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Year-end spending inhibits proactive planning
Universities that frequently make additional funds available for a short period of time risk alienating new projects from early career researchers who don’t have large, established teams.
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Leadership in response to COVID-19: anticipating the fallout
The academic community is at risk of losing a large percentage of researchers, unless institutions and funding agencies start implementing proactive solutions.
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How our current approach to science pushes people away – Part 2
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.
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Funding more ‘fundable’ research, an opportunity for targeted funding organizations
We would like to see major organizations make their reviewer comments available to other funding organizations for grants that “just missed” getting funded.
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A glimpse past the smoke and mirrors at Nature magazine
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A resourcing model for translational research
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New approaches to breaking down barriers in academic science
Equal access to information, experiences and diverse viewpoints needs to be made available to the wider scientific community.
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Tackling the biggest gaps in translational research funding
A guide to changing the institutional thinking of translational research programs.
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PREreview: Get it done sooner to avoid double review
David Kent recounts the highs and lows of his journal club's first pre-review experience.
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Really? We’re going to tax students now?
The U.S. House of Representatives has recently passed legislation that potentially increases the tax burden for university students, faculty, and staff, while depleting resources for financial aid, research and teaching.
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Addressing gender inequality in science: Male role models wanted
How do I encourage male scientists to join the discussion and be a role model for their colleagues?
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New idea for driving scientific debate in your journal club: PREreview
What if scientific journal clubs discussed papers before submitting them to journals, and had a say before editors and reviewers did?
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Checking in on what we’ve been writing about…
Our readers continue to favour articles on mental health in academic life.
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Why follow-up funding is important for translational research
This recommendation was born out of the observation that discontinuity in funding leads to losing trained personnel and trainees through dismantling of collaborations.
