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October 8, 2022
Why Peer Review Should Be More Like Meteorology

We’re all familiar with meteorologists’ forecasts: a 5% chance of rain, a 95% chance of rain, and […]

October 4, 2022
How Karl Compton Believed a Research Department Should Be Run

by Eric Gilliam If you’re interested in the structure of scientific institutions, we’re living through remarkably exciting […]

Funding Agencies and Quality Control

With science funders like NIH and NSF, we need to dramatically expand their capacity to assess reproducibility, […]

September 27, 2022
Why NIH Should Reinvigorate an Advisory Board on its Performance and Organizational Structure

For many years, observers have noted that NIH’s structure and organization isn’t necessarily the most rational. Why […]

September 4, 2022
Interview with Jim Olds

Jim Olds is the University Professor of Neuroscience and Public Policy at George Mason University. He served […]

September 3, 2022
Here’s How We Could Get an Extra $2 Billion in Biomedical Research per Year — For Free

I’ve written about the severe burden that many researchers experience from having to comply with endless administrative […]