Open Humans highlights how a community-centric ecosystem can be used to aggregate personal data from various sources, as well as how these data can be used by academic and citizen scientists through practical, iterative approaches to sharing that strive to balance considerations with participant autonomy, inclusion, and privacy.

The University of Melbourne’s Visualise Your Thesis competition (VYT) challenges graduate researchers to come up with an “elevator pitch”, in the form of a succinct and attractive audio-visual, digital object to distil the central theme of their research.

In the fight battle against disinformation, the legal fight could have implications for public opinion.

A Dutch conference discussed the current rewards and incentives system and thought about the evaluation criteria of the future.

The world's largest study into how people around the world think and feel about science and major health challenges.

US billionaire Stephen Schwarzman is donating £150m to fund humanities research.

Open access publishing still profits publishers, with little added value for researchers.

Weakened permafrost in Canadian Arctic a further sign that global climate crisis accelerating faster than scientists had feared.

Blog for the Journal of Open Source Software.

Stress and long working hours are regrettably common among early-career researchers, reveals a survey by the group the Young Academy of Europe.

We are scientists from various disciplines and we will go on strike on 14 June 2019. Women* are systematically underrepresented to a great degree at Swiss higher education institutions. 

The NIH and the FBI are targeting ethnic Chinese scientists, including U.S. citizens, searching for a cancer cure. Here's the first account of what happened to Xifeng Wu.

Chefs verordnen gerne agile Arbeitstechniken. Eine Analyse zeigt, dass sie diese aber selbst nie anwenden würden.

The history of science has often seen women's work overlooked and their credit stolen.

The Open Library of Humanities has demonstrated a model for high-quality open access publishing, without Article Processing Charges. We asked Chief Executive Officer Martin Eve whether the Library could serve as inspiration for Learned Societies in a post-Plan S world.

A new Research England funded project is set to help universities, researchers, libraries and publishers to make more, and better, use of open access book publishing.

IEEE to provide more high-quality options for authors and researchers.

The purpose of peer review is often portrayed as being a simple ‘objective’ test of the soundness or quality of a research paper. However, it also performs other functions primarily through linking and developing relationships between networks of researchers. 

Funders should award competitive grants directly to journals to underwrite the costs of open access, urges Adriano Aguzzi.

Seven researchers discuss the challenges posed by science's embrace of one global language.

Science is often poorly communicated. Researchers can fight back.

How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world's academic research from paywalls.

The article processing charge (APC)-based version of ‘gold’ OA could be a looming threat that may deteriorate the situation even beyond the abysmal state scholarly publishing is already in right now.

To promote effective sharing, we must create an enduring link between the people who generate data and its future uses, urge Heather H. Pierce and colleagues.

Whilst a shift to gold (pay to publish) open access would deliver wider access to research, the lack of price sensitivity amongst academics presents a risk that they will be locked into a new escalating  pay to publish system.

The British Journal of Anaesthesia's unusual experiment is designed to broaden replicability efforts beyond just methods and results.

Neil Jacobs, Head of Open Science and research lifecycle at UK not-for-profit, Jisc, has been appointed as interim programme manager for cOAlition S.

The European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (Eurodoc), the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA), and the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) jointly welcome the revised implementation guidance for Plan S.

As the transition to a system for sharing knowledge that is open by default accelerates, the question “open for whom?” is essential—both to consider and to act upon.

All disciplines should follow the geosciences and demand best practice for publishing and sharing data.