Academic Life and Culture

 

Toolkit for Aligning Incentives 2.0

Colleges and universities largely exist to advance knowledge for the public good through research, teaching, and public service. Yet, for far too long academic incentive systems have been misaligned with the foundational values upon which …

Top tips for navigating your career: The Hidden Curriculum

We summarize our career advice on everything from writing effectively and giving a stellar presentation to writing a CV and negotiating a job offer.

Towards a culture of open scholarship: the role of pedagogical communities

The UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has called for evidence on the roles that different stakeholders play in reproducibility and research integrity. Of central priority are proposals for improving research integrity and quality, …

Towards inclusive funding practices for early career researchers

Securing research funding is a challenge faced by most scientists in academic institutions worldwide. Funding success rates for all career stages are low, but the burden falls most heavily on early career researchers (ECRs) - young investigators in …

Towards inclusive mentoring in academic psychology

Mentoring is a core part of training the next generation of psychologists. Recognizing how culture and social identities inform mentorship and science is essential for creating a diverse and therefore robust workforce of psychologists.

Towards inclusive mentoring in academic psychology

Mentoring is a core part of training the next generation of psychologists. Recognizing how culture and social identities inform mentorship and science is essential for creating a diverse and therefore robust workforce of psychologists.

Transdisciplinary Global Health Challenge (TGHC) - a transdisciplinary community engagement project to foster Open Science practices with marginalized communities

The Transdisciplinary Global Health Challenge (TGHC) is an educational module, implemented within the Global Health minor programme at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In this module, students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds work together with …

Turtle and Hare Workshops: Exchanging software skills from beginner to experienced

Scientific findings often hinge on a single, opaque set of analytical decisions, obscuring how alternative approaches might affect results. The Journal of Robustness Reports (JRR) directly tackles this issue. As a new Diamond Open Access journal, it …

Uncertainty Is Science’s Superpower. Make It Yours, Too

Inspiration, creativity, discovery—all of these things start from a place of not knowing, and these researchers know how to navigate those uncertainties.​

UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science

This page contains an open syllabus, assignments--including interactive multiple choice self-check questions--and rubrics for a semester-long course teaching open science through the lens of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. The syllabus and …