Top Math Laureate Gets New Medal After Prize Stolen
A Kurdish refugee whose top mathematics prize was stolen minutes after he received the honor this week in Rio de Janeiro will get a replacement medal Saturday, organizers said.
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High-Impact and Transformative Science Metrics: Definition, Exemplification, and Comparison
High-Impact and Transformative Science Metrics: Definition, Exemplification, and Comparison
A novel set of text- and citation-based metrics that can be used to identify high-impact and transformative works. The 11 metrics can be grouped into seven types: Radical-Generative, Radical-Destructive, Risky, Multidisciplinary, Wide Impact, Growing Impact, and Impact (overall).
OpenCon2018 Switzerland
The first OpenCon satellite event in Switzerland will take place on September 21-22 at the SNSF in Bern. Registrations are open until the end of August.
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Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants
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Japan Weighs the Value of Imported Academics
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Trump's Pick to Head White House Science Office Gets Good Reviews
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Plan to Replicate 50 High-Impact Cancer Papers Shrinks to Just 18
An ambitious project that set out nearly 5 years ago to replicate experiments from 50 high-impact cancer biology papers, but gradually shrank that number, now expects to complete just 18 studies.
Digital Open Science - Teaching Digital Tools for Reproducible and Transparent Research
Digital Open Science - Teaching Digital Tools for Reproducible and Transparent Research
An introductory course that guides students towards a reproducible science workflow.
Scientists, Do You Want to Succeed on Twitter? Here’s How Many Followers You Need
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Tweeting can help science outreach, but may take persistence.
Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Wikipedia's Gender Problem
A software tool uses machine-learning algorithms to scour news articles and scientific citations to find notable scientists missing from Wikipedia.
Fields Medal Winner Caucher Birkar Gets a New Medal After Original Prize Was Stolen
A Kurdish refugee whose top mathematics prize was stolen minutes after he received the honor this week in Rio de Janeiro will get a replacement medal on Saturday, organisers said.
Study Shows How Italy Faces Brain Drain That Defies Expectations
A brain drain of emigrating researchers might not be as bad as it sounds for Italy, according to an analysis that found that the worst-performing - as well as the best - researchers were leaving the country.
Data Sharing and the Future of Science
Who benefits from sharing data? The scientists of future do, as data sharing today enables new science tomorrow. Far from being mere rehashes of old datasets, evidence shows that studies based on analyses of previously published data can achieve just as much impact as original projects.
This Trump Administration Whistleblower Has Some Advice for Young Scientists
Joel Clement reflects on his battle with Department of the Interior leadership
Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can be Dangerously Useful
Despite two lost legal battles in the US, domain name seizures, and millions of dollars in damage claims, Sci-Hub continues to offer unauthorized access to academic papers. The site's founder says that she would rather operate legally, but copyright gets in the way. Sci-Hub is not the problem she argues, it's a solution, something many academics appear to agree with.
'Science-Adjacent' Conferences and Why They Matter
The multidisciplinary conferences that use ‘science’ as an adjective can be a fantastic source of new collaborations and ideas.
India Cracks down on 'Predatory Publishers' Following International Investigation
India Cracks down on 'Predatory Publishers' Following International Investigation
An international investigation has discovered that some 400,000 scientists have published papers in so-called "predatory journals". Action taken after number of journals run by such publishers triples since 2013.
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.
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.
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.
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