Geoffrey Hinton, the 'godfather' of deep learning, on AlphaGo
The scientist who helped develop the neural networks behind Google's AlphaGo, which beat grandmaster Lee Sedol, on the past, present and future of AI
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On pastrami and the business of PLOS
Last week my friend Andy Kern (a population geneticist at Rutgers) went on a bit of a bender on Twitter prompted by his discovery of PLOS’s IRS Form 990 – the annual required financial filing of non-profit corporations in the United States.
The Signal and the Noise
Once again, reproducibility is in the news. Most recently we hear that irreproducibility is irreproducible and thus everything is actually fine...
After years of growth, female first authorship in top medical journals has stalled
Female first authorship has increased since 1994 but plateaued from 2009 to 2014
A new model for training scientists could create a conflict of interest
Johns Hopkins and MedImmune team up to train scientists
The selfish scientist’s guide to preprint posting
Benefits and costs to the authors of posting preprints as a function of the time of posting.
Taking the online medicine
Old-fashioned ways of reporting new discoveries are holding back medical research. Some scientists are pushing for change
Parent Carer Scientist
A collection of 150 personal stories from scientists who are combining a career in research with their roles as parents and carers, each in their own way.
Science infrastructure still a problem for UK policy makers
This week’s budget contained the usual announcements about new research facilities. But behind the welcome news, concerns continue to mount
ORCID goes national in Germany
At ScienceOpen, there’s nothing more we like than good news for open science! That’s why we’re happy this week to see ORCID announcing a new partnership with the DFG, the German R…
Many scientific studies you read about are hinged on the wrong metric
The problem with p-values.
Would the preprint movement revolutionize the life sciences for better or worse?
Many in the scientific community praise preprints as a means of overcoming the high costs and lengthy peer review process of elite journals, which some argue thwart progress.
As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops
Women’s median annual earnings stubbornly remain about 20 percent below men’s. Why is progress stalling?
Say again? NSF massages grant titles with eye on critics in Congress
Survey finds that 24% of research projects get new titles, up from 10% in 2012
Is technology slowing down science?
There are three vectors of failure that can be addressed by better technology: time, cost, and the quality of the output itself.
Living factories of the future
Scientists are designing cells that can manufacture drugs, food and materials and even act as diagnostic biosensors.
"Evidence-based medicine has been hijacked:" A confession from John Ioannidis
John Ioannidis is perhaps best known for a 2005 paper “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.” One of the most highly cited researchers in the world, Ioannidis, a professor at Stanford, has built a career in the field of meta-research.
New interactive visualizations of SNSF data
It is now easier to obtain a clear and transparent overview of the thousands of scientific research projects funded by the SNSF. Its P3 database has been redesigned to display information interactively.
An ounce of prevention
Crises of infectious diseases are becoming more common. The world should be better prepared
Beyond today's crowdsourced science to tomorrow's citizen science cyborgs
Computers are getting better and better at the jobs that previously made sense for researchers to outsource to citizen scientists. But don't worry: there's still a role for people in these projects.
Europe’s Open Access Champions just launched
Inspiration from influential European academics on Open Access & what still needs to be done
Eastern blocked
Countries with weak national research systems were always going to struggle to win ERC grants.
Why Science Journalism Matters
An essay by the Pulitzer-prizewinning science journalist Deborah Blum.
Journal-Flipping Project
A review of approaches and experiences on how to convert subscription-based scholarly journals to open access.
Academics admit feeling pressure to embellish possible impact of research
In the race to apply for research funding, writing statements about future impact can feel like a charade.
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