Just like judges and politicians, researchers may overstate their confidence in a claim. To truly assess their confidence, something needs to be on the line.

Find out how scholarly articles are cited on Wikipedia with WikiCiteVis.

Chan Zuckerberg Science Initiative's approach to accelerating science and curing disease.

Mind the Gap is a role-playing game designed as a structure for dialogues which examine the gender gap.

Information about Blockchain for Science, Research and Knoweldge creation. The decentralized future of science. Blockchain bears the potential to make science more effective, make research continous, free data and fix the reproducibility crisis in science.

The benefits and challenges of three approaches to scientific meetings.

Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, and Jim Smith, Director of Science, discuss the steps Wellcome is taking to fulfil the principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).

Approaches that have been shown to work and those which need more evidence before they can be recommended as widespread approaches.

Publons’ ECR Reviewer Choice Award celebrates early-career researchers' exceptional contribution to peer review, recognizing an individual who has been influential in the realm of peer review or has significantly contributed to improving the system.

The first OpenCon satellite event in Switzerland will take place on September 21-22 at the SNSF in Bern. Registrations are open until the end of August.

Smaller countries rely more on regional collaborations than on domestic interaction.  

After much investigation and active measures, we can state that the DOAJ is effectively under attack from an unknown third party.

Choosing wisely from a burgeoning array of digital tools can help researchers to record experiments with ease.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell's skills on the radio telescope were on point. Following the discovery of pulsars, Bell Burnell faced casual sexism from the media and public as well.

A fresh, practical look at how diversity impacts on engineering and strategies for change.

Briefing looking at what it means to provide inclusive careers advice and guidance, as well as some practical challenges of delivering this in higher education institutions.

The nonprofit's Summer Immersion Program aims to catch girls before their interest in computer science plummets.

Of the 60 Fields Medal winners since it’s launch in 1936 only one is female.

I want to see whether the wisdom of crowds does a better job than conventional grant review at supporting research, says Johan Bollen.

An interview with the directors of PsyArxiv, SocArxiv, and Marxiv.

Here we pay tribute to some of the most courageous, innovative, and determined genius female inventors while we walk through their remarkable discoveries and try to imagine how hard it was for them at times.

LGBT+ scientists offer advice for promoting inclusivity in a guide written for the physics and astronomy community.

Joel Clement reflects on his battle with Department of the Interior leadership

Coko Foundation is constructing an open source technology framework with separate components that can be assembled and reassembled to support a wide range of use cases. All code is open source under an MIT license.

One of the effects of the national negotiations happening in Europe is cracking the secrecy around the costs of the big publisher deals - and growing academic awareness of the case for change.

Marketing algorithms prevent many women from seeing the advertising, even though it’s illegal to target jobs to one gender.

Representative Bill Foster weighs in on the most important science issues facing the country.

Data on the career paths of young researchers would help to guide the lost generation.

On the research data repository Zenodo you can now view the number of views and downloads on record pages, and you can sort search results by most viewed.

Negotiations with Elsevier have stalled over Open Access deals.