Top Ten Tips to Kick-Start Your Career in 2018
Scientists and career experts reveal how to take your job to the next level.
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How Diy Communities Are Pushing the Frontiers of Science
Lucy Patterson reports back from Science Hack Day Berlin.
The Statistician Who Believed in Miracles
Thomas Bayes had the right idea: Even scientific laws can benefit from an update.
ERCcOMICS
ERCcOMICS is a creative and ambitious project which exploits the power of visual storytelling to innovate the way European science is communicated.
Scientists Tainted by Misconduct of Former Collaborators
The stigma has a punitive effect on citations for prior collaborators of fraudulent researchers.
US Government Lifts Ban on Risky Pathogen Research
The National Institutes of Health will again fund research that makes viruses more dangerous.
Want to Win a Nobel Prize? Retract a Paper. Really!
This advice is both hyperbolic and not nearly as crazy as it sounds.
Female Grant Applicants Are Equally Successful When Peer Reviewers Assess the Science, but Not When They Assess the Scientist
Little Holiday Cheer for U.S. Science Agencies as Congress Extends Spending Freeze
But final deal on a 2018 budget could bring substantial spending increases.
Nobel laureate will step down from leading embattled Salk Institute
Elizabeth Blackburn cuts short her tenure at Salk amid gender discrimination lawsuits, which have also led Inder Verma to take leave of absence from editor-in-chief of PNAS
7 Science Stories in 2017 That Made Us Go, "Whoa, That's Awesome"
The news that lifted our existential dread.
The Year in Review: 2017 On The Scholarly Kitchen
A statistical look back at the year in The Scholarly Kitchen.
Commission to Scientists: Stop Ruining Our Copyright Plans With Your Facts and Your Research!
Commission to Scientists: Stop Ruining Our Copyright Plans With Your Facts and Your Research!
A 30 page paper panning the Commission’s copyright plans on press publishers written by JRC never saw the light of the day.
10 Things Everyone Should Know About Machine Learning
As someone who often finds himself explaining machine learning to non-experts.
Challenges and opportunities for Open Science
Incentives for “Open”, perception as additional work and lack of training, and diversity and inclusivity.
Ethnicity Cannot Be Counted
Counting the number of women and men is considered to be rather unproblematic. But how do you measure diversity?
Could Bitcoin technology help science?
Blockchain could lend security measures to the scientific process, but the approach has its own risks.
Women Are Invited to Give Fewer Talks Than Men at Top U.S. Universities
It’s not because they turn down talks more often, or because there aren’t enough women to invite.
Sustainable Computational Science: The ReScience Initiative
ReScience resides on GitHub where each new implementation of a computational study is made available together with comments, explanations, and software tests.
Study Finds Men Speak Twice as Often as Do Women at Colloquiums
Study finds that men speak twice as often as women do at colloquiums, a difference that can't be explained away by rank, speaker pool composition or women's interest in giving talks.
A Turbulent Year in the Publishing World
In 2017, scientists, regulators, and publishers clashed in a series of lawsuits, boycotts, mass resignations, and more.
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