[All-postdocs] AGU College of Fellows Town Hall on "Advancing the career versus the science: how should scientific excellence be evaluated?"

[Emily H. G. Cooperdock]

For those going to AGU: Consider attending this Town Hall. Especially early career and under-represented scientists. Please circulate around!

AGU College of Fellows Town Hall:
Advancing the career versus the science: how should scientific excellence be evaluated?

Date and Time: 	Monday, 10 December 2018: 18:15 - 19:15 
Location: 		Marriott Marquis, Room:Independence D 
Refreshments will be served.

Panelists:
Jeff Dozier, Distinguished Professor and founding Dean of the Bren School of Environmental Management, UC-Santa Barbara, 
Emily Klein, University Distinguished Service Professor and former Interim Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University 
Sharon Mosher, Dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences and William Stamps Farish Professor, U Texas-Austin, 
Steven Schwartz, Senior Scientist, Brookhaven National Labs, 
Abigail Swann, Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Department of Biology, U of Washington
Dominique Weis, Canada Research Chair in the Geochemistry of the Earth's Mantle, U British Columbia
Jake Yeston, Deputy Physical Sciences Editor, Science.

The themes of ‘how should scientific excellence be evaluated’ and ‘advancing the career versus the science’ address long-standing issues that concern all scientists. For example, ‘publish or perish’ is still the norm, evaluations of scientific excellence, innovation, and productivity increasingly focus on easy to access metrics such as number of papers, number of citations, h-index, number of Nature/Science papers, etc., and are used widely in appointment-promotion discussions, even as their validity is questioned. Is this how it should be? Are there better ways?

 For the scientist, such standards may encourage practices that do not advance the science. Discussion topics include: ‘how should scientific credit be earned’, ‘what are the criteria for co-authorship’, ‘proper versus improper citation practices’, ‘what are the rights of authors; what are their responsibilities’, ‘how can we credit intellectual effort in the world of big data’, ‘how might we change the system for the better’?




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