10% of all postdocs stay in academia but nearly 80% hope to pursue an academic career

The PLOS Pathogens team reflects on their most widely shared article and the benefits and pitfalls of sharing science research on social media.

I have never liked how scientific journals charge us to read the research that we produce. But that is another debate for another day. What I really hate is how they abuse this power to stifle debate in the name of their business interests.

Why shouldn’t publishers celebrate an improved impact factor?

Although thinking is the core business of scientists, we rarely ponder how it thrives best; this is ironic, as there is abundant scientific insight to draw upon.

Gisou van der Goot, professeure à l’EPFL, a récemment été confirmée dans son poste de doyenne de la faculté de Sciences de la vie de l'EPFL.

George Church is a genetics pioneer whose research spans treating diseases, altering bodies and a desire to breed woolly mammoths

Faut-il un conseiller scientifique en chef pour la Commission Européenne ?

Are there any lessons to be learnt from the field of healthcare quality which could improve our approach to assessing research quality?

Academia doesn’t make the grade as a training ground for today’s world

Researchers around the world love their work, but tight funding is eroding their spirits.

If so, the current funding system shares much of the blame.

Europe's €1-billion science and technology project needs to clarify its goals and establish transparent governance.

Metrics that give a global overview risk sidelining science in developing nations.

The culture of scientific publishing is complex. Some problems need technical solutions, but others require a cultural change within academia.

With high numbers of postdocs emerging from universities, prospective PhD students must be prepared for the fact that they will probably not end up with a career in research.

It can seem like a magic word is needed to get published in the top academic journals. Is open access a genuine alternative?

As someone looking back from a high point in his career, what advice would Martin Hairer give to a young mathematician who was just starting out?

Nobelpreisträger Edmund Phelps spricht Europa Innovationskraft ab. Die Menschen seien zu behütet. Der Kontinent lebe von der Substanz.

"The future of science (& humanity) isn't about funding, it's about supporting scientists to take risks once again."

Recent retraction of two papers on stem-cell research by the journal Nature highlights weaknesses in this self-regulatory framework that scientists need to address.

On the importance of remaining pragmatic due to the risk of collapsing the entire publishing system in an effort to improve it.

Africa has a poor reputation for scientific innovation. But when South Africa jointly won a bid in 2012 to host the world's largest science project, for a radio telescope called the Square Kilometre Array, it hoped to foster a new image.

Arbeitserfahrungen im Ausland gelten in der Wissenschaft als Tugend - Doch viele Forscher kehren nach Jahren des Wanderns nicht mehr zurück.

Es ist höchst eigenartig: Die Schweiz driftet, seit dem 9. Februar mit erhöhter Geschwindigkeit, auf eine gewaltige Bewährungsprobe zu, doch die politischen Parteien bleiben weitgehend stumm.

Scientific publishers producing model copyright licences will make it harder for academic research to be a "first class citizen of the web".

Women continue to face serious obstacles when pursuing a scientific career in Switzerland, with the juggle of family life and research particularly difficult.

Google is allegedly working on a free, open access platform for the research, collaboration and publishing of peer-reviewed scientific journals. At least, that is apparently what one individual wants us to believe.

Something is rotten in the state of academic publishing. But even those of us in the thick of it find it hard to pinpoint exactly what is wrong.

The increasing pace of human discovery is a curse – we need to rethink what it means to publish the results of research.