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While scientists are trying to share facts about the epidemic, the administration either blocks those facts or restates them with contradictions. Transmission rates and death rates are not measurements that can be changed with will and an extroverted presentation.

Coronavirus Crisis Hits Ice-locked Arctic Research Expedition

Coronavirus Crisis Hits Ice-locked Arctic Research Expedition

A team member on the huge project has tested positive for the virus, delaying the air mission.

Who Reviews for Predatory Journals? A Study on Reviewer Characteristics

Who Reviews for Predatory Journals? A Study on Reviewer Characteristics

While the characteristics of scholars who publish in predatory journals are relatively well-understood, nothing is known about the scholars who review for these journals. This article aims to shed light on the reviewers for predatory journals. 

How Canceled Events and Self-quarantines Save Lives, in One Chart

How Canceled Events and Self-quarantines Save Lives, in One Chart

This is how we all help slow the spread of coronavirus.

'Flattening the Curve' May Be the World's Best Bet to Slow the Coronavirus

'Flattening the Curve' May Be the World's Best Bet to Slow the Coronavirus

Experts say by taking aggresive measures, governments have a shot at stamping out new chains of transmission of the coronavirus.

Making a Plan When Planning Is Impossible

Making a Plan When Planning Is Impossible

Travel bans, office closures, and conference cancellations have publishers and societies thinking about how best to ensure that scholarly content continues to be reviewed and distributed. This post by Angela Cochran looks at some of the impacts and questions whether.

A Disease Tracker Backed by Gates and Zuckerberg Tackles Covid-19 in Cambodia

A Disease Tracker Backed by Gates and Zuckerberg Tackles Covid-19 in Cambodia

The two tech titans funded an effort to bring metagenomic sequencing and software to poor countries. Now, it's helping trace the spread of the new coronavirus.

Does Closing Schools Slow the Spread of Coronavirus? Past Outbreaks Provide Clues

Does Closing Schools Slow the Spread of Coronavirus? Past Outbreaks Provide Clues

A researcher who forecasts epidemic spread argues that proactive closures, though disruptive, could help.

Why Do People Migrate In Europe? A New Online Tool Explains

Why Do People Migrate In Europe? A New Online Tool Explains

Universities and research organisations have joined forces to develop a new interactive tool that explores how free movement has affected EU economies and societies.

COVID-19: Funding Bodies Around the World Pledge New Money for Virus Research

COVID-19: Funding Bodies Around the World Pledge New Money for Virus Research

Research charities Wellcome Trust and the Gates Foundation announced they are joining forces with the credit card company MasterCard in a $125 million push to speed up development of drugs for treating COVID-19 infections, in the latest example of the rush to fund research into the novel coronavirus.

Savants Ou Militants ? Le Dilemme Des Chercheurs Face à La Crise écologique

Savants Ou Militants ? Le Dilemme Des Chercheurs Face à La Crise écologique

Ils signent pétitions et tribunes pour alerter sur le réchauffement climatique et la dégradation de la biodiversité, pourtant, leur incursion dans le débat public n'a rien d'évident. A l'heure des " fake news ", la communauté scientifique questionne le bien-fondé de son engagement.

Mutations Can Reveal How the Coronavirus Moves-but They're Easy to Overinterpret

Mutations Can Reveal How the Coronavirus Moves-but They're Easy to Overinterpret

Real-time analysis of hundreds of viral genomes helps scientists understand how the virus is spreading - but overinterpretation is a real danger.

Strategies to Improve Equity in Faculty Hiring

Strategies to Improve Equity in Faculty Hiring

This article focuses on proven strategies that departments and research institutions can develop to increase equity in faculty hiring and promotion to address the lack of racial and gender diversity among their faculty.

Airlines Are Burning Thousands of Gallons of Fuel Flying Empty 'ghost' Planes So They Can Keep Their Flight Slots During the Coronavirus Outbreak

Airlines Are Burning Thousands of Gallons of Fuel Flying Empty 'ghost' Planes So They Can Keep Their Flight Slots During the Coronavirus Outbreak

Airlines are running empty "ghost" flights because of European rules forcing operators to run their allocated flights or risk losing their slots.

The [R]evolution of Open Science Book Now Available for Free

The [R]evolution of Open Science Book Now Available for Free

Jonathan Tennant's latest book, The [R]evolution of Open Science, is now available online for free.

Get Political Reporters off the Coronavirus Story Because They Don't Distinguish Between Right and Wrong

Get Political Reporters off the Coronavirus Story Because They Don't Distinguish Between Right and Wrong

News organizations should take political reporters – and perhaps even more importantly, political editors – entirely out of the loop on this story. It’s too important to be covered as a two-sided battle over who’s winning the narrative.

#COLA4ALL Shuts Down UC Santa Cruz

#COLA4ALL Shuts Down UC Santa Cruz

Graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shut down campus Thursday as part of their ongoing strike for a cost of living adjustment, and all other system campuses saw their own one-day protests. Santa Cruz graduate assistants went on a grade strike in December, then a full labor strike this month. Tensions mounted last week when the university fired or disqualified 80-some grads from spring assistantships for continuing to withhold undergraduate grades. Graduate assistants blocked all entrances to the Santa Cruz campus before dawn, forcing the university to cancel classes, except those offered online. Many faculty and undergraduate supporters joined the picket lines on that campus and across the UC system starting midmorning. As of last week, graduate assistants at the Santa Barbara campus are also on a labor strike for a COLA, and assistants at the Davis campus are on a grade strike. Systemwide, graduate instructors make about $2,400 pre-tax, per month, for nine months out of the year. Strikers say that they need between $1,400 and $1,800 extra per month to be able to secure housing in California's expensive rental markets and have anything left over for utilities and food. The United Auto Workers, with which UC's graduate workers are affiliated, has urged the university to reopen their contract to bargain for a COLA. This week it authorized a systemwide strike vote for April on the grounds that the university has committed unfair labor practices. The university has filed a similar claim against graduate workers. The system said in a statement that it "values all our graduate students, including academic student employees (ASEs) who are essential to UC's teaching mission, supporting the university as teaching assistants, readers and tutors. However, that mission is in jeopardy when ASEs refuse to fulfill their teaching obligations." The system noted that these assistants are striking in violation of their union contract, negotiated in 2018, and said it's "unfortunate that the UAW has resorted to announcing a strike authorization vote as the university continues pursuing opportunities to engage productively with graduate students on housing affordability and other issues."

Research Data Management As a National Service

Research Data Management As a National Service

The volume of data stored in research institutions is growing, and the rate at which it is growing is accelerating. Spending and effort and resources are being duplicated needlessly, and so this opinion piece argues for the establishment of a national infrastructure for research data management.