19 Dec 2023 | #Infrastructure
Tinca Lukan explores TikTok’s use in ethnographic research on social media influencers, detailing how she integrated it into her PhD study on influencers’ working conditions in Slovenia.
11 Sep 2023 | #Power
Bao & Huang on gender biases in Chinese scientific committees, calling for policy reforms in academia.
19 Jun 2023 | #Infrastructure
This hands-on guide helps you setting up an RSS reader and build a personalized paper feed from your favorite journals.
07 Nov 2022 | #OpenScience
Mennatullah Hendawy on six decisions that made her findings from her dissertation, a case study on interdisciplinary urban planning in Cairo, more generalizable.
17 Oct 2022 | #Impact, #OpenScience, #ScientificAdvice
Beck, Poetz & Sauermann on using AI tools when developing novel research ideas as input for writing grant proposals during an experiment at the OIS Research Conference 2022.
17 May 2022 | #Ethics, #GlobalScience
In this article the authors argue for a utopia driven by SDG’s and respectful engagement with nature.
10 May 2022 | #Impact, #ScientificAdvice
Holger Bähr on the strengths and pitfalls of evidence-based policy advice in policy-making precesses
04 May 2022 | #GlobalScience, #Power
This opinion piece draws attention to the disadvantage of the academic STEM system, especially for female academics.
25 Mar 2022 | #Infrastructure
Jefferson Pooley on Surveillance Publishing, its history in modern societies during the last couple of decades, and the potential costs of these practices for both service providers and their users.
28 Feb 2022 | #Impact, #ScientificAdvice
Karcher and Shellock on trust at the science-policy interface, how can you build trust when working with decision-makers and what can you do when it has been compromised or lost.
19 Oct 2021 | #Power
Zhao et al. on an individual’s role in the scientific system and some coping mechanisms to alleviate the stress of the precarious working conditions of early career academics.
02 Aug 2021 | #COVID-19
The Pandemic hit the vast majority of European HEI unprepared. The members of AEDiL saw this as a starting point for a collaborative project taking innovative methodological pathways.
26 Jul 2021 | #Impact, #OpenScience
The Wikipedia community has become a source of information for a broad and global public. Paul and Max argue that contributing to the encyclopedia as a scholar can be a powerful way of achieving a strong societal impact of their own expertise. Furthermore they provide a guide on how to write your first contributions.
19 Jul 2021 | #COVID-19
Bronwen and Moritz highlight the institutional challenges posed to Higher Education Institutions by the pandemic and outline how these can be viewed as a window of opportunity
12 May 2021 | #Power
Donia Lasinger on the contribution of the Vienna Science and Technology Funds (WWTF) as a compareably small funding organization to equality of all genders
14 Apr 2021 | #Infrastructure, #Power
Renke Siems on user tracking on science publisher platforms, its implications for their individual users and ways to face this issue
29 Mar 2021 | #Power
Lucy G. Gillis on inequalities in science reproduced by letters of reference and how to encounter them
22 Mar 2021 | #OpenScience
Jörg Peters on the lack of replicability of many publications in economics, the role of p-hacking and publication pressure, and reasons for cautious optimism in considering these issues
16 Mar 2021 | #Power
Kelsey Medeiros on sexual harassment, what role it plays in relation to power structures in academia, and possible ways to address it
28 Jan 2021 | #Power
Linda Jauch on powerful dependancies of academics to funding bodies, their supervisors and what to do about it.
20 Jan 2021 | #GlobalScience, #Power
Katrin Martens take on the struggles of transdisciplinary research.
10 Dec 2020 | #Power
Katrin Frisch on encounters with the different forms of west german hegemony throughout her scientific training and everyday working life in academia.
12 Oct 2020 | #OpenScience
Lennart Stoy on the growing problems for the efforts for a science with a rational of open data in the context of upcoming european legislation
23 Sep 2020 | #COVID-19
Alena Sander sheds light on one particular window of opportunity for researcher mothers during the COVID 19 pandemic with the potential to have a lasting positive impact on women’s career path in academia.
14 Sep 2020 | #COVID-19, #Impact
Jayat Joshi on the role of science as a guiding principle of political and societal action in extraordinary situations like the COVID-19 pandemic
08 Sep 2020 | #Ethics, #OpenScience
Mafalda Sandrini and Kata Katz on the need for a culture of failure in academia and its productive potential for the scientific community.
17 Aug 2020 | #GlobalScience
Alena Sander on her field work abroad and the challenges and opportunities of international mobility for young mothers in academia.
28 Jul 2020 | #COVID-19
Philipp Hübl on the characteristics of conspiracy theories the motivation behind their spread, and rational thought as a shield against it
22 Jul 2020 | #COVID-19, #Impact
Stefanie Molthagen-Schnöring on science communication in times of a global pandemic and why communication with “the public” shouldn ´ t be its goal
16 Jul 2020 | #COVID-19
Fabian Stephany on the CoRisk-Index, its development during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and the role of implicit theory
08 Jul 2020 | #COVID-19, #OpenScience
Our editor, Benedikt Fecher on research in post-COVID-19 times and the prospective falsificationist rationale
23 Jun 2020 | #COVID-19
We need to learn from the practices during the corona pandemic to shape the “new normal” of scholarly communication instead of falling back into old patterns, says our Advisory Board member Rebecca Lawrence
17 Jun 2020 | #COVID-19
Science journalists find experts, deal with new developments intensively, do fact-checking, analyse data and communicate knowledge to the public. All of this has been important in the past weeks and may lead to a difference in the future, says our author Juliane Meißner.
09 Jun 2020 | #COVID-19
Samantha Ruppel on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the researcher and her field, the ethical standards guiding her work, the cooperation among scientists and the topics they´re working on.
14 May 2020 | #COVID-19, #Infrastructure
In this opinion-piece Katharina C. Cramer discusses the impact of the Corona-Crisis on large scale research infrastructures and their limits of performance in the current situation.
27 Apr 2020 | #COVID-19, #OpenScience
In this piece, Mafalda Sandrini and Kata Katz shed light on the current state of science communication in times of the COVID-19 pandemic, phrase questions on its future and derive fields of action
17 Apr 2020 | #COVID-19
After his interview with Elephant in the Lab on 22 March 2020, Wander Jager develops his thoughts on the time after the COVID-19 pandemic
15 Apr 2020 | #COVID-19
The COVID-19 is prompting many museums to reconsider how they communicate their research to the public, says our editor Rebecca Kahn
13 Apr 2020 | #COVID-19
Dispite the cruelty of the current situation, Agata Komendant-Brodowska calls for a more optimistic view on the side effects of the COVID-19 crisis.
30 Mar 2020 | #COVID-19, #OpenScience
Sharing research data openly is becoming more common, but only slowly. Here, I will discuss whether the COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate the adoption of open data as a common academic practice.
17 Mar 2020 | #COVID-19, #Impact, #OpenScience
As serious as the COVID-19 pandemic is, it could be an opportunity for science, says our editor Benedikt Fecher.
11 Mar 2020 | #Infrastructure, #OpenScience
Dealing with code, robots and specific domain knowledge is a huge challenge. How can we improve the technical infrastructure?
11 Feb 2020 | #Infrastructure
In this piece, Specht, Corrêa, Belbin and Loescher elaborate their thoughts on the role of synthesis centers in facing today’s challenges of research.
28 Jan 2020 | #Infrastructure
Øyvind Paasche on the immaterial kinds of infrastructure in science and the fundamental role of trust, transparency and openness.
22 Oct 2019 | #GlobalScience, #Infrastructure
Setting up new infrastructures would play an important role in preventing best-trained African researchers from emigrating. The physicist Prosper Ngabonziza states that having a synchrotron light source would be very beneficial for the continent as a whole.
17 Oct 2019 | #GlobalScience, #Infrastructure
We would all like a truly global research infrastructure, in much the same way as many would like world peace and global democracy. The point really is that we wouldn’t just like it, we need it.
06 Aug 2019 | #OpenScience
Evgeny Bobrov on strategies and approaches to increase the value of biomedical research.
18 Jun 2019 | #GlobalScience, #Impact
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.
09 May 2019 | #GlobalScience
Ajoy Datta about the difficulty of achieving genuine international research partnerships.
01 Apr 2019 | #GlobalScience
Jyoti Mishra explains how to transform knowledge to help others in a global setting.