Top tens are very much a theme of the last issue of Nature for 2016. They include images of the year, 10 people who made a mark in science this year, and a review of the year in science. Naturejobs also gets into the “listicle” spirit by trawling through a year of articles to bring you our ten top career tips (and a few more thrown in for good measure) for the coming year.

1. Want to learn how to design an experiment or analyse data? Training is there if you look.

Scientific irreproducibility — the inability to repeat others’ experiments and reach the same conclusion — is a growing concern.

Much blame is placed on weak experimental and analytical practices that cause researchers to inadvertently favour exciting hypotheses.

Monya Baker reports.

In a separate post for Naturejobs, Monya runs through some of the statistical tools she discovered as part of her research. Continue reading →