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Research can produce good evidence to inform local, national and international policy that, in turn, has the potential to transform lives for the better. But influencing policy is neither easy nor automatic – you need to want to do it. To be successful, you need to be open to different ways of working. Here are 10 things you need to know.
In a sweeping manifesto, researchers from the U.S. and Europe have proposed some fixes for vetting published science. It might help science journalism, too.
The 21st International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 6 - 8 June, 2017, Limassol, Cyprus.
Publications such as Nature and Science have policies that clash with the global health charity's open-access mandate.
Reproducibility guru, former defence-research official and controversial entrepreneur rumoured to be on list, along with current NIH leader and a congressman.
Nobel prizewinning astrophysicist reflects on the perceptions and realities of how big breakthroughs are made.
Understanding the unwritten rules of graduate study is vital if you want to get the most from your PhD supervision.
Among the wider scientific community, there is a widespread dissatisfaction with the current level of transparency and reproducibility in published research and, as part of our response to this, we signed up to the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines (https://cos.io/top/).The objective of the TOP guidelines is to encourage transparency, openness and reproducibility in science. By developing shared standards for openness across journals, it is hoped to change the current incentive structures to drive researchers' behaviour towards more openness.
A survey of 2,955 readers of 40 randomly selected science blogs.
Shouldn't all research be, first and foremost, accessible? Accessibility underpins equality.
Universities are facing a crisis of relevance. While there are multiple reasons for this to be happening, one that deserves particular attention is the extent to which academic scholars do not see it as their role to engage in public and political discourse. However, increased engagement is unavoidable in an emerging educational context where the calibre of public discourse has become so degraded and social media is changing the nature of science and scientific discourse within society.
While postdocs are necessary for entry into tenure-track jobs, they do not enhance salaries in other job sectors over time.
A committment by a young researcher to practice open and good science, and more generally to free culture.
A series of measures improving research efficiency and robustness of scientific findings by directly targeting specific threats to reproducible science.
After a decade of progress, Argentina’s scientists are battling a government bent on twisting public conceptions of their role.
The potential for open scholarship to improve university research and education, as well asincrease the impact universities can have beyond their own walls.
The technique could be faster and more versatile than developing GMO crops from scratch.
A set of best practices for scientific software development, based on research and experience, that will improve scientists' productivity and the reliability of their software.
Paris's École 42 is reinventing education for the future
The current peer-review system is limited to asking two people for their opinions - this is not enough.
Peer-review had a role to play when journals were all in print and competing for subscription real estate, but today it may be little more than a vestige of the print era.
Envisioning the scientific paper of the future.
