Are Scientists Doing Too Much Research?
It sounds almost absurd, but that could be one factor behind the so-called “reproducibility crisis”.
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Springer Nature Blocks Access to Articles in China
Academic publisher Springer Nature says it has blocked access to articles within China to comply with demands from the Chinese government.
A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective on Emergent and Future Innovations in Peer Review
A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective on Emergent and Future Innovations in Peer Review
Emerging models of peer review from a range of disciplines and venues, and to ask how they might address some of the issues with our current systems of peer review.
Join the Disruptors of Health Science
Thomas Insel's biggest lesson from his shift from NIMH director to Silicon Valley entrepreneur: academic and technology company researchers should partner up.
Forces of Nature
Recognize women who changed science with this free collection of print-at-home posters.
Public Money, Public Code: Show Your Support For Free Software in Europe
Public Money, Public Code is a campaign of the Free Software Foundation Europe that seeks to transform that ideal into European law.
The Fractured Logic of Blinded Peer Review in Journals
The case for “blinding” to make journal peer review fair seems less and less plausible to me for the long run. It even seems antithetical to ultimately reducing the problems it’s a bandaid solution for.
Academics Step Down from Posts on Elsevier Journals
High price of journals 'placing strain on acceptance' of division of labour between researchers and publishers, says professor.
Financial Ties of Medical Journal Editors Should Be Disclosed
Approximately half of the editors of 52 prestigious U.S. medical journals received payments from the pharmaceutical and medical device industry in 2014.
Nightmares in the Lab: Chilling Tales for This Halloween
Have you ever crossed international borders with protein crystals in a big Styrofoam hand luggage, set your hair on fire, or forgotten to use the extractor and nearly gassed your co-workers?
Academics and Copyright Ownership: Ignorant, Confused or Misled?
Elizabeth Gadd takes a look at the contradictions between scholarly culture and copyright culture, and the cognitive dissonance created.
Top Swiss Science Prize Gets Boost
The Marcel Benoist Prize – the “Swiss Nobel Prize” for science – is to get a new look ahead of its centenary.
Expertise in Sciences and the Decision of What Is Publishable: A Noble yet Endangered Task
Expertise in Sciences and the Decision of What Is Publishable: A Noble yet Endangered Task
How is a scientific article accepted for publication in an academic journal? What is the role of peer reviewers? Where does the system go astray?
Motivating Participation in Open Science by Examining Researcher Incentives
Motivating Participation in Open Science by Examining Researcher Incentives
A survey of researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital provides insights into the challenges and opportunities involved in adopting an open science policy across an entire patient-oriented academic institution.
PREreview: A Preprint Journal Club
Encouraging researchers to post their outputs as preprints.
Whether Psychology Research Is Improving Depends on Whom You Ask
Whether Psychology Research Is Improving Depends on Whom You Ask
Psychologists are pessimistic about the state of their field but want to improve, a survey shows. But are new measures working?
In Hiring for Junior Faculty Positions, Study Finds Bias Against Female Candidates Who Have Partners
In Hiring for Junior Faculty Positions, Study Finds Bias Against Female Candidates Who Have Partners
Study suggests women with male partners face bias in searches for junior faculty members.
These Professors Want to Lower the Rankings of Schools That Underpay Adjunct Faculty
The End of an Error?
What would the world be like without formal peer review?, asks Fields medallists Timothy Gowers.
Lausanne to Host 2019 World Conference of Science Journalists
The city of Lausanne was chosen to host the 11th World Conference of Science Journalists.
Idea Farming for Open Science: Sharing Wider Scientific Outputs Will Stimulate Ideas, Discoveries and Outcomes
Idea Farming for Open Science: Sharing Wider Scientific Outputs Will Stimulate Ideas, Discoveries and Outcomes
Ideas and data can interact, and our work can certainly benefit from the bad ideas that, in the short-term, do not seem to directly benefit discovery.
Not Just Available, but also Useful
Could the real open access please stand up? If more research was published according to true open access principles, we'd see better application of evidence for everyone's benefit.
International Science Council to Be Formed
About 40 scientific unions and associations plus 140 national and regional science academies and research councils will be subsumed under the umbrella organisation.
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