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 […]
Using Prediction Markets to Forecast Replication Across Fields
In a paper published by Royal Society Open Science, a team of researchers ask a more detailed question of the process, “Are replication rates the same across academic fields?’
Do We Value Unfunded Research Properly?
Unfunded research takes time and money for already stretched academics. Yet it makes up over a quarter of all research carried out in British universities. Rosalind Edwards spoken to academics about why they do unfunded research.
Has Over-Diagnosis Eroded What’s Considered Normal?
Fabian Fabiano and Nick Haslam researched whether the standard manual of psychiatry was creating runaway diagnostic inflation. Here they explain what they found.
Call to Action for Social Scientists: UCL Study on Research Practices
Much has been discussed in recent years about research practices in social sciences. Debates around acceptable research practices has sometimes been contentious, […]
COVID Can Change How We See and Use Research
In the wake of COVID-19, researchers can become trusted figures of authority who can purposely use their institutional privilege and re-appropriate their research networks, skills and knowledge to better the lives of vulnerable populations during a pandemic.
People Do Not Understand Logarithmic Graphs Used to Visualize COVID-19
Editor’s Note: If you’re curious about the ways in which data visualization and graph use can generate impact with regard to the […]
Ashley Mears on the Global Party Circuit
Ashley Mears describes modern jet-setting club life at the VIP level and the Veblen-esque conspicuous consumption, its “ritualized squandering” in Mears words, that is its hallmark.
AI Tool Guides Researchers to Coronavirus Insights
The big idea The scientific community worldwide has mobilized with unprecedented speed to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, and the emerging research output […]
