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These scientists studied journalists covering science

These scientists studied journalists covering science

The researchers also point out that artists and filmmakers, in addition to journalists, could help pull compelling narratives out of all that science.

ERC activities and achievements in 2014

ERC activities and achievements in 2014

The main goal of the European Research Council (ERC) is to encourage high quality research in Europe through competitive funding

The effect of document properties and collaboration patterns

The effect of document properties and collaboration patterns

This paper analyses the main patterns of five social media metrics as a function of document characteristics (i.e., discipline, document type, title length, number of pages and references) and collaborative practices and compares them to patterns known for citations.

openSNP

openSNP allows customers of direct-to-customer genetic tests to publish their test results, find others with similar genetic variations, learn more about their results, get the latest primary literature on their variations and help scientists find new associations.

Top 10 emerging technologies according to the WEF

Top 10 emerging technologies according to the WEF

The World Economic Forum’s Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies, a panel of 18 experts, draws on the collective expertise of the Forum’s communities to identify the most important recent technological trends.

Transparency between Universities and Economy

Transparency between Universities and Economy

The new version of the website "hochschulwatch.de" shows that there are about 1,000 private chairs alone in Germany. In addition, over 10,000 collaboration between industry and universities were collected.

Reproducible research can still be wrong

Reproducible research can still be wrong

Reproducibility alone is insufficient to address the replication crisis because even a reproducible analysis can suffer from many problems that threaten the validity and useful interpretation of the results.

Race, Inequality and Diversity in the Academy

Race, Inequality and Diversity in the Academy

Race inequality remains prevalent throughout all areas of higher education, including staffing, admissions and employment, according to a report released by leading UK race equality think tank the Runnymede Trust.