The rural areas missing out on AI opportunities Behavioural data scientist Ganna Pogrebna believes the AI revolution is overlooking remote communities. Benjamin Plackett Q+A 12 Oct 2022
The 10 most common mistakes with statistics, and how to avoid them Significant results are not the only goal. Gemma Conroy Q+A 11 Nov 2019
Q&A: Bored with bad conferences? It's time to demand more Calling out the time-wasters. Bec Crew Q+A 1 Nov 2019
Q&A: 5 simple ways to make your research more reproducible Small details can make a big difference. Gemma Conroy Q+A 31 Oct 2019
Q&A Kevin Burgio: 10 rules for a successful remote postdoc How to build productive long-distance relationships. Gemma Conroy Q+A 11 Oct 2019
Q&A Niamh Brennan: 100 rules for publishing in top journals A checklist for success. Gemma Conroy Q+A 18 Jul 2019
Q&A Wendy Belcher: How to write a journal article in 12 weeks What they don’t teach at your institution. Bec Crew Q+A 11 Jul 2019
Q&A Kelly Robinson: Sample archive serves as a plankton ecologist’s rainy-day fund A massive collection of sea creatures turns out to be a gold mine of research opportunities. Jeffrey M. Perkel Q+A 22 Nov 2018
Q&A Koenraad Debackere: Impact assessment to become more complex We need to define impact more clearly to be able to measure it effectively. Smriti Mallapaty Q&A 28 Aug 2018
Q&A Adam Russell: The search for automated tools to rate research reproducibility A US project is exploring the use of software to assign confidence levels to published research. Dalmeet Singh Chawla Q&A 8 Aug 2018
Q&A Karen Seto: Paving the way to an urban future The scale of growth in cities challenges scientists and policy-makers. Catherine Armitage 20 Jul 2018
Q&A Mary Frank Fox: Time to ditch the leaky pipeline model Policies should account for the institutional factors that discriminate against women. Q&A 25 May 2018
Q&A Felicitas Hesselmann: Vague and varied retractions point to weakness in the scientific community The scientific method is not applied in dealing with aberrant research behaviour. Q&A 1 May 2018
Q&A John Ioannidis: Biomedicine warms to preprints It’s wrong to dismiss preprint repositories as the junkyards of science, warns Ioannidis. Q&A 13 Feb 2018
Students in research: Cost or investment? Undergraduate research programmes are expensive, and the benefits can be hard to measure. Sujata Gupta Q+A 28 Nov 2017
Kyoto University is branching out in tough times The university's president talks about the need for Japanese universities to stay competitive on the international stage. Q&A 18 Apr 2017
The rise and rise of a biology superstar Nobel laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi’s persistent study of baker’s yeast spawned an exciting new field, and proves the value of supporting scientists in pursuit of their passion. Tim Hornyak 30 Mar 2017
Defining national research priorities Australia’s former chief scientist reflects on the country’s need to focus its research effort. Branwen Morgan Q&A 27 Sep 2016
