Hello, I'm Dalmeet! I'm a science journalist based in London, UK. I have a Biochemistry BSc degree from University College London, a Science Communication MSc degree from Imperial College London, and a passion for neat storytelling. In September 2015, I was shortlisted for the "Outstanding Young Journalist" category of the Asian Media Awards. In June 2016, I was shortlisted for the "Best Newcomer" Science Journalist award from the Association of British Science Writers. I spent all of 2016 working as a full time reporter for the scientific watchdog Retraction Watch.
I usually report on scholarly publishing, meta-research, scientific method, higher education policy, research tools, bibliometrics and psychology. My work has featured in/on Nature, Science, Slate, Medium, Spectrum, Chemistry World, New Scientist, The Guardian, The Observer, The Economist, Pacific Standard, Physics Today, C&EN Magazine, Physics World, BBC Future, The Sunday Times, The Cut, New York Magazine, Undark Magazine, Quanta Magazine, Times Higher Education, SciDev.Net, Psychology Today, Research Ltd, The Scientist and more! I have also made video and radio clips for the BBC.
Recent Work
June 18, 2019
Trawling through the websites of academic journals to decipher their publication policies can be a laborious task. A new database aims to simplify the process, focussing on journal policies in three specific areas. The full article was published in Physics Today.
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September 19, 2018
Terms like cosmologist, string theorist, or particle physicist rarely capture the true scope of a scientist’s work. A new website plans to provide a more complete picture by allowing researchers to create word clouds based on the topics of their arXiv papers. It also a...
August 8, 2018
Recently the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) solicited research proposals on developing automated tools that assign confidence levels to published research, as part of its ‘Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence’ (SCORE)...
June 20, 2018
Researchers are voicing concerns over a move that may affect many 3D visualisation programs that are commonly used in computational research. The full article was published at Chemistry World.
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May 10, 2018
Physicists can get wordy when describing their own work, but apparently they get straight to the point when providing feedback to others. According to a recent analysis of peer review reports by the firm Publons, scientists in the physical sciences generally write shor...
March 20, 2018
A new publishing system that uses the underlying technology behind the popular cryptocurrency bitcoin promises to solve some of academia’s thorniest problems. The full article was published at Chemistry World.
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January 22, 2018
A new online tool unveiled 19 January measures the reproducibility of published scientific papers by analyzing data about articles that cite them. The full story was published at Science.
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December 21, 2017
This year has been an interesting one in the world of scholarly publishing. It has seen lawsuits against websites illegally or illicitly hosting paywalled scientific content and a surge of other tools that are making academic literature more discoverable. The full essa...
December 1, 2017
Blockchain, the technology behind the popular digital currency bitcoin, has the potential to transform research and the science publishing landscape. That’s the conclusion of a 28 November report released by the research technology firm Digital Science. The full articl...
November 14, 2017
A collection of web-browser plug-ins that trawl the web to find scholarly papers is making the scholarly literature more discoverable. The whole article was published at Nature.
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