Octopus.ac One Year In

Octopus.ac One Year In

Sep 15, 2023 | Blog

Written by Alexandra Freeman, Octopus.ac founder. I always said that the hard bit of improving the publication (and hence incentive) system in research was not coming up with a better way to do it – after all, that’s quite a low bar – or even in building...
2023 UKRN Local Network Lead Retreat

2023 UKRN Local Network Lead Retreat

Sep 5, 2023 | Blog, LNL Community Project

Written by Vicky Hellon and Alden Conner, The Alan Turing Institute, UK. The UKRN Local Network Leads (LNLs) are the network’s grassroots reproducibility representatives and points of contact at their respective institutions. There are 79 LNLs across 66 institutions...

Reflection on the Leadership in Academia May 2022 workshop

Jun 23, 2022 | Blog

Content by Gareth Moore, attendee at the Leadership in Academia workshop in May 2022. Why should a PhD student be concerned with leadership training? After all, being in a position of leadership, especially in academia, comes after many years toiling in the lab....