Academic Life and Culture

Advancing Equity and Innovation in Research Publishing: Time for a New Era in the Open Access Movement?

Today marks a significant milestone as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) announces a new Open Access policy, representing a departure from traditional practices. This policy will cease support for individual article publishing fees, known as …

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 …

All the Weight of Our Dreams On Living Racialized Autism

For those of us who are autistic and racialized, we often struggle to find representation in mass media, academic work about autism or race, and the activist and advocacy movements that focus on autism, neurodiversity, disability rights, or racial …

Applying Social and Behavioral Science to Federal Policies and Programs to Deliver Better Outcomes

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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

Performing high-quality research is a challenging endeavor, especially for early career researchers (ECRs). Most research is characterized by an experiential learning approach, which can be time-consuming, error-prone, and frustrating. While most …

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 …

Artificial intelligence and responsibility gaps: What is the problem?

Recent decades have witnessed tremendous progress in artificial intelligence and in the development of autonomous systems that rely on artificial intelligence. Critics, however, have pointed to the difficulty of allocating responsibility for the …

Authorship practices must evolve to support collaboration and open science

Journal authorship practices have not sufficiently evolved to reflect the way research is now done. Improvements to support teams, collaboration, and open science are urgently needed.