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There may be as many ways to think about the experience of women in science as there are women in science.

Open research practices bring significant benefits to researchers.

Disclosing work prior to submission to a journal would benefit scientists seeking to be acknowledged for their discoveries.

Recruiting PhD students can be a frustrating process, but Eve Marder looks forward to welcoming the latest crop in the autumn.

A university genomics class provides detailed examples of how to design and execute Oxford Nanopore MinION hackathons as part of an academic curriculum.

By sharing their experiences, early-career scientists can help to make the case for increased government funding for researchers.

Increasing awareness that many causal links in biology might be bi-directional could overcome biases and improve scientific reasoning.

Cutting down on long-distance air travel is the best way to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases by the scientific community.

A text-mining study suggests that about half of the papers reporting the results of experiments on mice do not report the sex and age of the mice.

Peer review scores were poorly predictive of research project success in this large dataset, suggesting that reviewers cannot reliably predict which meritorious applications are most likely to be productive.