Pockets of people have railed against vaccines as long as the preventives have existed.

Did you get the COVID-19 vaccine? A) Yes, because I'm ready to get back out there and start partying again! B) Yes, because I am haunted by the prospect of accidentally killing my parents or saddling my children with lifelong health complications.

Mit privaten Mitteln gründen Liberale an der Uni Luzern eine Denkfabrik. Wie viel Geld geflossen ist und was sie vorhaben, verraten die Involvierten nicht.

Unless actions by governments and corporations cut emissions here and now, a dose of scepticism is in order, says Guardian environment editor Damian Carrington

Creativity often flourishes in stressful times because innovation evolves out of need. During the coronavirus pandemic, we are witnessing a range of creative responses from individuals, communities, organizations, and industries.

There is no real evidence that the public has lost trust in science. So why are science-based recommendations often ignored?

The urgency of the climate crisis demands individual ethics as much as a willingness to cooperate with power. But reconnecting humans with the natural world also forces us to revisit the promises of ever-growing efficiency and a culture of exploitation.

Companies like Facebook aren’t building technology for you, they’re building technology for your data. They collect everything they can from FB, Instagram, and WhatsApp in order to sell visibility into people and their lives.

The Senate is considering Eric S. Lander's nomination after months of delay. Some experts ask if an adviser can actually have an impact.

Researchers have spoken out against policies that have exacerbated the country's coronavirus crisis. Policymakers must listen.

Big data bibliometrics must take into account qualitative analyses of research as a social institution, rooted in history, economics and politics.

A very serious typology of scientific papers.

Getting digitized primary source materials into the classroom requires an open dialogue among researchers, teachers, and archivists. A workshop from historians of business shows how.

Prominent academics, including a former IPCC chair, round on governments worldwide for using the concept of net zero emissions to 'greenwash' their lack of commitment to solving global warming.

This project investigated how a lack of external contact would affect sense of time - and two thirds wanted to stay longer.

As eLife transitions to exclusively reviewing preprints, we have integrated medRxiv into our submission process for the rapid sharing of new medical research.

Design your hiring process to find the right people to strengthen your teams' weaknesses, rather than trying to find the best people. Instead of "how can we find the smartest people?" think about "how can we find the people who will make our team stronger?"

Free reviews from a nonprofit body could add to questions facing scientific publishers.

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.