Academic Life and Culture

 

Supporting the next generation of psychologists

This month, we launch a new collection of pieces that highlight ways to improve doctoral education and support graduate student trainees to their fullest potential.

Ten simple rules for pushing boundaries of inclusion at academic events

Inclusion at academic events is facing increased scrutiny as the communities these events serve raise their expectations for who can practically attend. Active efforts in recent years to bring more diversity to academic events have brought progress …

The Case for Using Educational Scholarship to Improve Peer Review

Peer review is broken. Reviewer comments often lack constructiveness, clarity, and consistency. For decades, educational scholarship has provided evidence-based, theoretically informed, and robust interventions for the provision of effective …

The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds

Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding from different perspectives: How reliable are decision processes for funding? What are the economic costs …

Three ways to recognize hidden labour in research

From designing studies and translating science to technical services, the work of support staff is highly diverse — and it needs merit systems to match.

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: 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 …

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, …
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