What actions will/do you take to better support ECRs?

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s.burgess@elifesciences.org

Work with the journal to support ECR initiatives, webinars, meetings, feedback from ECRs into journal policy. In the process of planning the best way to help implement change in the way ECR are evaluated. Will love to help support the Bullied into Bad Science Campaign in any way I can.

Use JIFs wisely. Provide pastoral and professional support. Encourage them in every way I can. Listen to their problems.

Good campaign. Cambridge is perhaps the worse at bullying, from what I've heard from students and colleagues.

Professor of Basin Analysis

Oppose over-reliance on journal metrics & university rankings; support diversity, inclusion and a good work-life balance; share my experience willingly

Support them in completing publications and applications

Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge

Encourage open science; support development and provision of relevant training programmes to ECRs

Went through the highs and lows of the ECR experience

Academic Director for STEM

innovate@rodriguez-gonzalez.net

Rodriguez-Gonzalez Services Corp.

I try to encourage transparent and reproducible research practices through mentoring, reviewing and editing, and on search committees and grant panels. I also write papers and conduct research on how to improve transparency and reproducibility.

Associate Professor of Psychology

Blog, talk, radio and TV. Also I work on bad statistical practice.

A brilliant initiative, and sadly necessary

nicola.low@ispm.unibe.ch

DORA signatory, teach non-IF journal choice, support my PhD and post docs, departmental commitment

Are you interested in international extension?

University of California, San Diego

I urge colleagues to insure that our recruitments are based not upon number of papers published, or publishing in glam journals, but rather work of solidity and substance on important topics.

Support their campaign and continue to fight against the present system as best I can

I'm already trying ! I believe the library has a role not only in teaching people how research is evaluated by the use of largely imperfect metrics, but by not buying into bundled deals (including offset arrangements) .where these adversely affect the ability of researchers to publish where they wish.

I am so very impressed by this campaign, and the energy that has been put into it (but I guess you know this!)

Head of Science Information Services

Educate them about their options and campaign/advocate on their behalf wherever possible.

Research Support Librarian

malcolm.macleod@ed.ac.uk

Disruptive research illustrating the current systematic flaws

Happy to help however I can

wael.agur@glasgow.ac.uk

I encourage my group to publish good science in good journals and not to run after the vanity journals.

dorothy.bishop@psy.ox.ac.uk

Dorothy Bishop, FRS, FMedSci, FBA

1. Running BBSRC course on reproducible methods for ECRs; 2. Running day of talks on reproducibility in Oxford in Sept; 3. Starting discussions at high level with Oxford University to propose we have a policy on this. 4. include requirement for evidence of open/reproducible science in job application. 5. see my blog for relevant posts, e.g. http://deevybee.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/reproducible-practices-are-future-for.html

Great and much needed initiative.

Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology

As a member of the Executive Board of the International Council for Science I advocate a system in which access to the scientific literature is free for authors and readers, and in which inappropriate metrics are not used to evaluate individual researchers.

sasthana@plymouth.ac.uk

Co-writing, managing expectations and the difficult balance between idealism and the need to play the game

Good campaign. Perverse incentives affect us all

marcus.munafo@bristol.ac.uk

Promoting an open science culture and a healthy, collaborative and collegial work environment (see: http://www.bris.ac.uk/media-library/sites/expsych/documents/targ/TARG%20Handbook%20161128.pdf)

Professor of Biological Psychology

s.semple@roehampton.ac.uk

University of Roehampton

Provide the best mentoring and advice I can give; encourage and explain the value of production of the best science/publications, rather than striving for the ‘sexiest’ science/publications in ‘vanity’ journals; encourage open access and transparency in all aspects of research; discuss frankly how to manage potential conflicts between an idealist approach and maximising chance of career success.

Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology

Maria Fitzgerald FMedSci FRS

University College London

Contact editors to question their decision making processes

Only because I've found the press very difficult in the past

Professor of Developmental Neurobiology

Try to be as supportive as I can be towards the ECRs with whom I have contact.

Professor of Computational Astrophysics

a.d.wilson@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Use my leadership roles as a platform to implement the required changes

Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL

encourage fewer, more thorough publications and support open access

Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology

Keep my PhD students well informed about the publication process and bias

chambersc1@cardiff.ac.uk

I will continue to push for Registered Reports (https://cos.io/rr/) to be offered at all empirical scientific journals. I also only hire post-doctoral ECRs in my lab who have open science experience, and together with Felix Schonbrodt I am developing a modular certification scheme for valuing open practices in hiring policies: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ty43Syw0Flkh8ncjW8MZArIkvYe8hLwwhLlIwbtSk_Y/edit

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

Erasmus University Rotterdam

I include open science practices in my courses and editorial practices, give talks on the topic, blog about it (https://rolfzwaan.blogspot.nl), and comment about it in the media.

Let ECRs decide on project, evaluations and publication venue

wtg10@dpmms.cam.ac.uk

I will continue to make judgments based on academic quality rather than basing them on proxy measures such as where work is published. In general, I will campaign against the measurement culture that inhibits good science.

Royal Society Research Professor

fanismissirlis@yahoo.com

Focus always on the science and promote stable working conditions that encourage generosity, collegiality and sharing of ideas, reagents, technologies and insight.

Please do take note of 3 employment tribunals against Queen Mary University of London who fired scientists that complained about the application of stupid metrics. Magoulas v QMUL, Allen v QMUL, Missirlis v QMUL. All in the public domain as they reached the employment appeal tribunal.

emeritus Professor of Astronomy and Cosmology

I am not sure how effective this will be, or if its effects will ever reach me. But I agree with the argument and hope for change.

gdelrio.riande@gmail.com

create a global network of researchers and develop a global plan

It wuld be good to translate this literature and make it circulate in other languages

aizquier@hunter.cuny.edu

City University of New York

Inform ECR about the benefits and opportunities for open research and encourage them to seize the opportunities

advocate for more open publication, funding, and hiring processes

Endorse immediate open publishing and try to publish research in Open Access journals. Publish data, protocols and tools online (open access). Advance gender equality and diversity in my research group.

For colleagues in my Department: training, mentoring, shoulder to cry on, lobbying for cultural change
For prospective colleagues: fairer and more rounded assessment at recruitment: based on a rounded skillset and good science - not just a few 'big' papers; and acknowledging there is more than one successful route through science for men as well as women

Professor of Evolutionary Biology

I have supported ECRs by setting up Fellowship Programs (Panton Fellows, Shuttleworth Flash Grants, ContentMine Fellows) to give them space to develop their ideas unhindered by the artificial and often unjust restrictions of the current system.

I applaud any ECR who speaks out - it takes courage.

Associate professor of linguistics

DSmith@mednet.ucla.edu

Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

Argue against the use of meta-criteria such as the h-index when evaluating a promotion dossier, whether employed by the candidate or intramural or extramural reviewers.

I applaud your efforts to encourage scientists to evaluate their colleagues' work based on its actual quality, not where it is published.

Trinity College, Cambridge

Creating availability and awareness of open science processes within the Faculty

This is a critical issue for scholarly research - how research is disseminated and evaluated must be under the control of researchers. It is wonderful that ECRs are taking the lead in this, you have my full support.

helder.mendesbaiao@gmail.com

University of Oporto (Portugal)

Support THEIR publication strategies. Fund their OA publications where possible. When in a position to appoint, ensure that is is appropriate skills and experience that count - often skills are best advanced by overcoming previous failures, yet this may not produce publishable evidence!

tristram.wyatt@zoo.ox.ac.uk

Department of Zoology, University of Oxford

Senior Research Associate, Emeritus Fellow

Max Planck Institute for Ornithology

To promote a thorough, careful approach to science and to facilitate open access to all outcomes, materials and techniques.

christopher.ward@manchester.ac.uk

The University of Manchester

This is not just an ECR issue. It is a problem with science in general. Worldwide.

Reader in Stem Cell Biology

Stockholms Sjukhem's unit for research, development and education

Voice my support. Fight the current system while I'm pursuing my PhD.

jamillahussain05@yahoo.com

I consider this to be a really important initiative, the current model for publishing research and assessing researchers is reducing the value of research and impacting patient care in the NHS- it must change.

n.penfold@elifesciences.org

In my job, I contribute to work to build as excellent an alternative publishing infrastructure as possible so that when they feel able to consider the alternatives, these options serve them well. Through this work, I meet many people involved in advocating for open, building new tools, and supporting researchers. Wherever possible, I will connect people to better tools, to peer support, and to opportunities I know about that may help them to pursue a research career in the way they wish to practise research. I pledge to support ECRs in the 'open' community as best I can.

Only publish in open journals, be active in ensuring department recruitment is based on science not journal names, encourage use of pre-print servers, support pre-prints and SF-DORA in all research funding committees I serve on.

Professor of Genome Biology

hervemaisonneuve@gmail.com

Increase the awareness of these actions among the French scientific networks, and the recently-named research integrity officers!

Former associate professor Public Health

University of New England, Australia

Support the use of open access (e.g., articles, data, and software) and encourage submitting research findings (incl. data) to open access journals and platforms.

laura.fortunato@anthro.ox.ac.uk

I currently lead the Reproducible Research Oxford project (rroxford.github.io), which provides training in effective computing practices for reproducibility, and I have incorporated such training in graduate level teaching I am involved in more broadly. I consider and promote open research practices in peer evaluation.

Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology

Melissa.Bateson@ncl.ac.uk

Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, UK.

I act as an advisor or independent mentor for several ECRs. I aim to set an example by actively choosing to publish my work in Open Access journals and publishing my data and data analysis scripts to provide full transparency. I have been successful in my career without ever publishing in Science or Nature.

Wonderful - all power to your campaign ...

Oppose the impact factor culture higher up in the university; embed open science policies in my collaborations; speak up in hiring and grant decisions

I am inspired by your campaign

Professor of Behavioural Science

patrice.rey@sydney.edu.au

Indian Institute of Science

1. Implement practices that support good science, at a personal level.
2. Encourage and help ECRs to do the same.
3. Lobby in favour of practices promoting good science and help ECRs to do good science, when I am on decision making bodies.
4. Speak and write on these issues as frequently and as widely as possible.

We need a mass movement in favour of good science and to eliminate bad science. There is no one better placed to lead this movement than ECRs. They need the full support of established scientists and science administrators and indeed, the media.

Inserm/ University of Toulouse III

1. support whenever possible open access publication and posting of preprint papers
2. strive for transparency on issues of funding research, paying for publication, and other aspects of institutional decision-making
3. Support and encourage ECRs to become active partners in institutional organisations, and be specifically aware of issues around diversity and inclusion of women and minority groups who are often systematically absent from decision making or leadership positions

I work in France, where this is a very pertinent set of problems

Tenured Inserm researcher

Give information and encouragement to go open, some funding. Keep on pressuring publishers to open up, become transparant and affordable; otherwise no more licenses.

Help with documenting severe cases of academic bullying such as listed at AntiMobbing.EU and giving advice to ECRs how to deal with the international research mafia who is well organized and politically connected.

ECRs who support this antimobbing compaign face a high risk of the premature determination of their academic career due to the powerful international research mafia of journal editors and university professors who require bullying for maintaining their hegemony in science and politics worldwide.

Former University Professor

cristinalegidoquigley@gmail.com

Support the points raised in this letter. Preprints, open access, working towards ECR job security, ECR voting & in hiring panels, etc.

Moringa Science Publishing

I started an Open Science publisher ( https://moringa.pub ) and offer free workshops on open science

I am a public advocate for open science, including all of the points on your list. I am doing so on my blog, in meetings and articles. Also, importantly, I will challenge anyone using "this is a science/nature paper" as a shortcut for "a great paper": these are among the small things we need to do to change the culture.

Andreas.Prokop@manchester.ac.uk

The University of Manchester

Full support in independent applications, promoting better positions on papers (e.g. communicating author, final position), advice, always discuss and consider the difficult balance between good publishing practice in sensible journals and the HIF requirements for their careers.

I am an advocate of #scicomm, and this is an excellent example of fostering dialogue within the science community. Model initiative! You should improve your brand by designing a logo that accompanies your current mission statement.

Consider the study itself, not journal where the study is published

Raise awareness of Open Science and how to balance those requirements with current evaluation practices; promote social engagement and relevance, interdisciplinarity, collaboration; reward labour-intensive activities such as data collection and curation, professional service and community-building which are underestimated in current academic assessment; continue to highlight concerns of ECRs, and the crucial importance of supporting them, in policy circles.

Brilliant initiative - I encourage making contact with the Global Young Academy and the various National Young Academies around the world for further support and endorsement

Professor of Philosophy and History of Science

Promote diversity in academia
Ignore journal impact factors
Encourage Open Academia through submission of preprints, open access publication, and, where relevant, open data

Great initiative - problems endemic also in the humanities and social sciences

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil

Fight antiethic or antiscientific ECR evaluation schemes (doing). Support ECR initiatives for decent work conditions.

ECR and even students are being evaluated and punished in Brazil (not renewing scholarships, for instance) based on antiethic or antiscientific criteria - e.g., for not publishing in the 1st year of Master's, for not publishing in the same journals their professors publish. The federal government (main, and frequently only funder) says it's wrong but has done nothing so far.

LSCP, Département d’études cognitives, ENS, EHESS, CNRS, PSL Research University, 75005 Paris, France

lead by example, create and divulge training material for open science

Support and encouragement around career development and publishing. I will work to promote the best science, and to push to move away from blunt instruments of 'quality measurement' like metrics and fashionable journal titles.

findfishanywhere@gmail.com

Finding and connecting people/researchers with common interests...

My niece, Katherine McLean, is an early career researcher in biomedical research.

Open Education/Open Science Advocate

s.mclaughlin@leeds.ac.uk

Lecturer in music composition

Advocate on transparent and reproducible research practices through mentoring, reviewing and editing, and on search committees, training, organizing events, and participating in webinars, meetings, initiatives, and conferences. Share tools that promote and facilitate open science, transparency, reproducibility and assessment.

Research services librarian

Barbara.Zonta@pharm.ox.ac.uk

I am committed to training and raising awareness of open, reproducible and robust research to post-graduates ( MSc and PhD students). They are the next generation of ECRs!

MSc Pharmacology Course Director

Please get in touch with me about the work done by the Global Young Academy on this topic. - Great to see increasing momentum developing...

Reader in Physics & Astronomy

Raise awareness that "the system" evolves and active engagement will make a difference; foster a culture of open debate and constructive criticism

Reader in Physics & Astronomy

costas.bouyioukos@univ-paris-diderot.fr

Universite Paris Diderot - Paris VII - UMR 7216

Ass. Prof. of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

martin.donnelly@ed.ac.uk

Research Data Support Manager

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Everything that's necessary to do (ideally before ECRs even know that it could/would be of interest for them)!

Interim Head Librarian & Open Access officer

Demmy.Verbeke@kuleuven.be

support fair OA, only do peer review for fair OA journals, only serve on editorial boards of fair OA journals

University of Groningen AND Linköping University

Associate professor in sociology

full professor of roman law

I will: support my trainees in their efforts to learn and practice open and reproducible science; practice open science in my own work to lead by example; value and talk about open and reproducible science in my work as an associate editor and grant reviewer; and prioritize open science practices during faculty searches.

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

I have been lobbying both Brazilian funding agencies and my own Institute for removing impact factors from researcher evaluation (as is currently the case in Brazil), supporting preprints as valid publication outputs, adding slots in structured CVs for measures to promote reproducible and open science (e.g. preprints, protocol registrations, shared data) and adding rigor and transparency as criteria in the evaluation of research. I am an ambassador for ASAPbio in Brazil and the coordinator of the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative, a national effort to estimate the replicability of Brazilian biomedical science. I also organize a periodical event at our university called No-Budget Science, which aims to foster independence in ECRs for developing research projects based on existing data. Finally, I spend a a lot of time discussing reproducible and open research practices with ECRs in graduate courses in biostatistics and responsible research conduct.

Good luck with the initiative! I will try to make it more widely known in my university. That said, the concerns are very much those of ECRs in leading institutions in the developed world, and might not be all that representative of the pressures on those working in low- and middle-income countries (which can also be counterproductive, but in other ways, such as by focusing on the sheer number of publications, rather than on publication in top-notch journals). Any plans for bringing more of those on board?

gabriel.finkelstein@ucdenver.edu

University of Colorado Denver

I will judge their work fairly and assist them when I can.

The problem extends to the humanities, too

Associate Professor of History

Help ECRs I work with to post preprints, make data and code openly available with publications, and educate them about publishing practices and economics

egon.willighagen@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Hire people that understand that closed science is not knowledge dissemination. Support their choices, encourage preprints, value software and data is primary research outputs. Be an open scientist.

I support encourage transparent and reproducible research practices in archaeology through mentoring, reviewing and editing, and elsewhere. I advocate for increased transparency and reproducibility in my institution and professional societies. I write papers, do research, lead training, and develop software to improve transparency and reproducibility in archaeology.