Guest article by Paul Litvak
Jason Shepherd on Twitter / X
I have quite a lot of thoughts on this..that won't fit in a tweet. Bottomline is that there are issues scientists in the US would love to improve - faster review, less grant writing, more stability and freedom to do risky science. The folks celebrating this doc are mostly../1 https://t.co/xlPAH9XYNC— Jason Shepherd (@JasonSynaptic) July 23, 2026
Guest post: If you’re going to critique science, be scientific about it
Loren K. Mell Editor’s note: This post responds to a Feb. 13 article in The Atlantic, “The Scientific Literature Can’t Save Us Now,” written by Retraction Watch cofounders Adam Marcus and Ivan Oran…
What stories should we tell about scientific progress now?
In search of the mysterious fruits of basic science
Director Michael Kratsios on Twitter / X
In response to @POTUS's call for a revival of America's scientific enterprise, today I’m releasing Science: A New Golden Age.This report is a blueprint for renewing American scientific leadership for the 21st century. pic.twitter.com/ikM6pX2ndP— Director Michael Kratsios (@mkratsios47) July 21, 2026
Rebuilding the Architecture of Science
Science built the modern world. It’s time to rebuild the world of science.
Science has been in a “replication crisis” for a decade. Have we learned anything?
Bad papers are still published. But some other things might be getting better.
Banff 2025, Open Science Meeting — Continuous Science Foundation
We’ve got to a big idea—and now it’s time to get practical. CSF is looking for curious, committed individuals to help us tackle some of the toughest (and most exciting) questions around how to make Composable Science real.
Seth Bannon on Twitter / X
There are some exceptionally good ideas here for reforming and accelerating science.Some of my favorite proposals:Apply the scientific method to science funding (track applications, reviewers, funding decisions, and outcomes, then experimentally test which grantmaking methods… https://t.co/Q0JmqTBPYm— Seth Bannon (@sethbannon) July 22, 2026
Speculations on the Future of the Scientific Method
The following essay was published 20 years ago (January, 2006) on my blog The Technium. I edited the intro here, but the speculations are basically unchanged.
Maybe scientific progress isn’t slowing, after all
A new paper takes aim at the claim that science has become less disruptive
The Bazaar of Scientific Knowledge | shishyko!
Is the current form of the scientific paper still optimal in 2025? How do we preserve, and efficiently leverage, the uncut gems of the scientific process?
Convergence · Gathering open science · Montreal, June 16–18, 2027
Three days in Montreal for the people rethinking how science is created, shared, funded, published, measured, and used. June 16–18, 2027.
Read - Night Science
Itai and Martin have published – and continue to publish – about the main aspects of the creative scientific process and its thinking tools.
Welcome To Science in the News a Graduate Student Group at Harvard GSAS.
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Plaudit — How to Give More Than One Like to a Scientific Article | Challenges and Issues of Modern Science
Is it possible to give more than one like on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and other social networks? Have you ever wanted, just once, to “like with both hands”? If so — your wish has come true on the platform of our journal Challenges and Issues of Modern Science.