Showing posts with label funding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label funding. Show all posts
Thursday, 24 September 2026

Trust in data: reproducibility packages do not guarantee validity

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Note : This post builds on a series of PubPeer comments made here . Last year the World Bank made news when it announced that all its outp...
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Saturday, 10 August 2019

A day out at 10 Downing Street

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Yesterday, I attended a meeting at 10, Downing Street with Dominic Cummings, special advisor to Boris Johnson, for a discussion about scienc...
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Saturday, 20 July 2019

A call for funders to ban institutions that use grant capture targets

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I  caused unease on Twitter this week when I criticised a piece in the Times Higher Education on ' How to win a research grant '. As...
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Wednesday, 24 October 2018

Has the Society for Neuroscience lost its way?

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The tl;dr version: The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) makes humongous amounts of money from its journal and meetings, but spends very little...
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Sunday, 12 January 2014

Why does so much research go unpublished?

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As described in my last blogpost , I attended an excellent symposium on waste in research this week. A recurring theme was research that...
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Thursday, 9 January 2014

Off with the old and on with the new: the pressures against cumulative research

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  Yesterday I escaped a very soggy Oxford to make it down to London for a symposium on "Increasing value, reducing waste" in Res...
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Tuesday, 15 October 2013

The Matthew effect and REF2014

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For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which...
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Saturday, 26 January 2013

An alternative to REF2014?

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After blogging last week about use of journal impact factors in REF2014, many people have asked me what alternative I'd recommend...
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Sunday, 15 July 2012

The devaluation of low-cost psychological research

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Psychology encompasses a wide range of subject areas, including social, clinical and developmental psychology, cognitive psychology and n...
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