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The obsession with internationalization had resulted in priority being given to overseas scholars and graduates and has diminished graduates of many top domestic universities to second or third-class status.
Springer Nature announced a collaboration with Watson Health to expand and enhance the integration of valuable genomics.
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Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance.
Genetic analysis uncovers a direct descendant of two different groups of early humans.
Information about Blockchain for Science, Research and Knoweldge creation. The decentralized future of science. Blockchain bears the potential to make science more effective, make research continous, free data and fix the reproducibility crisis in science.
Mind the Gap is a role-playing game designed as a structure for dialogues which examine the gender gap.
Colleagues urge UCI to acknowledge the possibility that its sanctions against Professor Ayala were enacted in haste and to reopen the case and investigate the matter more thoroughly.
Physicist Jana Lasser of PhDnet discusses the group's new report.
After years of detective work, it's still unclear why a Japanese doctor faked dozens of clinical trials.
The Wellcome Trust pulled the grant from Nazneen Rahman, who worked at the Institute of Cancer Research in London.
Chris Ebell, who became director of the initiative in 2015, leaves after differences of opinion with the project’s lead institution.
Unpaywall has become indispensable to many academics, and tie-ins with established scientific search engines could broaden its reach.
When scientists reach mid-career, they suddenly have to manage people, something they have never done and never really been trained to do.
eLife is conducting an open search for a new Editor-in-Chief to succeed Randy Schekman.
A set of complementary guides covering the main aspects of depositing software into digital repositories.
How the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology became a multimillion dollar organization promoting bullshit science through fake conferences and journals.
The active use of metrics in everyday research activities suggests academics have accepted them as standards of evaluation, that they are “thinking with indicators”. Yet when asked, many academics profess concern about the limitations of evaluative metrics and the extent of their use.
A Guardian investigation, in collaboration with German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk, reveals the open-access publishers who accept any article submitted for a fee.
Even after reading every single related news article, it is still worth reading the 300-plus page National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine report on Sexual Harassment in its entirety. The report lays out why academia is fundamentally broken and incapable of dealing with harassment.
Social media can promote openness in research as international partnerships and collaborations are jeopardised, while increased adoption by scientists can also redress the balance that has shifted towards ill-evidenced news on some platforms.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell's skills on the radio telescope were on point. Following the discovery of pulsars, Bell Burnell faced casual sexism from the media and public as well.
"Science, research and innovation performance of the EU, 2018" (SRIP) analyses Europe’s performance dynamics in science, research and innovation and its drivers, in a global context.
