Insights

On research infrastructure

Analysis of how research is funded, credited, protected, and wasted — and what verifiable infrastructure changes about it.

31 Aug 2026

The Credit Problem: Why Authorship Lists Are a Poor Record of Who Did the Work

The authorship list is a print-era instrument that records only work which survived a publication decision — and it still underpins nearly every research career.

10 min read

24 Aug 2026

Beyond the MTA: Coordinating Multi-Centre Research Without the Legal Bottleneck

Multi-centre studies lose 6-12 months to CTA, MTA and data-sharing negotiations. Standardised, code-enforced agreements change the shape of that problem without replacing legal review.

9 min read

16 Aug 2026

Negative Results Are Assets: Turning Failed Experiments Into Licensed Data

Null results are buried on local servers while other labs repeat them — yet verified negative data is exactly what predictive drug-discovery models need to learn…

10 min read

8 Aug 2026

Proof of Existence: How Cryptographic Timestamping Protects Research Before Publication

Publication takes up to three years, and most teams spend it in silence. Cryptographic timestamping offers a narrower, more honest alternative: verifiable proof a file existed.

10 min read

1 Aug 2026

The €157 Billion Problem: Why Research Waste Is Structural, Not Financial

Global research loses about €157 billion a year to duplicated experiments, buried negative results and stranded assets — a plumbing failure, not a funding one.

9 min read