分散的科学能帮助解决学术界工作条件恶化的问题吗?

François Sicard
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学术人员的工作条件多年来一直在恶化。特别是,研究经费和永久研究职位的减少不断导致学术界之间的潜在竞争和巨大压力。尽管管理机构在缩小科学界研究经费分配中普遍存在的社会不平等方面做出了重大努力,但它们并没有真正考虑到学术界整体福祉在为学术研究人员提供更可持续的资金方面的重要性。这不仅源于开发反映员工在学术环境中的整体福祉的综合模型的复杂性,还源于获取可靠且不可变的数据的有限,这些数据透明地说明了员工的直接经验。在这种情况下,区块链技术可以进一步推动使用更透明的调查数据收集和记录保存,这可以帮助减轻传统审计集中性质所固有的系统性偏见。我们讨论了研究机构和理事机构如何利用区块链技术和去中心化科学(DeSci)运动产生的早期势头,以透明和协调的方式实施面向未来的研究资助链,以重视整个学术界的整体福祉。
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Can decentralized science help tackle the deterioration in working conditions in academia?
Academic staff’s working conditions have been deteriorating for years. In particular, the reduced availability of both research funding and permanent research positions has continuously led to insidious competition and intense stress among academics. Whereas governing bodies have made significant attempts to narrow pervasive social inequalities in the distribution of research funding within the scientific community, they have not truly taken into account the importance of the academics’ overall well-being in the development of more sustainable financing of academic researchers. This originates not only from the complexity to develop comprehensive models reflecting staff’s overall well-being in the academic environment, but also from the limited access to reliable and immutable data that transparently account for the staff’s direct experience. In this context, blockchain technology can push further the use of more transparent survey data collection and record-keeping that can help mitigate the systematic bias inherent to the centralized nature of traditional auditing. We discuss how research institutions and governing bodies can build on blockchain technology and the early momentum generated by the decentralized science (DeSci) movement to implement the future-proof research funding chain that values overall well-being across academia in a transparent and coordinated way.
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