Moths in Motion
Some slow motion moths to soothe your Friday.
The Curse of More, or, Does Anybody Have Any Time Left to Do Research?
When do new approaches to research communication become an end unto themselves? How much more work can we pile on researchers? Is more information always better than less?
Experimental Sleight-of-Hand and Choice Blindness
An experimenter uses a bit of magic in their research protocol to expose how stubbornly we want to justify the decisions we’ve made.
A Framework for the Future of Conferences
The sudden virtualization of conferences sparked a flurry of experimentation. It is now time to build the future of the scholarly meeting.
What’s Next for Open Science — Making the Case for Open Methods
Transparency around research methodologies is essential for driving public trust and accurate, reproducible research results.
Emerging from the Pandemic: The Future of Work is Now
The pandemic has normalized remote work, but happens as it wanes? Will we go to the office again – and, if so, how often? What impact will a ‘hybrid’ way of working have on how we communicate, connect and create? Will work-from-home be the great leveller in terms of gender equality and diversity? And what will work mean if our offices are virtual and we lose those day-to-day social interactions?
The Curse of Reviewer 89: An Interview with Filestage’s Niklas Dorn
A look at Thieme’s “Select Crowd Review” approach to peer review.
Tweeting-Citations Authors Speak, Finally
We stand by our data. We just won’t share it or believe that you replicated our study.
Guest Post — The Covid Infodemic and the Future of the Communication of Science
ResearchGate’s Joseph DeBruin looks at the balance between speed and uncertainty in scholarly communication, and how technology can facilitate better information travel.
Guest Post — On Working from Home in a Pandemic
Gabe Harp from MIT Press offers tips on how to maximize your efficiency and preserve your sanity while working from home.
Woking, the Doorway Effect, and Who Knew You’d Miss Your Commute So Much?
Working from home? Moving from room to room could help you cope with the endless video calls more effectively.
Guest Post — Open Peer Review in the Humanities
Open peer review hasn’t caught on in the humanities, but it has been part of ongoing experiments in humanities publishing. As the American Historical Review tries open review, what lessons can we take from previous experiments?
If My AI Wrote this Post, Could I Own the Copyright?
Todd Carpenter reports on a forum hosted by WIPO and the Copyright Office that focused on whether copyright can apply to the works created by artificial intelligence systems.
Researchers’ Social License – in Need of Renewal?
Social license, in the context of research, is a form of public ‘approval’ that ensures research is funded, that its results are respected, and that participation is willingly engaged in, where needed. For many reasons, it seems as if researchers’ current social license is in danger of being revoked. Charlie Rapple explores what might be required to ensure it is renewed.
The Value of Redundancy in Research, or, In Research, Redundancy Has Value
The systems of research and scholarly communication contain a lot of redundancy. This is a good thing.