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What was Bayh–Dole Act? When it comes to research patent, The Bayh–Dole Act continues to generate heated debate. Senators Birch Bayh and Bob Dole, a Democrat and a Republican, sponsored this piece of legislation as an amendment to the…

Flawed research, as opposed to deliberately fraudulent research, can be looked at from several angles: The original identification of the topic can be based on a poor literature review that places greater emphasis on a perceived gap in…

As a new researcher, eager to build a track record and climb the academic rank ladder, receiving a rejection notice from an academic journal can be devastating. You look back on all the hours you put into writing, editing, and formatting…

Even the longest stays in grad school go by in a flash and most of it seems to be filled with reading, research, and writing. I interviewed a group of recent PhDs and asked them, in retrospect, what would they spend more time doing if they…

A Very Plural Bias Speaking in terms of a singular cognitive bias is an inaccurate but widely accepted practice. The term is used to describe inherent errors in thinking and judgment that humans make in processing information on a daily…

The Scientific Method Modern science is built on a foundation of the assumed purity of the scientific method. The approach has remained unchanged—identify and define a problem, gather relevant data, develop a tentative hypothesis,…

As an academic researcher, the quality of your research publications has traditionally been measured by the prestige of the journals in which your work has been published. The prestige or impact of those journals is usually measured by…

Bridging the Language Gap The predominance of English as the global language of science is an easily forgotten blessing for those scientists and researchers with English as their first language. The idiosyncratic and often nonsensical…

“Branding is for Products, Not People!” Sound familiar? You have reached a point in your academic career where you have a solid body of work, a track record of well-received conference papers, one or two industry-standard books, and a…

The Most Commonly Wasted Opportunity When the stressful interview comes to its inevitable end, it’s either gone really well and you think it’s in the bag, or you “ummed” and “aahhed” all the way through it and you’re wishing you had just…