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What the Rift Between the US and WHO Means for Global Health
If President Trump sidelines the World Health Organization, experts foresee incoherence, inefficiency and resurgence of deadly diseases.
An Opportunity to Do Better, Together
Data sharing has not changed, but the pandemic highlights not only how important data sharing is (like other crises have, for instance, the climate crisis) but how it spotlights larger issues in our data sharing social and technical infrastructure.
America's Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms
Inside the U.S. and Panama's long-running collaboration to rid an entire continent of a deadly disease.
#ECRWednesday Webinar: Reforming Academic Conferences
Join this month's webinar to hear what could be done to reform the conference experience for both organisers and participants.
Science Superpowers After COVID-19 Lockdowns Lift: a Letter of Hope from China to the United States
Publishers Invest in Preprints
Major scholarly publishers have invested substantially in preprints in recent years, integrating preprint deposit into manuscript submission workflows.
The Epic Battle Against Coronavirus Misinformation and Conspiracy Theories
Analysts are tracking false rumours about COVID-19 in hopes of curbing their spread.
COVID-19 and the Research Community: Struggling to Get Started
COVID-19 and the Research Community: Struggling to Get Started
As the world attempts to cope with the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers about to start PhDs and postdocs face particular challenges.
Study Tells 'Remarkable Story' About COVID-19's Deadly Rampage Through a South African Hospital
Study Tells 'Remarkable Story' About COVID-19's Deadly Rampage Through a South African Hospital
On 9 March, a patient who had recently traveled to Europe and had symptoms of COVID-19 visited the emergency department of St Augustine’s in Durban, South Africa. Eight weeks later, 39 patients and 80 staff linked to the hospital had been infected, and 15 patients had died.
Reasons to Worry Less About the Explosion of Preprints - Absolutely Maybe
Swissuniversities and Elsevier Adopt a Pilot Agreement Combining Reading and Publishing
Swissuniversities and Elsevier Adopt a Pilot Agreement Combining Reading and Publishing
Swissuniversities has adopted a new transformative pilot agreement with Elsevier for research access and Open Access publishing in Switzerland.
Promoting Equity and Inclusion for Mothers in Academe
What academic workplaces can do.
Preprinting a Pandemic: the Role of Preprints in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Six Tips for Data Sharing in the Age of the Coronavirus
Researchers are rushing to pool resources and data sets to tackle the pandemic, but the new era of openness comes with concerns around privacy, ownership and ethics.
Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots
Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots
Nearly half of the Twitter accounts spreading messages on the social media platform about the coronavirus pandemic are likely bots, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University said.
French Hydroxychloroquine-COVID-19 Study Withdrawn
The authors of a preprint on use of hydroxychloroquine, the controversial drug heavily promoted by President Trump, have withdrawn the paper.
Scientists Baffled by Decision to Stop a Pioneering Coronavirus Testing Project
These Are The Fake Experts Pushing Pseudoscience And Conspiracy Theories About The Coronavirus Pandemic
Sweden Becomes Country with Highest Coronavirus Death Rate Per Capita
Sweden has now overtaken the UK, Italy and Belgium to have the highest coronavirus per capita death rate in the world, throwing its decision to avoid a strict lockdown into further doubt.
Why America's Students, Colleges and Universities Deserve More Financial Relief
Vaccine Experts Say Moderna's Covid-19 Data Leave Big Questions
While Moderna blitzed the media, it revealed very little information - and most of what it did disclose were words, not data.
Dutch Research Institutions and Elsevier Initiate World's First National Open Science Partnership
Dutch Research Institutions and Elsevier Initiate World's First National Open Science Partnership
VSNU, NFU, NWO and Elsevier have agreed publishing, reading and open science services to support Dutch research and innovation ambitions.
Cambridge Lectures to Be Online-only in 2020-21
There will be no face-to-face lectures in the next academic year due to coronavirus, the university says.
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