It is a great challenge to get Early Career Researchers (ECRs) involved in peer review and to get them the necessary training to be confident reviewers.

Declaring in advance what you're going to study, and how, helps avoid p-hacking and publication bias.

Government funding of science is essential to early career scientists.

A reinvigorated science policy committee is working to engage scientists, government officials, and the community—and you can too.

There are more academic publishers out there than ever before. In 2014 there was an estimated 28,100 active scientific journals, but while the large majority of these journals are highly respected, there has also been a sharp rise in the number of predatory journals.

Without reimbursement for relocation costs, PhD students and postdocs are often forced to empty savings accounts, seek financial help or even rack up debt.

The British Academy today announced the University of Birmingham as the first regional hub of its Early Career Researcher Network.

In 2014, Chinese researchers published more papers than any other country for the first time. In 2019, China overtook the U.S. as the No. 1 publisher of the most influential papers.

Academic journals don’t select the research they publish on scientific rigour alone. So why aren’t academics taking to the streets about this?