Introductions to the Symposium Workshops

There are now introductory blog posts to each workshop in the symposium: find them in the Background Reading for the Symposium or here at The Node: Training Structure of the Workforce Metrics and Incentives Funding Come with your brains primed ready to engage and...

Announcing the Future of Research Symposium

Two publications have been accepted in the last couple of days, to further draw the attention of the scientific community to the Future of Research Symposium. The first is an open letter to the journal Science that appears in The Winnower: An open letter to AAAS...

Announcing FOR symposium speakers

We are pleased to announce the finalized list of speakers for the Future of Research Symposium (October 2-3 in Boston). The meeting schedule is also available, as is registration. Henry R. Bourne: “The Future: Make it Work!” (Keynote) Bourne began his...

Follow-up session at ASCB/IFCB 2014

NOTE: For more information about our October 2-3 symposium in Boston, MA (to which the session described below is a follow-up), please view our schedule. Registration for the October 2-3 symposium is open!    The future of research: the sustainability of the...

Registration is now open!

We are pleased to announce that registration for the Future of Research symposium is now open! Thanks to our generous sponsors, attendance is free of charge to everyone. Please click the button below to proceed to our Eventbrite page.

Join us to shape the future of science!

The landscape of scientific research and funding is in flux, affected by tight budgets, evolving models of both publishing and evaluation, and questions about training and workforce stability. As future leaders, junior scientists are uniquely poised to shape the...