Social media is transforming the way we engage with one another, often striking a delicate balance between bringing ourselves closer together and isolating each other. What social media has shown us is that humans love interacting with other people. We love having others agree with us, and we love jumping on social bandwagons and lashing out […]
Dear Sage Bionetworks, I am writing to express my interest in your Assembly in Washington this coming April. I have just completed my PhD, which I guess classifies me as a ‘young investigator’. For the past 5 years, alongside my studies, I have been a pretty relentless campaigner for various aspects of ‘open research’. I […]
Nature News covered the issue here. Reproducing in full because why not. Background here. ‘You never said my peer review was confidential’ — scientist challenges publisher Open-science advocate says journals should be clearer to peer-reviewers about terms and conditions. Quirin Schiermeier 23 January 2017 Corrected: 24 January 2017 Are peer-reviewers free to openly share the content […]
Doing a peer review is bloody difficult, and not an easy step to take for anyone. I remember the first time I got a review request in the second year of my PhD. An Editor emails you out of the blue, and asks you to provide your expert commentary on research by your colleagues. EXPERT […]
So a while back, I got in a scrap with Wiley over their breach of my rights as peer reviewer for one of their journals. Essentially, what it boiled down to was a failure to communicate what referees were agreeing to upon acceptance of a peer review, and as a result breaching their personal rights […]
Staying on top of the research literature is really hard. It’s even harder because most of the time, we don’t actually know what’s in a published paper until we’ve spent the time paying to access it, and reading it. That’s right – you have to pay for access to articles to even figure out if […]
One of the major arguments I still hear in favour of journals is that people still need them in order to know where to look for the latest research in their field. With over 1.5-2 million English-language articles in STEM subjects published each year, we each have a monolithic task of filtering out what research is […]
‘Open’ is not an end result for research: it is a mechanism. A mechanism for improved transparency and accountability, for reproducibility and rigour, and efficiency and accelerated discovery. A new article by Marcus Munafò and colleagues presents a manifesto for reproducible research that highlights this, and contains substantial important reading on this topic. Enjoy! Abstract […]