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 […]
Academic Freedom and Censorship: Why Librarians are Better Together
In 2023, the American Library Association documented 1,247 censorship cases with known locations. Of these cases, 2 percent occurred in academic libraries, […]
The Chilling Impact of Censorship in Higher Education
Perhaps because college students are generally considered adults, and college and university campuses and classrooms have long been viewed as places to […]
Mapping the Connections: Understanding the Network of Social Science Editors-in-Chief
A new study on the connections between editors-in-chief in the social sciences reveals significant geographical and gender imbalances in editorial leadership. Male […]
How Science Can Adapt to a New Normal
Scientific institutions are in full scramble. No amount of diplomacy or charity can interpret the modern moment as anything other than an […]
Those ‘Indirect Costs’ Targeted by DOGE Directly Support America’s Research Excellence
Biomedical research in the U.S. is world-class in part because of a long-standing partnership between universities and the federal government. On Feb. […]
AI is Here, But Is It Here to Help Us or Replace Us?
Decisions taken now around how generative AI is used by academics and universities will shape the future of research. Mark Carrigan argues whilst optimistic scenarios are possible, generative AI stands ready to feed into an existing productivity oriented framing of academic work.
An Investigation Showing How Fake Academic Papers Contaminate Scientific Literature
Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale and dissemination of bogus scholarly research, undermining […]
Data Sharing: Let’s Do More Than Just What’s FAIR
Research into pressing societal challenges increasingly depends on data coming from across different disciplines and research contexts. Gordon Blair argues that to create a research culture that makes the best use of available data, the 2016 FAIR principles need to be extended in ways that address issues that have emerged in the decade following their creation.
