Making science engaging is vital work, but fraught with challenges. How do you stay relevant in your local community? How do you ensure activities are designed in a way that places the needs and preferences of multiple target audiences at their centre? How do you find new collaborators and effectively expand your network? If you work for a science engagement organisation and need some support or just a little direction, this quick start guide to Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) will help.

Predatory conferences (conferences promoted to fraudulently make money from attendance fees) are becoming an increasingly common part of academic life. This post presents the Think. Check. Attend. initiative, which provides academics with an easy to use checklist to ascertain if a conference is legitimate or predatory.

The ecidence movmeent must respond to the ‘politics of distrust’. We cannot carry on regardless. 

Facebook's research app shows big tech can't be trusted to conduct research on its users. To get real answers about how tech impacts us, social media firms need to give their data to external scientists.

Data Availability Statements are a powerful tool in promoting data sharing, but what does it take to include them in a journal workflow?

As the chase for new elements slows, scientists focus on deepening their understanding of the superheavy ones they already know.

Opinion: Black scientists are in the best position to understand what is so broken about the ideas of Watson and his army.

Academics who offer their books free online reach many more readers and are cited slightly more often. Surprisingly enough, it has little effect on the sale of paper editions, positive or negative.

The body's microbial community may influence the brain and behavior, perhaps even playing a role in dementia, autism and other disorders.

Clarivate Analytics' Institute for Scientific Information Launches Global Research Report titled Profiles Not Metrics.

A response from Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research at the Wellcome Trust, to UCL’s “Response to Plan S”.

Science and scholarship are critical to improving our lives and solving the world’s most intractable problems. The communication of research, a vital step in the research process, should be efficient, effective and fulfill the core values of scholarship.

Laboratory heads need training, support and accountability to connect people across cultures.

Plan U: A proposal to achieve universal access to scientific and medical research via funder preprint mandates.

Quantitative performance ratings are ubiquitous in modern organizations — from businesses to universities — yet there is substantialevidence of bias against women in suchratings. This study examines how gender inequalities in evaluations dependon the design of the tools used to judge merit. 

Brigitte Van Tiggelen and Annette Lykknes spotlight female researchers who discovered elements and their properties.

The newish 'quarterly review of science' sometimes muddies the waters between science and political ideology. It is funded by Peter Thiel.

In 2014, microbiologists began a study that they hope will continue long after they're dead.

There is the accumulated evidence from multiple studies of the disadvantage women in science suffer, with specific reference to the fields of anthropology, ecology and evolution

Wiley claim they are committed to moving towards greater openness and reproducibility of research, including increasing transparency in peer review

Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, Wellcome and Michael Markie, Publishing Director, F1000 highlight Wellcome Open Research's achievements after two years of publishing. 

Seemingly owned by an Oxbridge Essays shareholder, company offers up to 100,000 words of 'model writing assistance'.

How has the open data movement matured over 2018 and what opportunities does it create for publishers in 2019? 

An existential threat. That's what scientific societies supported by journal subscriptions call Plan S. 

More than 1 million studies are now downloaded from the site every month, mostly in neuroscience, bioinformatics and genomics.

Scientists with first-hand experience of rejection offer their advice.

I write to provide feedback in an individual capacity on the Plan S implementation guidelines.

People often suffer from an 'illusion of knowledge,' write the authors of a new study that finds that people who hold the most extreme views about genetically modified foods know the least.

New studies find variation by departments, with many findings of significant rates of depression and anxiety.

Concern for and interest in research integrity has increased significantly during recent decades, both in academic and in policy discourse.