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There is incredibly intense competition for an academic faculty job even with such a small set of qualified candidates. After 23 years, the U.S. is producing twice as many Master’s degrees per capita than they used to.
Selection of a series of themes from the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) 2014.
Schon seit 2012 weiss man, dass von Elsevier, Springer und Thieme Klage gegen den Dokumentlieferdienst der ETH-Bibliothek eingereicht wurde. Wie es aber weiterging war aber weitgehend unklar. Am 7. April 2014 fand am Handelsgericht des Kanton Zürich die Gerichtsverhandlung statt.
Accessing government data from the source is frustrating. If you've done it, or at least tried to, you know the pain that is oddly formatted files, search that doesn't work, and annotation that tells you nothing about the data in front of you.
An open invitation to anyone and everyone to participate in a decentralized effort to explore the opportunities of open science in neuroimaging.
Most academic papers today are published only after some academic peers have had a chance to review the merits and limitations of the work. This seems like a good idea, but there is a growing movement that wants to retort as Albert Einstein did to such a review process.
Two themes sound repeatedly among those who would taper the flow of money: social science research isn't as economically valuable or as "high quality" as technological or medical research, and social science research can't be justified in austere times.
A community of students, researchers, Nobel Laureates, philanthropists, science-lovers and research institutes to launch a new way to support the big, risky blue-sky research the world needs.
Simple explanation of the basic workings of the European Commission and how EU policy relates to science and research.
A European research collaboration aimed at understanding the ways in which researchers are evaluated by their peers and by institutions, and at assessing how the science system can be improved and enhanced.
Wednesday 2 July and Thursday 3 July 2014
The mission of the Open Policy Network is to foster the creation, adoption and implementation of open policies and practices that advance the public good by supporting open policy advocates, organizations and policy makers, connecting open policy opportunities with assistance, and sharing open policy information.
Collection of literature, presentations, posts and links on reproducible research resulting from a recent Hackathon on open science.
Because the odds that a single paper will spread a good idea are simply too small. Three is good. Four is better. Five is much better.
The intent of this program is to enable the general public to distinguish between an educated opinion and a random comment without a background related to the topic.
Academia Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for academics and those enrolled in higher education. It's 100% free, no registration required.
The Open Access Button is seeking £20,000 of funding for Version 2.0 of the tool, which is planned for launch in this October's Open Access Week.
Academics have internalised research assessment to such a degree that the effects may be irreversible.
At the frontiers of scientific discovery, there is a growing problem. Can we still trust our scientists?
Scientists are asked to comment on static, final, published versions of papers, with virtually no potential to improve the articles. This is the state of post-publication peer review today.
Bias can taint scientific research, as conclusions are sensitive to the conscious and unconscious choices scientists make in study design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
Gregory Petsko discusses some of his own findings about the post-doctoral situation: "We asked institutions to tell us how many post-docs they had. Almost without exception, they couldn't do it."
Setting up your own science blog is a great way to publicise a field that is close to your heart, hone your writing skills and make a name for yourself
The answer is - in our experience, at least - about 9 months. That's right, it takes about the same amount of time to have a baby as it does to publish a scientific paper.
Comment on a recent Nature blog entry by Richard Van Noorden
By the Autralian National University research skills training.
Poor reproducibility is only one of many factors that together make biomedical research highly inefficient.
SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations.
"I co-founded the PLOS in 2002 because I believed deeply that the open access publishing model PLOS espoused and has come to dominate was good for science, scientists and the public."
