Chronicle of a two-day workshop curriculum to teach reproducible research using an interactive computational environment.

Humanity is going through unprecedented global change. The systems that arose to organize societies in the last 400 years are breaking down — and now is the time to envision what will come next.

What do you see when you picture a scientist? Is it a white man in a lab coat? This portrait will smash that stereotype to bits.

Bubbling beakers, blazing Bunsen burners, boiling broths and a book.

How to divest from a longstanding print legacy and truly embrace new digital technologies for the dissemination of research output.

A computational guy’s take on the “reproducibility crisis”

We should write our draft, go over it with our co-authors, and then put it on a preprint server. And wait. After a year, when we had the opportunity to share this paper with colleagues, then we can submit it.

Science is a big thing, but changing it relies on simple decisions made by individual researchers.

If we continue on the current path of adding ever tighter controls and conformities to research without understanding their effects on the impact and quality of that research, then we will likely be wasting money.

The $250,000 MIT Media Lab Disobedience award: to a person or group engaged in disobedience for the benefit of society.

We, the undersigned, wish to address the imminent crisis facing Canadian health researchers.

Elsevier just bought SSRN. Here’s why you should be upset, and what we can do about it.

Peer review and criticism is an essential part of academic discourse, and it is why journal articles are of such high quality and rigor. But you don’t get paid for it.

Or, how to make physics fun.

The next generation of DIYBio tools are coming, and this time they mean business.

The push for STEM should not drown out the importance of humanities research.

At the frontiers of scientific discovery, there is a growing problem. Can we still trust our scientists?

Inside portrait of the research crowd-funding platform Microryza, at their office/home in San Francisco.