"In Zukunft erhält bei uns jeder Doktorand einen Vertrag"
How the Max-Planck Society (MPS) wants to improve the condition of PhDs. Interview with Martin Stratmann, President of the MPS.
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Leading scientists favour women in tenure-track hiring test
US science and engineering professors preferred female job candidates by two to one.
Is peer review just a crapshoot?
How do reviewer recommendations influence editor decisions? And are Chinese authors treated fairly?
Don't think Open Access is important? It might have prevented much of the Ebola outbreak
Don't think Open Access is important? It might have prevented much of the Ebola outbreak
Open access isn't just some "free culture" refrain. It really matters and can save lives.
When Open Access is the norm, how do scientists work together online?
The Web was invented to enable scientists to collaborate.
Wanted: staff-scientist positions for postdocs
Nature readers favour creating more secure jobs to fix science’s broken postdoctoral system.
Rule rewrite aims to clean up scientific software
Nature Biotechnology asks peer reviewers to check accessibility of code used in computational studies.
California unveils 'precision-medicine' project
The $3-million state initiative will coordinate with a national effort to promote individualized patient treatment.
Valley of the dudes
Tech firms can banish sexism without sacrificing the culture that made them successful.
How do we solve science's 'credibility problem'?
In recent years science has entered a crisis of trust. The results of many scientific experiments appear to be surprisingly hard to reproduce, while mistakes have highlighted flaws in the peer review system.
The real reason college tuition costs so much
There are no valid arguments to support the recent trend toward seven-figure salaries for high-ranking university administrators.
What motivates people to review articles?
A survey of 307 reviewers of submissions to the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems to gain a better understanding of their motivations for reviewing.
Does research output cause economic growth or vice versa?
Does research output cause economic growth or vice versa?
Evidence from 34 OECD countries.
After 350 years of academic journals it's time to shake things up
Writing and reviewing journal articles is part of the core business of a scientist. But it’s not an efficient way to communicate research results.
EU research projects under Horizon 2020
EU research projects under Horizon 2020
This dataset contains projects funded by the EU under the H2020. Grant information is provided for each project, including reference, acronym, objective, title, total cost, EC contribution, start date, end date, duration, Call Id, Topic, Funding Scheme, legal basis.
Peer Review Neutrality
If you are a scientists sharing our concerns you can add your name in the support form on the right.
Retraction to appear for beleaguered plant researcher Olivier Voinnet
Olivier Voinnet, a researcher at ETH in Zurich is retracting a 2004 paper in The Plant Cell, according to the journal's publisher.
Other shoe drops for MIT cancer researcher Robert Weinberg as Cell retraction appears
Robert Weinberg, a prominent cancer scientist whose papers often notch hundreds or thousands of citations, has lost a fourth paper, this time a 2009 publication in Cell.
The future of the postdoc
There is a growing number of postdocs and few places in academia for them to go. But change could be on the way.
Former Columbia postdoc faked Alzheimer's research in Cell and Nature
The Cell paper has been cited 150 times, according to Web of Science, while the Nature paper has been cited 40. The Nature paper has not yet been retracted.
How the NIH, FDA, CDC, AHRQ & ASPR guidelines will define open science
Institutional public access plans for Open Science.
ORCID Receives a $3 Million Grant to Build International Engagement Capacity
ORCID has been awarded an 18-month, $3 million grant by The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to develop the infrastructure and capacity to support international adoption and technical integration of ORCID identifiers.
The history and future of funding for scientific research
For half a century, the government funded research. Times are changing.
Reward bioinformaticians
Biological data will continue to pile up unless those who analyse it are recognized as creative collaborators in need of career paths, says Jeffrey Chang.
Einstein shows: Not only citations count
Publications don't have to be successful immediately. This is shown by an article of Albert Einstein and colleagues that gained importance 85 years after having been published. By Anton Zeilinger.
EU plans to take €2.7 billion from H2020
Divertion of Horizon cash to investment fund will boost financial 'firepower', says Carlos Moedas.
The elephant in the room
Advertising science as a driver of economic growth is a long‐term losing strategy.
We shouldn't keep quiet about how research grant money is really spent
The same organisations that make it difficult to get a grant can be ridiculously laid back about how their money is spent once they have signed it over.
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