The Utopia of a Sustainable Planet
In this article the authors argue for a utopia driven by SDG’s and respectful engagement with nature.
How to empower a Culture of Failure in Science
Mafalda Sandrini and Kata Katz on the need for a culture of failure in academia and its productive potential for the scientific community.
Responsible Innovation: Universities and public research institutes have to be radically adapted
René von Schomberg on Responsible Innovation and its dimension of societal impact.
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.
Research Funding is critical to societally relevant research
Paul Benneworth and Kate Maxwell explain why we need public funding for science that creates truly public benefits.
Addressing the mental health crisis among doctoral researchers
A perspective from Germany’s biggest network of doctoral researchers
Science communication in the digital age
Classical and large institutions of liberal democracy like politics and the media are increasingly less trusted. What about science?
Storm in a teacup: predatory journals are irrelevant
No big news for scientists: Journalists recently uncovered a scandal surrounding predatory journals. What happened?
Can digital technologies enable good scientific practices?
Wanda Jones explains how to promote good scientific practices and what universities could do to integrate them into their curricula.
Research Ethics: A European Mission
Elmar Doppelfeld explains why promoting ethics in science is a challenge that must be tackled on a european level.
Science is the search for truth and knowledge
Bernhard Kempen illustrates calls for a bona fide treatment of data, facts, and intellectual property.
Social media use in research
Su Golder and Gill Norman analyse the complex ethical considerations researchers face using social media data.
Promoting good scientific practice. The Norwegian case.
Annette Birkeland explains, how an efficient strategy of promoting good scientific practice should look like.
Review needs a revision
Problems with current situation of review and how to solve them
The Rise and Fall of Dr. M.
A young scholar in the fast lane. Until the crash.
How libraries secure trust in the research process of the 21st century
Three examples for library engagement in trust: scholarly communication literacy, information quality and legal certainty.