research at Digital Science and Founder of FigShare, along with Graham Smith, the Open Data Program Manager at Springer Nature.  In this episode, Dr. Mark Hannell and Graham Smith discuss the collaboration between Digital Science, FigShare, and Springer Nature on the State of Open Data report. They explore the purpose of the report, the methodology used, key findings, and the implications for researchers and stakeholders. The conversation emphasizes the importance of data sharing in academic publishing and the need for practical support and metrics to drive change in open data practices. Takeaways The State of Open Data report aims to understand researchers' attitudes towards open data. Survey data often reflects perceptions rather than actual practices. Quantitative analysis complements survey data to provide deeper insights. There are significant differences in data sharing practices across countries. Strong data policies from funders correlate with better data sharing. Education around open data principles is crucial for improving practices. The report highlights the need for practical support beyond policy mandates. Metrics for data sharing can incentivize researchers to share their data. Open data should be a standard expectation in research, not an exception. The findings of the report are openly available for public access. The video of this episode is here: https://youtu.be/weZCi_WR8HI

Open data has been a recurring theme on the podcast - for better or worse. Every year, Digital Science and Springer Nature publish a report on the status of open science, so we thought this year's report was a good occasion to take stock and have a good discussion not only on the status of open status but also on where it's going, how and why. To help us, we invited one of the report's authors, Mark Hahnel from Digital Science, to the podcast to discuss the report titled 'Bridging Policy and Practice in Data Sharing.'We cover the importance of open data in research, the dynamics between global north and south, and the need for ethical standards and education in data practices. The discussion also touches on the enthusiasm of Ethiopian researchers for open data and the challenges of ensuring equitable access and utilisation of data across different regions. As always we cover issues of identity and security when it comes to diversity.And if you can't wait for next year's report - Mark gives us a prediction for the conclusions in the 2025 report at the end of the conversation. You can find the report her: https://www.digital-science.com/state-of-open-data-report-2024/You can follow Mark on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markhahnel/You can follow Mark on Bluesky at: https://bsky.app/profile/hahnel.orgThe presenting sponsor of this episode is Digital Science.The episode is produced and edited by Peter Xiong.Thanks for listening. Please share, rate, review and follow us on Twitter @Divrespod .If you're interested in our work with diversity and internationalisation in research, please visit www.diversiunity.com.

As two cis-gendered men without children, talking about motherhood in academia isn't really our forte. So, with Lachlan travelling, we took the opportunity to invite Hélène Draux from Digitial Science as guest co-host with Jakob for a conversation about motherhood in academia with Lisette Espín-Noboa and the role it plays in the gender gap. Lisette is a postdoc at the Complexity Science Hub and Central European University.We discuss the structural issues within academic institutions that disproportionately affect mothers and offer recommendations for creating a more supportive environment for women researchers. We also touch on the role of fathers in sharing parental responsibilities and the positive aspects of motherhood that can enhance academic productivity.  We end the conversation with a chat about actionable steps that can be taken to improve conditions for parents in academia, including better childcare options, flexible contracts, and the need for role models.The presenting sponsor if this episode is Digital Science.It's produced and edited by Peter Xiong. You can find Lisette and Hélène here:Lisette's website: https://www.lisetteespin.info/Lisette at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisetteespin/Hélène at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/h%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne-draux-4059233a/Organisations mentioned in the episodeMothers in Science | @mothersinsci. Global non-profit organization that advocates for mothers in STEMM and creates evidence-based solutions to promote workplace equity & inclusion of caregivers. mothersinscience.com. Parenthood in Academica (@parenthood_ns) Selected articles and resources mentioned in the episode:Anne Sophie Lassen, and Ria Ivandić. "Parenthood and Academic Career Trajectories." In American Economic Association (AEA) Papers and Proceedings, 2024.Stephanie D. Cheng "Careers versus children: How childcare affects the academic tenure-track gender gap." Working Paper (2020).Scott Daewon Kim & Petra Moser. “BOOM, BABY. WOMEN IN SCIENCE LESSONS FROM THE BABY BOOM." (2020).Gemma Derrick, E., Pei-Ying Chen, Thed van Leeuwen, Vincent Larivière, and Cassidy R. Sugimoto. "The relationship between parenting engagement and academic performance." Scientific Reports 12, no. 1 (2022): 22300.Allison C. Morgan, Samuel F. Way, Michael JD Hoefer, Daniel B. Larremore, Mirta Galesic, and Aaron Clauset. "The unequal impact of parenthood in academia." Science Advances 7, no. 9 (2021): eabd1996.A Simple Act of Defiance Can Improve Science for WomenResearcher parents are paying a high price for conference travel — here's how to fix it (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01571-x) Lindsey Smith Taillie “​​Being a parent is a hidden scientific superpower — here's why” Nature (2024)Kendall Powell “The parenting penalties faced by scientist mothers”Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg “I had three children during my PhD: here's what I learnt” Nature (2024)Thanks for listening. Please share, rate, review and follow us on Twitter @Divrespod .If you're interested in our work with diversity and internationalisation in research, please visit www.diversiunity.com.

 There is no doubt that AI has thrown a lot of our conceptions of science—or at least how we work in and with science—up in the air. Digital Science has written a report about it: “Research Transformation: Change in the Era of AI, open and Impact: voices from the Academic Community.” We invited two of the authors, Suze Kundu and Simon Porter, on the podcast to chat about where this transformation leaves EDI and minorities. We explore the evolving landscape of research practices, the importance of open research, and the need for metrics that reflect inclusivity and holistic impact. The conversation also addresses the challenges of trust and security for minority groups in research, emphasising the need for collaboration and a shift in measuring research success. But we also wanted to push them on the challenges in research transformation, particularly focusing on data sharing, trust-building with communities, the role of AI, and the importance of upskilling researchers. While we perhaps can't avoid this transformation—it can happen in a number of different ways—we must pay attention to who pays the price.  You can read the report at: http://www.digital-science.com/academic-research-transformation?utm_source=external&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=academic_research_transformation&utm_term=digitalsci Or watch a short video presenting the report here:  https://youtu.be/ZSxKTDZHwuQ?feature=shared You can follow Suze here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzekundu/ You can follow Simon here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-porter-9828471/  The episode is sponsored by Digital Science The episode is edited and produced by Peter Xiong. Thanks for listening. Please share, rate, review and follow us on Twitter @Divrespod .If you're interested in our work with diversity and internationalisation in research, please visit www.diversiunity.com.

Dr Lukasz Olejnik (@lukOlejnik), LL.M, is an independent cybersecurity, privacy and data protection researcher and consultant. Senior Visiting Research Fellow of the Department of War Studies, King's College London. He holds a Computer Science PhD at INRIA (French Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology), and LL.M. from University of Edinburgh. He worked at CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research), and was a research associate at University College London. He was associated with Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy, and Oxford's Centre for Technology and Global Affairs. He was a member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group. Former cyberwarfare advisor at the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, where he worked on the humanitarian consequences of cyber operations. Author of scientific articles, op-eds, analyses, and books Philosophy of Cybersecurity, and “Propaganda”. He contributes public commentary to international media. References: Full interview transcript (on Medium) Propaganda, by Lukasz Olejnik Lukasz Olejnik on Cyber, Privacy and Tech Policy Critique (Newsletter) Lukasz Olejnik on Mastodon Lukasz Olejnik on X EU Digital Services Act (DSA)  Section 230 (“Protection for private blocking and screening of offensive material“)  of the Communications Decency Act (1996) Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe Inc. and Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co. as precursors to Section 230 Doppelganger in action: Sanctions for Russian disinformation linked to Kate rumours EU takes shot at Musk over Trump interview — and EU takes shot at Musk over Trump interview — and misses (Politico) The story of Pavel Rubtsov (“Journalist or Russian spy? The strange case of Pablo González”), The Guardian Silicon Valley, The New Lobbying Monster (mentioning Chris Lehane's campaigns), The New Yorker Financial Times: Clip purporting to show a Haitian voting in Georgia is among ‘Moscow's broader efforts' to sway the race “Pseudo-media”:  Spain proposes tightening rules on media to tackle fake news  

This episode is sponsored by Digital Science, a global leader in AI-driven technology, providing advanced software and data solutions that empower researchers, universities, and organizations across the research ecosystem. Born out of the research community itself, Digital Science was founded by researchers who sought to solve the challenges they were facing. Now Digital Science is dedicated to making open, collaborative, and inclusive research a reality, partnering with academic institutions to provide pioneering AI-powered tools that enhance decision-making, foster innovation, and help shape a future where trusted, collaborative research drives progress for all. Learn more at https://www.digital-science.com/. Today's episode features Caroline Goldsmith, Associate Director, Charleston Hub, who talks with Dr. Mark Hahnel, VP of Open Research, Digital Science, and Founder of Figshare. Last July, to understand more about how the research world is transforming, what's influencing change and how roles are impacted, Digital Science reached out to the community through a global survey and in-depth interviews: “We need answers to pressing issues and there is a growing expectation for research to deliver. But increasing demands, tightening budgets, and lack of infrastructure can stand in the way of progress. We need solutions and many are turning to emerging technologies for support.” In this interview, Dr. Hahnel shares the key findings from this survey and the interviews in the Research Transformation Report. A video summarizing these key findings is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LoJ6FqEydTdhtEUFPUBrMfgZRG4H-Xbm/view The video of this podcast can be found here: https://youtu.be/SgYoEQ-Lq8A   Social Media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-goldsmith-94459112/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-science/posts/?feedView=all Keywords: #DigitalScience, #digital, #ResearchTransformation, #OpenResearch, #ResearchInnovation, #EmergingTechnologies, #Survey, #SurveyInsights, #AcademicResearch, #DigitalLibrarian, #DigitalLibrary, , #ResearchIntegrity, #PublishingIntegrity, #PoweringResearch, #knowledge,  #awareness, #efficiency, #innovation, #awareness,  #career, #partnerships, #CommunityEngagement, #collaboration, #scholcomm, #ScholarlyCommunication, #libraries, #librarianship, #LibraryNeeds, #LibraryLove, #ScholarlyPublishing, #AcademicPublishing, #publishing, #LibrariesAndPublishers, #podcasts

We often discuss researchers and research managers on the podcast, but publishers are also key players in the research ecosystem. So, we invited SpingerNature to discuss their report “Insights into diversity, equity and inclusion in the global research community.” Sowmya Swaminathan, their director of DEI, Research who also directs Springer Nature's DEI Program in Research Publishing and serves on the Springer Nature Group DEI Council, joined us for a chat about DEI in the global research community and the importance of publishers taking action in promoting DEI. We talk about how geographical diversity is often undervalued, how early career researchers have specific needs and how generational differences are shaping research values. It's a great conversation combining data, reflections and practical advice for everybody in the research ecosystem. You can learn more at: Springer Nature's annual Sustainable Business Report: https://sustainablebusiness.springernature.com/2023/Springer Nature's DEI webpage: https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/taking-responsibility/diversity-equity-inclusionThe ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Research Publishing' webpage containing many of the reports and resources Sowmya mentions during the discussion: https://www.springernature.com/gp/editors/resources-tools/dei-for-editorsEditor diversity at Springer Nature journals report: https://stories.springernature.com/journal-editor-diversity/index.htmlThe state of DEI in the global research community report: https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/campaigns/dei-insightsNature's approach to inclusion and ethics in global research collaboration: https://www.springernature.com/gp/advancing-discovery/springboard/blog/blogposts-sustainability-inclusion/nature-portfolio-inclusion-and-ethics-guidance/23110194The episode is sponsored by Digital Science.It is produced and edited by Peter Xiong. Thanks for listening. Please share, rate, review and follow us on Twitter @Divrespod .If you're interested in our work with diversity and internationalisation in research, please visit www.diversiunity.com.

Welcome back to Laura Heath-Stout - our first return guest on the podcast!Laura is a postdoctoral fellow in archaeology at Stanford University. She has a new book out: 'Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology.', so we wanted her back on the podcast for a chat about it. And while we aren't all archaeologists the peculiar dimensions of archaeology, such as excavations, rights to data, etc., perhaps make them a canary in the academic coal mine. It is a very personal book where she reflects on her personal experiences, the importance of feminist practices in archaeology, and the challenges faced by marginalized groups within the field. Our discussion also touches on the political dimensions of gender and identity in archaeology, the dynamics of fieldwork, and the impact of current societal issues on archaeological discourse.And with the US elections only one month away we of course, also touched on the political dimensions of the issue. We always enjoy talking to Laura and can only recommend her book. The episode is sponsored by Digital Science. It is produced and edited by Peter Xiong. You can buy Laura's book at:: https://www.routledge.com/Identity-Oppression-and-Diversity-in-Archaeology-Career-Arcs/Heath-Stout/p/book/9780367744212 You can read more about Laura at her Stanford profile: https://profiles.stanford.edu/laura-heath-stout Or at  her personal website: https://www.lauraheathstout.com/ And follow her on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/lheathstout.bsky.social Thanks for listening. Please share, rate, review and follow us on Twitter @Divrespod .If you're interested in our work with diversity and internationalisation in research, please visit www.diversiunity.com.

Gender equality in academia and research has been a topic for decades. And between that and the #metoo movement, one would think we had solved the problems. Yet, here we are. While we usually say that diversity is more than gender, it's also gender. So we invited Marcela Linkova from the GenderSAFE project on the podcast to discuss the project and their mid-way report and for a broader discussion about gender and how we advance the agenda. We discussed the project, what gender-based violence means, the complexity of intersectionality, power, internationalisation, and the precariat, the term "institutional betrayal," and how research managers can help advance gender equality. This episode is sponsored by Digital Science.It is produced and edited by Peter Xiong.You can learn more about Marcela and the GenderSAFE project at:You can follow Marcela at LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcela-linkova-a5ba9156/You can read more about Marcela at her home university: https://www.soc.cas.cz/en/staff/marcela-linkovaYou can follow the GenderSAFE project at LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gendersafe-gbv/posts/?feedView=allYou can read more about the GenderSAFE at the project website: https://gendersafe.eu/You can find the report we discussed here: https://zenodo.org/records/13380368The UniSAFE toolkit can be found at: https://unisafe-toolkit.eu/You can find Centre for Institutional Courage at: https://www.institutionalcourage.org/Thanks for listening. Please share, rate, review and follow us on Twitter @Divrespod .If you're interested in our work with diversity and internationalisation in research, please visit www.diversiunity.com.

Creating equitable research collaborations between the Global North and Global South has been a struggle for many years. How do you create equitability when there is a structural imbalance in the core element of research: funding? And how do you balance the need for global collaboration with differences in values on diversity issues like gender, race, LGTBQ+ issues, etc.?These are not easy questions, but the Guild of Research Intensive Universities (The Guild) and African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) are trying to navigate these challenges through the Africa-Europe Clusters of Research Excellence (CoRE). We chatted with Sean Rowlands, senior policy advisor at The Guild, about the initiative, the role of the AU-EU Innovation Agenda moving forward, and how they intend to work with diversity. It was a great chat about bottom-up initiatives and top-down policies, insisting on equity, funding, building trust and learning from each other. We hope you'll all follow the CoRE project and see how they work with equity, which the rest of us can learn from.The episode is edited and produced by Peter Xiong.It is sponsored by Digital Science. To learn more:Learn more about the Africa-Europe Clusters of Research Excellence initiative, led by The Guild and ARUA here: https://www.the-guild.eu/africa-europe-core/ African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA): https://arua.org/about/ The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities: https://www.the-guild.eu/about/You can connect with Sean Rowlands on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-rowlands/ Thanks for listening. Please share, rate, review and follow us on Twitter @Divrespod .If you're interested in our work with diversity and internationalisation in research, please visit www.diversiunity.com.

Is there a correlation between a higher journal impact factor and increased reach and engagement? The answer has always been, "Of course!" But now with companies driving their own engagement, and alternatives to the journals becoming more mainstream and accepted everyday, the answer is more nuanced. Join our expert guests from Digital Science to discuss the NEW metrics of journal publication.

70 Prozent der Deutschen wünschen sich, dass KI im Gesundheitswesen eingesetzt wird, um bei Diagnosen oder bei der Entwicklung von Medikamenten zu unterstützen. Wo Künstliche Intelligenz schon jetzt in der Patientenversorgung eingesetzt wird und welche Vorteile sich für die Medizin ergeben, erklärt Prof. Dr. Werner, Vorstandsvorsitzender und Ärztlicher Direktor der Universitätsmedizin Essen. Beim Politischen Abend des Bitkom fordert auch Bundesfinanzminister Christian Lindner im Gespräch mit Bitkom-Präsident Dr. Ralf Wintergerst mehr Offenheit beim Umgang mit KI. Außerdem spricht Nora Rohr, Bitkom-Expertin für Bildungspolitik, über die geplante „German University of Digital Science“ und den Stand der Digitalisierung in Hochschulen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cristiana Santos is Assistant Professor in Privacy and Data Protection Law at Utrecht University, holding a joint international Doctoral Degree in Law, Science and Technology from the University of Bologna, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Luxembourg. She is an expert of the Data Protection Unit at the Council of Europe; expert for the implementation of the EDPB's Support Pool of Experts; and expert of the Digital Persuasion or Manipulation Expert Group. She holds an International Chair Starting Career position at the National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA, 2023-2026) to work on technical and legal aspects of data protection. Prior to joining academia, Cristiana was a lawyer and worked as a legal adviser and lecturer at the Portuguese Consumer Protection Organization. Victor Morel holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from INRIA and works at the Security & Privacy Lab of Chalmers University in Gothenburg (Sweden). He is working on usable privacy for IoT applications, and his interests encompass privacy, data protection, networks security, usability and Human-Computer Interactions, applied cryptography, and the broad spectrum of ethics in technology. He is also a member of FELINN's collegiate council, a French association (1901) defending decentralization, privacy, and free software through popular education. Cristiana and Victor have co-authored a recent paper titled “Legitimate Interest is the New Consent – Large-Scale Measurement and Legal Compliance of IAB Europe TCF Paywalls”. With them we are directing our attention to consent walls in the context of publishers and the open market, having already dedicated two recent interviews to the “consent or pay” model as it concerns Instagram and Facebook (ie. Meta). We will also try to understand the challenges and potential conflicts of interest faced by CMP (Consent Management Platform) vendors.  References: Cristiana Santos at Utrecht University Victor Morel's bio and projects Legitimate Interest is the New Consent – Large-Scale Measurement and Legal Compliance of IAB Europe TCF Paywalls (Cristiana Santos, Victor Morel, Viktor Fredholm, Adam Thunberg, 20/9/2023) Upcoming Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society - with Victor Morel (Copenhagen, November 26th 2023) EDPB: Report of the work undertaken by the Cookie Banner Taskforce CJEU to consider questions from IAB Europe TCF decision (Techcrunch) German court bans LinkedIn from ignoring “Do Not Track” signals (Townflex) Your Consent Is Worth 75 Euros A Year -- Measurement and Lawfulness of Cookie Paywalls (20/9/2022) IAB TCF 2.2 specification  

In today's episode, we're talking with Jonathan Adams, Chief Scientist, Institute of Scientific Information, a part of Clarivate.  Jonathan is interviewed by Matthew Ismail, a Conference Director and Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings. Jonathan Adams is a jack of all trades in the scholarly communication field. He is a scientist who taught in higher education and published a successful book in the field of biology. He has been an Assistant Secretary and Science Policy Advisor to the UK government. He has founded a startup related to his research and teaching. He has been in charge of research evaluation at Digital Science and Thomson Reuters. And now he is Chief Scientist at ISI with Clarivate Analytics. He is very well qualified to discuss the research landscape! In this podcast, Jonathan and Matthew discuss the recent report published by ISI, U.S. Research Trends:  The Impact Of Globalization and Collaboration. This report discusses many interesting topics, but perhaps the most relevant finding is that US STEM research, while still strong, is no longer dominant in the world. Jonathan and Matthew discuss the factors that have made the US less competitive in STEM research. Social Media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-ismail-1a6282a/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-adams-5a02188b/ Keywords: #Clarivate, #WebofScience, #data, #DataScientists, #Innovation, #technology, #learning, #education, #knowledge #research, #collaboration, #libraries, #librarianship, #LibraryNeeds, #LibraryLove, #AcademicPublishing, #ScholarlyPublishing, #publishing, #podcasts

One of the great challenges in Medical Affairs is understanding our opinion and communication networks. Over the last few years, the diversity of stakeholders involved in communicating, advocating, treating and responding to our work has become more complex and dynamic. At the same time, communication routes have proliferated and opened, taking us away from our traditional channels. This wealth of data can be overwhelming. In this podcast, Carlos Areia and Mike Taylor - two data specialists at Digital Science - discuss the ways in which Medical Affairs professionals can use this data to discover your next generation of researchers, those influencers whose voices are heard on Twitter, and how your KOLs are interacting with others online, and which publications they're discussing.

Audio from the 2022 Charleston Conference from a presentation titled “The Psychology of Metrics.” This session was presented by Daniel Hook, CEO, Digital Science, and Violeta Ilik, Dean of Libraries, Adelphi University. Video of the presentation available at: https://youtu.be/_irIZfdJrCI Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-w-hook/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/violeta-ilik-46216a53/ Keywords:  #DigitalScience, #DigitalLibraries, #DigitalLibrarian, #LibraryResources, #innovation, #collaboration, #research, #engagement, #problemsolvers, #libraries, #librarians, #information, #ChsConf, #scholarlypublishing, #LibrariesAndVendors, #LibrariesAndPublishers, #libraryissues, #libraryneeds,#librarylove, #librarychallenges, #libraryconference #podcast  

Every two years, Australia's applied mathematics community invites a distinguished international academic to speak at universities across Australia. This year, the AMSI-ANZIAM Distinguished Lecturer is Professor Konstantin Avrachenkov, Director of Research at France's National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, or INRIA. The Random Sample caught up with Prof Avrachenkov at the recently held ANZIAM 2023 Conference in Cairns. Also joining us for this episode is his PhD Supervisor from some 20 years ago, Emeritus Professor Jerzy Filar.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AbbVie's Head of Digital Science, Michelle Crouthamel, joins Mobile Technologies in Clinical Trials to discuss how AbbVie has implemented digital health technologies to digitize measurements that can improve existing endpoints, uncover new endpoints and reduce the burden on patients by eliminating the need to travel to sleep labs. Key topics include: Early patient engagement to identify what is meaningful to themHow mobile technologies were implemented into a clinical study and the impactNavigating regulatory acceptance of digital tools for NDE implementation in a clinical trial Speakers: Michelle Crouthamel, Head, Digital Science, AbbvieAntoniu Fantana, PhD, Lead, Emerging Technology Strategy, Clinical Design, Delivery & Analytics, Eli Lilly

Today we're talking about publications impact with Mike Taylor, Head of Data Insights and GRONYA Farrell, Manager Corporate Life Science, Central Europe, both at Digital Science. We'll discuss the questions:Where are we now?Are we looking beyond impact factor? And how to do we make sense of the data and translate "numbers" into "actionable insights". This episode is sponsored by Digital Science, choosing journals and understanding publication impact in the digital age.

Join us for our latest podcast episode featuring a conversation between Simon Linacre, Head of Content, Brand & Press at Digital Science, and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and a Conference Director at the Charleston Conference. Simon is a native of Northern England who worked as a journalist in London before beginning a new career in academic publishing with Emerald 20 years ago. In 2018 Simon began working with Cabell's International, which is where his interest in predatory publishing began. Simon moved from Cabell's to Digital Science seven months ago. In the podcast, Simon discusses scholarly publishing's black market, including the difficulty of knowing the realities of predatory publishing without a whistleblower or other firsthand account, while also discussing some solutions.  Matthew and Simon will discuss what we know about predatory publishing and try to gain some clarity on the black-market trade in academic writing. Simon Linacre has recently written an article for the Against the Grain blog and will soon publish his work for The Charleston Briefings, both of which you can find on the Charleston Hub website.  Social Media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-ismail-1a6282a/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/slinacre/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-science/ Keywords: #libraries, #librarianship, #libraryissues #libraryneeds #publishers, #publishing #academicpublisher #scholarlyresearch, #scholarlycommunication, #podcasts  #libraryconf #2022chsconf

Luce Brotcorne is a Senior research scientist (Directeur de Recherche) at INRIA (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology). She is the leader of the INOCS research project team. INOCS works on the modeling and development of solution methods for optimization problems with complex structure. She has been working on the optimization of transportation systems for more than 25 years and in the energy domain for more than 10 years. Her interests include the study of bi-level pricing problems, equilibrium problems and stochastic optimization. More precisely she has a strong experience in modeling and solving optimization problems representing hierarchical decision processes. These problems involve two types of decision markers: a leader and a follower. The leader explicitly integrates the reaction of the follower into his decision making process. This paradigm leading to bilevel optimization problems, is well suited to model and solve incentive design problem like pricing problems. In this case the leader is the agent defining the prices taking into account into the model the reaction of the consumers. Luce Brotcorne has developed efficient solution methods to solve large instances of pricing problems in the context of revenue management or demand side management. Several papers have been published in the energy or transportation field. She is co-author of more than 25 scientific papers or book chapters and has given more than 70 presentations in national and international conferences. She is the Vice President of the EURO-Working Group in Pricing and Revenue Management. She is an associate editor for the International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR). She has supervised more than 15 PhD students and Post-docs. She has been, and still is, involved in industrial projects in the field of transportation and energy including the FUI LUMD project on urban logistics, the PGMO project - conducted with EDF (R&D) - on tariff determination in the framework of "Demand Side Management in energy" and “electric cars charging station design and pricing”. She has been the leader of 2 ANR (French Reserch Agency) projects on the design of freight transport systems with a hub structure and on the design of co-modal transport chains. The industrial partner of these two projects was DHL. She has been and is involved bilateral contracts with companies like Colisweb or Urban hub to develop new tools for city logistics.

Join your host Matt Young as he talks to a bp led consortium who have been awarded funding to design and build the world's first quantum stand-off hydrogen sensor.  The award was a culmination of effort from bp's Digital Science team who have been tracking quantum sensor development in the UK since 2017.  Find out why this new generation of sensors will enable the new hydrogen economy. Did you know that hydrogen burns with a colourless flame and represents an invisible danger to safe and reliable operations?

Austin Hodge and Tim Airey speak to Robin Yellow from the bp Digital Science team, about a project in November 2020 to pilot an Autonomous Vehicle around bp's Lingen refinery. They describe how they did it safely in a hazardous environment, and what went wrong when a cloud of steam got in the way. Listen to find out what is so special about autonomy and where it could lead bp next

Wellbeing Digital Science CEO Najla Guthrie joined Steve Darling from Proactive to talk about her new role as the company's CEO. Guthrie tells Proactive more about her background as President and CEO of KGK since 1997 and most recently also held the title of Chief Science Officer for Wellbeing. Under her leadership, KGK has grown into a leading North American contract research organization, and she is highly regarded in the research, science, and leadership communities.

Mathilde Caron is a PhD. candidate at the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology and at Facebook AI (Meta AI). She does the majority of her research in the field of Machine learning called self-supervised learning. She has a few first authorships on important academic papers in the space. Her work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eiB0s-kAAAAJ&hl=fr You can donate to this podcast at this bitcoin address: 33wejXuGGDtQj9GPwCgjwPxPq4dc4muZjg --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/idris-sunmola/support

Benjamin Talin is truly a technology disruptor and digital futurist. Based in Switzerland, Benjamin is the founder and CEO of More Than Digital.info, which helps companies survive the tech future by providing access to knowledge about technology trends.  Benjamin and his team have over 1.7 million people in 100 countries sharing expertise about the digital world. His team is also working on highly scalable solutions to help companies and individuals with new technologies and services. Their goal is to be sure that no company is left behind and that every individual has access to education and knowledge sharing.  Benjamin promotes the topics of digitization, digital transformation and innovation internationally. He is an Advisory Board Member for the University of Digital Science in Berlin and a member of the Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich. As a Member of the Global Panel of Massachusetts Technology Review and the Harvard Business Review, he works with leading executives around the world to share knowledge on technology trends and the impact on businesses.  Highlights of our conversation include: ·        The journey of building the More Than Digital community. ·        The truth of platform building-99% of businesses fail and it takes five years to see revenue. ·        Starting as a young entrepreneur, the “f*ck ups” along the way, including fighting the status quo, bouncing back and listening to criticism. ·        Why CEOs and C-suite executives need to network with other industries. ·        Future vision–to change the education system. Enjoy the show! Connect with Benjamin: Website: https://morethandigital.info Connect with Allison: Website: allisonksummers.com #tech #SAAS # business #designthinking #AI #creativesociety #teambuilding #CEO #startup #startupstory #founder #futureofwork  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Timo Hannay is a 'technologist' and founder of SchoolDash. We speak about his great career in (co-)building a variety of technology tools advancing science and education and what it is like to be an introvert in a seemingly extraverted world.  Do have a look at SchoolDash to find out more about the great work Timo is doing interpreting data: https://www.schooldash.com Guest Introduction:  Dr Timo Hannay is founder of SchoolDash, an educational data analytics company that seeks to empower parents, enlighten policymakers and inform the public debate on schools.  He previously founded Digital Science, a research software company, and before that ran the online business of Nature Publishing Group. He has also worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Co. and as a correspondent for The Economist, among other publications.  He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in neurophysiology from the University of Oxford and an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Imperial College London. But just reading Timo's bio would not do justice to the great man that he is. “There is something about Timo” that makes you want to understand him better and find out more even if Science, Education or Data is not your cup of tea.  “He is a mixture of boyish enthusiasm, inventiveness, and is mildly self-deprecating.” writes Robert Harrington in an interview with Timo for the Scholarly Kitchen in 2014.  I tend to agree that Timo's entrepreneurial spirit and can-do mentality made him a unique contender in the massive corporate environments he successfully operated in and am certain that his brain goes at a 100 miles an hour - even if it does not always show.  Timo is the personification of versatility and, seemingly, never appears to be tired or fed-up of listening to new entrepreneurial ideas - a quality which undoubtedly has helped him in making a successful venture out of SchoolDash whose data analytics and reports - have been used and interpreted by many renown organisations and media in the UK.  Timo successfully managed to realise his vision in getting vocal about data so all those involved could better understand what is going on in the UK educational landscape and beyond.  SchoolDash is a success, contrary to Timo's expectation when he started the organisation in 2015.  In a goodbye post as Managing Director of Digital Science he modestly wrote:  “I want to help schools make better use of the reams of data that flow out of our education system. If that sounds idealistic, it is.  It's also a risk and most likely will fail.  But that's what people said when we set up Digital Science.  As this experience has taught me, taking risks can occasionally reap great rewards in terms of achievement and satisfaction.” Achievement and satisfaction accomplished - I'd say! Timo Hannay - welcome! 

In this episode I sit down with Army veteran Robert Oberhofer. We discuss his deployment to Iraq, battling PTSD, incarceration, homelessness and addiction. We also discuss his journey from a Walmart parking lot to being on the road to a degree in Digital Science.https://www.tiktok.com/@roblawrence_?lang=enSupport the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=4W29P4AAE4KQW)

Hypot-enthuse is celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, as Maymana and Malcolm interview Dr Suze Kundu, UCL Chemistry graduate and Head of Public Engagement at Digital Science. The team discuss the many issues around getting women and girls into STEM and keeping them there, as well as the nature of public engagement and Suze's experiences at UCL. Hypot-enthuse is a podcast from the Faculty of Mathematical & Physical Sciences at UCL. Each episode features a lighthearted chat with a notable academic, and will examine exciting science topics making news around the world.

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The world of marketing can make you feel lost, the trends are constantly changing and keeping up can be a challenge! Did you know that digital marketing is a science?! Today I am chatting with Arjun Rai, Founder and CEO of HelloWoofy how he and his team support business underdogs with the power of visualized data science for digital marketing. Main Topics: - How to create a seamless, smarter, and innovative social media marketing experience while maximizing efficiencies - How to eliminate time-wasting work so you can spend more time doing what you do best - How to elevate your business with AI Key Takeaways: - Market with science - Create content automagically using a smart marketing dashboard - Work smarter by utilizing AI

Davide Calì is an Italian executive, researcher, and founder, who during his twenty-five years long career, successfully delivered over five hundred IT projects. More than thirty of them were executed in cooperation with Fortune 500 companies. He led and participated in over twenty research projects, some of which resulted in Intellectual Property patents. He wrote a dozen of international IT scientific papers, specifically addressing AI-related areas such as Smart Agents, Expert Systems, NLP, Ontologies, and Machine Learning. From 2001 to 2015 he was CTO/CEO and partner of seven Technology and Artificial Intelligence Start-ups (four Italian and three International). In 2010, he was chosen as the software expert for the Italian government delegation at the World Exhibition in Shanghai and after few years of cross border projects, in 2015, he permanently relocated to Shanghai. In 2016 he co-founded EXPAND, a Technology Accelerator for early-stage start-ups focusing on Deep Tech, Digital Science, and Smart Industry.

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Hedgehog & FoxThis week we have an interview with Amy Brand, who for the past four years has been director of the MIT Press. In a recent Q&A that appeared on the Scholarly Kitchen, Amy said of her role at the MIT press:The job is a perfect fit for me because it builds on my experiences beyond publishing in academic science, university administration and research startups.In our conversation, we talk about the changes Amy has made at the press and how she sees them against the wider context of the publishing and scholarly landscape. Amy's appointment in 2015, in fact, marked a return to the MIT press, as she'd been their executive editor in cognitive science and linguistics from 1994 to 2000. Between those appointments, Amy's career included a number of years at Harvard University, first as program manager of the Office for Scholarly Communication and then as assistant provost for faculty appointments and information.When I spoke to Amy on the phone, I began by remarking that I'd noticed she was producing a documentary, so she was clearly interested in a wide range of ways of presenting knowledge beyond the traditional university press categories.Amy BrandVery, very much so. You know, that dates back to the experience I had as an editor at the MIT press in the '90s. The director of the press at the time, Frank Urbanowski, was, I would say, ahead of his time in terms of thinking about the potential for digital media in relation to scholarship. We were one of the first presses – along with Columbia University Press – to begin to really invest in online communities and specific subject areas. For us, it was cognitive science, which was my area as a PhD and also as an editor; for Columbia was political science. And I became fascinated with how we could translate the work that was going on in the academy for a broad audience and build in opportunities for immersion beyond your typical journal article or monograph in terms of the genre of the information. So that set me down that path. I had been an acquisitions editor here for about seven years before I left in 1999/2000 and that experience is what led me away from MIT initially, because I became so interested in digital publishing.Hedgehog & FoxGoing all the way back to undergraduate work, you studied linguistics. Am I reading too much into it to see that interest in deep structures and connections that that linguists are involved in as something that's a thread running through your interests subsequently?Amy BrandNot at all. I think that I've very much stayed true to this interest in how language conveys information, how the mind structures language. And I see what university presses do and what publishers do is about that very path from text to knowledge. And so I see a great deal of continuity between my earlier interests and what I do now.Hedgehog & FoxBut unlike some directors of university presses, you stepped outside the university press world. You were for a number of years an assistant provost at Harvard University. So I guess there must have come a point where you had to decide, do I want to step back into the university press world? Or, given that there are lots of questions about what his future holds, you might have decided, no, there are other areas that will absorb and retain my interest outside that world. But you made the conscious, very specific decision to come back.Amy BrandYes. You know, I again see a lot of continuity in that. The Harvard story is a little bit different. What happened was, I left the MIT Press where I'd been an editor. I went to work at Crossref, which I am is an organization I'm still very involved in as a board member. And I feel very strongly about how it's transformed scholarly information. But when I was working at Crossref, that was sort of the start of the open access fervour. And a friend of mine, someone that I had known for my academic days, who was a professor at Harvard, reached out and said, ‘I'm starting this office for scholarly communication.' That's when I left Crossref to go help start up the office for scholarly communication at Harvard. And it was when I was in that role that I began to see that there's really this fascinating connection between publishing and academic careers and access to information. And in some respects, the Harvard job was kind of shaped around my interest because it wasn't just straightforward academic administration. It was, ‘how do people present or narrate their contribution to scholarship, to new knowledge, and how does that impact their careers?' And so it was very relevant to my whole set of interest in that space; it wasn't as much of a departure as people think. Now, it was very different work environment from working in the university press.Hedgehog & FoxSo what was it like, Amy, coming back to MIT after having been away for a number of years? Did it feel familiar or had everything changed?Amy BrandI'll never forget when I first came in to meet with staff before I started here. Now, the position I left to come back to the MIT Press was literally a block away. It was down the street on First Street in Cambridge. This was the US offices of Digital Science, which is part of Nature Macmillan. And I was actually running the US office for Digital Science. So I walked down the street because I'd just been hired, and the outgoing director said, ‘I really want you to meet with all the staff.' And I come back into the large conference room here and the majority of the people were the same people that I had worked in the ‘90s. Yes, there were some new faces, but it really was like coming home to my second family and I've certainly felt that way since I've been here. It's just over four years as director. So it's a homecoming in many respects. It's not just the Press, it's MIT and MIT's culture, which is very different from Harvard's culture. And it's a focus around the Press – but I think was there when I was here as an editor too – which is, this isn't just about complacently doing what we've always done. It's about constantly rethinking what kind of publishing is best for universities and for MIT in particular.Hedgehog & FoxAnd when you became director in 2015, you consciously gave yourself six months, I think, in order to produce a five-year plan for the Press's future. I'm sure there are many, many aspects to that, but can you maybe summarize how you set about that task?Amy BrandWell, yeah. It was very conscious. It was not, I think, imposed on me. It maybe came a little bit from the mindset that I had had managing at Harvard a lot of complex projects, where I had learned about agile project management and things like that. But it meant that in order to be able to produce this thing that I wanted to produce, that I had to spend a lot of time meeting with and listening to people at the Press and also on campus. And so that was extremely valuable. And it also was an incredibly valuable team-building exercise for my senior staff, the folks that report to me directly, because it was very much a joint effort. Every member of the senior team had a part in producing that report and those recommendations. And then we brought them up to the provost. It gave us a roadmap for the way forward. I mean, when we're when we're sitting there thinking, is this consistent with what we said we wanted to do? It's very valuable to be able to check back. We had emerged with a list of eight strategic priorities at the time and it's been very helpful.Now, I would say four years in – it was a five-year plan – it's outlived its usefulness, in part because we surpassed our financial objectives. And so we've already reached where we wanted to be. But also because I learned in the process that the way we had done that was not actually maximally engaging to the staff here. So they had a voice. And then this thing was delivered to them. But they weren't given the information about ‘how does what I do in my unit support those higher-level priorities?' And so now we're taking a different approach to strategic planning called OKRs, objectives and key results, which of course, like everything else, emerges out of Silicon Valley. But it's been a really good process for engaging staff so that there is much more local ownership over what those priorities are and what needs to be done to realize them.Hedgehog & FoxAnd again, I know this is a big question, so just tell me if it's impossible to answer succinctly, but I was thinking about that process you undertook of going out and having conversations. And I was thinking about all the constituencies that you would inevitably have been thinking about: about staff, your authors, readers, students, faculty, your parent institution. And then the wider culture, the whole economy of knowledge. So you must have had to navigate quite a sensitive course in order to boil that down into eight strategic priorities.Amy BrandYeah, I would say it probably wasn't a perfect mapping between the evidence base of what I heard from all those constituents and what we ended up with. None of these things ever is, right? But I think that it was quite a process and, in addition to helping us get to those priorities, it was also an exercise in bridge building that's been extremely important in how the Press works with the rest of the university.Part of what I've tried to do in my leadership since coming in is really take the university press and pivot it back towards the institute rather than away. It's always a difficult thing to navigate because, of course, you want to have complete editorial independence. And of course, most of our authors, at least 90 per cent of our authors, have nothing to do with MIT and shouldn't. So it's not about that. It's about how we best serve to amplify what MIT is trying to do, and its faculty are trying to do, and how we bring other voices into the mix. But we have, as a result of that strategic planning process, many new partnerships with different units, with the open learning folks, certainly with the Media Lab, with the libraries. We never had, for example, a partnership with the Sloan School of Management, which publishes a lot. Their faculty publish quite a bit, wonderful business and finance books. And now we have two series. MIT's magazine, that's quite well known, is Technology Review. They had started publishing some great books in science fiction and were looking for a partner to help distribute them, and if I wasn't doing that listening tour, I wouldn't have known that.Hedgehog & FoxAnd is that part of one of your strategic priorities that you've described as ‘opening up the black box of publishing‘, unbundling what publishers do in order to create new strategic partnerships rather than a manuscript is delivered at one end and out pops a book at the other?Amy BrandYes, it definitely is. It's forming those partnerships because faculty in many cases are their own kind of publishing entity. I remember actually when I came into the office for scholarly communication at Harvard and we were starting it up and I thought, OK, the first thing I'm going to do, since this is all about helping Harvard do more open access publishing (the faculty, it had nothing to do with the Press at Harvard), I was going to do an audit of how many journals are being published at Harvard. And it turned out to be something like 60. Most of them were within departments and they were handling it themselves. And so, to me, it just seems that if you are, as we are in our case, which isn't, say, true of Princeton, we are part and parcel of MIT, we're not even a separate physical entity, no separate tax ID, we're just part of the institute, that part of our role should be to be serving those faculty who are doing that. The other thing that I should really point out is that most university presses don't publish journals. And so, of course, how we're going to look at this space is going to be coloured by the fact that we are doing both books and journal.Hedgehog & FoxYes, so you have that expertise in-house to draw on. I don't know if it was the top priority only in terms of numerical order, but enhancing the trade list was something you set down as a priority. And certainly I was looking through the catalogue this morning and the trade titles come at the front and they run to about 85 pages, so it's a very rich and varied trade list that you've developed there. In those four years, has that come on greatly? If I'd looked at the catalogue from 2014, would the trade list have been significantly smaller?Amy BrandIt would have been significantly smaller and it would have been largely focused around art and architecture. Part of the history here is that the Press had developed very, very strong expertise around trade publishing, in design and publicity and marketing and all of that, but was only applying it, or largely applying it, to one part of the list. And so it wasn't so much coming in and saying, ‘OK, I just have to reinvent the MIT Press.' It was coming in and saying, ‘We should be applying our ability to do trade books more broadly, and in particular because of my background through more on the science side and my interest in the fact that part of what I was seeing out there in the world is a much larger appetite among reading audiences for accessible science and technology information, it seemed like a good opportunity and it also was a way in which we were serving the objectives of the institute around being a science and technology (for the most part, not exclusively) university that believes in using that research and scholarship to solve problems in the world. That would be a way for us to align with that.Hedgehog & FoxI noted one of the titles in your current catalogue has the subtitle ‘roadmaps for the present‘ and it seemed to me that that actually was something that you were delivering on across the catalogue. You were looking at a technological, scientific issue, problem or development, but you were actually presenting books which were up to date in thinking about its real world applicability: how will this actually have an impact on people's lives? What are the things we should know about this and how should we be handling developments'?Amy BrandRight. And it's often a tough call. I don't know if you've heard this from other directors that you've spoken with. The line between what is a professional book and what is a trade book is sometimes quite blurry and it's something that we wrestle with constantly. We're not like a trade publishing house that puts out a truly popular treatments of this kind of topic. We are much more about books that honour the complexity of their subject, even when they are trade books.Hedgehog & FoxWell, I wondered, because sometimes you buy in rights, I think from UK trade houses, don't you? So I guess you're always asking yourself that question: ‘does this meet the criteria of an MIT Press trade book?'Amy BrandYes, everything that we do, you know, 99.9 per cent of what we publish, is going to undergo a fairly rigorous peer review process. Sometimes the imports will not in the same way because, say if we're translating a book from French or Italian, we're not going to do big revisions in the English edition of that book. And there are reviews published and we can already get a sense of the quality of the work. Sometimes when I do a translation, I'll reach out to the press director of the original language publication to get their view. But yes, everything that we published does go through peer review and that's an extremely important and interesting part of what university presses do.Hedgehog & FoxAnd I've heard it said by some of your peers that it's something that should be made more of in the wider public forum, because it's not an impediment to publishing. It's something that gives university press publishing part of their character in their calibre.Amy BrandAbsolutely. I think among university presses we're probably more rigorous than most in terms of the number of reviews we do at different stages. But I think the whole system is flawed. I mean, I think it served us very well and continues to serve us well, but I tend to think about peer review in the context not only of publishing, but also in terms of academic careers, tenure and promotion, grant making and review panels around that. When you have a process that's highly anonymized, yes, it can be more trustworthy, but it can also be a vehicle for amplifying bias. And I think that that's some of what we've seen around peer review. And then, of course, the other thing is it's just hard to get peer reviewers if you rely on the typical way that most of us think about getting experts to comment on research. It's a bit cronyistic, right? You go back to the same network and people get exhausted. They're also managing a whole set of incentives around conflict of interest and things like that. I'm currently working on peer review as a research project because I really think it's an opportunity to improve how we do it.Hedgehog & FoxWell, we must definitely speak about that again when you publish and I'd be fascinated to talk in more detail about that. Do you have time, Amy, to acquire books? Or are you really operating at the strategic level and unable to give attention to books?Amy BrandYou know, that has been one of the hardest things for me here because I always want to acquire books. I'm constantly meeting people and hearing about great projects. And I'd love to do it, but I don't have time. So what I do is go so far in a conversation and then hand off the connection or the relationship to one of my editorial colleagues. And I think it's worked out well. I don't ever want them to feel that, because I think so-and-so is interesting and the project is interesting, that therefore the director said this, so we have to publish it. It's not how it works. It's just sort of, ‘you should look at this and then it's completely in your hands'.Hedgehog & FoxSo you get a little bit of vicarious satisfaction, but it's not quite the same as seeing it all the way through yourself?Amy BrandYes. Exactly. And, you know, sometimes I'll stay a little bit more involved, especially, all of us university presses tend to do regional interest books or books that touch on our home institutions. And I tend to stay a little bit more involved in those projects.Hedgehog & FoxAnd if I said, let's take quality of content as a given, but if I said what would you like the MIT Press colophon on the spine of the book to say to a fairly sophisticated reader, a reader who is aware of colophons and what they might mean? What sort of values would you like them to associate, albeit subconsciously, with that on the spine?Amy BrandYeah, that's a really good question. I think that – there's word I'm searching for, I'm having a hard time finding – that means something like a little bit edgy and challenging, whatever the subject matter is. You know, I'd like to think that we're very independent. We like to foster cross-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary, anti-disciplinary work, which also raises questions for peer review because it's sometimes harder. And we want to be the best publisher in the areas in which we publish when it comes to bringing fresh new voices. What's fascinating about that is, we are a prestigious press and I want to protect that prestige, but never to the point of saying, ‘I'm going to make a decision about publishing a book based on the pedigree of the academic who's writing it'. So you'll see in our list a lot of younger voices, a lot of assistant professors, even postdocs who are writing their first book because they have a fresh perspective on what might be an entirely new field or subject matter, where they bring that kind of passion to it. I think there are some more established presses that don't tend to do that as much. We take more risks that way.Hedgehog & FoxIf I were to ask you, Amy, what are the ‘known unknowns' that keep you awake at night or that you wake up thinking about in the morning? What's on your list?Amy BrandThat's a really good question as well. You know, I'm constantly asking myself in the bigger decisions that I make every day, ‘Am I consistently putting the Press's interests and reputation above my personal interests and my personal reputation?' Because I hope that I am. To me is extremely important. I don't know if you saw it, I wrote a piece recently about leadership, posted it to LinkedIn: after years of reflecting about leadership, realizing that there's so much humility and being given the opportunity, to use that denigrated George Bush phrase, be the decider. And you can never do that from the position of hubris; that has to be really from ‘I don't think that I necessarily know more than you do or I'm better, I'm smarter. But I take this responsibility and I put it above myself.' When you have a complicated web of relationships with senior administrators at the university where you work and with authors who feel like they've known you for 30 years, as many of mine have, and they want to call in a favour – you know, that kind of thing. But I do think about that a lot.Hedgehog & FoxAgain, this is a big question, but what about the wider question about the evolution, or the revolutions, taking place in the knowledge economy and whether there's going to be a squeezed place for the university press? Is that something that keeps you awake?Amy BrandIt's something that's top of mind for sure. I feel pretty confident in our strategy, which I think is also quite unique. Which is, again, the sort of pushing more towards trade and being successful in that space, while not sacrificing on quality and peer review and serving our authors. And at the same time, going all out into the publishing innovation space, where one can support the other.I think it goes in both directions. So, I don't think the need for the Press is going to be obviated by library-based publishing, for example. I see a renaissance, an interest in the types of books that we publish, certainly among bookstores and booksellers and through that the sales that we're seeing. I've never really believed in certain dichotomies that people talk about, ‘well, it's gonna be all digital'. Well, no, you can have books and print continue at the same time that people are listening to audio books and reading on their Kindle. And similarly, I've never seen the dichotomy between all open or all paid. I think they can coexist very productively. And we're doing a lot of work around that now with our professional, truly scholarly monographs, around ‘what would it mean to get to the point where actually all of those books are subvented and published open access even as we continue to produce print and sell print?'Hedgehog & FoxThis is always a tough question for people, but if I were to ask you to choose an MIT Press title that you think embodies the spirit of what we've been talking about this morning, it needn't be a bestseller, but a title that that you cherish for whatever reason, either because you published it or … Does anything come to mind?Amy BrandOh, no, there's so many! It's like so many children! I'm trying to think… I'm running through these books in my mind and I can think of our bestselling book that sold 350,000 copies, and it wouldn't be that, so I'm not going to mention that. And I can think of my personal favourites, which wouldn't necessarily be representative of the whole Press. So, rather than saying the title, I can tell you about the process. I think my favourite books are often – in more recent times, because there's so many fabulous MIT Press classics and backlist titles – the ones where the process reflects intellectual engagement on the part of the editor in identifying the subject matter and matching it up with the right author. We have books where the editor's read or I have read an article in The New Yorker and I think, oh, my God, this has to be a book. When that happens, it's extremely satisfying.Well, actually, now I think I can mention one book, a recent book, which I think speaks to a lot of what the Press is trying to do. So with the hedge that this isn't the best or most important book that the MIT Press ever published, there's a book called The Dialogues by a physicist at the University of Southern California named Clifford Johnson, which is a graphic novel treatment about the origins of the universe, using African-American drawn figures having conversations. This book has been extremely successful and I love it because I love the author. I love Clifford and I love the fact – and it's been a top seller for us – he tried to have the project agented and failed and ultimately came to the Press. And he also was very insistent about doing the drawings himself and designing it exactly the way he wanted it designed. It's brought us into a whole new market, the whole kind of Comic Con world. And we have many more graphic novel treatments in the works. But that to me represents, you know, we're moving into a bit more kind of the popularization of science, capturing new voices, capturing new genre and formats. So I think The Dialogues is a really good example of what we're trying to do now.Hedgehog & FoxThat sounds like a very good choice; I should definitely check that out. And which other presses do you look to with particular admiration?Amy BrandOh, I mean, there are so many. I had the privilege recently of being on a review committee for Duke University Press and digging in to what they're doing, and I have so much admiration for their approach to publishing in the humanities, which is quite different from what we do. We have had a very close relationship over the years with Princeton and Harvard and Yale because of our various sales consortia here and also Columbia and California, so I get kind of more of a front-view look into what those other presses are doing. And sometimes I'm a little jealous that we don't do more in history because those are books that I love to read and all of those presses do a fabulous job. I don't see us going in that direction. But I think there are so many just wonderful university presses and they each do things slightly differently. I will say, in a more competitive spirit, that I don't think anybody's as distinctive as we are!Hedgehog & FoxHere's a very last question, Amy. When you want to switch off from all these big questions we've been discussing today, at the end of the day or when you're on holiday, how do you switch off?Amy BrandThat has a very easy answer for me. Certainly time with family is top. I have three kids. Two of them are out of the house now because they're older. The other thing is I have a very serious yoga practice. It's a part of my life and I find that that's probably the quickest way for me to switch off, to be able to go to that space. That's where I can reset.The post Conversations with Publishers: Amy Brand, MIT Press appeared first on The Hedgehog and the Fox. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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