UK Pharma Boss to Be New Chief Scientific Adviser
Patrick Vallance to take over from interim government adviser Chris Whitty from March next year.
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World's First 'Negative Findings' Science Prize Aims to Tackle Publication Bias
World's First 'Negative Findings' Science Prize Aims to Tackle Publication Bias
ECNP’s Preclinical Data Forum has announced the world’s first prize of 10,000 EUR for publishing ‘negative’ scientific results.
A New ‘Accelerator’ Aims to Bring Big Science to Psychology
Psychology initiative aims to engage dozens of laboratories around the world in large-scale studies, since the “tentative, preliminary results” produced by small studies conducted in relatively isolated laboratories “just aren’t getting the job done."
A Nonprofit Alternative to ResearchGate
Scholars are planning an alternative site on which to network and share work.
In the Trump Era, Biologists on the Cutting Edge Try to Keep a Low Profile
In the Trump Era, Biologists on the Cutting Edge Try to Keep a Low Profile
Scientists fear a crackdown on embryo research if President Trump pays attention to scientific advances.
eLife Welcomes the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
Leading Swedish research funder joins nonprofit coalition committing about £2.72 mio. to eLife for a 4-year period beginning in 2018.
The Tech Industry Needs more Women
When women are unleashed on the tech world, new ways of living and doing business reveal themselves.
FP9 Is Missing UK Input, Says Royal Society President
Researchers across Europe think the design of Framework 9 is suffering from a lack of British expertise because of Brexit, according to Venki Ramakrishnan.
Too Many Academics Study the Same People
Researchers should recognize communities that feel over-researched and under-rewarded.
Study Finds Male Ph.D. Candidates Submit and Publish Papers at Significantly Higher Rates Than Female Peers on the Same Campus
Study Finds Male Ph.D. Candidates Submit and Publish Papers at Significantly Higher Rates Than Female Peers on the Same Campus
Study finds male Ph.D. candidates submit and publish papers at significantly higher rates than their female peers, even within the same institution. The majors drivers of that gap remain unclear, but one factor is that women teach more during their Ph.D. programs and men serve more often as research assistants.
"Who owns Digital Science" – That is the Question…
Digital Science continued independence is the best way to have the biggest impact in supporting research, researchers, publishers, funders and research institutions around the world.
Why It's Crucial to Get More Women Into Science
The number of women in scientific research continues to lag behind the number of men, even though women make up half the nation's workforce. The question is, What difference does it make?
Academic Journal Publishing Is Headed for a Day of Reckoning
In our institutions of higher education and our research labs, scholars first produce, then buy back, their own content. With the costs rising and access restricted, something's got to give.
Newly Released AI Software Writes Papers for You
This week, we received a press release that caught our attention: A company is releasing software it claims will write manuscripts using researchers’ data.
Science Is Broken
Perverse incentives and the misuse of quantitative metrics have undermined the integrity of scientific research.
Those 3% of Scientific Papers that Deny Climate Change
A review found them all flawed. Scientists who deny climate change are not modern-day Galileos.
17 Researchers Resign in Protest from Editorial Board at Nature Journal
More than a dozen members of the editorial board at Scientific Reports have resigned after the journal decided not to retract a 2016 paper that a researcher claims plagiarized his work. As of this morning, 19 people — mostly researchers based at Johns Hopkins — had stepped down from the board.
Trends in Open Access Book Publishing
A survey on open access books, revealed that of the 99 authors, 55.5% self-archived their chapters.
A Journal Is a Club: A New Economic Model for Scholarly Publishing
While part of the original motivation of the first research publication in serial form — the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1665 — was to make money, the early history of scholarly publishing is largely one of community subsidy to cover losses or breaking even.
The OA Effect
How does open access affect the usage of scholarly books? A white paper by Springer Nature.
Tech Giants Protest Looming US Pirate Site Blocking Order
Google, Facebook and Microsoft are protesting a looming injunction that would require search engines, ISPs and hosting companies to stop linking to or offering services to several "pirate" sites.
7 Major Experiments That Still Haven’t Found What They’re Looking For
Nature seems to have a regular penchant for mocking scientists’ hopes and expectations.
A Prestigious Research Publisher Gives in to China's Censorship
The Financial Times disclosed that Springer Nature has blocked access in China to at least 1,000 articles from the websites of two of its journals in response to Beijing’s censorship demands.
Making Medicine, Not Money: How One U of T Researcher's Startup Is Rethinking Big Pharma's Business Model
Making Medicine, Not Money: How One U of T Researcher's Startup Is Rethinking Big Pharma's Business Model
The latest medical innovation to spring from Aled Edwards’s University of Toronto lab isn’t a new protein structure or potential drug target – it’s a business model.
What Happens When You Put 500,000 People's DNA Online
Huge genetic databases are changing how scientists study disease.
Access vs. Accessibility in Scholarship and Science
Ideally, we want science and scholarship to be not only available to the general public, but also comprehensible to them. But the challenges to doing so are real, and may vary both by discipline and by study type.
US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub
The American Chemical Society was granted an unprecedented injunction which requires search engines and ISPs to block Sci-Hub.
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