Storing and processing genome data will exceed the computing challenges of running YouTube and Twitter.

Will integrating original studies and published replications always improve the reliability of your results? No! Replication studies suffer from the same publication bias as original studies.

Interview with Mark Hahnel , founder of the data sharing platform [26]Figshare and keynote speaker on "Open Science" at [27]ScienceComm'15.

Institutions must be plain about research metrics if academics are to engage with them.

Why is the Wellcome Trust mandating the use of ORCID?

Mechanisms to help researchers to balance work and home lives have made a positive difference to the gender balance at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne.

China is spending hundreds of billions of dollars annually in an effort to become a leader in biomedical research. But some experts worry that medical researchers in China are stepping over ethical boundaries long accepted in the West.

EuroScientist webzine special issue on open science.

The scientific community must not rely exclusively on the impact factors of journals.

Funding agencies should highlight their roles as risk managers to underpin public trust.

Scientific research is awesome-we read it, we build upon it, we innovate with it, and we love it. But the process of getting research from the scientists who spend months or years with their data to the academics who want to read it can be messy.

Investigating fraud is hard work, and it is easier for journal editors to ignore the problem and perpetuate the myth that peer review of trial reports ensures their scientific quality.

Would we worry a little more about academic freedom—about his right to hold an unpopular view and still be a member of the academic community?

To realize the full potential of large data sets, researchers must agree on better ways to pass data around, says Martin Bobrow.

What lessons does the Swiss ambivalence towards European Union hold for the UK?

If faculties across the US don’t take a very public and aggressive stand in defense of their colleagues in Wisconsin, there will be little to stop the process of complete corporatization of higher education.

The DORA Declaration points out that using the Journal Impact Factor as a proxy measure for the value or quality of specific research and individual scientists leads to biased research assessment. How can we resist misusing metrics?

The case of Switzerland is a clear example of how a "no" vote could damage UK science.

ERC President statement on reported comments by ERC Scientific Council member

Researchers face pressure to hype and report selectively, says Dorothy Bishop.

A process at the heart of science is based on faith rather than evidence, says Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ and chief executive of the BMJ Publishing Group from 1991 to 2004.

Cheating in scientific and academic papers is a longstanding problem, but it is hard to read recent headlines and not conclude that it has gotten worse.

There is an urgent need to reverse the decline in research funding, and a lot to discuss about how decisions are made. But setting up a death match between Big Science and the rest is not the way to go.

Yoshitaka Fujii falsified 183 papers before statistics exposed him.

by Michael Eisen, co-Founder of PLoS

Chief scientific adviser Sir Mark Walport posits a future in which papers are revised as research matures, supplanting 'outmoded' publishing practices.

As science money is increasingly awarded to a small number of expensive projects, some academics argue that a new funding system is needed.

Enough with the long author lists - we are running out of space.

Working part time while raising kids isn't easy.

Advocates of open access tell only one side of the story, ignoring the exploitative practices and poor quality of many open-access journals.