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  The rural areas missing out on AI opportunities

  Behavioural data scientist Ganna Pogrebna believes the AI revolution is overlooking remote communities.
  

  • Benjamin Plackett

  Q+A 12 Oct 2022
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  The 10 most common mistakes with statistics, and how to avoid them

  Significant results are not the only goal.
  

  • Gemma Conroy

  Q+A 11 Nov 2019
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  Q&A: Bored with bad conferences? It's time to demand more

  Calling out the time-wasters.
  

  • Bec Crew

  Q+A 1 Nov 2019
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  Q&A: 5 simple ways to make your research more reproducible

  Small details can make a big difference. 

  • Gemma Conroy

  Q+A 31 Oct 2019
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  Q&A Kevin Burgio: 10 rules for a successful remote postdoc

  How to build productive long-distance relationships.
  

  • Gemma Conroy

  Q+A 11 Oct 2019
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  Q&A Niamh Brennan: 100 rules for publishing in top journals

  A checklist for success.

  • Gemma Conroy

  Q+A 18 Jul 2019
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  Q&A Wendy Belcher: How to write a journal article in 12 weeks

  What they don’t teach at your institution. 
  

  • Bec Crew

  Q+A 11 Jul 2019
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  Q&A Kelly Robinson: Sample archive serves as a plankton ecologist’s rainy-day fund

  A massive collection of sea creatures turns out to be a gold mine of research opportunities.
  

  • Jeffrey M. Perkel

  Q+A 22 Nov 2018
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  Q&A Koenraad Debackere: Impact assessment to become more complex

  We need to define impact more clearly to be able to measure it effectively.
  

  • Smriti Mallapaty

  Q&A 28 Aug 2018
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  Q&A Adam Russell: The search for automated tools to rate research reproducibility

  A US project is exploring the use of software to assign confidence levels to published research.  

  • Dalmeet Singh Chawla

  Q&A 8 Aug 2018
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  Q&A Karen Seto: Paving the way to an urban future

  The scale of growth in cities challenges scientists and policy-makers.
  

  • Catherine Armitage

  20 Jul 2018
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  Q&A Mary Frank Fox: Time to ditch the leaky pipeline model

  Policies should account for the institutional factors that discriminate against women.
  

  Q&A 25 May 2018
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  Q&A Felicitas Hesselmann: Vague and varied retractions point to weakness in the scientific community

  The scientific method is not applied in dealing with aberrant research behaviour.
  

  Q&A 1 May 2018
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  Q&A John Ioannidis: Biomedicine warms to preprints

  It’s wrong to dismiss preprint repositories as the junkyards of science, warns Ioannidis.

  Q&A 13 Feb 2018
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  Students in research: Cost or investment?

  Undergraduate research programmes are expensive, and the benefits can be hard to measure.

  • Sujata Gupta

  Q+A 28 Nov 2017
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  Kyoto University is branching out in tough times

  The university's president talks about the need for Japanese universities to stay competitive on the international stage.

  • Q&A

  18 Apr 2017
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  The rise and rise of a biology superstar

  Nobel laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi’s persistent study of baker’s yeast spawned an exciting new field, and proves the value of supporting scientists in pursuit of their passion.

  • Tim Hornyak

  30 Mar 2017
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  Defining national research priorities

  Australia’s former chief scientist reflects on the country’s need to focus its research effort.

  • Branwen Morgan

  Q&A 27 Sep 2016
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  Q&A: Japan's road to recovery

  • Nicky Phillips

  News 18 Mar 2016