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The appropriation of genetic research by those with extremist views on race has scientists grappling with how to respond.
Two leading university presses are changing the way they sell their digital collections to libraries - cutting out the middlemen. Will others follow suit?
Bill Gates and the European Commission have launched a €100 million investment fund designed to bring radical clean energy technologies more quickly to market in order to promote energy efficiency and cut greenhouse gas emissions.
A manuscript is much more than words on paper. Painstakingly drafted, fuelled by coffee over long nights, then (constructively) dismantled by colleagues, re-drafted several times, and finally, assembled into something you're proud of. It is the culmination of months or years of hard work, and could potentially lead to recognition for you and your whole... Read more "
A new Research Square product for tracking peer review activity of a paper in submission.
We know that peer review is important and that the hard work of reviewers should be recognized. Yet we still don't really know how that recognition should work.
Six early-career researchers offer advice on how to secure a permanent contract in academia, and then make the most of it.
Has journalism and science communication crossed a line?
The eLife website now has a dedicated section for plain-language summaries of the latest research.
A worksheet compiled from the advice of a number of journalsand publications. The aim of the worksheet is to give less-experiencedpeer reviewers a concrete workflow of questions and tasks to follow whenthey first peer-review.
A statement by the High Energy Physics Community about a talk given at CERN by Alessandro Strumia, a well-known particle theorist who is a Professor of Physics at the University of Pisa and a current associate of the theory department at CERN. He argued that the primary explanation for the discrepancies between men and women in theoretical physics is that women are inherently less capable.
The SNSF promotes women in research with the PRIMA funding scheme and its equality grants. A legal opinion now confirms that these equality measures are not just legally valid. They are necessary.
A list of the practical challenges and concrete steps that could help or hinder Plan S.
Maria Goeppert Mayer was relegated to unpaid and "volunteer" positions for most of her academic career.
This essay, although hopefully accessible to everyone, is the most thorough breakdown of the study and written for those who are already somewhat familiar with the problems of ideologically-motivated scholarship, radical skepticism and cultural constructivism.
A study released last week revealed that while women account for 13% of startup founders, they hold only 6% of founder equity.
The claim that Plan S is unethical derives from an understanding of academic freedom that appears to rest on foundations that, if not shaky, are at least highly questionable.
Using Scholia as a starting point for exploring how information about biodiversity and ecosystem research is represented in Wikidata and how it can be explored, curated and reused.
If we really want transdisciplinary research, we must ditch the ordered listing of authors that stalls collaborative science.
Code Ocean is a cloud-based computational reproducibility platform that provides researchers and developers an easy way to share, discover and run code published in academic journals and conferences.
When Sonia Vallabh found out she was likely to develop a terminal brain disease, she and her husband, Eric Minikel, changed careers to find a cure.
The impact of AI technologies on work and working life, and renewed public and policy debates about automation and the future of work.
The SCNAT is organizing this one day event in Bern, with the aim to give the research community the chance to raise their concern and also the SNF and the European Commission to present their view and to inform about recent trends. The workshop should provide recommendations on how to implement the open data requirements.
Swiss Academy of Sciences conference on metrics and assessment.
Collaboration across institutes can train students in open, team science, which better prepares them for challenges to come.
