When people talk about research quality, they often jump straight to numbers: citations, impact factors, H-indices, and rankings. But, as Elizabeth Gadd explains a conversation on the ATG Podcast, research assessment is much bigger than metrics alone. To understand what …
Not all scientists are like Darwin. This is clear from a fascinating book (Darwin’s Backyard, by James Costa) about Darwin’s second life: not the five years he spent on the Beagle Expedition, but the remainder of his life, which …
What motivates a research scientist? How does a researcher choose their topics? What’s their view of preprints and open science? All these questions, and more, are answered in an interview with Michele Frison, a post-doctoral research assistant at the MRC Mitochondrial …
Lab Girl is a triumphant tale of a scientist who succeeds in becoming a researcher and creating her own lab, against the odds for a woman struggling against a male-dominated research culture. Her writing about the natural world is remarkable, full …
When we advocate open science, do we think about what scientists do? Alongside the theorising, we could all benefit from listening to scientists, to find out how they started in research, and their actual practice.…
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