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- How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists
- How to design an award-winning conference poster
- Is it ethical to use generative AI if you can’t tell whether it is right or wrong?
- How to write a killer conference abstract: The first step towards an engaging presentation.
- Common policy problems and what researchers can do about them
- What’s the point of co-production when all your participants agree with you?
- Women, academia and the unequal production of knowledge – An LSE Impact Blog review
- 8 common problems with literature reviews and how to fix them
- What are the most-cited publications in the social sciences (according to Google Scholar)?
- Who, What, Where, When, Why: Using the 5 Ws to communicate your research
- Compliance, evasiveness, barter and investment – why women do more academic service work
- Book Review: How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil
- Tactical Publishing: Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century – review
- When is policy evidence-based?
- How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang
- Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: Which is best for me?
- “F**k the algorithm”?: What the world can learn from the UK’s A-level grading fiasco
- Beyond Web of Science and Scopus there is already an open bibliodiverse world of research – We ignore it at our peril
- LawGPT? How AI is Reshaping the Legal Profession
- Hootsuite for academia? How to increase the visibility, downloads and impact of publications using Kudos