By Alexandra Lautarescu (@AleLautarescu) Early career researchers are not powerless “Open science is not all or nothing. Incremental progress is still progress”. These are some of the sentences that have stuck with me to this day, over a year after I wandered into the Open Science room at a conference. Before that, I had […]
Category: Academia
Leadership Training and Development – Academia’s Unmet Medical Need
By Nadia Soliman (@Nadia_Soliman_) A question, once posed to me, “Why do you think there aren’t more women in senior academic positions?” My answer, “lack of leadership.” The absence of women leaders in academia has far-reaching effects, not only within institutions, but also on the scope of research and generation of knowledge. Women are […]
Being a researcher: inspiration & curiosity to providing solutions
By Mohamed Boudjelal The factors marking the similarities between a scientist, sportsperson and a politician are their ability to produce results, cut to the chase, lead and follow what inspired them the most. The characteristic that distinguishes the scientist from the rest, is the eagerness to discover how a certain phenomenon came about, and […]
FORCE2019: Establishing a shared vision for preprints
This blog is cross-posted from ASAPbio and reused under CC-BY 4.0 license. Please add any comments and annotations on the original post at asapbio.org/force2019-preprints-vision-dinner. Following a panel discussion about “Who will influence the success of preprints in biology and to what end?” at FORCE2019 (summarised here), we continued the discussion over dinner with […]
Academic Freedom or Jester’s License?
By Lucia Reuter (@LuciaReuter) Science is a self-regulating profession. It always has been and continues to be relatively free from external state legislation, because scientists – equipped with specialized and superior knowledge – are best fit to determine the rules of their game. This liberal view is so deeply embedded in many (western) societies, that it is also […]