UK to Infect Up to 90 Healthy Volunteers with Covid in World First Trial
Covid human challenge study to start in weeks and will expose adults to virus in controlled environment.
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Universities Need to Wise Up - or Risk Being Consigned to History
The pandemic has shown that other ways of teaching and learning are possible
English Departments Rethink What to Call Themselves
English departments rethink what to call themselves in light of how diverse they've become.
How the World is Adapting to Preprints
Preprint servers have become an indispensable part of scholarly publishing. The next step is learning how to embrace them.
A New Artificial Intelligence Makes Mistakes - On Purpose
A chess program that learns from human error might be better at working with people or negotiating with them.
I work in a nursing home. Here’s why my colleagues are skipping the vaccine
'Politics Was Always in the Room.' WHO Mission Chief Reflects on China Trip Seeking COVID-19's Origin
It's Good to Be a Reject
Citations, downloads, indexing - a scientific report gets all this, even if it's rejected.
ELife Collaborates with Novel Coronavirus Research Compendium on Manuscript Curation and Review
ELife Collaborates with Novel Coronavirus Research Compendium on Manuscript Curation and Review
The two initiatives have come together in their shared objective to help scientists and the public navigate the high volume of important new research.
'A Million Euro-babies': EU Fetes 30 Years of Student Exchanges
The European Union celebrated 30 years of its Erasmus student exchange scheme on Tuesday, with its chief executive boasting the program had fostered cross-border romances that may have borne a million children.
Pandemic Hit Academic Mothers Especially Hard, New Data Confirm
Policy changes are needed to aid female scientists, emphasized by new data from a global survey of 20,000 Ph.D. holders.
Open Access Books and [in]discoverability: a Library Perspective
Open Access Books and [in]discoverability: a Library Perspective
Utrecht University Presents New Vision on Recognition and Rewards
Utrecht University Presents New Vision on Recognition and Rewards
Open science means action. And the way we offer recognition and reward to academics and staff is key in bringing about the transition that we aim for.
Inside the Making of Facebook's Supreme Court
The company has created a board that can overrule even Mark Zuckerberg. Soon it will decide whether to allow Trump back on Facebook.
Digitisation in Libraries: To What Extent Has Corona Given a Boost?
Digitisation in Libraries: To What Extent Has Corona Given a Boost?
Dramatic Discovery Links Stonehenge to Its Original Site
Find backs theory that bluestones first stood at Waun Mawn before being dragged 140 miles to Wiltshire.
The Broken Promise That Undermines Human Genome Research
Data sharing was a core principle that led to the success of the Human Genome Project 20 years ago. Now scientists are struggling to keep information free.
Physicists Discuss Threats Facing Departments and How Faculty Can Respond
Nearly half of all physics chairs report their department is under some level of threat, ranging from closure to budget cutbacks. Physicists offer perspectives on how faculty can respond proactively.
MIT Libraries Develop Innovative Open Access Agreements with PLOS
The MIT Libraries has negotiated two new open-access publishing agreements with the nonprofit publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS) that allow all MIT authors to publish in all PLOS titles with no publishing fees.
Interpreting Bibliometric Data
The article discusses how the interpretation of 'performance' from a presentation using accurate but summary bibliometrics can change when iterative deconstruction and visualization of the same dataset is applied.
Replicability, Robustness, and Reproducibility in Psychological Science
Replicability, Robustness, and Reproducibility in Psychological Science
Replication, an important, uncommon, and misunderstood practice, is making a comeback in psychology.
Submit Your Lab and Study Protocols to PLOS ONE
Lab and Study Protocols, two new article types at PLOS ONE that provide recognition for methods contributions, are now open for submission.
Transparency to Hybrid Open Access Through Publisher-provided Metadata
Transparency to Hybrid Open Access Through Publisher-provided Metadata
This study addresses the lack of transparency by leveraging Elsevier article metadata and provides the first publisher-level study of hybrid OA uptake and invoicing.
Facebook is Finally Banning Vaccine Misinformation
Nearly a year into the pandemic, Facebook now aims to take down misinformation on vaccines overall - not just COVID-19 vaccines.
Hundreds of 'predatory' Journals Indexed on Leading Scholarly Database
Scopus has stopped adding content from most of the flagged titles, but the analysis highlights how poor-quality science is infiltrating literature.
What Does the Future Hold for Europe's Universities?
We are at a tipping point, a time of transformation for society and universities. A new report highlights some of the issues facing European universities.
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