The movement towards open science is a consequence of seemingly pervasive failures to
replicate previous research. This transition comes with great benefits but also significant …

Scientific publications enable results and ideas to be transmitted throughout the scientific
community. The number and type of journal publications also have become the primary …

We summarize content from the opening thematic session of the 20th anniversary meeting
for Biomechanics and Neural Control of Movement (BANCOM). Scientific discoveries from …

Background Traditionally, doctoral student education in the biomedical sciences relies on
didactic coursework to build a foundation of scientific knowledge and an apprenticeship …

Young researchers are crucially important for basic science as they make unexpected,
fundamental discoveries. Since 1982, we find a steady drop in the number of grant-eligible …

There is a growing realization that graduate education in the biomedical sciences is
successful at teaching students how to conduct research but falls short in preparing them for …

The Hong and Page 'diversity trumps ability'result has been used to argue for the more
general claim that a diverse set of agents is epistemically superior to a comparable group of …

PhD-trained biomedical scientists are moving into an increasingly diverse variety of careers
within the sciences. However, graduate and postdoctoral training programs have historically …

The oversupply of postdoctoral scholars relative to available faculty positions has led to calls
for better assessment of career outcomes. Here, we report the results of a study of …

Excessive competition for biomedical faculty positions has ratcheted up the need to
accumulate some mix of high-quality publications and prestigious grants to move from a …