Academic Life and Culture

 

Adopting Principled Education

In this page, we describe easy ways to adopt principled teaching and mentoring practices. That is, (a) integrating open and reproducible science tenets into your teaching workflow; (b) striving to teach science (or scholarship) as a process of …

Innovative Mentoring

Easy steps you can take to elevate your mentoring

Introducing Nowhere Lab

Nowhere Lab ( http://nowherelab.com/) is an online community for people who would like the lab meeting experience but don’t currently have one. We have members from across all populated continents and career stages: undergraduate students, master’s …

Making lemonade out of remote teaching

2020 was a year of big changes for the whole world. For the academic community, it was not different. The need to rapidly switch from in-person to online teaching represented a big challenge for most educators. However, with new challenges come also …

Navigating Open scholarship for neurodivergent researchers

Who we are and why is this important? In academia, there has been much discussion about how open scholarship can benefit marginalised voices (e.g. Robertson, 2020; Pownall et al., 2020). However, neurodivergent individuals (e.g. dyslexic, autistic, …

Research and data lessons from a non-academic job

It’s been one year after leaving academia and starting to work for a charity organisation. For a bit of context, I did my PhD in Psychology, after which I spent four years across two postdocs (one in France, one in England) and I got to the point …

Clusters

In order to teach Open and Reproducible Science effectively, educators need to make sense of almost a decade of literature, across several fields, and be informed about ongoing (and often dynamic) debates. This is a tall ask for most educators. So …

Research Support Games List

The purpose of this document is to provide an aggregated list of games and game-related resources that are relevant to research support services. The term "research support games" is here defined to mean any game- or play-based experience that is …

COS 10 Year Anniversary: Starting, Scaling and Sustaining Improvements to Research Credibility and Trustworthiness

The session was part of the COS 10 Year Anniversary, which took place in Washington, DC on May 8, 2023.

Framework for Value Based Academic Assessment

We present a framework designed to help academic institutions and departments rethink and reform academic assessments - including tenure and promotion evaluations - using a values-based approach. For each of the 14 values included, we outline some …
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