Fundamentals of Data Visualization
A guide to making visualizations that accurately reflect the data, tell a story, and look professional.
Send us a link
The Blind Spot of Science is the Neglect of Lived Experience - Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser & Evan Thompson | Aeon Essays
Editors of Informetrics Resign at Elsevier and Start New Journal
Today the entire editorial board of Informetrics, a major publication in the field of Scientometrics and Informetrics, has unanimously resigned their position. In the future they will dedicate their time to a new full open access journal: Quantitative Science Studies.
Lab Severs Ties With James Watson, Citing 'Unsubstantiated and Reckless' Remarks
In a recent documentary, the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist doubled down on comments he made a decade ago, then apologized for, regarding race, genetics and intelligence.
ETH-Präsident Reagiert Auf Mobbingfall: "Professoren Sollen Führungskurse Absolvieren"
ETH-Präsident Reagiert Auf Mobbingfall: "Professoren Sollen Führungskurse Absolvieren"
Der Mobbingfall an der ETH Zürich veranlasst den neuen Präsidenten Joël Mesot zu einer Massnahme.
Amplifying the Voices of Women in Medicine
The field has plenty of talented women, but to reach leadership roles they must have visible and recognizable roles within medicine and in the public
Editorial Mutiny at Elsevier Journal
Following in the footsteps of linguistics journal Lingua, the editorial board of the Elsevier-owned Journal of Informetrics has resigned and launched a rival journal that will be free for all to read.
Tracking the Popularity and Outcomes of All BioRxiv Preprints
Tracking the Popularity and Outcomes of All BioRxiv Preprints
Though the popularity and practical benefits of preprints are driving policy changes at journals and funding organizations, there is little bibliometric data available to measure trends in their usage. This study collected and analyzed data on all preprints that were uploaded to bioRxiv.org in the past five years.
Crowdfunding Research Flips Science's Traditional Reward Model
Scientists who have historically been at a disadvantage when pursuing traditional funding sources are now the most successful at sourcing money from the public.
Research Grants on Hold As US Government Shutdown Persists
Agencies including the National Science Foundation are without funding
Women As Leaders in Academic Institutions: Personal Experience and Narrative Literature Review
Women As Leaders in Academic Institutions: Personal Experience and Narrative Literature Review
For the last 12 years, I have had the pleasure and privilege to serve as the Director of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) and as a professor at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH) Zurich and Lausanne (EPFL). My affiliations have afforded me a rare opportunity to observe the structure and governance of academic institutions and to reflect on my own experience in institutional leadership. I have attempted to place my experience in the context of the literature on leadership, particularly that relating to women and academia. On the basis of my experience and reading, I make some recommendations for women faculty, for women in positions of institutional leadership in academia, and for academic institutions. I am deeply convinced that greater participation by women (and members of other under-represented groups) in institutional leadership is needed if academia is to make a meaningful contribution to addressing the huge challenges that face humanity.
Research Funding Bodies: Review of Good Practice in Organisational Design and Governance
Research Funding Bodies: Review of Good Practice in Organisational Design and Governance
This study presents a review of international evidence on best practice in organisational design of research and innovation funding bodies.
Software Citations Now Available in Zenodo
We are proud to announce the release of enhancements which significantly facilitate scientific software citation and discovery.
Printing Delays Present ‘New Normal’ for Academic Books
Printer closures and paper shortages create scheduling headaches for academic authors and staff at university presses.
Establishing online mentorship for early career researchers: Lessons from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping International Mentoring Programme
Establishing online mentorship for early career researchers: Lessons from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping International Mentoring Programme
Mentorship in academia facilitates personal growth through pairing trainees with mentors who can share insight and expertise.Expertise can be purely academic, on work‐life balance, personal branding and networking, or general career advice. Mentoring has been shown to be beneficial for mentees, both in terms of objective research productivity and subjective outcomes. Several institutions/organizations have formal in‐person mentoring programs that pair early‐ to mid‐career researchers with mentors who are not their direct supervisors. With global integration in science, however, geographical proximity between mentors and mentees is relevant to a lesser degree.
Global State of Peer Review
The Global State of Peer Review is one of the largest ever studies into the practice of scholarly peer review around the world. Discover the findings here.
Surely You're a Creep, Mr. Feynman
#MeToo has not much altered the science professions, and it likely won't until the culture of science is dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up.
As PNAS Calls Time on Print, Will More Journals Follow Suit?
End of prestigious print publication after 103 years stirs debate over future of journal publishing in the digital age.
Four Lessons About Transitioning from Academia to the 'Real World'
The move from Academia to the 'real world' requires a few crucial mindset shifts.
What It's Like to Be a Woman in the Academy
We asked dozens of women about gender and power on campus. Here’s what they told us.
DARPA Wants to Build an AI to Find the Patterns Hidden in Global Chaos
The process of buying something and therefore recognizing it is comparatively simple, but how do you create a schema for recognizing a cold war, or a bear market? That’s what DARPA wants to look into.
Peer Review: First Results from a Trial at ELife
New approach to peer review proves popular with authors, with very similar acceptance rates for male and female last authors, but with higher acceptance rates for late-career researchers compared to their early- and mid-career colleagues.
×