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Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in the Lab - a Rogues' Gallery
Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in the Lab - a Rogues' Gallery
Was there ever a golden age of unsullied science, as a book implies?
Opinion | How to Identify Flawed Research Before It Becomes Dangerous
Scientists and journalists need to establish a service to review research that's publicized before it is peer reviewed.
Women Scientists Were Written Out of History. It's Margaret Rossiter's Lifelong Mission to Fix That
COAlition S Develops "Rights Retention Strategy" to Safeguard Researchers' Intellectual Ownership Rights and Suppress Unreasonable Embargo Periods
COAlition S Develops "Rights Retention Strategy" to Safeguard Researchers' Intellectual Ownership Rights and Suppress Unreasonable Embargo Periods
Publishers commonly require authors to sign exclusive publishing agreements which restrict what authors can do with their research findings, including making articles Open Access in line with their funders’ requirements. To address this problem, cOAlition S has developed a Rights Retention Strategy, which will empower their funded researchers to publish in their journal of choice, including subscription journals, and provide Open Access in compliance with Plan S.
Is There Really a Covid Mental Health Crisis?
The coronavirus has obviously brought with it an epidemic of anxiety and depression. Or has it?
How Gödel's Proof Works
His incompleteness theorems destroyed the search for a mathematical theory of everything. Nearly a century later, we're still coming to grips with the
What Do Libraries Keep When They Cancel the Big Deal?
How do libraries decide which titles to keep when they cancel the Big Deal? What do the results look like?
'Huge Hole' in COVID-19 Testing Data Makes It Harder to Study Racial Disparities
How Scientific Societies Are Weathering the Pandemic's Financial Storm
How Scientific Societies Are Weathering the Pandemic's Financial Storm
As conference cancellations cut revenue, some scholarly organizations are fighting to stay afloat.
"Stunned, Very Confused": Two More Journals Push Back Against Impact Factor Suppression
"Stunned, Very Confused": Two More Journals Push Back Against Impact Factor Suppression
At least two more journals are fighting decisions by Clarivate — the company behind the Impact Factor — to suppress them from the 2019 list of journals assigned a metric that many rightly or wrongly consider career-making.
The CDC is an Apolitical Island. That's Left It Defenseless Against Trump
The CDC is an Apolitical Island. That's Left It Defenseless Against Trump
The CDC struggles with structural and cultural issues that have left the agency ill-equipped to fend off political attacks or to build up political capital.
A New Understanding of Herd Immunity
The portion of the population that needs to get sick is not fixed. We can change it.
Open Knowledge Foundation Seeks Visionary Leader to Steer the World Towards a Free, Fair, and Open Society
Open Knowledge Foundation Seeks Visionary Leader to Steer the World Towards a Free, Fair, and Open Society
The process of recruiting a new CEO will commence over the next few weeks. An open future has never been more important – will you join us to create it?
The Pandemic Is Pushing Scientists To Rethink How They Read Research Papers
The Pandemic Is Pushing Scientists To Rethink How They Read Research Papers
The coronavirus pandemic has posed a special challenge for scientists: Figuring out how to make sense of a flood of scientific papers from labs and scientists unfamiliar to them.
The COVID-19 Infodemic and the Future of the Communication of Science
This article looks at the balance between speed and uncertainty in scholarly communication, and how technology can facilitate better information travel.
Why Scientists with Children Who Have Disabilities Need a Different Career Trajectory
Why Scientists with Children Who Have Disabilities Need a Different Career Trajectory
As lockdowns ease, Olivier Pourret hopes that academia will take on board lessons about how to redefine career success.
Switzerland Again #1 on European Innovation Scoreboard
The European Commission released the European Innovation Scoreboard 2020. According to the ranking, Switzerland continues to be the most innovative country of the continent.
The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus
New federal data provides the most comprehensive view to date of how Black and Latino people have been likelier than their white peers to contract the virus and die from it.
Generals Die in Bed
Are those deciding whether to reopen campuses this fall facing the same risks as everyone else?
Ten Years of the Sun in One Hour - Nasa Releases Mesmerising Space Film
The space agency gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the sun, which have now been stitched together to form the video.
The Trouble with Counting Alien Civilizations
You might imagine that in the midst of a global pandemic and all of its social and economic fallout that our minds would be laser-focused on immediate, Earthly woes.
How to Get Away from Work Mode During the Coronavirus Lockdown
If your lab is still shuttered and work is a struggle, technology researcher Sun Sun Lim offers advice on how to switch off.
A Webinar Series from Nature Careers to Help Scientists During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Panellists offer advice on productivity, parenting under lockdown and mental well-being, with more webcasts planned.
The Condoms of the Face: Why Some Men Refuse to Wear Masks
It’s not the first time masculine ideology has driven resistance to a public health initiative.
Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm
In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man's arrest for a crime he did not commit.
COVID-19 Knowledge Map - CoVis
CoVis provides a curated knowledge map of seminal works on COVID-19 research. The knowledge map is constantly evolving thanks to the collective editing of subject-matter experts.
Are COVID-19 Deaths "sacrifices"? If So, to What?
In late March of this year, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick suggested in an interview that many people over 70-himself included-would be willing to risk contracting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) so as not to, in his words, "sacrifice the country." At the time, his comments were widely re