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 […]
If You Want an Academic Mentor, Try to Be a White Guy
Grad sudents looking for a professor to be a mentor had a better chance of getting a positive response – or a response at all – if they were white and male, according to a new study that broke down findings by discipline and whether a school was public or private.
Workplace Values Across the Generations
According the Economist, the current workforce can mostly be broken down into three generations: Baby-boomers (born between 1946 and the mid 60’s), […]
National Science Board Critical of FIRST Elements
National Science Board steps beyond its usual comfort zone to lodge a criticism of NSF re-authorization bill that would establish role for Congress in picking research funding winners and losers.
What is Performance Adaptation?
The workplace has changed over the last few decades. Workers are now required to continuously accommodate new and challenging situations as they […]
Grabbing the Academic Reader’s Attention – By Design
Patrick Dunleavy offers four principles for improving how you display tables, graphs, charts and diagrams to give the beleaguered reader help in deciphering your message.
The Open Access Megajournal: One Publisher’s Experience
Around the same time that its flagship open access journal, SAGE Open, celebrated its 500th paper, the executive publisher for open access […]
Do You Know Where Your Food Comes From?
At the end of March, meat producers in North America, including Tyson Foods Inc. and Hormel Foods Corp., lost an appeal to […]
How to Be the Grad Student Your Adviser Brags About
First, do great work. Second, make sure your great work is visible.
