Paul Benneworth and Kate Maxwell explain why we need public funding for science that creates truly public benefits.

We continue our Peer Review Week celebrations with a roundup of articles about bias, diversity, and inclusion in peer review, by Alice Meadows, including eight lessons we can all learn from them.

Stop blaming motherhood for a problem created by fathers.

They refuse to see me as a member of the professional and intellectual community.

Science chats with statistician John Ioannidis about "hyperprolific" authors.

Those who take on the global industry that traps research behind paywalls are heroes, not thieves, says George Monbiot.

Without affirmative action through gender quotas and targets, we will have another 30 years of glacial progress on gender equity in academia.

'Most highly cited' criterion is not the most appropriate.

Will Plan S deprive researchers of quality journal venues and of international collaborative opportunities, while disadvantaging scientists whose research budgets preclude paying and playing in this OA league?

Teams can work well, but co-leaders often don't.

The decision by The Review of Higher Education, a highly respected academic journal, to temporarily suspend submissions due to a backlog of more than two years’ worth of articles awaiting reviews or publication set off a twitter storm and much debate in the corridors of academia about the future of academic publishing, and in particular its very foundation, blind peer review. 

Scientists have the public’s trust, so the swell of fake news shouldn’t put them off communicating, says CEO of Science Media Centre.

The pharmaceutical industry gets a bad press. Some of the criticism is surely deserved, but the widespread notion that academia is morally superior is ridiculous, says Richard Grant.

A perspective from Germany's biggest network of doctoral researchers.

Girls are equally able at STEM-related subjects at school but are reluctant to choose them for a career. That is linked to a lack of confidence. We're only just starting to tackle the problem.

Nick Fowler and Gerard Meijer on the future of Open Access in Germany. Will the negotiations continue?

The battle for evidence-based reason may have to move elsewhere, says Jenny Rohn.

A new generation of scientists is confounding expectations and proving much more willing to engage with the public, not only because it benefits their development as researchers but also out of a sense of duty to society and a desire to have a positive impact on public perceptions of science.

Decision-makers need input from researchers on issues involving science and society.

Jessica K. Polka and colleagues call on journals to sign a pledge to make reviewers’ anonymous comments part of the official scientific record.

Working conditions in academic labs encourage abusive supervision. It is time to improve monitoring of and penalties for abuse, says Sherry Moss.

In an era in which data is everything, the risks to core democratic principles caused by technological illiteracy in policymakers, and policy illiteracy in computer scientists, are staggering.

For social science and humanities researchers in many parts of the world there are significant barriers to conducting and sharing research, in some cases more so than for science and medicine. In this guest post, Dr. Naveen Minai provides a perspective as a gender studies researcher in Pakistan.

The impact of a no-deal Brexit on British science could be worse than previously thought, according to a new analysis.

26 ways that digital ledger technology could be deployed by school districts, networks, postsecondary institutions and community-based organizations to improve learning opportunities.

There’s a real problem behind this Twitter spat.

Online technologies make it easy to share precise experimental protocols - and doing so is essential to modern science, says Lenny Teytelman.

Journalists covering crime or education are not typically expected to have a degree in those subjects. But science journalism is often considered a more technical and knowledge-heavy beat. This article examines advantages and drawbacks of becoming a science reporter from a variety of backgrounds.

Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance.

The obsession with internationalization had resulted in priority being given to overseas scholars and graduates and has diminished graduates of many top domestic universities to second or third-class status.