The Black Hole

The scientific community needs to talk about the sustainability implications of our research practices and start implementing approaches to minimize our professional carbon footprint.

The status quo is not good enough, a new paper concludes.

We want to actively encourage a wider range of perspectives to represent early career researchers.

Guest writer Sarah Masefield explains why she created the "How to Thrive and Survive in your PhD" project to help postgraduate researchers connect and help one another.

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

This past year has accentuated issues that needed to have some light shone on them and we should be very careful not to push them back in the darkness.

Having a distinct brand that is integrated with your research program’s culture allows your team to define its strengths and intended contributions to a field.

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.

The academic community is at risk of losing a large percentage of researchers, unless institutions and funding agencies start implementing proactive solutions.

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.

We would like to see major organizations make their reviewer comments available to other funding organizations for grants that “just missed” getting funded.