Academic Life and Culture

 

How openness facilitates collaboration

Dr Jemeen Sreedharan talks about his personal experiences of openness (and the opposite!) and how it has led to his research flourishing. This is a series of anecdotes and associated learning experiences he has had over the years.

How racist policing took over American cities, explained by a historian

“The problem is the way policing was built,” historian Khalil Muhammad says.

How UK science is failing Black researchers — in nine stark charts

Data show that Black scientists’ representation dwindles at each stage of academia in the United Kingdom. This article is the first in a Nature series examining data on ethnic or racial diversity in science in different countries.

IIT vs. GNWT and the meaning of evidence in consciousness science

This post follows one I wrote earlier in the summer, after ASSC. Since then I have been trying (in a first-person therapy sort of way) to figure out what made me so worried after the IIT vs. GNWT showdown, and the media coverage that followed it. In …

Improvements since the Replication Crisis: The Structural, Procedural, and Community Changes

The emergence of large-scale replication projects yielding successful rates substantially lower than expected caused the behavioural, cognitive, and social sciences to experience a so-called 'replication crisis'. In this Perspective, we reframe this …

Infra Finder: Your Hub for Finding Infrastructure Services Enabling Open Research and Scholarship

Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) is thrilled to announce the launch of our latest resource: Infra Finder. This tool is designed to be the go-to resource for anyone navigating the complex landscape of infrastructure services and standards enabling …

Innovations in Graduate Education Program

The Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program is designed to encourage development and implementation of bold, new, and potentially transformative approaches to STEM graduate education training. The program seeks proposals that a) explore ways …

Innovative Mentoring

Easy steps you can take to elevate your mentoring

International collaboration to help implement open research

Research is global. This was clearly recognised recently when UNESCO released its Recommendation on Open Science, including a set of core values, guiding principles and areas of action, to which all UNESCO members have committed.

International initiatives to enhance awareness and uptake of open research in psychology: a systematic mapping review

Concerns about the replicability, reproducibility and transparency of research have ushered in a set of practices and behaviours under the umbrella of ‘open research’. To this end, many new initiatives have been developed that represent procedural …