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

Much of research in the US is inaccessible not only to the public, but also to other scientists. Fortunately, cheap open-access alternatives are not only possible, but already beginning to take root

Auckland, August 28-29, 2014

Q&A for developers and researchers interested in open data

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Our PhD employment problem is very simply described: there's a mismatch between the number of graduate students earning doctorates each year and the number of tenure-track faculty positions available to them. There are too few tenure-track jobs for the PhD recipients who are qualified to compete for them.

Peer review and the tyranny that must be broken.

Reportage au Media Lab du MIT

A platform comparing research journal's performance aiming to make the peer review process more efficient.

Portal of the U.S. Government’s open data.

A movement exploring the absence of Black Professors in UK higher education institutions.

The academic torrents network is built for researchers, by researchers. Its distributed peer-to-peer library system automatically replicates your datasets on many servers, so you don't have to worry about managing your own servers or file availability. Everyone who has data becomes a mirror for those data so the system is fault-tolerant.

In a 7 mins talk, Adam Savage walks through two examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple methods anyone could have followed: the calculation of the Earth's circumference around 200 BC and the measurement of the speed of light in 1849.

The Finch Report , the Government's acceptance of its key recommendations, the new RCUK policies on open access, and the consultation by the Funding Councils on possible open access requirements for material to be submitted to the REF expected in 2020, have changed the open access landscape in the UK.