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.

Renormalization has become perhaps the single most important advance in theoretical physics in 50 years.

As COVID-19 reveals the toll of discrimination, racism and inequality, a book skewers genetic reductionism.

This blog post demonstrates how scientometrics can help trace mobility patterns at the institutional level, using the Dimensions database.

On the far side of the universe, a collision of dark giants sheds light on an invisible process of cosmic growth.

“The point of Unsub is to take away much of the uncertainty of doubt around cutting journals,” says Jason Priem, one of the co-founder of the non-profit oranization Our Research.

Recently the creators of Transpose and the Platform for Responsible Editorial Policies convened an online workshop on infrastructures that provide information on scholarly journals. In this blog post they look back at the workshop and discuss next steps.

In response to the unprecedented educational challenges created by school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 90 per cent of countries have implemented some form of remote learning policy. This UNICEF factsheet estimates the potential reach of digital and broadcast remote learning responses, finding that at least 463 million students around the globe remain cut off from education, mainly due to a lack of remote learning policies or lack of equipment needed for learning at home. 

Missing documentation and obsolete environments force participants in the Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge to get creative.

How the words we use have evolved over the past 175 years.

Most antibody tests are useful only for large population surveys, diagnosis in certain children or when initial diagnostic testing fails, according to an expert panel.

Blockchain technology is going to change everything: the shipping industry, the financial system, government … in fact, what won't it change? But enthusiasm for it mainly stems from a lack of knowledge and understanding. The blockchain is a solution in search of a problem.

And why they also try to "feminize science," labeling experts as shrill or emotional.

Since Germany has been trying for years to reach such a contract with Elsevier, it is worth comparing it with the two transformative contracts with Wiley and Springer Nature in Germany, which were reached and coordinated by Project DEAL.

Written by Marta Teperek & Alastair Dunning 4TU.ResearchData is an international repository for research data in science, engineering and design. After over 10 years of using Fedora, an open so…

Search a 4,000-word database to see how language in the magazine evolved over time 

“Find a mentor.” It’s a piece of career advice so commonplace many of us have never given it a second thought. But does it hold up to scrutiny?

Women at ETH Zurich - from the early days to the present

Discover open scholarship resources created and curated by the community.

Can computer-designed synthetic drugs help combat COVID-19?

The United States has a chance to make things better before things get much, much worse. But much of the country appears to be squandering the opportunity.

Table of Contents 1. "There is no evidence of racism in STEM."2. "Don't politicize STEM! Stick to the science, not social issues."3. "I'm not a racist, so I don't need to do anything."4. "I only hire/award/cite based on merit; I do not need to consider race."5. "There just aren't as many BIPOC who want to…

Most people won't spread the virus widely. The few who do are probably in the wrong place at the wrong time in their infection, new models suggest.