Editorial: Improving the Way Science is Done, Evaluated, and Published

Editorial: Improving the Way Science is Done, Evaluated, and Published

Improving What Is Published

Researchers and practitioners of psychology have expressed considerable dissatisfaction with much of what is published in professional journals. Three major areas of discontent are as follows: (a) Many articles focus on irrelevant topics; (b) the use of statistical significance testing often results in meaningless or unusable findings; and (c) the decision-making process for manuscript acceptan...

Open Source Is Changing the Way Work Gets Done

Open source software is changing not only the way the software industry works, but also the way work gets done. In the open source software model, individuals and companies collaborate together to produce software. They learn new ways of getting work done that are based on meritocracy and little management. In addition, they learn ways of communication that work well across large groups and vir...

Is student selection done perfectly?

ntroduction. The student selection at the universities has always been a matter of concern. Student selection process should allow equal opportunities to all students who fulfil a set of pre-determined criteria, apart from the sex, religion, social and cultural backgrounds. Moreover, the process should be quite transparent and perfectly concerned. Student admission is held in different methods ...

The Big Mechanism Program: Changing How Science Is Done

The talk will describe details of actively evolving research conducted by the UChicago consortium of the Big Mechanism program, funded by the US DARPA agency. The consortium’s work focuses on: (1) probabilistic reasoning across cancer claims culled from literature which uses custom-designed ontologies; (2) the computational modelling of cancer mechanisms and pathways to automatically predict th...