TCC Africa training experience
Our institutional partner TCC Africa offers trainings in Science Communication across the African continent, course topics ranging from proposal writing […]
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Moving forward: Research in Africa
In a recent SciDevNet article, Ochieng’ Ogodo reported on the discussion outcomes from this year’s Regional Conference on Balanced and Inclusive Education
Brain research in Kenya
This podcast was originally published at PhD Career Stories. Professor Alfred Orina Isaac is a Pharmaceutical Scientist at Kenya Technical University with
TEDxRuhrUniversityBochum: Building a Better World
In April this year, the following 10 changemakers gathered at Ruhr University for TEDxRuhrUniversityBochum: (1) Ganesh Muren presenting
Corina Logan: “We can shift academic culture through publishing choices”
Researchers give papers for free (and often actually pay) to exploitative publishers who make millions off of our articles by locking them behind paywalls. This discriminates not only against the public (who are usually the ones that paid for the research in the first place), but also against the academics from institutions that cannot afford to pay for journal subscriptions and the ‘scholarly poor’. I explain exploitative and ethical publishing practices, highlighting choices researchers can make right now to stop exploiting ourselves and discriminating against others.
Why I marched for science – a transatlantic perspective
Originally published in naturejobs. The March for Science turned a spotlight on the importance of research. But it won’t have
How to transition from Scientist to Entrepreneur
This podcast was originally published at PhD Career Stories. Dr Dennis Fink changed his career path in 2011 after his PhD
Trending now on Twitter: Actual Living Scientist(s)
In case you are struggling to name one actual living scientist, here are a few: #actuallivingscientist Tweets !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?’http’:’https’;if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+”://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”);
When writing about research mind your audience
This podcast was originally published at PhD Career Stories. If the reader is to grasp what the writer means, the
Don’t be afraid of writing a peer review
In his blog Green Tea and Velociraptors, Jon Tennant describes his approach to writing a peer review […] I remember the first