The Rogue Neuroscientist on a Mission to Hack Peer Review
The Rogue Neuroscientist on a Mission to Hack Peer Review
The Edward Snowden of peer review.
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Activists Push Psychology Journals Towards Open Data
Activists Push Psychology Journals Towards Open Data
Editor asked to resign from journal for saying he’ll review only papers whose data he can see.
Earth 2050
If you are a futurist or make predictions, send them to us, and the whole world will see them.
Illegal File Hosting Site, ResearchGate, Acquires Massive Financial Investment
Illegal File Hosting Site, ResearchGate, Acquires Massive Financial Investment
Financing massive-scale copyright infringement.
A Principled Method for Panel Assessment
How to take into account differences in standards, confidence and bias in assessment panels.
A Post-Publication Peer Review Success Story
A Post-Publication Peer Review Success Story
In 2016, Joel Pitt and Prof. Helene Hill published an intriguing paper with us looking at the prevalence of scientific fraud in preclinical research...
How Bidding for Publishing Services Could Lower Academic Journal Costs
How Bidding for Publishing Services Could Lower Academic Journal Costs
Why journal publishing should be upended from the current model, in which institutions pay publishers for access to content, to one in which the academic community pays for services to publish content and retains ownership of research.
ResearchGate Raises $52.6M for Its Social Research Network for Scientists
As LinkedIn continues to reign as the world’s largest social network for the wider working world, we are seeing the rise of alternatives that are besting and beating it in specific verticals.
UK Scientists Welcome Changes to Controversial Research Reforms
Amendments aim to protect autonomy and the independence of research funders from political interference.
Open Science Prize Goes to Software Tool for Tracking Viral Outbreaks
A tool developed by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Basel to track Zika, Ebola and other viral disease outbreaks in real time.
The Journal of Open Source Software
A free, open-access journal designed to publish brief papers about research software.
Don’t Let Useful Data Go to Waste
Don’t Let Useful Data Go to Waste
Researchers must seek out others’ deposited biological sequences in community databases, urges Franziska Denk.
Goldman Sachs and Bill Gates Quietly Invested $52 Million in a Social Network for Scientists
Goldman Sachs and Bill Gates Quietly Invested $52 Million in a Social Network for Scientists
Goldman Sachs, the Wellcome Trust, and Bill Gates all put money into the Berlin company, which has over 12 million scientists on its platform.
Horizon 2020 Rules Changed to Tackle Pay Gap
The European Commission has changed the Horizon 2020 model grant agreement, to try to address complaints about low salary levels among the newer 13 member states.
WHO Publishes List of Bacteria for which New Antibiotics Are Urgently Needed
WHO Publishes List of Bacteria for which New Antibiotics Are Urgently Needed
WHO today published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant "priority pathogens"—a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health.
Does Engagement in Advocacy Hurt the Credibility of Scientists?
It is often assumed that issue advocacy will compromise the credibility of scientists.
What Is the Role of Science in a Post-Normal World?
Q&A with Daniel Sarewitz, Professor of Science and Society at Arizona State University.
The Hi-Tech War on Science Fraud
The problem of fake data may go far deeper than scientists admit. Now a team of researchers has a controversial plan to root out the perpetrators
Concerns Regarding the ASAPbio Central Service and Center
Preprints are clearly the future of scientific communication, but currently face multiple obstacles.
AI Learns to Write Its Own Code by Stealing From Other Programs
Software called DeepCoder has solved simple programming challenges by piecing together bits of borrowed code.
New Algorithm Hopes to Counter Potential Bias on Panels
Mathematical model works by trying to remove skewing of results in group funding decisions
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
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