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Beneath all "fake news", misinformation, disinformation, digital falsehoods and foreign influence lies society's failure to teach its citizenry information literacy: how to think critically about the deluge of information that confronts them in our modern digital age.
Growing evidence suggests that the evaluation of researchers’ careers on the basis of narrow definitions of excellence is restricting diversity in academia, both in the development of its labour force and its approaches to address societal challenges. Recommendations are suggested for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.
What's it like to be work in scholarly communications as a person with a disability - physical or mental?
Concerns about the threat from the Global North to Latin America's exemplary tradition of open access publishing are understandable but ultimately misplaced.
Unseen trends, uplifting stats, creative solutions - a new chart every day. From Information is Beautiful.
The company's AWS unit will allow customers to tap quantum machines from three startups.
An EPFL Bachelor's student has solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for 100 years.
Figures show 11,000 have left UK universities in three years since referendum.
A group of leading publishers is announcing a major new service to plug leakage, improve discovery and access, fight piracy, compete with ResearchGate, and position their platform for the OA ecosystem.
Mosaic, Wellcome's digital platform for long-form journalism, is closing on 10 December 2019.
Racial discrimination by algorithms or by people is harmful - but that's where the similarities end.
Since India lost contact with the spacecraft in September, the precise location of its crash has been a mystery.
CORE Discovery helps users find freely accessible copies of research papers that might be behind a paywall on the publisher's website. It is backed by our huge dataset of millions of full text open…
Most agencies claim a 100 per cent pass rate with zero risk of being found out. New laws are being drafted to target contract cheating in Australia.
The market model in higher education has created an intellectual precariat who are right to fight back.
Poor research design and data analysis encourage false-positive findings. The persistence of poor methods results partly from incentives that favour them, leading to the natural selection of bad science.
This blog post is a joint announcement of an initiative by several publishers in collaboration with Fairsharing and DataCite to help authors select appropriate data repositories.
A recent University and College Union (UCU) survey reported that 70% of the 49,000 researchers in higher education in the UK are currently employed on fixed-term contracts, as are 37,000 teaching staff (the majority of whom are paid hourly). The authors argues that the yearly search for new work is harming their health and is forcing them to put their life on hold.
Europe will press ahead with a network of satellites to track carbon dioxide emissions across the globe. The enhanced capability is expected to be a potent tool in helping all nations - not just European ones - better understand their carbon footprint.
A recent opinion paper by Richard Poynder offers analysis and prognostication with regard to the current state and future prospects of the open access movement.
Can journals help to “protect” the scientific community and the public from unscrupulous reanalysis of data?
With more agreements including some form of Open Access, consortia and academic institutions need to monitor the number of Open Access publications, the costs and the value of these agreements.
Medical school is expensive for everyone. But for low-income students, the hidden costs can be prohibitive.
It's time to trust students to handle doubt and diversity in science, says Jerry Ravetz.
