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04-April-2021

  • Using Readwise as a commonplace book
  • 03-April-2021

  • Thoughts on Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie
  • 20-February-2021

  • Disagreements in peer review
  • 08-October-2020

  • Tracing the signals of research impact
  • 19-August-2020

  • Connecting journal articles
  • 06-August-2020

  • Virtual peer review panels - the evidence
  • 18-June-2020

  • A post-pandemic research agenda
  • 02-March-2020

  • Four trends shaping the future of research evaluation
  • 31-January-2020

  • Text-mining the research literature
  • 27-January-2020

  • Thinking about CRediT
  • 20-January-2020

  • Journal brand and research culture
  • 09-January-2020

  • Expanding ideas of excellence in research
  • 05-October-2019

  • Are we ready for more research on research?
  • 03-October-2019

  • Open access monographs in the REF
  • 26-September-2019

  • Delivering impact from research needs public participation
  • 20-September-2019

  • Social media and impact
  • 19-September-2019

  • Collaboration, competition and culture
  • 12-September-2019

  • The grand challenges of research need careful investment
  • 09-September-2019

  • Three frontiers for public engagement
  • 05-September-2019

  • The geographic impact of research
  • 02-September-2019

  • Measuring disruption in research articles
  • 30-August-2019

  • AI and systematic reviews
  • 29-August-2019

  • To improve the nation’s productivity, keep investing in university research
  • 25-August-2019

  • Impact learning lessons from the REF
  • 22-August-2019

  • Anonymous review and the REF
  • 21-August-2019

  • Reposting HEFCE blog posts
  • 19-August-2019

  • Public and civic engagement
  • 16-August-2019

  • Open access and academic progression
  • 30-March-2019

  • Novelty and international research collaboration
  • 26-February-2019

  • Measuring the benefits of research
  • 15-December-2018

  • Open science and public engagement
  • 29-April-2018

  • Balancing impact in the REF
  • 23-January-2018

  • Book review - Inferior by Angela Saini
  • 20-December-2017

  • International research and national excellence
  • 04-December-2017

  • The fifth A of assessing impact
  • 02-August-2017

  • A paper exploring REF, funding and journal metrics
  • 30-July-2017

  • Effect of increased research funding
  • 15-July-2017

  • A culture of open data
  • 22-April-2017

  • On writing consultation responses
  • 17-April-2017

  • Back to blogging
  • 28-October-2016

  • The drivers shaping the future of research
  • 26-October-2016

  • On trade-offs
  • 24-October-2016

  • The significance of Sci-Hub
  • 17-October-2016

  • How long does it take to write a research grant application?
  • 09-October-2016

  • Massimo Pigliucci on science and culture
  • 06-October-2016

  • Some implications of Brexit for UK research
  • 14-September-2016

  • On participation and impact
  • 01-September-2016

  • Excellence in postgraduate education
  • 30-August-2016

  • Citations and the attention loop
  • 25-August-2016

  • Website update
  • 17-March-2016

  • Making space for the academic book of the future
  • 14-March-2016

  • What is open research?
  • 20-December-2015

  • On public engagement with research and activism
  • 15-November-2015

  • The benefits of basic research
  • 27-July-2015

  • Dimensions of quality research
  • 08-July-2015

  • Evidencing the REF
  • 02-February-2015

  • Public engagement and science advocacy
  • 29-January-2015

  • On scholarly monographs and the sciences
  • 26-January-2015

  • Venture research and diversity
  • 04-December-2014

  • Questioning research culture
  • 13-November-2014

  • Open access: because it’s worth it
  • 16-October-2014

  • Understanding academic culture
  • 13-October-2014

  • His master’s voice?
  • 15-September-2014

  • Engaging wisdom from Sciencewise
  • 09-September-2014

  • The many paths to PhD study
  • 26-August-2014

  • On commonplace books
  • 29-May-2014

  • Openness and research integrity
  • 20-March-2014

  • How many research mavericks do we need?
  • 07-March-2014

  • care.data – a failure to engage
  • 13-January-2014

  • Open access and academic freedom
  • 05-December-2013

  • Open data reflections
  • 29-November-2013

  • On blogging and public engagement
  • 07-August-2013

  • On impact
  • 02-August-2013

  • Woodpeckers
  • 01-August-2013

  • Open data: technology and culture
  • 30-July-2013

  • Debating GM crops
  • 29-July-2013

  • Assessing impact
  • 27-July-2013

  • Weekly update #6
  • 25-July-2013

  • Open access and research assessment
  • 15-July-2013

  • Weekly update #5
  • 11-July-2013

  • On data management and open research
  • 09-July-2013

  • Public good innovation and the free market
  • 07-July-2013

  • Weekly update #4
  • 23-June-2013

  • Lab or factory?
  • 22-June-2013

  • Weekly update #3
  • 09-June-2013

  • Spending on research and welfare
  • 08-June-2013

  • Weekly update #2
  • 04-June-2013

  • Reflections on daily blogging
  • 03-June-2013

  • Three dilemma of research-teaching interactions
  • 02-June-2013

  • Battle in the Garden
  • 01-June-2013

  • Weekly update #1
  • 31-May-2013

  • Scholarship rediscovered
  • 30-May-2013

  • The increasing internationalisation of research
  • 29-May-2013

  • The daily pages habit
  • 28-May-2013

  • Dual funding and the status quo
  • 26-May-2013

  • Writing on productivity
  • 25-May-2013

  • Experiments in blogging
  • 24-May-2013

  • Balance in Dual Funding for Research
  • 23-May-2013

  • Open access roundup
  • 22-May-2013

  • Leave science careers to the market?
  • 21-May-2013

  • Supply and demand for innovation
  • 20-May-2013

  • The end of journal impact factors?
  • 28-April-2013

  • Measured excellence in research
  • 22-April-2013

  • Spin out numbers
  • 21-April-2013

  • On (not) writing
  • 24-February-2013

  • Engaging with Galileo
  • 21-February-2013

  • The evidence divide
  • 01-February-2013

  • Review January 2013
  • 31-January-2013

  • On the research career pyramid
  • 29-January-2013

  • Eight great technology debates
  • 26-January-2013

  • Reasons for writing, according to George Orwell
  • 25-January-2013

  • Global research, local benefit
  • 24-January-2013

  • What’s coming for UK research policy?
  • 19-January-2013

  • Turning up is not enough
  • 18-January-2013

  • ‘People’ by Alan Bennett
  • 14-January-2013

  • On power and open access
  • 11-January-2013

  • Forms of engagement
  • 10-January-2013

  • Welcome to the new Testing Hypotheses
  • 20-October-2012

  • Flying ants and other myths…
  • 18-October-2012

  • Text-mining and open access
  • 26-May-2012

  • Reflections on The Geek Manifesto
  • 08-May-2012

  • Lessons from history: why science policy needs to better understand the past
  • 12-April-2012

  • New questions for science policy
  • 29-February-2012

  • Are universities ‘museums of knowledge’?
  • 21-November-2011

  • Eyes on the prize?
  • 14-November-2011

  • Presentation: Heads of University Biological Sciences departments
  • 18-October-2011

  • Patterns of UK research investment
  • 25-August-2011

  • Book review: The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
  • 21-July-2011

  • The virtue of useless maths
  • 23-June-2011

  • The cult of personality in science
  • 28-November-2010

  • Regulating emerging technologies
  • 22-November-2010

  • Engagement and regulation of emerging technologies
  • 17-November-2010

  • Three reasons to call yourself a scientist
  • 15-November-2010

  • Publishing peer review
  • 17-March-2010

  • 7 steps to restore trust in science – step 7
  • 15-March-2010

  • 7 steps to restore trust in science – step 6
  • 12-March-2010

  • 7 steps to restore trust in science – step 5
  • 10-March-2010

  • 7 steps to restore trust in science – step 4
  • 22-February-2010

  • 7 steps to restore trust in science – step 3
  • 18-February-2010

  • 7 steps to restore trust in science – step 2
  • 16-February-2010

  • 7 steps to restore trust in science – step 1
  • 11-February-2010

  • 7 steps to restore trust in science
  • 06-January-2010

  • Measuring innovation
  • 04-January-2010

  • Emerging technology debates
  • 29-October-2009

  • The trouble with evidence
  • 06-September-2009

  • Science inspirations
  • 02-July-2009

  • New media and science journalism
  • 27-May-2009

  • Making a date with science
  • 07-March-2009

  • Pioneers, innovators and inspiring ideas
  • 16-February-2009

  • Scientific authoritarianism
  • 13-February-2009

  • A Nobel effort?
  • 09-January-2009

  • The trouble with physics
  • 07-January-2009

  • Three rules for technological fixes
  • 28-October-2008

  • Future challenge
  • 24-October-2008

  • Innovation planet