Academic Life and Culture

 

Advancing Equity in Academia through Innovation

This funding instrument aims at contributing to equity and inclusion of underrepresented ethnics groups and a cultural change in academia in that regard. The intended impact is a more inclusive culture where everybody is valued, irrespective of the …

Agape Open Science MOOC

In this course, we will introduce you to the world of open science. Perhaps you are familiar with some of the concepts and ideas of open science or maybe the open science movement is completely new to you. Whatever your current understanding is, we …

ARIADNE - Scientific Resource Navigator

We have created a curated scientific resource navigator called ARIADNE that will guide researchers in the field of life sciences, especially those at the beginning of their career, through the process of conducting a transparent and reproducible …

ARIADNE: A Scientific Navigator to Find Your Way Through the Resource Labyrinth of Psychological Sciences

Performing high-quality research is a challenging endeavor, especially for early career researchers, in many fields of psychological science. Most research is characterized by experiential learning, which can be time-consuming, error-prone, and …

Champions of Transparency in Education: What Journal Reviewers Can Do to Encourage Open Science Practices

As the field of education, and especially gifted education, gradually moves toward open science, our research community increasingly values transparency and openness brought by open science practices. Yet, individual researchers may be reluctant to …

ChatGPT teaches open science

I asked ChatGPT to talk about open science. This post is the unabridged conversation. ChatGPT is a trained algorithm using machine learning. It is what most would refer to as Artificial Intelligence. And intelligent it apparently is.

Guidelines to improve internationalization in the psychological sciences

Conversations about the internationalization of psychological sciences have occurred over a few decades with very little progress. Previous work shows up to 95% of participants in the studies published in mainstream journals are from Western, …

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.

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 …

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.
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