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The United States has a chance to make things better before things get much, much worse. But much of the country appears to be squandering the opportunity.
Mike Schäfer & Jing Zeng on the particularities of conspiracy theories on COVID-19, how to face them, and what role science communicators play while doing so.
Most people won't spread the virus widely. The few who do are probably in the wrong place at the wrong time in their infection, new models suggest.
COVID-19 has turned all journalists into health journalists. Epidemiology training can help journalists improve their reporting, and help fight misinformation.
Microsoft Excel: 1 - Human Genetics: 0.
COPIM, OPERAS-P and open-access.network aim at gaining a better understanding of the national-specific issues surrounding collective funding for OA books from a library perspective.
Hong Kong Principles seek to replace 'publish or perish' culture.
While a growing awareness of racial disparities has resulted in a groundswell of support for inclusivity in scholarly publishing, the resulting initiatives would be more effective if professional associations were able to provide training materials to help transform organizational cultures.
A legal journal has retracted a 2019 article on the facial genetics of ethnic minorities in China for ethics violations. Springer Nature is investigating more than two dozen other articles for similar concerns.
The US National Science Foundation's new focus on computer science could also put already-under-represented groups at a disadvantage, critics say.
Preprint servers have existed for decades, but the fight against the coronavirus has seen their use soar. They're changing how science is done-but need important guardrails.
To help make the arXiv more accessible, a free, open pipeline on Kaggle to the machine-readable arXiv dataset: a repository of 1.7 million articles, with relevant features such as article titles, authors, categories, abstracts, full text PDFs, and more is made available.
Poorer, hotter parts of the world will struggle to adapt to unbearable conditions, research finds
Under the pressure of a global health crisis, the argument for open access has sunk in. Is this the catalyst that breaks up the bonds of an old publishing model once and for all?
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.
Today's offices don't encourage us to mingle-but that's what creativity and productivity demand.
The COVID pandemic may leave us stuck between a growing consensus that open science is the superior way to drive progress and an inability to invest what may be needed to make it happen.
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.
