A technician job can become a satisfying career or act as a solid stepping stone.

Peer reviewers have the right to view the data and code that underlie a work if it would help in the evaluation, even if these have not been provided with the submission. Yet few referees exercise this right.

A simple software toolset can help to ease the pain of reproducing computational analyses.​

Physicist Jana Lasser of PhDnet discusses the group's new report.

When scientists reach mid-career, they suddenly have to manage people, something they have never done and never really been trained to do.

The active use of metrics in everyday research activities suggests academics have accepted them as standards of evaluation, that they are “thinking with indicators”. Yet when asked, many academics profess concern about the limitations of evaluative metrics and the extent of their use.

Granting bodies have to do more to stop corporate money from distorting science, says Linda Bauld.

Social media can promote openness in research as international partnerships and collaborations are jeopardised, while increased adoption by scientists can also redress the balance that has shifted towards ill-evidenced news on some platforms.

Journal rankings are a rigged game. The blacklist of history of economic thought journals isn’t a fluke nor a conspiracy - it exposes how citation rankings really work.

The Open Science movement champions transparency, but how much and how quickly is a matter of dispute.

Practical tips and suggestions that can help to empower ECRs to create their own pathways to impact that best suit their individual goals, circumstances, interests, and strengths.

Too much research is aimed at insular academic circles rather than the real world. Let’s fix this broken system.

The potential of preprints to drive scientific understanding and innovation, and even support good journalism.

While results vary by field, there is a positive and stronger than linear relationship between productivity and quality.

We need to start talking about what kind of planet we want to live on.

In this controversial opinion piece, German science expert Stefan Hornbostel argues that some transparency is good for science - but too much can backfire, reducing the efficiency and quality of research and eroding public trust.

What will it take to make the majority of scholarship open access so anyone can read it without a paywall?

Even after reading every single related news article, it is still worth reading the 300-plus page National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine report on Sexual Harassment in its entirety. The report lays out why academia is fundamentally broken and incapable of dealing with harassment.

Thanks to a major new international research study, it's no longer possible to pretend that predatory journals are not a serious problem that needs serious attention.

Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed - and what hasn’t.

Despite two lost legal battles in the US, domain name seizures, and millions of dollars in damage claims, Sci-Hub continues to offer unauthorized access to academic papers. The site's founder says that she would rather operate legally, but copyright gets in the way. Sci-Hub is not the problem she argues, it's a solution, something many academics appear to agree with.

There are many reasons why scientists collaborating with artists makes sense, now more than ever.

Here's how PhD students can prepare for different careers, and how lab heads can help.

The multidisciplinary conferences that use ‘science’ as an adjective can be a fantastic source of new collaborations and ideas.

Regardless of her interests, it's easy to get your daughter interested in science and math. The author of 'Count Girls In' provides easy ways to promote STEM for girls.

The scientific community must take measures to keep preprints from distorting the public’s understanding of science, says Tom Sheldon.

To what extent does the academic research field of evaluative citation analysis confer legitimacy to research assessment as a professional practice?

There should be a prominent place for theory within biology papers, both as Results in papers that combine experiment and theory, and as Results in theory papers.

The problem with peer review is that, despite its rigor, it suffers from bias because reviewers are competing for the same recognition and resources.

All graduate students should be planning their post-PhD employment from year one. Supported and nurtured by their institutions and their supervisors. There is a catch for supervisors: they are themselves academics, and so will understandably have little clue about what might constitute useful training for the current job market. The onus must so fall on broader shoulders, of the institutions and funders.