When Grants Dry Up: Why Japanese Researchers Are Turning to Crowdfunding
Japanese researchers are asking the public to fund their science. On research crowdfunding Japan - what it can do, and why it can't replace public money.
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Nobel Prize 2026: Why Optogenetics Won the Medicine Prize
Deisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for optogenetics. A physician-researcher explains the discovery and why it matters.
Five Clinical Research Rule Changes Are Coming: What the 2026 Unified Agenda Means for Researchers
Clinical research rule changes 2026: five DHHS Unified Agenda shifts on IRB review, IND reform, e-records and safety reporting, with a researcher's take.
AI Is Reshaping Clinical Trials: What the Federal Push Means for Research
AI clinical trials are going from hype to infrastructure in 2026. What the federal push, the evidence, and the ethics mean for researchers.
COVID Immunity Cross-Reacts With Bat Coronaviruses: What the Research Shows
Pirbright and KCL found covid immunity cross-reacts with bat coronaviruses. My take on the methods, the limits, and what it means for the next pandemic.
Fit for Life: What 30 Years of Data Say About Childhood Fitness and Adult Depression
Three decades of follow-up data now point to something parents and clinicians have long suspected: childhood fitness and depression in adulthood are linked. In a longitudinal study tracking participants from childhood into middle age, fitter children grew into adults with measurably lower depression risk, even after accounting for the usual suspects. This was not a […]
Why Most Published Findings Can’t Be Replicated: What the Reproducibility Crisis Taught Me About Research
Over half of researchers cannot reproduce their own experiments. What reproducibility crisis research is, why psychology was hit first, and what I changed.
Science Has a Replication Problem. The NIH Just Launched a Tool to Help Fix It
The NIH just launched Linked Discoveries, a PubMed tool mapping how findings connect to replication studies. Here is what the research reproducibility crisis means and how science is fighting back.
AI in Medical Education: Why the Curriculum Must Change Too
Yes, AI is changing medicine – and AI in medical education means the curriculum has to change with it. A viewpoint published today by Dr. James W. Schroeder in Chief Healthcare Executive argues that medical schools should teach less memorization and more empathy. As a community medicine researcher who studies how medical students learn and […]
What My Mindfulness Study Actually Showed (and What It Did Not)
Last year I helped supervise a study of mindfulness among 344 university students in Pakistan, using the 15-item Mindful Attention Awareness Scale. The results were interesting, modest, and easy to misread, which is exactly why I want to describe them carefully. We found that about one in three students fell into a low-mindfulness group, that […]