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The Perils of Public Outreach
A culture that normalizes hypercritical peers is a problem for scientists who want to reach beyond academe.
Trump and Brexit Opportunities for EU Science
Ten years of Dutch participation in the ERC programme have been very rewarding for the small nation. The Dutch population accounts for only 3% of the total union but it receives an impressive 9% of the ERC grants. Is this a blessing or a curse?
Reviewers Are Blinkered by Bibliometrics
Science panels still rely on poor proxies to judge quality and impact.
We Need to Break Science out of Its Ivory Tower
We can overcome the tyranny of inaccessible science hardware by building a movement for equity in science.
The Digital Industrial Revolution
As machine learning surpasses human intelligence, where does that leave us? This hour, TED speakers explore ideas about the exciting — and terrifying — future of human-robot collaboration.
DFG Statement on the Replicability of Research Results
Contribution to the public debate on the “replication crisis” / “Replicability essentially touches on the quality of research and concerns all of science”.
After Failing to Commercialize, Universities Learn to Set Ideas Free
In Canada, as in many other countries, there is an expectation that universities, the producers of the research, will advance innovation by starting up companies and by filing and licensing patents.
Machine Learning Requires Careful Stewardship Says Royal Society
Urgent consideration needs to be given to the “careful stewardship” needed over the next ten years to ensure that the dividends from machine learning – the form of artificial intelligence that allows machines to learn from data.
Decline and Fall of the Editor
The editors of scholarly communications are under considerable pressure as recent trends in Gold Open Access characterize them as a luxury of the past.
Historic Co-Authorships Speed up Editor Handling Times
Journal editors tend to accept manuscripts written by prior collaborators more quickly.
Reproducible and Reusable Research: Are Journal Data Sharing Policies Meeting the Mark?
Reproducible and Reusable Research: Are Journal Data Sharing Policies Meeting the Mark?
The pervasiveness and quality of data sharing policies in the biomedical literature.
Hey, Computer Scientists! Stop Hating on the Humanities
Computer science departments need to teach coders more than just how to code.
Employment Status Given to Nearly All PhD Candidates
The Swedish government has changed the university law to ensure all doctoral candidates are made an employee of the university with a salary.
The Ethics and Economics of Academic Publishing
Is it unethical for a Publisher to extract content from an academic author and commercially benefit from the sale of this without returning any of the economic gains back to the provider of that content or his/her employer?
Can Scientific Discovery Be Automated?
Progress in the sciences can only move as fast as humans can think—outsourcing to A.I. could change that.
Driverless Cars? How the Road to the Future Will Be Driven by Machine Learning
If Trump Wants to Make America Great Again, the Nation Should Spend More on R&D, Not Less
If Trump Wants to Make America Great Again, the Nation Should Spend More on R&D, Not Less
The president’s proposed cuts to research funding would cripple American innovation. We should be spending more on R&D, not less.
Our Machines Now Have Knowledge We’ll Never Understand
Knowing the world may require giving up on understanding it.
ProgrammingHistorian.org
A novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate their research.
Horizon 2020 Success Rates Are Higher Than They Appear
Take proposals that should never have been submitted out of the figures, and the chances of winning funding look a lot brighter.
Mozilla Learning: Web Literacy
A framework for entry-level web literacy & 21st Century skills.
March for Science: Protesters Gather Worldwide to Support 'Evidence'
Crowds massed in the US capital and around the world Saturday to support science and evidence-based research -- a protest partly fueled by opposition to President Donald Trump's threats of budget cuts to agencies funding scientists' work.
Too Many Studies Have Hidden Conflicts of Interest. A New Tool Makes It Easier to See Them.
Inside eLife: Forking Software Used in ELife Papers to GitHub
New eLife's GitHub account to track new software or a new algorithm when they are central to an article and to make sure that the right version of the code that was used within an article persists.
Jimmy Wales Goes After Fake News with Wikitribune
In an exclusive video with WIRED, Wales said he wants Wikitribune to 'bring the fact-based, fact-checking mentality we know from Wikipedia to news'
What We Can Learn From Tweets Linking to Research Papers
3 basic issues inherent in using tweets for research evaluation: whose tweets can be used to assess a paper, what objects can be evaluated, and how to score the paper according to each tweet.
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