Research Funding: The Case for a Modified Lottery
On awarding research funds on the basis of a modified lottery in which peer review is used to identify the most meritorious proposals, from which funded applications are selected by lottery.
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Have We Been Hacked By Sci-Hub?
Recent announcements from the creator of Sci-Hub raise the distinct possibility that Scholarly Publishers have been systematically compromised.
The Reproducibility of Research and the Misinterpretation of P-Values
Science is endangered by statistical misunderstanding, and by university presidents and research funders who impose perverse incentives on scientists.
Authorea and BioRxiv Partner to Bring Preprints into 21st Century
Authorea, the collaborative document editor for researchers, announced a partnership and direct submission agreement with bioRxiv, the leading preprint server for biological research.
Study Finds Large Share of Cases Involving Faculty Harassment of Graduate Students Are Serious
Study Finds Large Share of Cases Involving Faculty Harassment of Graduate Students Are Serious
New study of harassment of graduate students by faculty members suggests that the problem is worse -- both in level of offense and prevalence of repeat offenders -- than many believe.
Curating Research Assets in Behavioral Sciences
A Tutorial on the Git Version Control System.
Making More Research Open Access One Paper at a Time
The Open Access Button directly reachs out to scholars who publish their work in paywalled journals to ask them to legally share their research.
Big Pharma Buys Into Crowdsourcing for Drug Discovery
The Structural Genomics Consortium encourages pharma companies and academics to put all their cards on the table in the interest of speeding up drug research.
Can You Tell Whether This Photo Has Been Manipulated?
Study finds that people aren’t great at spotting fake images.
The ReScience Journal
A peer-reviewed journal targeting computational research and encouraging the explicit replication of already published research.
Should Journals Be Responsible for Reproducibility?
One of the top journals in political science makes data-sharing and replication part of the publication process.
'Tired of medals': new letters reveal how Alfred Russel Wallace shunned Darwin's fame
From declining royal honour to refusing to sit for a portrait, correspondences show co-discoverer of evolutionary theory avoiding publicity.
Major German Universities Cancel Elsevier Contracts
These institutions join around 60 others that hope to put increasing pressure on the publishing giant in ongoing negotiations for a new nationwide licensing agreement.
Norwegian Humanities Research Is Thriving
Evaluation of humanities research in Norway.
One in Four Humanities Researchers ‘Never Publishes’
Major evaluation of country’s research landscape also found that internationalisation was a key area for improvement.
Becoming Professor. With Almost no Publications
I think I am the only living person in Sweden who achieved a professor chair with only one international journal publication.
Maryam Mirzakhani Dies at 40
An Iranian mathematician who was the only woman ever to win a Fields Medal, the most prestigious honor in mathematics, died on Saturday. She was 40.
Lawmakers Seek $1.1-Billion Boost for the NIH
Legislation introduced in the House of Representatives also rejects a White House plan to cut 'indirect cost' payments to research institutions.
The New Configuration of Metrics, Rules, and Guidelines Creates a Disturbing Ambiguity in Academia
The New Configuration of Metrics, Rules, and Guidelines Creates a Disturbing Ambiguity in Academia
The bibliometric system and the rules which accompany it have created an environment in which many if not most researchers can be identified as transgressors.
Science, Sensationalized: How the Press Undermines Research Funding
Science, Sensationalized: How the Press Undermines Research Funding
Climate change is the perfect example of how a cut-and-dry scientific issue can become controversial if it is represented consistently in partisan terms. Let’s not drag funding into the fray as well.
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