Biomedical research in Australia is largely funded through the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC https://www.nhmrc.gov.au), which is the Australian equivalent of the NIH. Multiple...
Read ItThe United States would not be the world leader in science today if science and technological innovations were not supported. An average US citizen may not grasp the real value of scientific disco...
Read ItThis document contains my comments to the National Institutes of Health Request for Information on “Optimizing Funding Policies and Other Strategies to Improve the Impact and Sustainability of Biom...
Read ItLadies and Gentlemen of the nation, it is with great disappointment I say that we, the scientific community, have failed you. We have hidden on our false intellectual pedestal. We throw around phra...
Read ItOn Wednesday, April 8, 2015, the blog post “Eroding Benefits for UMD postdocs?” caused quite a stir (Benderley, 2015). Such a stir, in fact, that the post was soon taken down, and revised (you can ...
Read ItOne of the ways that early career researchers can effect change in the academic research system is to make their voices heard, particularly when their input is solicited. Two agencies are solicitin...
Read ItIn their letter, "Ailing academia needs culture change" (1), V. Callier and N. L. Vanderford highlight the inherent institutional instability that has been generated by flooding academic science wi...
Read ItIn Australia, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is the biomedical research agency, equivalent to the NIH in the US, the ANR in France or the CIHR in Canada that distributes t...
Read ItThe National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input on how to catalyze the modernization of biomedical graduate education through NIGMS’s...
Read ItOpen science hit the mainstream of discourse in the scientific community in 2016. Here I examine the emerging criticisms leveled against how we publish and disseminate science and argues it may be ...
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