Community for Rigor
Better Science Every Day
Welcome to the Community for Rigor! We are a free, open resource to help researchers of all kinds learn, practice, and promote scientific rigor.
What we’re building
Lessons and Materials
- Always free, open-access
- Interactive activities and thoughtful instruction
- Suitable for all levels of research experience
- Tailored versions to support solo and group learning
- Best practices supported by subject matter experts
A Community for Rigor
- Students – grow together with peers and mentors
- Teachers – incorporate our materials into your curriculum
- Schools – partner with us for wide-scale deployment
- Organizations – work with us, join our community index
- You!
The latest from C4R
- It’s Alive! Upcoming Units this FallThe Community for Rigor has spent the past two years hard at work developing educational materials to teach core concepts in scientific rigor, and we’re trying hard to get it right. This Fall, C4R is debuting our first slate of units. Without any further ado, look forward to: Activities from some of these short courses… Read more: It’s Alive! Upcoming Units this Fall
- Project Update: A Curriculum for RigorEach year of our project, our friends at the NINDS add a new cohort of coLABs to help us make even more units to teach the principles of scientific rigor. Each coLAB brings their own expertise to the table, and their work helps us bridge into new realms of the skills every modern researcher needs. … Read more: Project Update: A Curriculum for Rigor
- C4R is Rigorous and Glamorous!This week, the Community for Rigor hosted Rigorous and Glamorous in 100 Words or Less, an abstract workshop for our friends across the world! We had a blast reaching scholars from eleven countries and over three dozen institutions! We’ve shared a recording of the fun to our YouTube channel and written up some tips for… Read more: C4R is Rigorous and Glamorous!
- BPS 2024: Rigor is . . . Popular!This February, the Community for Rigor made the long trek across Philadelphia to attend the 2024 annual meeting of the Biophysical Society (BPS) for a weekend of tabling, conversation, and learning that crystallography does not, in fact, involve all that many precious gems. Thanks to all the wonderful people who came by our booth to… Read more: BPS 2024: Rigor is . . . Popular!
- Rigorous and Glamorous in 100 Words or Less!A Community for Rigor Abstract Workshop It’s hard to write an abstract. It’s harder to write a glamorous one that tells your story without overselling your results. Community for Rigor is here to help! Join Professor Konrad Kording for a rigorous abstract writing workshop on March 20th, 2024. Together, let’s lovingly glam up abstracts from the Community… Read more: Rigorous and Glamorous in 100 Words or Less!
Our partners
Help us make science less wrong today
- Did something with less rigor than optimal? Tell us anonymously about it at our confessionals box. Let’s make rigor a daily conversation!
- What should we teach? Important topics holding back science.
- How should we teach it? Answer our survey.
- Join our team. Inquire about our open positions.