Science investment boosts growth
A new independent report for CaSE shows that investing public money in science and engineering is good for the economy. [14][two page briefing]
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No regrets, says outgoing EPSRC chief David Delpy
Chief Executive of the ESPRC, has no regrets over the introduction of the council's exercise which prioritises funding according to UK strength and national importance.
On identifying rising stars in ecology
Comment on the paper Predicting publication success for biologists.
Gather and use genetic data in health care
An article on what is needed for personalized medicine to be reality. "Research into how genetic variants can guide successful treatments must become part of routine medical practice and records", says Geoffrey Ginsburg.
Europe needs a single system for competitive research funding
At some point we must decide whether we want excellent science or nationally representative science.
Discrimination starts even before grad school, study finds
Instructors at 259 US institutions were, on average, more likely to respond to fake email requests for mentoring if the senders' names sounded white and male.
Ten simple rules for the care and feeding of scientific data
By Goodman A, Pepe A, Blocker AW, Borgman CL, Cranmer K, et al. (2014).
Science tools anyone can afford
Science tools anyone can afford
"Today people look at these extraordinary labs and forget that in the 1800s they could still do the exact same science." -- Manu Prakash
Ten simple rules for reproducible computational research
Good habits of reproducibility may actually turn out to be a time-saver in the longer run.
Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws
Four prominent academics call for an overhaul of the US biomedical research workforce.
Triennial review of the RCUK
Triennial review of the RCUK
Triennial review examining the form, function and governance of the UK’s seven Research Councils.
Changing winds in science funding
Bias can taint scientific research, as conclusions are sensitive to the conscious and unconscious choices scientists make in study design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
We can fix peer review now
Scientists are asked to comment on static, final, published versions of papers, with virtually no potential to improve the articles. This is the state of post-publication peer review today.
Investing in partnerships in research and innovation
The EU Parliament has adopted a package of public-private and public-public research partnerships worth up to €22bn.
A change in the resubmission policy
The NIH is to allow researchers to base new grant applications on ideas that have previously been rejected for funding.
Foreign aid turns to research
Foreign aid turns to research
The UK has launched a five-year US$630 million fund to support science and innovation partnerships with researchers in developing countries that will focus on economic development.
The cost of academic publishing
What could the UK academic community do with £14.5 million? That is what just 19 Universities in the UK are spending in total during a single year on journal subscriptions to a single publisher.
Is UK humanities research reaching the widest possible audience?
Report points to 'serious dangers for the international standing of UK research' in humanities and social sciences.
Forschung und Wohlfahrt
"Die Schweizer Forschung wird künftig international sein oder gar nicht mehr sein."
Fehlende Forschung von heute sind Arbeitslose von übermorgen
Wirtschaftsforscher warnen vor Unterfinanzierung der Grundlagenforschung
The new frontier for academic-industry collaboration?
Academic-industry research collaborations have long been a source of controversy in medicine.
Tobacco industry-funded research, peer review, and nannying
Aside from the occasional cigar (once every five years or so), I'm one of those smug "never smoked" gits. You then might think that I'm all for plain packaging, not publishing tobacco industry-funded research, and completely against the " normalization" of smoking via the evidently evil medium of e-cigarettes.
Credit where credit is due
Liz Allen, Amy Brand, Jo Scott, Micah Altman and Marjorie Hlava are trialling digital taxonomies to help researchers to identify their contributions to collaborative projects. Research today is rarely a one-person job.
Ein Fünftel der Schweizer Stiftungen unterstützt Wissenschaft
Ein Fünftel der Schweizer Stiftungen unterstützt Wissenschaft
Ein Studie zeigt, dass immer mehr Stiftungen in der Schweiz die Wissenschaft fördern.
A picture of the UK scientific workforce
A lack of diversity in terms of gender, disability, ethnicity, socio-economic status and background across the scientific community represents a large loss of talent to the UK.
The problems with calling comments "post-publication peer-review"
Comment on a recent Nature blog entry by Richard Van Noorden
How long does it take to publish a paper?
The answer is - in our experience, at least - about 9 months. That's right, it takes about the same amount of time to have a baby as it does to publish a scientific paper.
How to create a successful science blog
Setting up your own science blog is a great way to publicise a field that is close to your heart, hone your writing skills and make a name for yourself
The post-doctoral situation: interview with Gregory Petsko
Gregory Petsko discusses some of his own findings about the post-doctoral situation: "We asked institutions to tell us how many post-docs they had. Almost without exception, they couldn't do it."
Nations chasing Harvard merge colleges to ascend rankings
Countries from Finland to Portugal are shaping their higher education policies based on outside rankings, eager for the validation and attention the annual lists bestow, even while they are criticized as flawed or misleading.
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