Dalmeet Singh Chawla
A road map aims to improve the lives of junior scientists in Europe
Institutions and organizations across Europe have launched a manifesto that recommends ways to ameliorate the financial situations,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 8, 2022
- 1 min
Swiss funder unveils new CV format to make grant evaluation fairer
Switzerland’s main research funder is set to roll out a ‘narrative’ CV format for grant applications this year, as part of a move to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 22, 2021
- 1 min
8% of researchers in Dutch survey have falsified or fabricated data
An estimated 8% of scientists who participated in an anonymous survey of research practices at Dutch universities confessed to falsifying...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 20, 2021
- 1 min
Zoom fatigue saps grant reviewers’ attention
Grant reviewers for the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) report shorter attention spans and lower engagement during video...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 9, 2020
- 1 min
Graduate departments move away from GREs
Physics and Astronomy graduate schools are rapidly moving away from the GRE entrance exams amid concerns over their cost, accessibility...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 11, 2020
- 1 min
Junior researchers less likely to blow the whistle on research misconduct
Early-career researchers are less likely to report research misconduct when they come across such activity than senior faculty, a survey...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 26, 2020
- 1 min
Questionable research practices are hurting junior researchers
A third of early-career researchers have had their work harmed by the questionable research practices of colleagues based at their...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 19, 2019
- 1 min
There’s No Winter Break From ‘Publish or Perish’
An analysis of submissions of manuscripts and peer review reports at two journals suggests that a significant number of researchers...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 12, 2019
- 1 min
Science really does advance one funeral at a time, study suggests
‘A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 29, 2019
- 1 min
Cleaning up misinterpreted forensic evidence
In July, the World Economic Forum unveiled its annual list of the world’s 21 brightest scientific minds aged under 40. That list includes...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 20, 2018
- 1 min
Assigning authorship for research papers can be tricky. These approaches can help
Maybe you’ve heard about the cat who co-authored a scientific paper—but what about the dog? That would be Grandmother Liboiron, owned by...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 25, 2018
- 1 min
Speaking truth to power
Michael Fernandez is the inaugural director of the new Center for Scientific Evidence in Public Issues of the American Association for...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 21, 2018
- 1 min
The Perils of Proposals
With its complex procedures, unknown evaluations and unconscious biases, applying for research funding is no mean feat. Some researchers...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 4, 2018
- 1 min
Italian scientists increase self-citations in response to promotion policy
Italian scientists have been citing themselves more often since a controversial law came into effect in 2010 demanding academics meet...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 15, 2017
- 1 min
Female researchers add their superiors as authors
One in three scholars across a wide range of natural and social science fields admit to including unjustifiable co-authors to their...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 1, 2017
- 1 min
How much self-promotion is enough?
Tooting your horn can be good at times. For academics, it comes in the form of citing your own prior work in new studies. A new metric...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 8, 2017
- 1 min
The quest to reveal science’s hidden female faces
A project that aims to increase visibility of scientists from under-represented groups is gaining support online. Its goals include...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 15, 2016
- 1 min
Researchers debate whether female computer coders face bias
Women coders are more competent than men as long as their gender is not disclosed, according to a new study. When their gender is made...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 11, 2015
- 1 min
How to judge scientists’ strengths
When Ewan Birney, co-director of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute, was procrastinationg over...
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