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Founders
Founders
Why we are building BORA
The talent–output gap in Bangladeshi science, why it is an access problem rather than an ability problem, and what a zero-budget academy can realistically fix.
Notes
Blog
Working notes on open science, research training, and building research capacity in Bangladesh. Written by mentors and by students in the middle of the work.
Placeholder posts. Titles and summaries below show the intended editorial
mix — method write-ups, cohort updates, and honest post-mortems. None are published
yet.
Coming soon
Mentor note
Mentor note
Your first reproducible analysis: from public dataset to figure
A walkthrough of the Stage 1 challenge — pulling a public dataset, cleaning it, and producing a figure someone else can regenerate from your repository.
Coming soon
Mentor note
Mentor note
Reading an AMR genome without a wet lab
What you can and cannot conclude from publicly deposited isolate genomes, and the most common over-claims we see in student drafts.
Coming soon
Editorial
Editorial
How to spot a predatory journal before it costs you
DOAJ, COPE, indexing checks, and the pressure tactics that catch early-career authors in the Global South most often.
Coming soon
Cohort update
Cohort update
Pilot cohort: what worked and what broke
An honest post-mortem after the first Stage 0–3 run, including drop-off rates at each gate and what we changed for cohort two.
Coming soon
Student voice
Student voice
From zero coding to first authorship in twelve weeks
A student account of the full pipeline — the parts that were harder than expected, and the parts that were easier.
Want to write for BORA?
Cohort members and mentors can pitch a post at any time. Method write-ups and honest failure reports are more useful to us than announcements.