by Gary McDowell | Nov 15, 2018 | Fundraising
November 15th is National Philanthropy Day®, set up to recognize the philanthropic contributions, and those who make them, to improve communities and efforts to effect change. We are extremely grateful to those who donate their time, effort and resources to...
by Gary McDowell | Nov 13, 2018 | News
Future of Research is extremely grateful to Dr. Adriana Bankston, who today will complete a 6-month temporary contract as our Associate Director for Fundraising and Strategic Initiatives. Dr. Bankston has been involved with Future of Research for some time,...
by Gary McDowell | Oct 13, 2018 | Diversity in science, News
On August 17th, 2018, Science magazine published the letter “Harassment Charges: Injustice Done?” in which colleagues wrote in to defend Francisco Ayala, an academic formerly at UC Irvine who resigned after findings of sexual harassment at that...
by Gary McDowell | Oct 8, 2018 | Data, Ideas for change, Peer Review, Policy
As part of our effort to increase transparency about the role of early career researchers in peer review, we are trying to collect data on the policies that journals have implemented with respect to involvement of early career researchers. Particularly we are looking...
by Gary McDowell | Oct 2, 2018 | Data, Grassroots movements, Resources
We are about to release our FAQs on unionization for graduate students and postdocs, which attempts to provide the data and evidence around unionization, and fact-check information. As an example, Columbia University recently sent the following talking points to their...
