Thiago Carvalho on Nostr: npub19jzp5…4dp8p I think that there is a parallel track: evaluation systems have to ...

npub19jzp5d9w32c2fpvd5hyq5z7sqpes6m3c2appm3zwangpasvd6zyqt4dp8p (npub19jz…dp8p) I think that there is a parallel track: evaluation systems have to also take into account native language research and knowledge production. Some of these will be great solutions to local problems - say dealing with soil conditions in the Cerrado or endemic disease research that should not penalize automatically scientists who publish at least some of their work in the native language. More pernicious, and something I have unwittingly contributed to in the past running PhD programs, is English as a selection step in so many international programs. It does make things easier at every level. But a very insidious idea takes hold that English language fluency is itself a scientific skill, which then gets folded into the "excellence" narratives. For my home country of Brazil, English fluency is a straightforward marker for socioeconomic status.