Fear of being exploited is stagnating our progress in science, say researchers

Phys.org  June 27, 2023 Knowledge hiding in academia—the reluctance to share one’s ideas, materials, or knowledge with other researchers—is detrimental to scientific collaboration and harms scientific progress. In three studies, researchers in Germany tested whether (a) knowledge hiding could be predicted by researchers’ latent fear of being exploited (i.e., victim sensitivity), whether (b) this effect was mediated by researchers’ suspiciousness about their peers, and whether (c) activating researchers’ social identity alleviated or rather amplified this effect. Study 1 showed that victim-sensitive researchers whose social identity as a “researcher” had been made salient were particularly prone to knowledge hiding. Study 2 […]

Life sciences open their doors for engineers

EurekAlert  June 15, 2020 Research infrastructures are increasingly important to research and development activity by providing access to the latest detection, imaging, computational and research techniques at scale. To address this problem, EMBL developed Accelerator for Research Infrastructure Scientists (ARISE) Programme, funded by EU, for future research infrastructure scientists. During their three-year fellowship experienced STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) professionals will develop into future leaders in technology development and the operation of advanced life science research infrastructures in Europe. They will work on a wide range of research and technology development in the different areas including imaging, bioinformatics, data science […]