How to value research that crosses more than one discipline
Many academics have internalised the pressure to police disciplinary boundaries, and keep their heads down and in their faculties.
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Ending all-male panels
Microbiologists show it's possible to achieve gender equity in scholarly presentations
Let's face it: gender bias in academia is for real
Contrary to what some think, the battle against sexism in STEM has not been won, let alone reversed in favor of women.
How to Receive More Funding for Your Research? Get Connected to the Right People!
How to Receive More Funding for Your Research? Get Connected to the Right People!
In the quest for the research money it is more important how researchers build their collaboration network than what publications they produce and whether they are cited.
I Like, I Cite? Do Facebook Likes Predict the Impact of Scientific Work?
Facebook likes only predict citations in the psychological area but not in the non-psychological area of business or in the field of life sciences.
Do Nobel Laureates create prize-winning networks?
Laureates produce fewer papers but with higher average citations, more sole-authored papers both before and after winning the Prize, and have a lower number of coauthors across their entire careers than the matched group.
Making data count
Results from a survey on perceptions of data sharing, discovery, and metrics.
Drop in Swiss R&D spending due to immigration vote
Federal spending on research and development has fallen by 7% largely due to a freeze in research collaborations with the EU following the February 2014 vote to limit EU immigration.
CORE - COnnecting REpositories
The mission of CORE is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public.
Obama orders effort to build first exascale computer
The US is committed to building a computer some 30x more powerful than today's top machine.
Futsci: Future Science
Crowdfunding for Life Science Research. FutSci is an arena for public engagement in Biomedical and Bioscience Research, enabling members of the public to directly fund research.
Senate panel approves public access bill
Senate panel approved a bill that would require U.S. science agencies to make the peer-reviewed research papers they fund freely available to the public.
RCUK responds to Burgess Review
Research Councils UK has published its response to the independent Review of the implementation of the RCUK policy on Open Access, chaired by Professor Sir Bob Burgess.
Artificial intelligence experts call for ban
More than 1,000 artificial intelligence researchers have signed an open letter issued that calls for a ban on autonomous weapons that select and engage targets without human intervention.
Google is scouring Ancestry.com to find out what's in your genes
Google is scouring Ancestry.com to find out what's in your genes
Google's biotech Calico will delve into the genetic database amassed by a unit of Ancestry.com to look for hereditary influences on longevity.
New Scopus article metrics
The new Scopus Article Metrics module includes new metrics based on four alternative metrics categories.
Experimental reproducibility has always been hard but cooperation could make it easier
Experimental reproducibility has always been hard but cooperation could make it easier
Is public money being thrown away on scientific research whose results won’t hold up to scrutiny?
Could students solve the irreproducibility crisis?
Scientists on social media debate a call to require PhD students to replicate research before they can graduate.
Half of biomedical research studies don't stand up to scrutiny and what we need to do about that
Half of biomedical research studies don't stand up to scrutiny and what we need to do about that
What if I told you that half of the studies published in scientific journals today - the ones upon which news coverage of medical advances is often based - won't hold up under scrutiny?
We discovered one of social science's biggest frauds. Here's what we learned.
What are the right lessons to draw from the rise in scientific retractions?
European science cloud on the horizon
Europe’s researchers have access to super-fast networks, common data storage facilities, and shared computing resources. The challenge now is to link them all together into a single science cloud.
A research, innovation and health rescue package for Greece
Harness Horizon 2020 to maximise the impact and benefit of EU funds, argue Mike Galsworthy and Martin McKee.
A difficult birth, a hopeful future
Kurt Deketelaere looks at the battles, and progress, of the Juncker Commission's first nine months, and sees more of both to come.
Toward a sustainable biomedical research enterprise: Finding consensus and implementing recommendations
Toward a sustainable biomedical research enterprise: Finding consensus and implementing recommendations
[32]Crowdfunding | Is crowdfunding a viable source of clinical trial research funding?
Is crowdfunding a viable source of clinical trial research funding?
[33]Misconduct | Males are overrepresented among life science researchers committing scientific misconduct
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Survey results released last week by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) included an interesting nugget. Some 72% of respondents said that they had been unable to replicate a published experimental result. Yet a higher proportion (77%) said that they had never been told that their work could not be replicated.
Speeding up scholarly communication for rapid sharing
Dalmeet Singh Chawla rounds up the recent discussion about single figure publications.
US project aims for ethnic balance
Massive study seeks to succeed where others failed, but faces tight deadline and questions about strategy.
Cindy Wu raised $1.2 million
Cindy Wu raised $1.2 million
Cindy Wu, a recent college graduate, had a great idea — and when she explained it, investors opened up their checkbooks
Why we are teaching science wrong, and how to make it right
Active problem-solving confers a deeper understanding of science than does a standard lecture. But some university lecturers are reluctant to change tack.
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