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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."
Is Open Science already here? Not exactly. Open Science is more than a subset of projects that make data available or sharing of software tools, often because they received specific funding to do so.
The Wellcome Trust has released new data and infographics to show where it spends out money.
New scientists have grown up commenting on their friends pictures, their silly comments on Facebook and their favorite YouTube videos. Will this practice carry over into their scientific publishing?
One of the biggest stories in academia recently was the retraction of more than 120 papers by well-known journal publishers Springer and the IEEE.
According to one study, which was presumably read by more than three people, half of all academic papers are read by no more than three people.
List of the different types of current online repositories
