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Research culture: Changing expectations will bring together intertwined debates around research assessment, career progression, researcher development, research dissemination and research integrity.

Day two - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e3u9a2hGCw

This conference will showcase initiatives and work across the research landscape to continue to create and improve the cultural conditions and environments in which excellent research and researchers can flourish.

This landmark event, compèred by Professor Mark Miodownik, will give attendees the opportunity to think creatively about how the culture of research can be different, to share and build on best practice across the sector, and develop new networks with individuals across the research landscape. Across the two days attendees will be invited to explore how the system and the behaviours of individuals in it can help to catalyse change. The conference will be the culmination of the Royal Society’s two year programme on research culture.

The Pitch: ideas to positively change research culture
This competition is an exclusive opportunity to pitch an idea or scheme to improve research culture in the UK and potentially receive a small grant to support its implementation. Submitted ideas will be shortlisted and the groups or individuals behind the top three will be invited to pitch them on stage at the Research culture: Changing expectations event. A panel of judges will challenge and probe the pitches before deciding whether to award a small grant to support its implementation. Find full details on how to enter the competition.

Confirmed speakers include:

Professor Jim Al-Khalili FRS (theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster)
Dr Eugenia Cheng (Scientist In Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Margaret Heffernan (author of Beyond measure; the big impact of small changes)
Liz Nicholl (Chief Executive UK Sport)
Professor Venki Ramakrishnan PRS
Dr Adam Rutherford (presenter of BBC's Inside Science)
Robert-Jan Smits (Open Access Envoy of the European Commission)
Dr Magdelena Skipper (Editor in Chief Nature)
Dame Julia Slingo FRS
Dame Angela Strank FRS (head of downstream technology and chief scientist of BP)
David Sweeney (Executive Chair Research England)
Sir Mark Walport FRS (Chief Executive UKRI)

Programme
Download the outline programme (PDF): https://royalsociety.org/~/media/policy/projects/research-culture-images/landmark-conference/Research%20culture%20Changing%20expectations%20overview.pdf?la=en-GB

Attending the event
Attendance is by either by invite or registration of interest
If you register your interest, in order to ensure there is balance in the room, your place will be confirmed by 14 September 2018
Priority will be given to people who register earlier
Childcare grants available for attendees

The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. Visit our website to learn more: https://royalsociety.org/

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Sep 05, 2021 · beckman466 on Octopus, a new vision for scientific publishing

"There is a real problem in science—with widespread questionable research practices [...] I think that the root of it all is the publication system, and the pressure to publish as the only way that scientists are being judged. The new publishing platform I envisage would stop forcing researchers to try to tell a story, allowing them to concentrate on doing their work to the best of their ability and on constructively collaborating.
Q: How would this new publication system work?
A: The overall idea behind the new platform, which I called Octopus, is to break the standard unit of publication up into eight smaller stages or pieces. These include formulated scientific problems, hypotheses, methods and protocols, data, analysis, interpretation, and real-world applications. The eighth piece is reviews where people share their comments about the other stages, but it's also treated as a publication itself because it is a constructive piece of collaboration. [...]
The formulated scientific problem automatically becomes the beginning of a chain, and all the other pieces are vertically linked upward. If you have a great hypothesis, you can publish that and link it straight up to the problem that it is trying to address. And if you've collected some small amount of data, you can publish that, linking it directly up to the protocol that you followed. It will also be possible to create horizontal links between publications; maybe somebody has come up with an amazing algorithm whilst studying starling flocking behavior and somebody else working on oil pipelines has decided to use it."
The article also links to Dr. Alexandra Freeman's Octopus pitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAY9s-CUQKE&t=20806s

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