Sexual Harassment of Women in Academia
This study's report presents a comprehensive review of the research, experiences, and effects of sexual harassment on women and their careers in science, engineering, and medicine.
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Collaborative Knowledge Foundation Product Suite
Coko Foundation is constructing an open source technology framework with separate components that can be assembled and reassembled to support a wide range of use cases. All code is open source under an MIT license.
Mixing Science and Art to Make the Truth More Interesting Than Lies
There are many reasons why scientists collaborating with artists makes sense, now more than ever.
Science Career Ads Are Disproportionately Seen by Men
Marketing algorithms prevent many women from seeing the advertising, even though it’s illegal to target jobs to one gender.
Learn How to Keep the STEM Door Open for Your Daughter
Regardless of her interests, it's easy to get your daughter interested in science and math. The author of 'Count Girls In' provides easy ways to promote STEM for girls.
Open Access Journals Have a Clear Citation Advantage over Subscription Journals
Open Access Journals Have a Clear Citation Advantage over Subscription Journals
This Frontiers blog post from presents a journal analysis contrasting open access journals and subscription journals based on data from SCImago (Scopus).
Former refugee among winners of Fields medal - the 'Nobel prize for maths'
Caucher Birkar grew up on a farm near the Kurdish city of Marivan in Iran and spoke little English when he began his PhD.
Europe Expanded the "No Elsevier Deal" Zone and This Could Change Everything
One of the effects of the national negotiations happening in Europe is cracking the secrecy around the costs of the big publisher deals - and growing academic awareness of the case for change.
Preprints Could Promote Confusion and Distortion
The scientific community must take measures to keep preprints from distorting the public’s understanding of science, says Tom Sheldon.
10 Key LERU Messages for Horizon Europe
Despite the good work by Carlos Moedas and his team, there are still a number of aspects of the proposal that could be improved.
Academic writes 270 Wikipedia pages in a year to get female scientists noticed
Researcher Jess Wade says efforts to attract girls into science are not evidence-based – and are not working.
Point of View: Are Theoretical Results 'Results'?
There should be a prominent place for theory within biology papers, both as Results in papers that combine experiment and theory, and as Results in theory papers.
National Academies Push Open Science
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine have published a framework to help academics, research institutions and funders bring open science to the fore.
Academia Is the Alternative Career Path
All graduate students should be planning their post-PhD employment from year one. Supported and nurtured by their institutions and their supervisors. There is a catch for supervisors: they are themselves academics, and so will understandably have little clue about what might constitute useful training for the current job market. The onus must so fall on broader shoulders, of the institutions and funders.
Every (Scientific) Observation Matters
With the current crisis that Academia is witnessing; irreproducibility of scientific research, extravagant costs associated with…
New Report Says Individual Research Results Should Be Shared With Participants More Often
New Report Says Individual Research Results Should Be Shared With Participants More Often
When conducting research involving the testing of human biospecimens, investigators and their institutions should routinely consider whether and how to return individual research results on a study-specific basis through an informed decision-making process, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Dutch Publishing Giant Cuts off Researchers in Germany and Sweden
Negotiations with Elsevier have stalled over Open Access deals.
Living Science - The Voice of Evidence
In an era in which evidence is being disregarded, scientists need to speak up in support of the pursuit for truth. If we do not successively train our youth to distinguish between truth and falsehood, we are at risk of raising a new generation unused to recognizing truth as derived from evidence.
Why Hasn’t the Academy Taken Back Control of Publishing Already?
Academic publishing is dominated by a small number of commercial firms. How can the academy take control of scholarly publishing?
An Open Science Future - Europe Leads the Way
An outline of Hindawi's submitted proposal in response to the European Commission’s tender to launch a new publishing platform.
Of Oaths and Checklists
Oaths have their value, but checklists will help put principles into practice.
Replicable Business Models for Replicable Science - Generation R
There are a number of threats to replicability. Some of them are technical, some social.
Generation R: Forming Open Scientists and Shaping Science Systems
Generation R is a new editorial platform based on themes, blogposts and learning resources. Its editor, Simon Worthington, answers questions concerning its scope and organization.
How to Retool Graduate STEM Education
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently released a report outlining key recommendations for graduate programs and the science enterprise. It highlights the need for employers in all sectors to provide financial support for internships and other types of career experiences to students and recent graduates.
Data Management Checklist
Are you looking after your research data? This simple graphic provides a checklist of the key activities and requirements for making sure your research data is well managed.
The Preprint Dilemma: Good for Science, Bad for the Public? A Discussion Paper for the Scientific Community
The Preprint Dilemma: Good for Science, Bad for the Public? A Discussion Paper for the Scientific Community
This essay is an appeal to the scientific community - researchers, publishers and communicators - to take stock and engage in a discussion of the wider impacts of preprint.
Usage Statistics Launched
On the research data repository Zenodo you can now view the number of views and downloads on record pages, and you can sort search results by most viewed.
Illuminating Women's Hidden Contribution to the Foundation of Theoretical Population Genetics
Illuminating Women's Hidden Contribution to the Foundation of Theoretical Population Genetics
A study documenting acknowledgment sections and identified "acknowledged programmers" in Theoretical Population Biology articles published between 1970 and 1990. While only 7% of authors were women, 43% of acknowledged programmers were women.
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