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Powerful people are terrible at making decisions together

Powerful people are terrible at making decisions together

Corporate boards, the US Congress, and global gatherings like the just-wrapped WEF in Davos are all built on a simple theory of problem solving: Get enough smart and powerful people in a room and they'll figure it out. This may be misguided.

Media coverage and journal press releases associated with high-impact medical journals

Media coverage and journal press releases associated with high-impact medical journals

The design of clinical studies whose results are published in high-impact medical journals is not associated with the likelihood or amount of ensuing news coverage.

Wikiometrics: a new, wikipedia-based ranking system

Wikiometrics: a new, wikipedia-based ranking system

This paper presents Wikiometrics: the derivation of metrics and indicators from Wikipedia.

Public data archiving in ecology and evolution

Public data archiving in ecology and evolution

This paper highlights key guidelines to help authors increase their data’s reuse potential and compliance with journal data policies.

Why the referees' reports I receive as an editor are so much better than the reports I receive as an author?

Why the referees' reports I receive as an editor are so much better than the reports I receive as an author?

Authors tend to attribute manuscript acceptance to their own ability to write quality papers and simultaneously to blame rejections on negative bias in peer review, displaying a self-serving attributional bias.

Unexpected, a video by the Royal Society

Unexpected, a video by the Royal Society

Fellow of the Royal Society and future President of the Royal Statistical Society, Sir David Spiegelhalter visits Dr Nicole Janz to discuss reproducibility in scientific publications.

You want a letter? You write it for me

You want a letter? You write it for me

A few years back, I asked two colleagues for letters of support for my grant proposal. One colleague drafted a letter personally. The other, citing heavy time pressures, asked me to draft the letter myself.

Why researchers keep citing retracted papers

Why researchers keep citing retracted papers

Some papers cite the retracted work to examine the retraction itself. Others may simply be pointing out that the findings of a withdrawn paper have been proven false.

The most interesting recent scientific news

The most interesting recent scientific news

Edge annual question: what do you consider the most interesting recent scientific news? What makes it important?

Hiding journal names from your publication list is a great idea

Hiding journal names from your publication list is a great idea

Michael Eisen recently announced his new website, which features a new publication list that doesn’t mention journal names anywhere.

7 facts about a revolutionary technology

7 facts about a revolutionary technology

What everyone should know about cut-and-paste genetics.

100 Women 2015: How can we stop unconscious bias?

100 Women 2015: How can we stop unconscious bias?

We can't avoid making snap decisions about other people. Or can we?

Albert Einstein and relativity in the pages of The Times

Albert Einstein and relativity in the pages of The Times

One hundred years after Albert Einstein made public his theory of general relativity, many of us struggle to understand it.

'Seek funding' step added to scientific method

'Seek funding' step added to scientific method

The International Council for Science announced Thursday the addition of a "Seek Funding" step to the scientific method.

Einstein was no lone genius

Einstein was no lone genius

Lesser-known and junior colleagues helped the great physicist to piece together his general theory of relativity, explain Michel Janssen and Jürgen Renn.

Ioannidis and Kaplan discuss the importance of improved reporting in scholarly research

Ioannidis and Kaplan discuss the importance of improved reporting in scholarly research

A Reddit "Ask Me Anything" series on research reproducibility.

Artificial intelligence institute launches free science search engine

Artificial intelligence institute launches free science search engine

Semantic Scholar comes from centre backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

Academics have found a way to access insanely expensive research papers-for free

Academics have found a way to access insanely expensive research papers-for free

"The internet has changed everything and people are simply no longer willing to pay $30 to read a paper from 1987."