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As Wearables in Workplace Spread, So Do Legal Concerns

As Wearables in Workplace Spread, So Do Legal Concerns

As wearable devices in the workplace spread, so do the legal concerns. Companies can now use the devices to monitor their employees’ health and track their locations. How should such technology be used to avoid legal problems?

Science vs. Science News: (Un)Warranted Distrust

Science vs. Science News: (Un)Warranted Distrust

Our reverence for science has led to a culture of "new findings" and sensationalistic headlines.

Help us integrate GitLab and the Open Science Framework

Help us integrate GitLab and the Open Science Framework

The Center for Open Science (COS) is funding the development of an integration between GitLab and the Open Science Framework (OSF).

The 20 best science images of the year?

The 20 best science images of the year?

From multicoloured scans of the human body, to vivid photos of creatures up close - the finalists of the annual Wellcome Image Awards.

Lab life: Lone-parent scientist : Naturejobs

Lab life: Lone-parent scientist : Naturejobs

Limited institutional resources mean that single parents often need a network of support to further their scientific careers.

Is the peer-review system broken?

Is the peer-review system broken?

A look at the PLoS ONE paper on a hand designed by “the Creator”

The relative impact factor of glamour journals is 2.166

The relative impact factor of glamour journals is 2.166

Tweets of articles from Cell, Nature and Science journals all resulted in 2.166 more times clicks on the journal title rather than the anonymized links.

Fire ants, goshawks and dog tongues. Oh my: the best of ScienceTake

Fire ants, goshawks and dog tongues. Oh my: the best of ScienceTake

ScienceTake 100th video: trying to offer compelling imagery, a glimpse at how science is done and answers to questions that are rarely asked.

Why is it so damn hard to get a paper retracted?

Why is it so damn hard to get a paper retracted?

Despite the real-time scrutiny of internet publication, getting a paper retracted or corrected turns out to be nearly impossible.

Someone is showing what it'd be like if male scientists were written about like women

Someone is showing what it'd be like if male scientists were written about like women

"A devout husband and father, Darwin balanced his family duties with the study of the specimens he brought from his travels."

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.