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The Perfect Grant and How to Get It

The Perfect Grant and How to Get It

To help scientists build a career, Pfunders must earmark cash, reduce emphasis on collaboration, and improve the application process.

Science Journalism Can Be Evidence-Based, Compelling — and Wrong

Science Journalism Can Be Evidence-Based, Compelling — and Wrong

A ranking of the best science-news outlets misjudges the relationship between research and reporting.

The Future of Scientific Publishing

The Future of Scientific Publishing

Open access publishing is gaining more and more momentum, and post-publication peer review is becoming more common. Those developments have both upsides and downsides.

The Rogue Neuroscientist on a Mission to Hack Peer Review

The Rogue Neuroscientist on a Mission to Hack Peer Review

The Edward Snowden of peer review.

Don’t Let Useful Data Go to Waste

Don’t Let Useful Data Go to Waste

Researchers must seek out others’ deposited biological sequences in community databases, urges Franziska Denk.

A Post-Publication Peer Review Success Story

A Post-Publication Peer Review Success Story

  In 2016, Joel Pitt and Prof. Helene Hill published an intriguing paper with us looking at the prevalence of scientific fraud in preclinical research...

Putting Evidence to Work for Policymakers

Putting Evidence to Work for Policymakers

Although scientists often are urged to share their expertise with policymakers, the idea that evidence should drive policy is not always accepted.

March for Science: Reaching out for Bottom-Up Governance

March for Science: Reaching out for Bottom-Up Governance

As top-down governance gives signs of obsolescence, it is time to adopt greater bottom-up input from scientists into policies influencing our lives.

 

Reminder of New Policies Now – Or Soon To Be – In Effect

Reminder of New Policies Now – Or Soon To Be – In Effect

A number of NIH policies became effective in January. Here’s a brief recap.

Reproducible Websites for Fun and Profit

Reproducible Websites for Fun and Profit

In my scientific work I strive to be as open as possible. Unfortunately I work with data that I cannot de-identify well enough to share (aka weird sex diaries) and data that simply isn’t mine to share (aka the reproductive histories of all Swedish people since 1950)...