Rants
Here’s a curated list of my favourite rants, so you can see how I waste time being annoying in social media. I find it quite cathartic, though, so I’ll probably go on a little longer.
'Engaging researchers in conversations about the impact of their publishing choices'. This is quite funny. The general public finds academics insufferable in how we love pontificating about everything, yet when it comes to our own practices, we are as innocent and oblivious as little babies. 🙈🙉🙊
— Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 (@jpinasanchez.bsky.social) Jun 12, 2025 at 07:25
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Piece of advice to anyone thinking of submitting an article to 'The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context', DO NOT preregister your analytical strategy or preprint the paper. It seems that sets out a 'similarity check' alarm, 67% similarity in my case, #DeskRejected, #OpenScience
— Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 (@jpinasanchez.bsky.social) April 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Crazy idea: when evaluating candidates for academic jobs or promotions, what if we set aside citations, grants, REF*, impact factors, keynotes, social media followers… and just read their work?
— Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 (@jpinasanchez.bsky.social) April 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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#ResearchFish, by far the most effective strategy deployed by #UKRI to limit the number of grant applications.
— Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 (@jpinasanchez.bsky.social) March 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
#Criminologists, #LegalResearchers, it is going to look very weird if we end up being the last to do the right thing.
[image or embed]— Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 (@jpinasanchez.bsky.social) February 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This feels like we are about to do The Hunger Games, UK higher education version. So unbelievably out of touch with the reality that our sector is experiencing. Anyway, may the odds be in our favour.
[image or embed]— Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 (@jpinasanchez.bsky.social) January 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The back of #Leeds Civic Hall, one of the most beautiful plazas I’ve seen anywhere, a true hidden jewel in the middle of the city, completely ruined by using it as a parking lot. Come on @leedscitycouncil.bsky.social do the right thing. #WarOnCars
[image or embed]— Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 (@jpinasanchez.bsky.social) January 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Lastly, this research was made possible by new administrative data from the #MoJ, provided by the #DataFirst team, for which we are grateful. However, working with this data was a bit of a nightmare due to excessive gatekeeping by the #ONS, #MoJ, and #JudicialOffice, leading to multiple delays.
— Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 (@jpinasanchez.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Academics enthusiastically sharing their latest research as ‘#OpenAccess’, while omitting the fact that their universities pay thousands in fees to make it so.
[image or embed]— Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 (@jpinasanchez.bsky.social) January 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
I’ve just resigned from the editorial boards of a couple of for-profit journals. From now on, I’ll only review and write (when I am the first author) for Diamond #OpenAccess journals. Being part of the current system felt increasingly hypocritical. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u…
[image or embed]— Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 (@jpinasanchez.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Got an email to renew my membership to the European Society of Criminology. As much as I’ve enjoyed #ESC conferences in the past, I’ll give it a pass this year. Seems weird that 1/6 of fees go to the Executive Secretariat, a seemingly permanent role held by the same person/s in perpetuity.
[image or embed]— Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 (@jpinasanchez.bsky.social) January 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This is crucial, but also directly incompatible with the #REF. It is just not possible to honestly convey the uncertainty of your findings, while simultaneously highlight the ‘world leading’ impact of your paper. Especially if overhyping is common practice in your field.
[image or embed]— Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 (@jpinasanchez.bsky.social) December 12, 2024 at 10:28 AM
I would go a bit farther… Should we really support scientific societies that have official journals that aren’t diamond? What does it say about us as an organised collective that we let our societies to contribute to the problem instead of being part of the solution?
— Juanjo Medina (@jjmedina.bsky.social) December 6, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Does anyone know how much do UK universities pay to make papers published by their staff in Wiley journals #OpenAccess? authorservices.wiley.com/author-resou… If this is in the thousands, should not we make it a top priority to change this system and publish only in diamond open access journals?
[image or embed]— Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 (@jpinasanchez.bsky.social) December 6, 2024 at 11:19 AM
— Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 (@jpinasanchez.bsky.social) November 18, 2024 at 6:34 PM