Looking for something to read? Here’s a quick look at what other people are reading on the Impact Blog. This page shows a continually updated list of the past week’s 20 most popular blog posts by readership. We know readership statistics aren’t everything, but it’s a useful place to start!
- ChatGPT will not replace Google Search
- How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists
- Who should take responsibility for integrity in research?
- Facts Don’t Change Minds – Social Networks, Group Dialogue, and Stories Do
- Common policy problems and what researchers can do about them
- For Epistemic Respect – Against Reviewer 2
- New AI tools that can write student essays require educators to rethink teaching and assessment
- The focus on misinformation leads to a profound misunderstanding of why people believe and act on bad information
- Transformation by design or by disaster – Why we need more transformative research now
- How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang
- How to write a killer conference abstract: The first step towards an engaging presentation.
- How to design an award-winning conference poster
- Book Review: How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil
- Book Review: Written: How to Keep Writing and Build a Habit That Lasts by Bec Evans and Chris Smith
- 8 common problems with literature reviews and how to fix them
- Who, What, Where, When, Why: Using the 5 Ws to communicate your research
- Four reasons to stop caring so much about the h-index.
- What are the most-cited publications in the social sciences (according to Google Scholar)?
- Researchers engaging with policy should take into account policymakers’ varied perceptions of evidence
- Lost in co-production: To enable true collaboration we need to nurture different academic identities.