Now it is time to build up the pressure! How to improve working conditions in academia
Kristin Eichhorn, co-initiator of #IchbinHanna, on fair working conditions in research and the failed reform proposal in Germany.
Digital transformation ahead of schedule. How Ukrainian universities are surviving and transforming in times of war
Kateryna Suprun on the fast-track digital transformation Ukrainian universities are currently going through in the face of the Russian war of aggression.
From “I” to “We” – Addressing Gender Imbalances in the Natural Sciences
Haibo Ruan from the Lise Meitner Gesellschaft on the forms of power abuse in science, its gender dimension, and how to address and overcome it.
Academic voices during the pandemic
Julia T. Scho on the challenges and positive experiences of researchers and scientists working around the globe during the pandemic
How science communication can challenge conspiracy theories in times of Covid-19
Mike Schäfer & Jing Zeng on the particularities of conspiracy theories on COVID-19, how to face them, and what role science communicators play while doing so.
Higher Education in Crisis Times
In this interview with Teresa Völker, Prof. Villa talks about the initiative “Nicht-Semster” (calling for a cancellation of the regular spring semester during the Corona crisis) and how the crisis impacts the infrastructure of the german higher education system.
Predictions on the spread of COVID-19 bear many uncertainties
Computational models can show how processess will behave in non-linear ways, but these demonstrations are very simplistic and do not consider all factors that influence the dynamic in reality.
Responsible Innovation: Universities and public research institutes have to be radically adapted
René von Schomberg on Responsible Innovation and its dimension of societal impact.
What’s the Value of Social Science?
Prof. Lupia on the value of social science, its responsibilities, potentials and application.
An Accelerator for Science in Latin America: FAPESP
A driving force for Latin America’s research infrastructure: The São Paulo Research Foundation
Why are infrastructures of infrastructure important for research?
Pascale Ehrenfreund on the role of maintenance-intensive infrastructures, CC licenses, and the internet in the research of the DLR.
How can we establish sustainable Open Innovation?
Marion Poetz on what it takes to foster innovation in Science and how to make it more interesting for companies and organizations.
Active but not Activists: Research communication by Scientists for Future
Gregor Hagedorn, the initiator of Science for Future, explains how Scientists for Future uses a pro-active form of science communication to draw attention to global challenges.
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.
Reconciling research for the common good
Martin Kowarsch’s take on the difficulties of global scientific assessments.
Science for Cities: Overcoming Borders
Michele Acuto about designing global networks of scientific policy advice and how to make them work.
The dubious practice of university rankings
Ellen Hazelkorn takes a look at the accuracy of university rankings from an international perspective.
Increasing visibility of African research
In this interview, Heather Ford (Senior Lecturer at UNSW) talks about chances and pitfalls of making African research more visible.
Google and research data
Peter Kraker on Google Dataset Discovery, the open science movement, and his #DontLeaveItToGoogle campaign.
What’s the big DEAL and why is it so difficult to reach?
Nick Fowler and Gerard Meijer on the future of Open Access in Germany. Will the negotiations continue?
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?
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.
Promoting good scientific practice. The Norwegian case.
Annette Birkeland explains, how an efficient strategy of promoting good scientific practice should look like.
Scientists should place themselves among the society
Search for the truth, but also provide contributions to problem-solving and make reliable predictions.
What is the impact of retractions in science?
What should a scientist do if he or she realized that there is an error in research? What kind of implications can this have on their future career?
The balance between bibliometric and societal impact
An interview with Kai Chan and his strategies to seek the combination of both kinds of impacts.
Overselling results is a problem in science
“Scientists who oversell their results are a big problem for science.”
The reason to do science
Christopher Aiden-Lee Jackson researches the Earth’s structure. In his opinion, scientists have to care more about informing their findings to policymakers.
Revolution in science
Open Science advocate Shakib Wassey tells how a digital platform for open scientific publication and interactive evaluation could change scientific publishing.
What is impact?
3 questions to Jeremy M. Berg about the future of scholarly publishing.