Why I schedule my emails
Emails can be a neverending to do list. In a way, it's like housework: There's always something to do and it's undervalued.
Don't get me wrong - I love email because it's a to do list too. But sometimes it
Chris Hartgerink
Editing for Upstream
I've been invited to join the Upstream blog's editorial team – I am happy to announce that from now on I'll be working with Ginny Hendricks, Christine Ferguson, Martin Fenner, and John Chodacki to bring new content on the blog.
Launched in February 2022, the
"Data upon request" no longer ethical?
A recent paper in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology indicates that researchers in their sample who indicate data is available upon request actually fail to comply with data requests in 93%.
This seemed to make a great impression on Twitter, with over 3,000 retweets and 15,000 likes (at
Unarchived research - the case of ScienceMatters
One of the key functions of a scholarly publishing system is archiving the work - something that doesn't happen without effort. One of the documents I like to reference for archival strategy is that by National Digital Stewardship Alliance - it goes from hot archival (easily retrievable but
A future fieldworker
While she previously would note data about the behavior of her grackles in a notebook and transcribe them on the computer, she now whipped out her phone.
Armed with the most advanced research device she'd ever been able to privately buy, she starts filling out a quick form.
Imagining a future in research
This was my prepared fictional story for a session at the Abraham Kuyper Summer Seminar on Research Integrity
Fifteen years from today, wednesday August 27th, 2036. The academic year starts next week.
It is a year the northern hemisphere burned in summer and the southern hemisphere burned in winter. People
Constructing business as a research theory
As an ex-academic, I've learned many things that do not transfer to outside academia. Sometimes it is a simple mismatch of knowledge, other times it is an idea of understanding that completely misses the mark. Sometimes it's me getting in the way of myself and being