Category: neuroscience

Open Data Digest special edition: Climate change adaptation needs a science of culture

Compelling data at the intersection of climate and culture. A collaboration with the special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Continue reading →
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Open Data Digest: September 2023

Your monthly round-up of open data, featuring some of our most viewed publications from researchers around the world. Subscribe today to receive the Open Data Digest directly in your inbox. MEDICINE Aberrant oligodendroglial-vascular interactions disru…

Understanding the frustration of academic writers

Have you ever found yourself unable to complete a piece of writing because something else got in the way: a more urgent commitment, a lack of crucial information, an inability to find the right words? If yes, then you are probably well acquainted with frustration, an emotion commonly felt by academic writers but seldom explicitly discussed or examined. When Helen […]

Overhyped and concentrated investments in research funding are leading to unsustainable science bubbles.

David Budtz Pedersen examines how the scientific market exhibits bubble behaviour similar to that of financial markets. Taking as an example the overwhelming investments in neuroscience, such high expectations may actually drain the research system from resources and new ideas. In the end the permanent competition for funding and the lack of ‘risk diversification’, might generate a climate in which citizens and policymakers […]