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- Institutional affiliation should not be a requirement for doing research
- How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists
- How to design an award-winning conference poster
- Should we stop using the word ‘stakeholder’ in research?
- Research evaluation should be pragmatic, not a choice between peer review and metrics
- Eight ways election night TV could better serve voters
- A DOI is not enough – Can practice research be captured by libraries and archives?
- Book Review: How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil
- Building trust in science is a social and technological project
- What are the most-cited publications in the social sciences (according to Google Scholar)?
- Common policy problems and what researchers can do about them
- 8 common problems with literature reviews and how to fix them
- Dismissive literature reviews reduce understanding – so why do academics keep making them?
- What exactly is a PhD by publication?
- Hootsuite for academia? How to increase the visibility, downloads and impact of publications using Kudos
- Putting words to work – does poetry have a purpose?
- Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters – review
- The neurotic academic: how anxiety fuels casualised academic work
- How to write a killer conference abstract: The first step towards an engaging presentation.
- Do universities anchor innovation or just organise it?