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University of Victoria Digital Humanities Lab Expert on the Privatization of Knowledge

University of Victoria Digital Humanities Lab Expert on the Privatization of Knowledge

"Their profit margins are bigger than oil and gas. Most people don’t know this,” explains Alyssa Arbuckle, Associate Director of a digital humanities lab at the University of Victoria.

Creating Research Value Needs More Than Just Science - Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences Can Help

Creating Research Value Needs More Than Just Science - Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences Can Help

Mobilising value from science and technology needs help from thinkers, designers, makers, policymakers, and enablers - and this expertise often sits in the humanities, arts and social sciences domain.

Evidence-Informed Policymaking: Does Knowledge Brokering Work?

Evidence-Informed Policymaking: Does Knowledge Brokering Work?

Sarah Quarmby takes a look inside a knowledge broker organisation, the Wales Centre for Public Policy, to see how its day-to-day workings tally with the body of knowledge about evidence use in policymaking.

European Union, Worried About Rising Tensions, Plans to Boost Military Research

European Union, Worried About Rising Tensions, Plans to Boost Military Research

After decades of keeping a low profile in the military arena, the European Union is flexing its muscles.  Proposed European Defence Fund would spend EUR13 billion on R&D.

Study Finds Recommendation Letters Inadvertently Signal Doubt About Female Applicants More Than They Do for Men

Study Finds Recommendation Letters Inadvertently Signal Doubt About Female Applicants More Than They Do for Men

Letters about women include more doubt-raising phrases than those about men, and that even one such phrase can make a difference in a job search.

The Collapse of a $40 Million Nutrition Science Crusade

The Collapse of a $40 Million Nutrition Science Crusade

Taubes founded NuSI to support objective science; now, it's his own objectivity he has to defend.

Diversity Begets Diversity: A Global Perspective on Gender Equality in Scientific Society Leadership

Diversity Begets Diversity: A Global Perspective on Gender Equality in Scientific Society Leadership

A checklist and recommendations for societies to contribute to global gender equality in science.

Sexual Harassment Is Rife in the Sciences, Finds Landmark US Study

Sexual Harassment Is Rife in the Sciences, Finds Landmark US Study

Existing policies to address the issue are ineffective, concludes a long-awaited report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Why the Medical Research Grant System Could Be Costing Us Great Ideas

Why the Medical Research Grant System Could Be Costing Us Great Ideas

Funding is harder to find in general, and the current approach favors low-risk research and proposals by older scientists and white men.

Google Scholar as a Data Source for Research Assessment

Google Scholar as a Data Source for Research Assessment

Google Scholar presents a broader view of the academic world because it has brought to light a great number of sources that were not previously visible.

Controversial NIH Study of "Moderate Drinking" Will Be Terminated After Scathing Report

Controversial NIH Study of "Moderate Drinking" Will Be Terminated After Scathing Report

The drinking study had raised concerns because NIH officials had solicited funding for the $100 million project from liquor companies, with the money funneled through the private NIH Foundation.

What’s Next for the European Open Science Cloud?

What’s Next for the European Open Science Cloud?

After being given the green light by research ministers earlier this year, an ambitious initiative to enable Europe’s 1.7 million researchers to share data and research tools is now on course to be launched before the end of the year. But what should the next steps be?

CHF950m Large Hadron Collider Upgrade 'Could Upend Particle Physics'

CHF950m Large Hadron Collider Upgrade 'Could Upend Particle Physics'

A massive project to supercharge the world’s largest particle collider launched in the hope that the beefed-up machine will reveal fresh insights into the nature of the universe.

U.S. Legislators Back Larger Facilities Budget for NSF

U.S. Legislators Back Larger Facilities Budget for NSF

Spending bills would boost construction account without cutting research grants, marking the second year that lawmakers have rejected President Donald Trump’s plans for the agency, which called for deep cuts in 2018 and flat funding in 2019.

 

Female Historians Try to End the I-Didn’t-Know-Any-Women Excuse for Men-Only Panels

Female Historians Try to End the I-Didn’t-Know-Any-Women Excuse for Men-Only Panels

A new database of female historians joins a growing group of lists that aim to promote a more diverse group of experts. Such databases have previously been more common in the hard sciences.

The Monarch’s Stupendous Migration, Dissected

The Monarch’s Stupendous Migration, Dissected

A cartoon showing how the feisty orange-black butterfly uses a toolbox of biological tricks to find its way down to Mexico for winter and flap north again in spring.

Outstanding Inventors from France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland and the US Honoured with European Inventor Award 2018

Outstanding Inventors from France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland and the US Honoured with European Inventor Award 2018

The EPO announced the winners of the European Inventor Award 2018 at a ceremony today in Paris, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, attended by some 600 guests from the areas of politics, business, intellectual property, science and academia.

Microsoft’s Purchase of GitHub Leaves Some Scientists Uneasy

Microsoft’s Purchase of GitHub Leaves Some Scientists Uneasy

They fear the online platform used for collaborating on research data and software will become less open, but other researchers say the buyout could make GitHub more useful.