Session 2 of 3 of the Scholarship Values Summit 2021 — Identifying our values as scholars is the first step toward making needed change in our academic culture (see Part One of this three-part blog series). …

Session 1 of 3 of the Scholarship Values Summit 2021 — The context for scholarship has changed. The cultural norms and incentives for scholarship today (e.g. ‘publish or perish’) were established during a now-outdated context for traditional academia (see Lancaster et al 2018). Such framing and assumptions no longer work in today’s mainstream academia, let alone among the growing numbers of…

Taking Open Science from academia to industry — Continuing our series of written interviews with researchers at IGDORE: Dr Paola Masuzzo developed a passion for Open Science while doing her bioinformatics PhD in Belgium. …

Founder of Open Science TV — Continuing our series of written interviews with researchers at IGDORE: Dr Stefaniia Ivashchenko trained as a biophysicist in France and is now a journalist promoting Open Science and academic reform. Stefaniia tells us what she likes about the Open Science community and why academia needs independent media. In academia, if you do not get nice publishable results, you cannot succeed, get funding, a job, a tenure. The discontent about this unfairness was growing in me, I felt the real lack of independence and obligation to follow rules I did not agree with.

The IGDORE Global Board regrets to announce that we terminated the affiliation of one of our researchers, Dr. Daniel Cebo, on October 1st 2020, for academic misconduct that breached the terms of IGDORE’s scientific Code of Conduct. This post will briefly describe the result of the IGDORE Global Board’s investigation…

From biomechanics to anarchism. — Recommencing our series of written interviews with researchers at IGDORE: Dr Dan Cleather, who is the program director for strength and conditioning at St Mary’s University in London, and works remotely from Prague. Daniel tells us about what sparked his interest in the philosophy of science and his current research on new paradigms for exercise during space exploration.

Dr Michelle King-Okoye is leading a team of researchers to examine why people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds in developed countries are severely affected by COVID-19. “I am saddened by the escalating deaths from COVID-19 among BAME populations and I am dedicated to ensuring…

It is with immense sadness and shock we hereby confirm that our dear colleague Dr. Jonathan P. Tennant (Jon) passed away in a motorcycle accident in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, during the early morning of April 9th, local time. Jon was not yet 32 years old. Our most heartfelt condolences go to his family and we wish them all the strength possible in living through the pain of losing their loved one. Colleagues who want to express condolences to Jon’s family may do so at this dedicated email address: jon@igdore.org. We will save all emails and make sure they reach the family.

One of IGDORE’s researchers, Dr. Jon Tennant, has been banned from OpenCon for violation of its Code of Conduct (CoC). Dr. Tennant has made a public statement of apology and acceptance of the ban. There has been much speculation on Twitter about the nature of the breach. In addition there…