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The neuroscientist is gearing up to cover topics from open, team-based science to putting EDI to work in the field.

Most academic scientists are trained to believe that our skillsets and expertise are limited to our own academic focus, but they are completely independent of our field.

The current process for material transfer agreements involves way too much paperwork and puts unnecessary stress on both researchers and technology transfer offices.

There is a clear need for additional training at all levels, but uncertainty remains as to how to deliver it all in a fair and systematic way.

Once you know what type of brand you are aiming for, you can identify the values that your team should embrace.

While the advantages of preprint servers are numerous, researchers need to be very clear about the fact that these findings have not been formally assessed by the scientific community.

Branding is the exercise of summarizing an organization’s culture to attract a particular type of employee, collaborator or funder.

There is an opportunity to learn from dramatic changes in behaviour that have been imposed on us.

There’s evidence that increasing diversity within science might directly enhance the scientific enterprise, but in order to do so, we need to acknowledge our implicit biases.

Some people need to be pushed to achieve their best work, but it is not a one-size-fits-all solution.

Both David and Jonathan hope that many new and good things can come from this period of lockdown.

Three scientists share their thoughts on how the scientific community can help combat racism in all its forms.

The scientific community often relies on impromptu interactions to spur where the next set of experiments might go.