WritingHub Africa

Join the on TikTok Live!!!
🗓️ Date: Saturday, 4th May
🕖 Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (GMT+3)

Topic: Research Concept Mapping and Development

Curious about concept mapping and its role in research development?

Then mark your calendars and join us for an engaging TikTok Live session with Nicholas Outa.

Plus, we'll have an interactive Q&A segment where you can ask your burning questions and get expert insights.

Don't miss out on this valuable opportunity to level up your research game!

This is organized by Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) and WritingHub Africa.

See you on our TikTok !

In partnership with Eider Africa

Eider Africa is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Postgraduate Students Data Analysis Concerns and Solutions

Time: Apr 20, 2024 09:00 AM Nairobi

See poster for more details and looking forward to a very interactive session

TikTok · The Simple Academic 105 likes, 4 comments. “Whether you call it a problem statement or a statement of the problem, nailing this step is the compass for your entire research journey”

Exciting News for Scientometrics!

Many journals now mandate machine-readable in-text citations and references, a crucial step forward in enhancing research visibility and discoverability.

As this trend gains momentum, I'm thrilled to offer assistance in navigating this evolution. Let's optimize the scientific landscape together!

As an editor and author, I've noticed a peculiar trend: reviewers seem to be as elusive as that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

One of my manuscripts has been hanging out in review limbo since 2020, and the Editor has become my pen pal, explaining the intricacies of finding not one, not two, but three elusive reviewers for my manuscript.

And, oh, the joy of being on the other side of the fence! When I wear my academic editor hat for PLoS One and reach out to potential reviewers, it feels like I'm trying to organize a cat parade.

Is open peer review the secret sauce? Should we throw caution to the wind and let the world witness the raw, unfiltered journey of manuscript development through Open peer review?

Or, perhaps, should journals dip into their coffers overflowing with Article Processing Costs and shower our valiant reviewers with gold coins?

Or should we recognize their efforts by encouraging them to register and track their review efforts, as provided for by ReviewerCredits.com.

We’re slowly entering the era of Public Peer Review.

Scientists are becoming more courageous on social media.

Before, we could never imagine that papers can go viral.

Now they can. And the bigger the claim, the wider it’s discussed.

With this, we’re moving away from “OMG congratulate me, I’ve published in Nature”

to
“I hope my study is rigorous enough to get through all this public scrutiny”.

We are honored to have our Director Joy Owango as one of the key speakers at the meeting in hosted by the Association of African Universities (AAU). She will be sharing the experiences Public Library of Science (PLOS), TCC Africa and AAU have made on the Higher Education Leadership Open Science Policy Dialogues that they have been facilitating in Eastern, Nothern and Southern Africa.

More on the COREVIP meeting can be found here https://events.aau.org/corevip/

Exciting partnership update! We are thrilled to announce our collaboration with Joy Owango from Africa PID Alliance and Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), along with Amna Babiker from Digital Science. The collaboration with AAU is advancing , African Research and

Join us in celebrating this as we work towards a brighter future for academia in Africa. Olusola Oyewole Nodumo Dhlamini

This week we are in Malawi at the Inspire PEACH workshop discussing on building a data platform for Covid19 in Africa using AI and Data Science. Pertinent to this discussion will include using Open technology and capacity strengthening on data management.



More about the Africa PID Alliance project can be found here https://zenodo.org/record/7924069

More about the Inspire Peach programme can be found here https://inspiredata.network/