Future of Peer Review

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Registration for this event has closed By joining this workshop you are agreeing to follow the UKRN code of conduct. Description Peer review remains the primary means by which we ensure the quality of research grants and outputs. However, no system is perfect. Peer review could be improved, and there are different schools of thought on how […]

Octopus.ac: A new academic publishing model to improve research culture

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Registration for this event is open By joining this workshop you are agreeing to follow the UKRN code of conduct. Register Description Octopus.ac is a new UKRI funded research publishing model, designed to encourage, enable, and reward best practice using 21st century tools. Free to read, free to publish, and entirely open source, this is […]

Informing vs Persuading in Scholarly Communication

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Registration for this event is open By joining this workshop you are agreeing to follow the UKRN code of conduct. Register Description Journalists receive formal training in the distinction between communication intended to inform vs persuade, but academics typically do not. This workshop will explore the distinction between these two forms of communication, why it […]

Antibodies and research reproducibility

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Register A technical, open data sharing, behavioural, and policy challenge Antibodies are one of the most important tools used in biomedical and fundamental biology research. They are known to be an important driver of irreproducibility in research, with issues around the quality of the reagents, the validation of the reagents for the specific purpose, variation […]