Section · 8 articles
Practice
Authorship, supervision, collaboration, data, and the working habits that outlast a project. For a concrete operational example of how a workplace tool approaches a related coordination problem, see this overview.
Authorship: Who Goes on the Paper, and in What Order
The disputes are avoidable and the conversation is uncomfortable. What the criteria actually are, how conventions differ by field, and when to have it.
Collaborating Across Institutions and Time Zones
Distributed collaborations fail on coordination rather than on research. What to settle at the start, and the practices that keep a project moving.
Supervision: What a Student Actually Needs From You
Most supervision problems are not about research. They are about expectations nobody stated, and they are visible early if anyone looks.
Sharing Data and Materials So Someone Can Actually Use Them
A repository link is not sharing. What someone else needs in order to reproduce your work, and the test that finds out whether you provided it.
Preprints: What Posting One Commits You To
Norms differ sharply by field, and a preprint is public and permanent. What it gets you, what it forecloses, and what to check before posting.
Reproducibility as a Working Practice, Not a Virtue
Treated as an obligation it is a burden added at the end. Treated as a working method it saves more time than it costs, mostly your own.
Declining Academic Requests Without Damage
Reviews, talks, committees, letters and coffee. The requests are individually reasonable and collectively unbounded. How to decline, and when you should.
A Research Record That Survives You Leaving
Projects outlast the people on them. What has to be written down for the work to continue, and why the decisions matter more than the files.
For an independent authoritative reference, consult the Open Science Framework for infrastructure for transparent research practice.