The Science Museum is facing a backlash after it revealed that fossil fuel giant Shell would be the sponsor of its flagship climate exhibition when it reopens in May.

Communication within the scientific community without twitter has become hard to imagine. It was only a matter of time, then, until someone started examining what makes a tweet scientific in itself. Dr Athanasios Mazarakis has examined this more closely and, in his guest article, reveals what he discovered when researching the scientific character of tweets.

Quickly sharing the genetic sequence of the new coronavirus in early 2020 made all the difference in the response to the pandemic.

Scientific papers containing lots of specialized terminology are less likely to be cited by other researchers.

To understand how money affects politics, we need to understand how money affects psychology.

Collectively referred to as Data Together, the four collaborating international data organisations-CODATA, GO FAIR, RDA, WDS-have a joint commitment to work together to optimise the global research data ecosystem and to identify opportunities that will trigger federated infrastructures to service the new reality of data-driven science.

The FT analyses the scale of outbreaks and tracks the vaccine rollouts around the world.

Is it really just code for white people wishing to hold onto their way of life or to get “back to normal?”

New funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will support research and analysis into the hidden costs of open infrastructure. Hiring is now open for IOI's first Research Data Analyst.

Preprints play a crucial role in open science but offer an opportunity to be gamed. Fictitious authorship in preprints show that open science needs checks and we need to collaborate to govern Open Science.

A short overview of the different color scales (diverging, sequential, categorical) that you can use to visualize your data.

Dozens of countries are backing an effort that would protect 30 percent of Earth's land and water. Native people, often among the most effective stewards of nature, have been disregarded, or worse, in the past.

Congratulations on the successful defense of your dissertation. This is a significant accomplishment, and you should have the opportunity to savor ...

We are exploring forms of engagement between academic research and governments: what has been tried, by whom, to what effect, and using which mechanisms.

Find out more about the current edition of the French national program.

cOAlition S values the opinion of all researchers. We want to understand if and how Plan S affects your publishing practices and your views on Open Access.

Tempted to try your hand at a new technique? These tools will help you on your way.

The process of setting up a funding agency for high-risk research in the United Kingdom is under way. But questions remain about how it will benefit science.

We can learn from our failures.

An oily, 100-nanometer-wide bubble of genes has killed more than two million people and reshaped the world. Scientists don't quite know what to make of it.

The OA Switchboard has started to develop from an initial seed of an idea into an active community initiative with a broad spectrum of stakeholders committed to making it a success.

In the past few months, we've seen large commercial publishers express renewed concern that sharing author manuscripts in open repositories threatens the scholarly record because multiple versions undermine the "version of record". However, establishing and maintaining relationships to other versions of articles or research assets has already been shown to be successful in disciplinary and scholarly communities.

Unpacking each word -- rights, retention, and strategy -- enables understanding what this policy is and how it functions within the Plan S compliance framework.

Finding and reusing train-the-trainer materials in Social Sciences and Humanities: The SSH Training Discovery Toolkit The Training Discovery Toolkit is an inventory of various learning and training materials that trainers of different disciplines in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) can use to find materials for re-use in their own training activities.

A chess program that learns from human error might be better at working with people or negotiating with them.

Preprint servers have become an indispensable part of scholarly publishing. The next step is learning how to embrace them.

English departments rethink what to call themselves in light of how diverse they've become.

Data sharing was a core principle that led to the success of the Human Genome Project 20 years ago. Now scientists are struggling to keep information free.

Misuse of climate models could pose a growing risk to financial markets by giving investors a false sense of certainty over how the physical impacts of climate change will play out.

Nearly a year into the pandemic, Facebook now aims to take down misinformation on vaccines overall - not just COVID-19 vaccines.