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Five hundred million tweets are broadcast worldwide every day on Twitter. With so many details about personal lives, the social media site is a data trove for scientists looking to find patterns in human behaviors, tease out risk factors for health conditions and track the spread of infectious diseases.
Little attention has been paid to the large, changing inequalities in the world of scientific research.
Ben McNeil, founder of thinkable.org, thinks our science funding mechanism is fundamentally broken. Here's why, and what he thinks we should do about it.
Participants discuss the importance of finding a viable Open Access model for books, and of the funding that would be lost, particularly in the humanities and social sciences.
Report based on four workshops organized by the initiators of Science in Transition in the spring of 2013.
A European research collaboration aimed at understanding the ways in which researchers are evaluated by their peers and by institutions, and at assessing how the science system can be improved and enhanced.
Simple explanation of the basic workings of the European Commission and how EU policy relates to science and research.
A community of students, researchers, Nobel Laureates, philanthropists, science-lovers and research institutes to launch a new way to support the big, risky blue-sky research the world needs.
“A greater number of Europhobic members … in the European Parliament would certainly have negative consequences on the idea to turn scientific research and innovation into a great European policy” says Jean-Pierre Audy, an EPP parliamentarian from France.
Die Universität Fribourg erhält erstmals in ihrer 125-jährigen Geschichte eine Rektorin: Der Senat der Freiburger Hochschule hat am Donnerstag die Juristin Astrid Epiney zur neuen Leiterin der Uni Fribourg gewählt.
130 Millionen Franken gibt die staatliche Innovationsförderstelle KTI jedes Jahr für Projekte und Jungunternehmen aus. Eine Untersuchung auf Druck der Finanzkontrolle förderte gravierende Missstände zutage.
The General Assembly of Science Europe has unanimously elected Miguel Seabra, president of the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, as the next president of Science Europe.
Researchers will now be required to make papers free to read within one year of publication.
Disagreements may cause "irreparable harm to the German research system," joint statement says
Peer-review of projects dominates when it comes to decision on how to allocate funding for science. But is it really the best way?
The UK Government’s new prize for substantial innovation to address pressing societal problems should be welcomed, says Martin Rees.
In the scramble to gain market share in cyberspace, something is getting lost: the public interest. Libraries and laboratories-crucial nodes of the World Wide Web-are buckling under economic pressure, and the information they diffuse is being diverted away from the public sphere, where it can do most good.
Europe is already a world leader in areas from car and aerospace manufacturing to chemicals, and its focus on high-tech niches – which are less subject to low-cost competition – remains a source of strength.
Don't evaluate scholarly research on public impact alone.
The role of competitive funds as a source of funding for academic research has increased in many countries. For the individual researcher, the receipt of a grant can influence both scientific production and career paths.
Completing a Marie Curie Fellowship does have beneficial impacts on a researcher’s career prospects. These positive effects are more marked for academic researchers, while there is room for improving collaboration and mutual benefits with the private sector.
The mission of the Open Policy Network is to foster the creation, adoption and implementation of open policies and practices that advance the public good by supporting open policy advocates, organizations and policy makers, connecting open policy opportunities with assistance, and sharing open policy information.
Wednesday 2 July and Thursday 3 July 2014
Collection of literature, presentations, posts and links on reproducible research resulting from a recent Hackathon on open science.
The production, archival, and sharing of data may actually be a more effective way to contribute to the advancement of scientific knowledge.
Was die Britin Sarah Springman anpackt, macht sie zu Gold. Nun soll sie Rektorin der ETH werden.
A European Union-sponsored university ranking system has gone live after around six years of development.
Roughly 90% of researchers in a recent survey said scientists and policymakers don't communicate enough. But, only about 60% said they were sure of the names of their elected federal representatives.
Erstes Monitoring über alle Aktivitäten auf Schweizer Plattformen zeigt, dass Crowdfunding auch in der Schweiz immer beliebter wird. Gemäss der Studie hat sich das gesammelte Geldvolumen im vergangenen Jahr mehr als verdoppelt.
