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A research review on funding and gender produced by the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research, Gothenburg University.
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10 yrs of OA at the Wellcome Trust
A timeline showing the major milestones in 10 years of Open Access at the Wellcome Trust.
Oxford again offers safe haven to endangered academics
University that gave shelter to Einstein quietly opens its doors to Syrian refugees.
Publons partners with ORCID to give more credit for peer review
Building on the momentum of Peer Review Week 2015, we are excited to announce a partnership with ORCID to extend the credit you get from your Publons verified reviews.
Most research spending is wasted on bad studies. These billionaires want to change that.
Most research spending is wasted on bad studies. These billionaires want to change that.
Laura and John Arnold, a Houston couple, have become the Medicis for "research integrity". They finance the Center of Open Science (COS) and the METRICS Institute led by J.P. Ioannidis at Stanford.
Why the Human Brain Project went wrong
Two years in, a $1-billion-plus effort to simulate the human brain is in disarray. Was it poor management, or is something fundamentally wrong with Big Science?
Empowering citizen scientists
Scientists should consider engaging more with the DIYbio community.
Why it's time to get real about interdisciplinary research
A new book argues for less focus on structures and funding for interdisciplinarity, and more on the everyday highs and lows of collaboration.
Why do more U.S. women study abroad than men?
Huge disparities in parts of the developing world offer important clues about how American men and women perceive the world in higher education today.
The (very precise) future of medicine
The Welcome trust has collaborated with the government on several big capital projects, including Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire and the new Francis Crick Institute laboratories.
Many hands make tight work
Crowdsourcing research can balance discussions, validate findings and better inform policy.
NIH addresses the science of diversity
A fresh take on scientific workforce diversity approaching it as a scientific opportunity rather than as an intractable problem.
Pressure to publish may discourage innovative research
The researchers' conclusions are drawn from a database they assembled of more than 6 million scholarly publications in biomedicine and chemistry.
Digital Science launches GRID
The Global Research Identifier Database (GRID) is a free, easy-to-use online database that opens up information about research organisations around the world to data scientists, developers and innovators within academic and commercial organisations.
Christmas is over: Research funding should go to research, not to publishers!
LERU Statement for the 2016 Dutch EU Presidency.
Cloud Datalab, a new data insights tool by Google
Cloud Datalab, a new data insights tool by Google
Cloud Datalab is a powerful Interactive tool created to explore, analyze and visualize data with a single click on Google Cloud Platform.
Commission invests €16 billion in funding for research and innovation over next two years
The European Commission will boost competitiveness by investing almost €16 billion in research and innovation in the next two years under Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation funding scheme.
How likely is an all-male speakers list, statistically speaking?
How likely is an all-male speakers list, statistically speaking?
A mathematician weighs in.
Initiative helps match refugees with science jobs
A new program will connect researchers with universities but won't give them preferential treatment.
Cardiologist to head extramural research at NIH
Michael Lauer, who has been with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute since 2007, will become NIH deputy director for extramural research in a few weeks.
Is the 2015 Nobel Prize a turning point for traditional Chinese medicine?
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has gone to a researcher who spent her entire career researching traditional Chinese medicine...
The folly of big science awards
Major awards honor the scientists who are usually in the least need of recognition and funding, which squeezes out opportunities for other scientists.
How scientists fool themselves and how they can stop
Humans are remarkably good at self-deception. But growing concern about reproducibility is driving many researchers to seek ways to fight their own worst instincts.
How much should scientists check other scientists' work?
A debate is growing in the research world over the value of replicating older, peer-reviewed studies.
Many hands make tight work
Crowdsourcing research can balance discussions, validate findings and better inform policy.
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