Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
September 12, 2022
‘Prebunking’ on YouTube in the Fight Against Misinformation
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We’re Seeing a Link Between Academic Freedom and Democracy in Africa
There’s a strong correlation between academic freedom and other elements of democracy. But cause and effect are not so clear. The African experience makes the relationship clearer because simultaneously, and in a relatively short time, the whole continent moved from one-party to multiparty systems.
The Gender Banter: Implications of Not Practicing What We Preach
“When you educate a man, you educate a person, but when you educate a woman, you educate an entire generation.” The same applies to empowering women to find their footing in organized employment.
Helen Kara Calls for Doing Research As If Our Human Participants Mattered
Human research participants are frequently rendered passively in research outputs as ‘research subjects.’ Helen Kara presents three ways in which research participants can be made more central to research.
We Unintentionally Hit a Nerve When Bemoaning the State of Peer Review
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to fix peer review. An astronomic number of ideas to repair peer review followed a tweet about the system.
Rethinking Cross-Cultural Training: ‘Maybe It’s Culture and Maybe It Isn’t’?
Training to help multicultural teams to mesh and feel comfortable together is reckoned a good thing – unless its done in an overly simplistic manner.
Pathways to Foster Employee Engagement Towards Sustainability
How can organizations get their members to engage in sustainability practices? The authors outlines several mechanisms.
Scientific Collaboration Across Borders Just Gets Harder
The development of scientific capacity in many parts of the world and the building of academic ties is critical when it comes to responding to a new virus or tracking changes in climate. And yet …
Introducing The Publish Your Reviews Initiative for Preprints
Ludo Waltman and Jessica Polka make the case for a more contextualized approach to open access publishing and preprinting, and introduce the Publish Your Reviews initiative.
