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I’m in graduate school to learn, and preprints—draft versions of journal articles that are shared prior to peer review—offer a great opportunity to do just that. Here’s how preprints help young researchers grow in ways traditional types of scientific communication don’t.
Explore the top universities in parts of the Middle East and North Africa based on data collected by Times Higher Education
A new study of 728 campaigns from a crowdfunding platform finds that women and students tend to do better.
The No Women No Panel Campaign initiated by Commissioner Mariya Gabriel has been supported and reiterated by several of her colleagues from the European Commission. She committed to ensuring at least one other woman is part of panels she is invited to speak at.
A report from a short project using natural language processing and machine learning on open-access content to understand what lies beneath a citation.
Gender and the ethics of care in the neoliberal accelerated academy.
John Ioannidis discusses the potential effects on clinical research of a 2017 proposal to lower the default P value threshold for statistical significance from .05 to .005 as a means to reduce false-positive findings.
Making scientific publications free to read is a big change in a world dominated by subscription journals. Why is it so important that science publications become open access?
It seems that CRISPR technology may indeed be all that it promises.
5 technologies under development at the IBM Research labs.
A proposed policy would bar the E.P.A. from considering research that doesn't release its raw data for review, blocking some significant work.
How blockchain can be used to time-stamp data and authenticate research.
Findings suggest that while metrics are introduced to spur virtuous behaviours, when not properly designed they favour the usage of questionable practices.
Science-related Facebook pages draw millions of followers but 'news you can use' posts or ads outnumber ones about scientific discoveries.
To beat the stiff competition, highlight your skills in collaboration, teamwork and meeting deadlines.
Countries that are generally more egalitarian, or that have institutions more conductive to equality, have a lower gender performance gap in math, suggesting that this gap is partly shaped by more general societal inequalities.
The privacy backlash over Cambridge Analytica and Facebook may lead to explosive consequences for academics.
