November 12-14, EMBL Heidelberg

The University of Leeds is seeking to recruit up to 250 exceptional early career academics to tenure track equivalent Academic Fellowships over the next three years.

Sciencestarter is the first German crowdfunding platform for science projects.

How women and men fare in doctoral studies around the world.

Comparing Intra-EU and U.S. Mobility

This paper provides useful insights for the design of networks that promote research productivity. Overall, dense networks negatively affect the creation of new knowledge. In addition, the analysis shows that a division of labor in academia, in the sense of interdisciplinary research, increases the productivity of researchers. It is also found that the position in a network is critical. Researchers who are central tend to create more knowledge.

The number of funded applications per year was found to correlate well with total annual citation impact, suggesting that improving funding success rates by reducing the size of awards may be an efficient funding strategy to optimize the scientific impact of research program portfolios.

Instrumentenkasten mit Beispiele aus der Praxis für die Praxis zu den Forschungsorientierten Gleichstellungsstandards der DFG.

People seeking non-academic jobs may need to try something unexpected to be noticed, says Peter Fiske.

Science crowdfunding platform reaches $1 million after two years.

Exploring the topic together with ERC grantees and other researchers, with representatives from funding bodies, universities and other research performers, with publishers, policy makers and other interested parties.

On the state of the postdoc — the staple of the science scholar's life cycle that's now gaining steam in the humanities.

eLife has released its 2013 financials, which give an indication of what a premier OA journal article costs to produce.

Dan Huttenlocher, dean of the Cornell Tech Campus, shares what it's like building an innovation center.

Did you ever wonder why it says QWERTY up on the left of your keyboard? And what does it have to do with academic publishing?

Giant academic social networks have taken off to a degree that no one expected even a few years ago. A Nature survey explores why.

An overview on how to measure influence in research.

A palaeontologist, an astronomer, a chemist - into the pantheon of children's toys stride three new Lego characters. Not so surprising. Except the scientists are all female.

Where do students go to study? Where do they come from?

What is open access? Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen take us through the world of open access publishing and explain just what it's all about.

Graduate students today fall squarely in the millennial generation, which means we're steeped in hipster culture. Readers of a certain age may still associate hipsters with aficionados of 1940s bebop.

Teaching lab skills for scientific computing.

Open Access and Being Human Dr Martin Paul Eve, co-founder of the Open Library of the Humanities and editor of the open access journal Alluviun, reflects on Open Access engagement, and the politics of information management in a digital age.

Nice interactive graphic allows you to explore the relationship between college majors and occupations.

The push for STEM should not drown out the importance of humanities research.

The rate of retractions of scientific papers has been growing over the past decade, suggestive to some of a crisis of confidence in science. Can we no longer trust the scientific literature?

An excess of graduates means that job-seekers need to be versatile.

One of the greatest things about infographics is their efficiency. Wherever there is data, an idea, or story to tell; an infographic can be used to enhance the reader's understanding - and retention - of the information being presented.

The Winnower is another open access online science publishing platform that employs open post-publication peer review, aiming to revolutionize science by breaking down the barriers to scientific communication through cost-effective and transparent publishing for scientists.

Whilst metrics may capture some partial dimensions of research ‘impact’, they cannot be used as any kind of proxy for measuring research ‘quality’.