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Emory College of Arts and Sciences has launched a $1.2 million effort that positions it to be a national leader in the future of scholarly publishing. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is funding the multiyear initiative to support long-form, open-access publications in the humanities in partnership with university presses.
Scientists ought to address the needs and employment prospects of taxpayers who have seen little benefit from scientific advances.
Funders, scientists, and journal editors will continue to play vital roles in defining a communication system that embraces both modern technology and the human need for curation.
Global research funds for these illnesses are at their lowest levels for a decade, when cash for West Africa epidemic is excluded.
Trying to find a way to explain to a six-year-old how natural selection works is valuable practise for trying to write a lay summary in a grant proposal.
ESA today announced it has adopted an Open Access policy for its content such as still images, videos and selected sets of data.
Data-centric science is emerging in concert with calls for increased openness in research.
The motto being "as open as possible, as closed as necessary".
Reading a scientific paper is not the same as understanding Shakespeare.
Crowd troubled by direction of Trump administration.
As top-down governance gives signs of obsolescence, it is time to adopt greater bottom-up input from scientists into policies influencing our lives.
The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation has awarded the 2017 Erasmus Prize to the Canadian cultural sociologist Michèle Lamont.
In February 2017, when Elsevier were accused of selling one paid-for hybrid open access article, at first they sowed doubt about it, then three days later admitted it to be true.
Llow replication success in psychology is realistic and worse performance may be expected for cognitive neuroscience.
In my scientific work I strive to be as open as possible. Unfortunately I work with data that I cannot de-identify well enough to share (aka weird sex diaries) and data that simply isn’t mine to share (aka the reproductive histories of all Swedish people since 1950)...
Study finds a stronger correlation for women between success and being central to a network
Existing model of outreach that seeks to inform an ‘ignorant’ public is broken.
While the University Grants Commission’s system prioritizes peer-reviewed papers, experts not involved in the initiative express concern that it could incentivize cheating.
Slides from my AAAS '17 talk, part of the panel: "Mind the Gaps: Wikipedia as a Tool to Connect Scientists and the Public"
Researchers at Stanford University have created an AI algorithm that can identify skin cancer as well as a professional doctor.
Think the current fake news issue is bad? It won’t get any better with AI.
HBO has released the first teaser for its upcoming film The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The story of Henrietta Lacks was documented in Rebecca Skloot’s 2010 book of the same title.
Tired of alternative facts, two Seattle professors aim to strike a blow for science. Their weapon? A new course: “Calling Bullshit In the Age of Big Data.”
