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The National Association of Science Writers calls on the Trump Administration to allow government experts to speak freely about the outbreak of the coronavirus disease COVID-19.
From Siri to autonomous vehicles, the magic of tech innovations are wrought by human ingenuity -- and setting boundaries around these technologies is a social enterprise, with inherently cultural implications.
The 2020 election is off to a complicated start. Maybe we can draw some comparative political lessons from the animal kingdom.
Last year, everyone in U.S. academic publishing had strong opinions about a mythical beast that all had heard about but none had actually seen: a rumored Executive Order from the White House Office of Science and Technology that would mandate immediate public availability of research results by federally-funded authors.
Three searchable databases provide information on global opportunities for graduate students, postdocs and junior faculty members.
Last-minute move causes chaos for thousands of researchers
This article explores the current literature on ‘research impact’ in the social sciences and humanities (SSH).
New policy tackles perverse incentives that drive 'publish or perish' culture and might be encouraging questionable research practices.
The White House's attempt to impose a more disciplined approach to communications about the virus was undermined by President Trump, who complained the news media was overstating the threat.
Online sleuths have discovered what they suspect is a paper mill that has produced more than 400 scientific papers with potentially fabricated images. Some journals are now investigating the papers.
The Roadmap for Open Science is a part of Canada's 2018-2020 National Action Plan on Open Government. It outlines next steps that should be taken to make federal science open to all, while respecting privacy, security, ethical considerations and appropriate intellectual property protection.
Self-governance of science was supposed to mean freedom of inquiry, but it also ended up serving the business model of scientific publishers while undermining the goals of science policy.
New study says student evaluations of teaching are still deeply flawed measures of teaching effectiveness, even when we assume they are unbiased and reliable.
The UK will endeavour to continue in an EU science programme after Brexit.
Open science should be boosted in 2020 as the number of journals with research data policies increases as a result of collective action by publishers, who are being encouraged to adopt a new common framework for journal data policies.
The long read: For decades it has been the dominant metaphor in neuroscience. But could this idea have been leading us astray all along?
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) announced on Wednesday that it is allocating several million Swiss francs to research on coronaviruses.
More funders and publishers must support such work and emphasize its value to the research community.
Preprint servers and journals are working overtime to keep up with a "firehose" of data.
For the first time in its 174-year history, the Smithonian Institution has launched a new open access platform high-resolution images from across its collections for patrons to peruse and download free of charge.
Journals, funders and scholars must work together to create an infrastructure to study peer review.
In the context of pressing planetary and socio-economic challenges, sustainable and innovative solutions must be supported by an efficient, transparent and vibrant scientific effort - not only stemming from the scientific community, but from the whole society. Go directly to the questionnaire.
The author argues that for the humanities to successfully adopt digital technologies, they need to develop an independent open humanities discourse.
The incident raises important questions about how institutions handle accusations of harassment that occurred at different universities - particularly in the #MeToo era.
A move from Germany taught Deb Raj Aryal how to acclimatize to a new research culture.
Citations are ubiquitous in evaluating research, but how exactly they relate to what they are thought to measure is unclear. This article investigates the relationships between citations, quality, and impact using a survey with an embedded experiment.
