Researchers should be required to pass exams accredited by professional bodies to prove they have the skills to publish.

The collapse of Italy's coalition government has left researchers vulnerable. The president should use his moral authority with party leaders to make sure that promises of increased funding are kept.

Kathryn M. Rudy considers the huge expenses of doing scholarly work in her field of art history.

Many researchers still see the journal impact factor (JIF) as a key metric for promotions and tenure, despite concerns that it’s a flawed measure of a researcher’s value.

A warning of the dangers of politicizing educational attainment.

Journals and editorial boards must accept their responsibility to guide positive reviewer behaviour and constructive feedback.

Researchers have tried for at least 200 years to change academia and they have all failed, claims opinion piece.

While there were significant gains during much of the 20th century, feminist progress in the academy has slowed and may have already come to a halt. Overarching essay provides many references.

Funders and researchers are squandering a huge opportunity to create a more just and effective system, says Jon Tennant

A new research report provides an inventory of some 52 ongoing open source publishing initiatives and a thoughtful analysis of the open source community in publishing.

Open access is often discussed as a process of flipping the existing closed subscription based model of scholarly communication to an open one. However, in Latin America an open access ecosystem for scholarly publishing has been in place for over a decade.

Weighting transparency and confidentiality in scientific misconduct investigations.

Researchers need guidance on how to handle published work whose ethics have been questioned.

Targeting a general audience, this opinion piece argues that with more transparency about the publication process, we might have a more nuanced understanding of how knowledge is built - and fewer people taking “peer-reviewed” to mean settled truth.

Politics intruded on science and intelligence. That's why I quit my job as an analyst for the State Department.

In response to the recent editorial "Open access and academic imperialism", disappointment is expressed at such a narrow and misleading interpretations of the recent attempts to make academic publishing more open.

The next UK prime minister is a controversial character - and his stance on Brexit concerns researchers.

Grant capture is often used as a formal metric for academic evaluation. The author argues that this practice has led to perverse incentives for researchers and institutions and that research funders have both a responsibility and a significant interest in using their influence to halt this practice. 

EMBO's Bernd Pulverer looks at the revised Plan S Implementation Guidelines.

But only because we have had access to health care, emotional support and institutional backing.

Measurement creates a temptation to achieve a measurable goal by less than totally honest means. As in physics, the simple act of measuring invariably disturbs what you are trying to measure.

The meaning of a debate about the cost of higher education.

At turns lauded and vilified, the humble egg is an example of everything wrong with nutrition studies.

Excellence is not a zero sum game.

Keynote at PyData LondonJuly 14, 2019https://pydata.org/london2019/schedule/presentation/47/DescriptionTech has spent millions of dollars in efforts to diversify workplaces. Despite this, it seems after each spell of progress, a series of retrograde events ensue. Anti-diversity manifestos, backlash to assertive hiring, and sexual misconduct scandals crop up every few months, sucking the air from every board room. This will be a digest of research, recent events, and pointers on women in STEM.AbstractTwo years ago, a Google engineer attended a diversity program. He had such an adverse reaction to it, that he proceeded to write a 10-page anti-diversity manifesto that he circulated on internal channels. It later became public, furor ensued, and the engineer was fired. Far from being the end of the story, this engineer played the victim of political correctness and became a darling of conservative media outlets. What happened here? One tech company's attempts to educate its employees and improve the internal culture mightily backfired and as a result the cause for women in STEM was choked back. While a general sense that moving toward gender parity is desirable (though some still disagree with this premise), what actions to take remains unclear. Diversity trainings have been scarcely evaluated, and when they have, they seem to change awareness but not behavior. Sometimes, they create a backlash. More assertive action, like quotas, engender open resentment. Women in science and technology are underestimated by peers and teachers, pressed by stereotypes, disadvantaged in hiring and career progression, sexually harassed, disheartened as their expertise is ignored…and now they are resented for diversity initiatives. Science and technology needs its leaders to be fully committed to diversity and in frank understanding of the social-justice underpinnings. Two vehicles for change are: men leaders who are allies, and more women in leadership. The recent DataCamp debacle shows that a whole community's action was needed to right the wrongs of one harasser and one company's reticence to make him accountable. I aim to elicit your commitments to hire and promote women affirmatively, and to get educated and empower activism with evidence.

Blog post encourages using more specific terms to decrease ambiguity in discussions around open science.

To celebrate LGBTSTEM Day, our researchers talk about being #LGBT in science and engineering and why celebrating diversity is so important.

More disciplines must embrace a system of academic credit that rewards a greater range of roles more specifically.

Institutions cannot boast of a respectful environment for researchers and trainees if they flout those values to cut legal liability, says Steven Piantadosi.

Explaining the current trends, issues and challenges of open access with special focus on Plan S, Plan U, article processing charges (APC), access issues and predatory publishing practices.