The Secret History of Women in Coding
Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?
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How to Bring Prestige to Open Access - and Make Science More Reliable
By creating journals that put a premium on replicability, grant-funding agencies can revolutionize the publishing landscape.
University Report Makes Recommendations to Address Gender, Race Disparities Among Faculty
University Report Makes Recommendations to Address Gender, Race Disparities Among Faculty
A two-year study by the University on the status of women and underrepresented minority faculty at Columbia has resulted in a set of proposals on ways to close salary gaps, spur academic advancement and improve the overall work environment.
Boon, Bias or Bane? The Potential Influence of Reviewer Recommendations on Editorial Decision-making : Journal: European Science Editing
Boon, Bias or Bane? The Potential Influence of Reviewer Recommendations on Editorial Decision-making : Journal: European Science Editing
No formal investigations have been conducted into the efficacy or potential influence of reviewer recommendations on editorial decisions, and the impact of this on the expectations and behaviour of authors, reviewers and journal editors. This article addresses key questions about this critical aspect of the peer review submission process.
Time to Panic
The planet is getting warmer in catastrophic ways. And fear may be the only thing that saves us.
Machine Learning 'Causing Science Crisis'
Techniques used to analyse data are producing misleading and often wrong results, critics say.
Darpa Wants to Solve Science's Reproducibility Crisis With AI
Social science has an image problem - too many findings don't hold up. A new project will crank through 30,000 studies to try to identify red flags.
Small Teams of Scientists Have Fresher Ideas
A new study shows that little teams are more likely to take their research in radically new directions.
NISO and NFAIS Announce a Planned Merger.
NISO and NFAIS announced a planned merger yesterday, designed to better serve their members during a time of rapid change.
ELife Invests in Texture to Provide Open-source Content Production Tools for Publishers
ELife Invests in Texture to Provide Open-source Content Production Tools for Publishers
Collaborating on the development of Texture brings eLife a step closer to its open-source, end-to-end publisher workflow.
Rare Trial of Open Peer Review Allays Common Concerns
A new study suggests that making reviewers' reports freely readable doesn't compromise the peer-review process.
COAlition S Welcomes Its First African Member and Receives Strong Support from the African Academy of Sciences
COAlition S Welcomes Its First African Member and Receives Strong Support from the African Academy of Sciences
With the membership of NSTC, the main public research funding body in the Republic of Zambia, cOAlition S now has members in Europe, North America, and Africa, and has received further support in the Middle East and Asia, with particular support by China.
Indian Payment-for-Papers Proposal Rattles Scientists
Researchers say the policy could intensify existing issues with research quality and misconduct.
COMPare: a Prospective Cohort Study Correcting and Monitoring 58 Misreported Trials in Real Time
COMPare: a Prospective Cohort Study Correcting and Monitoring 58 Misreported Trials in Real Time
This is the first empirical study of major academic journals’ willingness to publish a cohort of comparable and objective correction letters on misreported high-impact studies.
The First Interview with Trump's New Science Adviser
Kelvin Droegemeier starts work two years into an administration facing many challenges.
CREOS | MIT Libraries
Advance knowledge in service of equitable and open scholarship is the mission of the Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship. CREOS seeks evidence about the best ways disparate communities can participate in scholarship with minimal bias or barriers.
What Would Scholarly Publishing Look Like if We Rebuilt It from Scratch in 2019?
Invited talk by Jon Tennant delivered at the NFAIS 2019 Annual Conference.
Gravitational-wave Observatory LIGO Set to Double Its Detecting Power
Gravitational-wave Observatory LIGO Set to Double Its Detecting Power
A planned $35-million upgrade could enable LIGO to spot one black-hole merger per day by the mid-2020s.
Ukraine's Science Revolution Stumbles Five Years on
On the five-year anniversary of an uprising that propelled Ukraine away from Russia and towards Europe, scientists say things are improving too slowly.
This is Why I've Written 500 Biographies of Female Scientists on Wikipedia
This is Why I've Written 500 Biographies of Female Scientists on Wikipedia
From bias in peer review and unfair allocation of grant funding to sexual harassment and a gender pay gap, the scientific community certainly has a lot of work to do.
Gender and Precarious Research Careers. A Comparative Analysis.
Gender and Precarious Research Careers. A Comparative Analysis.
Gender and Precarious Research Careers aims to advance the debate on the process of precarisation in higher education and its gendered effects, and springs from a three-year research project across institutions in seven European countries. Examining gender asymmetries in academic and research organisations, this insightful volume focuses particularly on early careers. It centres both on STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and SSH (Social Science and Humanities) fields.
Open Science Isn't Always Open to All Scientists
Current efforts to make research more accessible and transparent can reinforce inequality within STEM professions.
"Blacklists" and "Whitelists" to Tackle Predatory Publishing: A Cross-Sectional Comparison and Thematic Analysis
"Blacklists" and "Whitelists" to Tackle Predatory Publishing: A Cross-Sectional Comparison and Thematic Analysis
Despite growing awareness of predatory publishing and research on its market characteristics, the defining attributes of fraudulent journals remain controversial. The authors aimed to develop a better understanding of quality criteria for scholarly journals by analysing journals and publishers indexed in blacklists of predatory journals and whitelists of legitimate journals and the lists’ inclusion criteria.
What Scientists Need to Know About FAIR Data
Following these guiding principles for sharing data can help researchers get ahead.
The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative
A project to assess the reproducibility of findings in biomedical science by researchers based in Brazil has been published.
Why We Need to Report More Than 'Data Were Analyzed by t-tests or ANOVA'
Why We Need to Report More Than 'Data Were Analyzed by t-tests or ANOVA'
Many papers in basic biomedical science do not contain the information that is needed to determine what statistical tests were used and to verify the results of these tests.
Women Are Winning More Scientific Prizes, But Men Still Win the Most Prestigious Ones
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