Most of us die virtually penniless. Research analysed 60 million English death and probate records from 1892-2016

Academics have bought into the competition and become complicit in their exploitation

Software updates: the “unknown unknown” of the replication crisis

Economic models significantly underestimate climate change risks

Supertasks

Ad hominem attacks on scientists are just as likely to undermine public faith in research as legitimate empirical critiques

Without right policies, automation risks shift of income from labour to capital

Britain is, and was, deluded about its negotiating power with the EU

U.S. Presidents are more likely to represent the concerns of white Americans than black Americans in speeches

How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists

Gender quotas in Sweden increase competence of elected officials

Street Life in London

Innovations are rarely (if ever) the product of a single individual

Why California is so expensive: It’s not just the weather, it’s the regulation

The very rich are unjust and dysfunctional

Anti-smoking messages can backfire and make it harder for people to quit: New evidence shows that public health policies targeted at smokers may actually have the opposite effect for some people trying to quit

Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications

Cannabis Access and Academic Performance

How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang

'High' Achievers? The Effects of Cannabis Access on Academic Performance at Maastricht University

We have socialised the risk of innovation but privatised the rewards

Blogging changes the nature of academic research, not just how it's communicated

Paper beloved by climate skeptics now corrected, reversing findings