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The SNSF has adopted the DORA recommendations in its career funding schemes and adapted some other criteria. This will make the selection process even fairer and more inclusive of re-searchers with diverse career paths.
Sampling simulated data can reveal common ways in which our cognitive biases mislead us.
Don't worry, a little Bayesian analysis won't hurt you.
The paper argues for the development of open science in Africa as a means of energising national science systems and their roles in supporting public and private sectors and the general public.
Scientists need to show us the data. And that's exactly what they're working on.
Retraction Watch looks back at some lessons learned.
Why is it that while the most vital, and most rigorously tested, information is often locked up behind a paywall, yet falsehoods are readily available?
New data quantify lost work hours and productivity, but the way forward remains uncertain.
A virus has brought the world's most powerful country to its knees.
Black scientists are embracing the hashtag movement that forced the nation to take a hard look at systemic racism.
On the risks of skipping Phase 3 vaccine trials.
The pandemic is sabotaging the careers of researchers from under-represented groups, but institutions can help to staunch the outflow.
Tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people each year. Lockdowns and supply-chain disruptions threaten progress against the disease as well as H.I.V. and malaria.
Some COVID-19 survivors are still sick months later. Doctors want to learn why and what they can do
Tens of millions of Americans are working from home and many will never go back; employers scramble to figure out what tools they'll need to stay productive.
Research is for the experts. Listen to them instead.
Transmission through aerosols matters - and probably a lot more than we've been able to prove yet.
Europe PMC, the literature archive of EMBL-EBI, has started indexing full-text COVID-19 preprints and the associated data.
With a condition that's "too strange for words," patient can do mental math but cannot recognize numerals.
Via Wikimedia A journal has allowed a geophysicist who cited his own work hundreds of times across 10 papers to retract the articles and republish them with a fraction of the self-citations.
The order to reroute CDC hospitalization figures raised accuracy concerns. But that's just one of the problems with how the country collects health data.
The aim of this study is to investigate how patterns of collaboration and scholarly independence are related to early stage researchers' development in two multidisciplinary learning environments at a Swedish university. .
According to the Internet Archive every digital learner’s access to library books is at stake due to a lawsuit brought by four commercial publishers. That is why they are standing up to defend the rights of hundreds of libraries that are using Controlled Digital Lending.
Scientists say such tests could be available in a few years, speeding research for treatments and providing a diagnosis for dementia patients who want to know if they have Alzheimer's disease.
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is the envisioned federation of research (data) infrastructures that will enable the Web of FAIR Data and Services, help researchers to perform Open Science, and open up and exploit their data, publications and code.
Survey finds that standard metrics of success can't completely explain why some candidates get offers and others don't.
A public health journal will be retracting a paper that argued for the adoption of homeopathy in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, according to the editor in chief.
