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Letters about women include more doubt-raising phrases than those about men, and that even one such phrase can make a difference in a job search.
Reaching higher uptake and acceptance of open science practice at the University of Göttingen.
A list with some open tools and resources, which hopefully, someone will find useful.
"Their profit margins are bigger than oil and gas. Most people don’t know this,” explains Alyssa Arbuckle, Associate Director of a digital humanities lab at the University of Victoria.
Teach anyone how to create reproducible reports, with reusable environments, using technologies like Nix, LaTeX, and KnitR for languages like R, Python and JavaScript.
Retraction Watch retraction database, being built with the support of the MacArthur and Arnold Foundations.
Kai-Fu Lee - a former Apple, Microsoft and Google executive turned investor - is placing big bets on machine learning. And China is leading the way.
An open source dashboard presenting the uptake of hybrid open access for 3,347 different journals from 42 publishers between 2013 and 2018.
Feedback on Rules of Participation from all the relevant stakeholders is essential for the European Open Science Cloud.
Google's journal about artificial intelligence (AI) coming from editors and authors associated with Google and Google Brain raises questions about conflicts, vanity publishing, and Google as a media company.
A new database of female historians joins a growing group of lists that aim to promote a more diverse group of experts. Such databases have previously been more common in the hard sciences.
Roughly two years ago, I began to sign every peer review I did for journals. It resulted directly from a review on an article that I received that had glaring issues and made me wonder "Would they have been this sloppy if they had to attribute their name to this work?"
I’m deluged with outstanding applications for academic posts. So should I recruit the people who need the job most?
The Amani Hill Research Station in Tanzania was once one of East Africa’s leading laboratories – now it is a shadow of its past glory.
Most researchers agree that drafting papers and interpreting results deserve recognition — but opinions don’t always match authorship guidelines.
Only about 5% of the institutions made explicit mention of open access in their guidelines, and, in several of those few cases, the mention was done to call attention to the potentially problematic nature of these journals.
From gamification of sample-size identification to a decentralised lab notebook: a showcase of the projects developed at the eLife Innovation Sprint.
In an era when untestable ideas such as the multiverse hold sway, Michela Massimi defends science from those who think it hopelessly unmoored from physical reality.
The “Alexander Friedrich Schläfli Prize” of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) is one of the oldest prizes in Switzerland. Since the first awarding in 1866, 108 young talents in different natural science disciplines have been distinguished.
A unique WWII-era programme in the US, allowed US publishers to reprint exact copies of German-owned science books, to explore how copyrights affect follow-on science. This artificial removal of copyright barriers led to a 25% decline in prices and a 67% increase in citations.
A group of renowned economists and academics from Spain have signed a document promising not to appear as a speaker at any academic event or round-table discussion if there are no women experts present as well.
The National Cancer Institute has invested millions of dollars into determining the genetic sequences of patients’ tumors, and researchers have found thousands of genes that seem to drive tumor growth. But until patients’ medical records are linked to the genetic data, life-or-death questions cannot be answered.
Men were more likely to secure health research grants than women in Canadian study.
