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DNA testing companies are starting to profit from selling our data on to big pharma. Perhaps they should be paying us, says science writer Laura Spinney.
Impact is increasingly important for science policy-makers. Science policy studies have reacted to this heightened urgency by studying these policy-interventions.
How can science–society relations be better understood, evaluated, and improved by focusing on the organizations that typically interact in a specific domain of research.
Academic scientists and research institutes are increasingly being evaluated using digital metrics, from bibliometrics to patent counts. These metrics are often framed, by science policy analysts, economists of science as well as funding agencies, as objective and universal proxies for scientific worth, potential, and productivity.
What are racial microaggressions and how do they appear within science communities?
A survey of New Zealand scientists found that recipients of a randomized funding program favored random allocations of some kinds of grant money.
Standard reports paint a much rosier picture of the research landscape than may be warranted. In this analysis, the first hypothesis of standard articles reported was supported by the data 96% of the time, while that rate was only 44% in registered reports.
In a victory for science and public health, a federal court determined that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cannot exclude scientists who have received EPA research grants - who happen to be mainly academic scientists from research universities - from serving on its advisory panels.
Reversing the relationship between authors and publishers would ease perverse incentives that impede progress, say Hilal Lashuel and Benjamin Stecher
Proposals to mandate open access monographs from 2024 will make it harder to publish and will limit career chances, says professor
A joint statement calling on EU institutions to ensure the right of researchers to share their research findings without embargoes or restrictions has today been issued by the Young Academy of Europe and other organisations representing early-career and senior researchers in Europe and beyond.
Emmanuel Macron has urged EU member states to put more money into the collective Brussels pot so Europe can invest in key technologies of the future. The French president said he is "not frustrated but impatient" for the EU to take on bigger projects.
A physicist from Imperial College London is on a mission to bust what she calls the "big misconception" about scientists. Dr Jess Wade started to create and edit Wikipedia pages at the beginning of 2018 to "better represent women and people of colour" on the online encyclopedia. She's now amassed a portfolio of more than 900 new pages but says the project is about more than the numbers. Speaking to ITV News on International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Dr Wade said: "Something magical can happen if you stumble across a profile that looks a bit like you. "You realise you could be like that too".
Self-archiving is a key aspect of Open Access. Read the infographic to learn more about OA repositories
Kvarven, Strømland and Johannesson compare meta-analyses to multiple-laboratory replication projects and find that meta-analyses overestimate effect sizes by a factor of almost three. Commonly used methods of adjusting for publication bias do not substantively improve results.
Repositories like INA-Rxiv and IndiaRxiv boost regional science, but finding cash to run them is proving difficult.
Scientists describe 20.75C logged at Seymour Island as 'incredible and abnormal'.
With rightwing demagogues gaining power and public debate getting nastier, many are calling for a return to a more sensible politics. But this approach has its own fatal flaws.
When staff go on strike in the UK this month, they will be battling not just for the future of higher education but for our economy and culture, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones.
These are Martin Paul Eve's notes on The UKRI Open Access Review Consultation Document.
In imposing travel restrictions against China during the current outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), many countries are violating the International Health Regulations.
Mauro Ferrari says scientists should get rid of ‘disciplinary goggles’ and combine expertise to create new fields of scientific research.
Lack of antibody tests obscures impact of the novel virus.
The Swiss Federal Council has renewed Martin Vetterli's term as president of Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), upon the recommendation of the ETH Board. The professor of communication systems will therefore lead EPFL for a second four-year term that will begin on 1 January 2021.
Nearly a third of universities have used non-disclosure contracts for student grievances since 2016.
Academics are warning that universities restrict their freedom by surveilling social media posts.
Medical sources in the city confirm rate of infection, but say they have been told not to release the full picture to the public.
