Scientist and Parent: The Bereaved Parent
The impacts of grief are long-lasting, but support from colleagues provides some relief.
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Daphne Bavelier Receives 2019 Research Prize - Jacobs Foundation
University of Geneva Professor Daphne Bavelier explores how individuals learn and adapt to changes in experience, whether induced by nature or by training.
What Happens when You Can See Disaster Unfolding, and Nobody Listens?
The distinct burden of being a climate scientist.
Governing the Scholarly Commons: the Radical Open Access Collective - Samuel Moore
The Radical Open Access Collective (ROAC) is a community of 60+ not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects. One of the aims of the collective is to legitimise scholar-led publishing as an important alternative model for open access.
How I Lost My Identity - and Embraced a New One
It was tough for Lia Paola Zambetti to leave the bench after dreaming for more than a decade of becoming a scientist, and reaching her goal. But now she enjoys her work's broader impact.
Cambridge's One-on-one Teaching Model is Based on Exploiting Graduates
As lecturers, we're protesting today to persuade the university to pay its PhD teaching staff proper wages
Open Letter from the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany to Prime Minister Orbán
Open Letter from the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany to Prime Minister Orbán
The German science organisations express their concerns regarding the plans of the Hungarian government to install new legislation affecting the freedom and autonomy of science in Hungary.
Comparing Journal and Paper Level Classifications of Science
The classification of science into disciplines is at the heart of bibliometric analyses. While most classifications systems are implemented at the journal level, their accuracy has been questioned, and paper-level classifications have been considered by many to be more precise.
Rate of Growth for CC BY Articles in Fully-OA Journals Continues for OASPA Members
Rate of Growth for CC BY Articles in Fully-OA Journals Continues for OASPA Members
The Bologna Process Needs to Go Back to Basics
The crisis of academic freedom in Europe emerged as the main theme at the recent "Bologna Process Beyond 2020: Fundamental values of the EHEA" conference in Bologna. More than 200 university rectors and 800 other stakeholders participated.
The Citation Advantage of Linking Publications to Research Data
Efforts to make research results open and reproducible are increasingly reflected by journal policies encouraging authors to provide data availability statements. As a consequence of this, there has been a strong recent uptake of data availability statements, but it is still unclear what proportion of these statements actually contain well-formed links to data, and if there is an added value in providing them.
Farewell Authors, Hello Contributors
More disciplines must embrace a system of academic credit that rewards a greater range of roles more specifically.
How a Long-distance Job Move Can Leave Early-career Researchers Short of Cash
How a Long-distance Job Move Can Leave Early-career Researchers Short of Cash
Without reimbursement for relocation costs, PhD students and postdocs are often forced to empty savings accounts, seek financial help or even rack up debt.
Taking Pride in Our Researchers
To celebrate LGBTSTEM Day, our researchers talk about being #LGBT in science and engineering and why celebrating diversity is so important.
The Status Quo Bias and the Uptake of Open Access
In this paper the authors argue that the linguistic framing of open access by a variety of stakeholders may inhibit the uptake of open access publishing.
Cambridge Teaching Staff to Protest on Open Days over Insecure Work
Casual contracts causing extreme levels of personal and financial hardship, union claims.
Black Academics Bear the Brunt of University Work on Race Equality
From mentoring to focus groups ethnic minority academics and students are under pressure to close the 13% attainment gap.
California Bills Targeting For-Profits and Bundled Services Exception Advance
California moves toward creating the strictest regulatory landscape for for-profit colleges in the U.S., but proposed legislation has already been weakened.
NASA Changes How It Divvies Up Telescope Time to Reduce Gender Bias
The switch to double-blind peer review will affect roughly 650 scientists working on projects worth an estimated US$55 million.
Moving Mountains in the Knowledge Sphere: Is There a Way?
Especially in education and research, electronic resources, digital tools and novel technologies have profoundly altered the way and the speed at which we acquire and share our knowledge. However, this infrastructure goes vastly unnoticed by most of us.
Universities and Knowledge Sharing
The authors explore the extent to which universities are functioning as effective open knowledge institutions; as well as the types of information that universities, funders, and communities might need to understand an institution's open knowledge performance and how it might be improved. The challenges of data collection on open knowledge practices at scale, and across national, cultural and linguistic boundaries are also discussed.
Eurodoc for Open Science
Eurodoc for Open Science
The collection of content related to the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers' (Eurodoc) commitment to Open Science.
Ten Simple Rules for Researchers Collaborating on Massively Open Online Papers (MOOPs)
Ten Simple Rules for Researchers Collaborating on Massively Open Online Papers (MOOPs)
The authors provide recommendations for a highly open and participatory interactive process of collaboration using digital tools and environments, discuss potential issues that come with working with large and diverse authoring communities, and provide possible solutions should these arise.
Plan S and Humanities Publishing
A path forward for open access in the humanities and social sciences.
Does Psychology Have a Conflict-of-Interest Problem?
Some star psychologists don't disclose in research papers the large sums they earn for talking about their work. Is that a concern?
Tree Planting 'has Mind-blowing Potential' to Tackle Climate Crisis
Research shows a trillion trees could be planted to capture huge amount of carbon dioxide.
Singapore Joins the Rise of Research Integrity Networks
Global effort to combat research misconduct gathers pace.
Access Agreement Between Elsevier and Dutch Universities Extended
Agreement will allow for continued explorations between Elsevier, VSNU, NFU and NWO on how to work together toward future Dutch open science infrastructure services.
Meta-Research: Centralized Scientific Communities Are Less Likely to Generate Replicable Results
Meta-Research: Centralized Scientific Communities Are Less Likely to Generate Replicable Results
Analysis of data on drug-gene interactions suggests that decentralized collaboration will increase the robustness of scientific findings in biomedical research.
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