Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. This week’s post features Laura Moorhead, an assistant professor in San Francisco State University’s Journalism department and a research associate with the ScholCommLab.
Sabine Müller on the hierarchical system of German academia and why it could be a problem for the wellbeing of young academics and Ph.D. candidates. She compares it to her experiences at Oxford University and sheds light on the differences between the two research cultures.
This article is an updated version of the webinar report in the ISSI Newsletter (#63, volume 16, number 3). Introduction In this post, we summarize the webinar series “Doing science in times of crisis: Science studies perspectives on COVID-19” and introduce the speakers and presentations. The webinar is embedded into a broaderresearch line on COVID-19 atCWTS.
Lucy G. Gillis on inequalities in science reproduced by letters of reference and how to encounter them
We just released Hypergraph (Beta) v0.10.1 🎉 This is a patch release and does not introduce any new features. New releases of Hypergraph occur on the 28th of every month — we only break that cycle if there are urgent fixes that we need to ship as soon as possible (e.g., for security). If you're interested in understanding how we version our releases, check out Semantic Versioning.
Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. In today’s post, we’re highlighting Germana Barata, a science communication scholar and practitioner with interests in social media, altmetrics, and science journals.
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
Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. Today’s post features Michelle Riedlinger, a senior lecturer in the School of Communication at the Queensland University of Technology and a research associate at the ScholCommLab. In this interview, she shares her experiences collaborating on research across international borders in the midst of a pandemic.
This blogpost is a follow-up of the post by Ed Noyons Going back to normal?, published almost a year ago. Back then, he discussed the impact of COVID-19 on work conditions and proposed the idea of rethinking all the commuting we were doing in ’normal' times. So, what is happening one year later?
Kelsey Medeiros on sexual harassment, what role it plays in relation to power structures in academia, and possible ways to address it