Post-truth: A Guide for the Perplexed
If politicians can lie without condemnation, what are scientists to do? Kathleen Higgins offers some explanation.
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Disrupting the World of Science Publishing
Every scientist wants his or her paper to appear in Cell, Nature or Science. In today’s scientific world, being associated with such publications is synonymous with prestige and excellence, opening doors to top positions and coveted awards.
Congress Poised to Pass Sweeping Biomedical Innovation Bill
Congress is poised to approve a massive piece of legislation that would provide the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with $4.8 billion over the next decade for a set of research initiatives, including brain and cancer research and efforts to develop so-called precision medicine treatments that are tailored to an individual’s genetic makeup.
Working Group on Gender Balance
Women and men are equally able to perform excellent frontier research. This is the view of ERC Scientific Council. Each process within the ERC - from creating awareness about the ERC to signing of grant agreements – is designed to give equal opportunities to men and women. To monitor gender balance in ERC calls, in 2008, the ERC set up a dedicated working group.
Why Research Papers Have So Many Authors
Scientific publications are getting more and more names attached to them
Data and the Future of Healthcare
The Big Data era, the impact of data science and its impact biological research and healthcare: interview with Phil Bourne.
Can Paid Reviews Promote Scientific Quality and Offer Novel Career Perspectives for Young Scientists?
Can Paid Reviews Promote Scientific Quality and Offer Novel Career Perspectives for Young Scientists?
Community driven paid reviews could work in conjunction with a feed-back loop to young scientists. This promote the integration of reviews into an academic career.
Flossing and the Art of Scientific Investigation
Experiments are invaluable and have, in the past, shown the consensus opinion of experts to be wrong. But those who fetishize this methodology can also impair progress toward the truth.
Universities Whose Work Has Driven Environmental Awareness
As the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rises comes into force this month, these are the universities that have, between 2011 and 2015, produced the environmental science research with the greatest impact
Why Fake Data When You Can Fake a Scientist?
Making up names and CVs is one of the latest tricks to game scientific metrics.
New Study May Explain Why Peer Review in Science Often Fails
New Study May Explain Why Peer Review in Science Often Fails
Twenty percent of medical researchers do up to 95 percent of the peer reviewing.
The Power of Big Data Must be Harnessed for Medical Progress
But grave challenges remain before the promise of individually tailored medicine becomes reality.
Helping Scientists to Help Others
Guest post by Professor Elizabeth Loftus, winner of the 2016 John Maddox Prize
Under Trump, Scientists May Get a Break on Data-Sharing
The Association of American Universities worries that the open-access policies federal research agencies are developing now are not sufficiently aligned. Any slowdown in putting them in place, it says, is "probably a positive."
Peer-Review 'Heroes' Do Lion's Share of the Work
Peer-Review 'Heroes' Do Lion's Share of the Work
20% of the scientists undertook between 69% and 94% of reviews last year.
The New Digital Divide Raises Questions About Future Academic Research
Without access to large companies' datasets or the expertise to analyse them, research is confronted with a replication crisis and is vulnerable to commercial motivations.
The Best European Cities to Launch a Start-up
A good idea is important of course, but much of the success of a start-up enterprise relies on it setting up in the right place.
Researcher in Legal Battle to Keep Her Interviews Confidential
A judge has ordered Marie-Ève Maille to provide names and transcripts from her study on a wind farm
President Trump
The winners in Trump's America were likely to be the defence industry, oil and energy, private prisons, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Not health. What should be the response of the public health community?
Google’s DeepMind AI Can Lip-Read TV Shows Better Than a Pro
An artificial intelligence system developed by researchers at DeepMind and the University of Oxford got so good by watching 5000 hours of BBC programmes.
Academic labour markets in Europe vary widely in openness and job security
Having examined the organisation of Europe’s academic labour markets, Alexandre Afonso outlines the main differences between countries across the continent. There is greatest variance in two …
Science Doesn’t Have All the Answers
In a fractured world, the humanities are key to an understanding of others.
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