Women Need to Be Seen and Heard at Conferences
A neuroscience initiative is boosting the number of female invited speakers at meetings. Other disciplines should do the same.
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Does English Have to Be the Dominant Language of Science?
There are big advantages to having scientists communicate in a common tongue, but there are drawbacks as well
Being the Enabler
A career in research development can offer a way for scientists to stay connected to research while also leveraging their soft skills
Aim High, Publish Fast
New service offers a rigorous independent peer review and helps you publish quickly in the best possible journal. Submission is free.
Biden Presents Five-Year Cancer Moonshot Plan
Biden announced a comprehensive plan for his Cancer Moonshot initiative, which seeks to achieve a decade’s worth of progress on cancer research in five years.
Freeing a Scientific Mind to Envision Big Research: Packard Fellowship to Will Ratcliff
Funding can focus science on the long game; just ask Will Ratcliff, freshly named a Packard Fellow.
Open Access in a Time of Change
Speech by EU Commissioner C. Moedas at the Frankfurt Book Fair
ScienceOpen Partners with PeerJ
PeerJ will be indexing one of their flagship open access journals, PeerJ Computer Science, with ScienceOpen.
Budget Cap Would Stifle Brazilian Science
Constitutional amendment would freeze public spending at current levels for 2 decades.
AI Company Specialized in Analyzing Scientific Literature
Meta’s mission is to unlock all of the world’s scientific and technical information through artificial intelligence.
Citations Increase with Manuscript Length, Author Number, and References Cited in Ecology Journals
Citations Increase with Manuscript Length, Author Number, and References Cited in Ecology Journals
A paper that suggests that the imposition of arbitrary manuscript length limits discourages the publication of more impactful studies.
Too much data – a good problem to have
Too much data – a good problem to have
Last week, the 22nd International Conference on Computing in High-Energy and Nuclear Physics, CHEP 2016, took place in San Francisco, attracting some 500 experts from all over the world. This gave the LHC experiments a great opportunity to showcase the impressive progress they have made in mastering the ever-increasing data volumes and to highlight their plans for the High-Luminosity period of the LHC.
Biden’s Moonshot Cancer Plan Calls for More Data Sharing
New report describes steps to double progress in 5 years
Labfolder Signs Agreement with Max Planck Society
Labfolder GmbH and the Max Planck Society announced today a licensing agreement to provide up to 11,000 scientists with labfolder’s laboratory data management digital platform
Are Mega-Journals the Future, a Stepping Stone to It or a Leap into the Abyss?
Nature’s new kid on the block Scientific Reports is now the biggest journal in the world. But while such giants are currently overturning the world of scholarly publishing, their long-term future is unclear.
Top 10 Universities for Producing Nobel Prizewinners 2016
Times Higher Education analysis reveals the institutions with the most affiliated Nobel prizewinners this century
Why is so much research dodgy? Blame the Research Excellence Framework
The Ref star system encourages novelty but offers no incentive to replicate studies – and that’s exactly what scientists need to do to be more sure of our claims.
Business Backs the Basics
Long-term basic research, substantially funded by the U.S. government, underlies some of industry's most profitable innovations.
Who Cares about the Connection?
How easy is it really to exactly replicate a scientific experiment by just reading the published result?
BioBlocks: Programming Protocols in Biology Made Easier
BioBlocks is an open-source web-based visual development environment for describing and execute experimental protocols on local robotic platforms or remotely i.e. in the cloud. It aims to serve as a 'de facto' open standard for programming protocols in Biology.
Stop Submitting Papers
We should write our draft, go over it with our co-authors, and then put it on a preprint server. And wait. After a year, when we had the opportunity to share this paper with colleagues, then we can submit it.
Researchers Must be Translators and Champions of Evidence
If you’re not willing to communicate your research, you shouldn’t be doing it, says Anne Glover.
President Obama Pushes Innovation ‘Frontiers’ in STEM
More than $300M in new STEM initiatives were announced at the White House Frontiers Conference.
There’s Such a Thing as Too Much Neuroscience
We need both neuroscience and clinical research.
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