Academic Life and Culture

 

The Race in Academia Collective

At present, academia is a site of colonial production of knowledge where the subject of knowledge, represented by the white European man, produces scientific knowledge about his racialised others. This European perspective is considered to be neutral …

The secret to writing a great NASA proposal

Use a real NASA proposal as a roadmap and follow these tips for clearly presenting your research ideas. I’m a 100% soft money-funded research scientist primarily funded by NASA research grants. I teamed with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to …

The societal impact of Open Science–a scoping review

Open Science (OS) aims, in part, to drive greater societal impact of academic research. Government, funder and institutional policies state that it should further democratise research and increase learning and awareness, evidence-based policy-making, …

The societal impact of Open Science: a scoping review

Open Science (OS) aims, in part, to drive greater societal impact of academic research. Government, funder and institutional policies state that it should further democratize research and increase learning and awareness, evidence-based policy-making, …

The State of the Science Address

The first State of the Science address explores how U.S. science and innovation are positioned to respond to rising global competition and shifting priorities for the nation’s economy, security, public health, and well-being. The event brought …

The Tone Debate: Knowledge, Self, and Social Order

In the replication crisis in psychology, a “tone debate” has developed. It concerns the question of how to conduct scientific debate effectively and ethically. How should scientists give critique without unnecessarily damaging relations? The …

The transparency of quantitative empirical legal research published in highly ranked law journals (2018–2020): an observational study

Background: Scientists are increasingly concerned with making their work easy to verify and build upon. Associated practices include sharing data, materials, and analytic scripts, and preregistering protocols. This shift towards increased …

The trustworthiness of the cumulative knowledge in industrial/organizational psychology: The current state of affairs and a path forward

The goal of industrial/organizational (IO) psychology, is to build and organize trustworthy knowledge about people-related phenomena in the workplace. Unfortunately, as with other scientific disciplines, our discipline may be experiencing a “crisis …

The Values, and Practice, of Science

Science is humanity’s most important long-term investment. It is worth constant effort to improve science as a social system to accelerate discovery of knowledge, solutions, and treatments.

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.