Ethics

7 articles · Latest May 28, 2026

eScience Editorial Team·May 28, 2026

Research Software Engineers in the Age of GenAI: Same Value, Changing Practice

Stephan Druskat, Michelle Barker, Ian Cosden, Cunliang Geng, Robert Haines, Daniel S. Katz, Joseph Shingleton, Ben van Werkhoven This blog post is being cross-posted by the Researc...

Faruk Diblen·Apr 23, 2026

Provenance in the age of AI: Why we need AI Declarations for more transparency

In research, if our methodology is not transparent, our results are not verifiable. Using AI to help generate code or synthesize data is dramatically affecting transparency, sustai...

Alessio Sclocco·Jan 16, 2024

Talking about energy-efficient GPU computing at SC23

1 November is the time for Supercomputing, or SC as it is called nowadays, and in 2023 the largest High-Performance Computing (HPC) conference in the world took place in Denver, US...

eScience Editorial Team·Nov 28, 2023

Navigating research software policies: Insights from the Dutch research community

Navigating research software policies: Insights from the Dutch research community Imagine you’re a researcher who developed a brilliant piece of software that may be useful to many...

Candace Moore·May 25, 2023

Research Ethics and Authorship: The Technological Solution

Dr. Candace Makeda Moore discusses the potential for distributed version control as a tool to prevent questionable authorship practices. Recently I read a story in Retraction Watc...

eScience Editorial Team·Nov 23, 2022

The Future of Research Software

By Michelle Barker (Research Software Alliance (ReSA)), Neil Chue Hong (Software Sustainability Institute UK), Maria Cruz (Dutch Research Council), Daniel S. Katz (National Center...

Patrick Bos·Jul 19, 2022

What do entropy, entanglement, cosmology, life, and fake news have in common?

Report on the Information Universe 4 conference (Answer to the above question below obligatory excruciatingly long-winded intro!) In the past week, I have rediscovered writing. Wri...