by Gary McDowell | Nov 22, 2018 | Fundraising, Ideas for change, Mentoring
Future of Research is bringing mentoring back to the heart of academia. Mentoring the next generation of scientists is critical to the future of research. Unfortunately, academia has lost its focus on the development and wellbeing of young scientists. This has...
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...
by Gary McDowell | Sep 21, 2018 | Data, Ideas for change, Peer Review, Resources
Please help us by filling out, and sharing, this survey: https://tinyurl.com/ECRs-in-peer-review Our survey of the experiences of researchers in peer review, particularly focused on whether early career researchers can (and should) get recognition for...
by Gary McDowell | Sep 20, 2018 | Ideas for change, News, NIH, NSF, Policy
Policies surrounding sexual harassment in science and federal grant funding have been heavily discussed and been the subject of updates in the last few days. We have attempted to summarize updates below, and may clarify with updates (which will be noted below). NIH...
by Gary McDowell | Sep 17, 2018 | FOR meetings, Ideas for change, News, Postdoc benefits
Today marks the beginning of the ninth annual celebration of National Postdoc Appreciation Week (NPAW): September 17-21, 2018. You can find out more about events taking place for NPAW at the National Postdoc Association’s website here and you can follow...
by Gary McDowell | Sep 14, 2018 | Diversity in science, Ideas for change, Peer Review, Resources
Peer Review Week is a global event celebrating the essential role that peer review plays, with the view that good peer review, is critical to scholarly communications. This year, Peer Review Week has been focusing on Diversity in Peer Review – aiming to focus...
