Recent Articles
Helping Scientists: Increasing visibility and impact of research.
How to support scientists in increasing the visibility and impact of their research? Tamika Heiden shows insights from her work.
Who is in the position to proclaim a supervision conflict?
Prevention of power abuse and supervision conflicts should be considered as a matter of good scientific practice, argues the doctoral researchers network N² in their postition paper. Jonathan Stefanowski explains how this can be done.
Responsible research is a matter of education
Adopting common guidelines is not enough for setting up a system of global ethics. Miltos Ladikas explains what else is needed.
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Current Issue
#GlobalScience: is science really global?
When talking about Science, it is very common to state that it is global per se. Good Science, we often say, knows no borders and is always international. But is this true? Do normative statements like these really reflect scientific practice? We want to take a closer look at this globalized science – especially beyond the predominant powerhouses – and reflect on its preconditions of access to and interaction in the international scientific realm. What does the supremacy of a handful of scientific regions imply when it comes to all the infrastructures that science needs – like journals, conferences, labs and even the digital ones? How are the national and regional scientific discourses linked to the global level where English is still the prevailing language? We want to read our scientific evidence about the state of global science as well as your opinions and bold ideas on where science could do better.
What is this blog about?
This blog is not about actual elephants, it is about science.
But we are not covering the latest findings in elementary particle physics or essays on Luhmann’s system theory. This blog is about those untackled problems in science that everyone sees but nobody talks about.
Looked at in this way, this blog is about elephants after all: Elephants in the lab. One by one we will spot these elephants and discuss ways to tackle them and as we go along. And: Every post on this blog is actually citable with a separate DOI.
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How to ensure sustainable support for high-quality research?
Doing research and getting paid for it is fantastic, but how to do that sustainably? Kalle Korhonen tells you how to maintain the interest of research funders.
Reconciling research for the common good
Martin Kowarsch’s take on the difficulties of global scientific assessments.
Are International Research Partnerships a Pipe Dream?
Ajoy Datta about the difficulty of achieving genuine international research partnerships.
Science for Cities: Overcoming Borders
Michele Acuto about designing global networks of scientific policy advice and how to make them work.
Translating Science to our Global Communities
Jyoti Mishra explains how to transform knowledge to help others in a global setting.
Distributed Organisations for Collaborative Research
Martin Etzrodt’s take on the need of distributed organisations in collaborative research.
The dubious practice of university rankings
Ellen Hazelkorn takes a look at the accuracy of university rankings from an international perspective.
Towards the Open Natural History Museum
Maike Weisspflug about the progress of Open Science at the Natural History Museum of Berlin.
Doing Open Innovation in research: A practical example
Benjamin Missbach about the implementation of Open Innovation Practices at the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft.