After 17 years working in the media I have returned to academia and been shocked to discover so much poor research…

Do studies with negative results have value or not? We hope that majority of our readers would agree that high-quality results…

Facing a seemingly intractable problem, we are often moved to go for any fast solution – just not to deal with…

by Elena Koustova In the long gone Soviet higher (university-based) education system there were no electives. As aspiring biologists (e.g. natural…

In the March 2018 issue of the newsletter, we have previously discussed that the research rigor & reproducibility discussion starts to…

Commentary about the Nature-Toolbox article by Roberta Kwok (August 6th, 2018) Laboratory Notebooks (LN) play a key role in research since…

Hot publications appear not only in Science and Nature. The lay press is also capable of getting their readers excited and…

Many of us ask a question – what can I do to help improve the research data quality? And we are…

Like many of our colleagues in neuroscience, we were surprised to see the recent steps Pfizer took in the field of…

Books that can be summarized in three sentences (https://jamesclear.com/book-summaries). And one can summarize in a couple of sentences what most movies…