Equality: we are definitely not there yet
The League of European Research Universities calls for leadership on gender equality issues.
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World University Rankings 2015-2016
The world dominance of US universities has further waned in the THE World University Rankings 2015-2016. ETHZ is 9th.
The case for abolishing patents (yes, all of them)
Would we be possibly be better off without any patents at all?
Crowdsourcing a cancer drug: how the public can bring a new (old) drug to trial. ecancer - News
Crowdsourcing a cancer drug: how the public can bring a new (old) drug to trial. ecancer - News
Excellence or non-sense
Excellence or non-sense
What does 'excellence' really mean?
Ignoring science isn't a Republican problem. It's an American problem.
"I'm not a scientist." How many times have you heard that lately from politicians who are trying to duck questions about important scientific topics like climate change and vaccines?
Make academic job advertisements fair to all
Too many university posts are given to men without proper competition.
Gender contributes to personal research funding success in The Netherlands
Study reveals gender bias favoring male applicants over female applicants in the prioritization of their “quality of researcher” evaluations and success rates.
Quotas: an analysis of options for their use
The potential benefits and challenges that could arise from the use of quotas as one way to achieve better gender balance in academia.
For what it’s worth – the open peer review landscape
The current and future issues around post-publication open peer review and the protagonists and platforms that encourage open peer review, pre-and post-publication.
The evolution of impact indicators: from bibliometrics to altmetrics
Ebook covering key insights about traditional and alternative research impact indicators.
How PowerPoint is killing critical thought
The bullet 'pointization' of information is making us stupid and irresponsible.
'Overflow' of new research 'erodes trust between scientists'
According to a new paper, the "deluge" of new scientific papers that academics have to read makes it all but impossible to know what research to trust.
The journal that couldn't stop citing itself
In a four-paragraph editorial published in 2014, the "Journal of Criminal Justice" made 47 citations, all of other pieces that had appeared in the same publication.
US National Academies issue call to cut red tape
US National Academies issue call to cut red tape
Report warns that growing government regulations detracts from research.
67% of Europeans don't believe women have the skills to be scientists
A new survey from L’Oreal looks at the public’s perception of female scientists with shocking results. (Particularly if you live in China.)
PLOS publication costs increase
PLOS ONE increases author publication costs rates in 10%.
Publish or perish culture encourages scientists to cut corners
We need to ensure the reward and support structures in academia promote the best practices rather than corner cutting.
How to catalyse collaboration
Turn the fraught flirtation between the social and biophysical sciences into fruitful partnerships with five principles.
Why Is Science So Straight?
STEM culture must rein in the pressure to separate professional and personal identities.
Monitoring the Transition to Open Access
Study was commissioned by Universities UK's Open Access Co-ordination Group.
Overflow in science and its implications for trust
‘Overflow’ has important implications for the integrity of modern biomedical science.
Scientific disintegrity as a public bad
Scientific dishonesty essentially results from an incentive problem.
What drives academic data sharing?
Research policies that better incentivise data sharing are needed to improve the quality of research results and foster scientific progress.
Gender studies and interdisciplinarity
Gender studies as an interdisciplinary field has a distinctive engagement with interdisciplinarity.
Data Carpentry: workshops to increase data literacy for researchers
Data Carpentry workshops teach skills to researchers to enable them to retrieve, view, manipulate, analyze and store their and other’s data in an open and reproducible way in order to extract knowledge from data.
Interdisciplinary research by the numbers
An analysis reveals the extent and impact of research that bridges disciplines.
DOI Event Tracker
Crossref will be introducing a new service that tracks activity surrounding a research work from potentially any web source where an event is associated with a DOI.
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