Social scientist and technology expert Zeynep Tufekci has been prescient about COVID-19 transmission. Eric Topol talks with her about how she does it and why such approaches make the difference.

The directive could make it easier to fire some agency researchers and hire others for political reasons.

New measures seek to lower the spread of the coronavirus, but some scientists say Europe should eliminate it.

A visual journey through the microscopic world of the coronavirus shows how masks provide an important defense against transmission.

DataCite and the FREYA project partners are proud to announce the official launch of DataCite Commons. DataCite Commons is the web interface to explore the PID Graph, formed by the publications, datasets, research software, and other research outputs generated by researchers working at research institutions and supported by grant funding.

Survey finds widespread support for editing, but there is little guidance from journals.

The Official PLOS Blog studies how researchers evaluate both the credibility and impact of research outputs.

From black holes at the Earth's center to decapitated quails, a group of scientists-some working for a journal from a major publisher-are prolifically publishing pseudoscience.

NASA's interest in lunar water is not purely academic.

The arrangement will allow some researchers in Germany to publish openly - but critics say it comes with a high price.

This year, candidates for tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in MB&B will be asked to submit anonymized applications—no names of people, places, funding agencies or journals.

Charts and maps show paradoxes of a pandemic that has claimed a million lives

This group set about the world ranking bodies answerable to the communities they rank, by seeking to introduce an evaluation mechanism of their own to rate the rankers.

This chart shows which countries are making progress to end the pandemic everywhere and which are not.

Let's start all over again about face masks. The noise about them is a Judas Priest blare. Can we turn down the volume for a moment?

The international Wikimedia movement, best known for its community-based online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, marked its 15th anniversary by setting its sights on the year 2030 and defined strategies, values and goals in an open process. Wikimedia Germany’s Nicole Ebber and Holger Plickert have answered some questions about the transformation, how Wikimedia wants to become the largest knowledge infrastructure in the world and what connections they see to libraries.

Publishers agree to make journal summaries open and searchable in single repository.

The argument that we have the power to deal with the dangers of social media on our own can come across as cruelly individualistic tech-apologia.

Drone Awards is the most important worldwide competition about aerial photography and video.

The US president's actions have exacerbated the pandemic that has killed nearly 200,000 people, rolled back environmental and public-health regulations and undermined science and scientific institutions. Some of the harm could be permanent.

In another candid interview, the NIAID director explains how he tries to counters White House optimism with "reality".

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Part one of a four part series on major barriers to equitable decision-making in hiring, review, promotion, and tenure processes that commonly result from biased thinking in academia. Part one delves into objective comparisons.

Exhibiting a dogmatic faith in metrics, higher education executives are being guided less by rational considerations about educational values and more by the "snake oils" of efficiency, profitability, and accountability. But these dark arts exact a price. Due to increasing competition for funds and jobs, and with the jobs themselves becoming increasingly precarious, universities have become "anxiety machines" for academics.

Five international students and postdocs reflect on a turbulent year triggered by the Trump administration's visa restrictions.

A week of talks, panels and discussions seeks to counter an impression "that this talent pool just does not exist."

Bringing stakeholders together to shape future research and innovation policy. See the programme, check out the speakers and join online 22-24 September.

The Open Data Day 2021 will take place on 6th March. It is the annual global celebration of open data facilitated by the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing: Final program available.

Help us increase the visibility of women in STEM and inspire the next generation of women scientists. Join us in writing Wikipedia biographies of women in STEM in October and November.