Building a More Sustainable World Will Need More Women Engineers
Women are seriously under-represented in the engineering world - but they can problem-solve from a uniquely impactful perspective.
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Response to COVID-19 in Taiwan: Big Data Analytics, New Technology, and Proactive Testing
Response to COVID-19 in Taiwan: Big Data Analytics, New Technology, and Proactive Testing
This Viewpoint describes the outbreak response infrastructure developed by the Taiwanese government following the SARS epidemic in 2003 and actions in response to COVID-19, including dedicated hotlines for symptom reporting, mobile phone messaging and case tracking, and the ramping up of facemask...
The Busy Lives of Academics Have Hidden Costs - and Universities Must Take Better Care of Their Faculty Members
The Busy Lives of Academics Have Hidden Costs - and Universities Must Take Better Care of Their Faculty Members
Hilal A. Lashuel's experiences have taught him that maintaining good mental health and balancing life and work is a struggle everywhere in academia.
The Simplest of Models for Open Access to Research Proves Itself: Welcome to Subscribe-to-Open
The Simplest of Models for Open Access to Research Proves Itself: Welcome to Subscribe-to-Open
What if libraries agreed to continue paying the subscription fees to journals that they were already subscribing to, only the journals flipped to open access?
Underrepresented Faculty Members Share the Real Reasons They Have Left Various Academic Institutions
Underrepresented Faculty Members Share the Real Reasons They Have Left Various Academic Institutions
When Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt asked a large group of underrepresented faculty members why they left their higher education institutions, they told her the real reasons for their departures -- those that climate surveys don't capture.
How the Academic Publishing Oligopoly Skews Debates on the Cost of Publishing
We should be nurturing the kinds of publishing cultures we want to see: those that value the labour needed to care for publishing and that work in harmony with research communities rather than extract from them, argues Samuel Moore.
The Bleak Job Landscape of Adjunctopia for Ph.D.s
Ruthless labor exploitation? Generational betrayal? Understanding the job crisis in academia requires a look at recent history.
Empfehlungen für eine nationale Open-Science-Strategie in Österreich
Die Arbeitsgruppe Open-Science-Strategie des Open Science Network Austria (OANA) hat Empfehlungen für eine nationale Open Science Strategie in Österreich erarbeitet und lädt ein, das Dokument bis zum 05.04.2020 online zu annotieren bzw. zu kommentieren.
The COVID-19 Outbreak Highlights Serious Deficiencies in Scholarly Communication
The COVID-19 Outbreak Highlights Serious Deficiencies in Scholarly Communication
The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak exposes an inconvenient truth about science: the current scholarly communication system does not serve the needs of science and society.
The Ultimate Open Access Timeline
What happened instead of us sitting down and thinking how we could spend our money in the most technologically savvy way to the benefit of science, scholars and society. A generation later, roughly US$300 billion poorer and none the wiser, it seems.
Open Peer-Review Platform for COVID-19 Preprints
Open Peer-Review Platform for COVID-19 Preprints
The public call for rapid sharing of research data relevant to the COVID-19 outbreak is driving an unprecedented surge in (unrefereed) preprints. To help pinpoint the most important research, Nature launched Outbreak Science Rapid PREreview, an open-source platform for rapid review of preprints related to emerging outbreaks.
What Should Be the Essential Baseline Practices for Repositories That Manage Research Data?
What Should Be the Essential Baseline Practices for Repositories That Manage Research Data?
COAR and SPARC have published a joint response to the OSTP Request for Public Comment on Draft Desirable Characteristics of Repositories for Managing and Sharing Data Resulting From Federally Funded Research. Good data management is critical for ensuring validation, transparency of research findings, as well as to maximize impact and value of publicly-funded research through data reuse.
Coronavirus Is What You Get When You Ignore Science
Science and scientists face crushing opposition. In addition to silent-spreading disease and a burning planet, they must take on the moneyed, the godly, the dictatorial and Mike Pence.
Making Sense of Preprint Versions
Europe PMC has made changes to make sense of preprint versions.
Registration is Open for the Women in Technology Mentoring Programme
After the success of the first two rounds, Women in Technology is organising the third year of WIT Mentoring.
Doctors and Postdocs in Political Science in Switzerland. A Study Conducted by the Swiss Political Science Association.
Doctors and Postdocs in Political Science in Switzerland. A Study Conducted by the Swiss Political Science Association.
This report shows the results of a survey conducted in spring 2019 among all people who received a PhD in political science from a Swiss university during the last eleven years (2008 to 2018) and among postdocs working in a Swiss university in June 2019. Thus, this survey sheds light on the experiences and career paths of both postdocs and doctors in political science who left academia. Moreover, it compares the results regarding postdocs with a similar study carried out in 2012.
Welcome to SciCV - a new CV format in biology and medicine
Welcome to SciCV - a new CV format in biology and medicine
The Swiss National Science Foundation is testing a new CV format for researchers applying for project funding in biology and medicine (submission deadline 01 April 2020).
Switzerland's Innovation Model Faces Unfamiliar Challenges
A hugely successful research system is being tested by a dispute over immigration and a deteriorating relationship with the EU.
Column: COVID-19 Could Kill the For-profit Science Publishing Model. That Would Be a Good Thing
Column: COVID-19 Could Kill the For-profit Science Publishing Model. That Would Be a Good Thing
The coronavirus crisis shows how the free sharing of data is crucial in science.
Who is Getting Sick? A Look at Coronavirus Risk by Age, Gender, and More
Who is Getting Sick? A Look at Coronavirus Risk by Age, Gender, and More
For a variety of reasons, researchers want to figure out who's most at risk of being infected and who's most at risk of developing severe illness.
Testing a New Approach to Open Access Fees
New OA payment models are needed make open access implementation practical, journal editor says.
Conference on "Reproducibility, Replicability and Trust in Science"
Conference on "Reproducibility, Replicability and Trust in Science"
This new meeting at the Wellcome Genome Campus will bring together an international audience of researchers motivated to improve the robustness of scientific research.
How China's New Policy May Change Researchers' Publishing Behavior
How China's New Policy May Change Researchers' Publishing Behavior
A researcher from the Wuhan University of China offers a view of how Chinese researchers are reacting and are likely to alter their behavior in response to new policies governing research evaluation.
Moving for Research
An example of finding the balance between personal and professional lives during moves overseas and in and out of academia.
How to Work From Home Without Losing Your Mind
Coronavirus concerns have some businesses urging employees to work from home. If you're telecommuting, for public health reasons or otherwise, remember: Boundaries are your friend.
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