Five scientists discuss the reasons they moved to an industry lab.

Maryam Mirzakhani was a mathematician, but worked like an artist, always drawing.

The key concepts and current academic research around unconscious bias.

The Guardian investigates the low numbers of female professors.

Thomas Bayes had the right idea: Even scientific laws can benefit from an update.

This advice is both hyperbolic and not nearly as crazy as it sounds.

The stigma has a punitive effect on citations for prior collaborators of fraudulent researchers.

Scientists and career experts reveal how to take your job to the next level.

ERCcOMICS is a creative and ambitious project which exploits the power of visual storytelling to innovate the way European science is communicated.

PeerJ preprints that have grabbed the attention of the masses.

Elizabeth Blackburn cuts short her tenure at Salk amid gender discrimination lawsuits, which have also led Inder Verma to take leave of absence from editor-in-chief of PNAS

A statistical look back at the year in The Scholarly Kitchen.

The news that lifted our existential dread.

Incentives for “Open”, perception as additional work and lack of training, and diversity and inclusivity.

As someone who often finds himself explaining machine learning to non-experts.

This week we released the Top 100 Preprints for 2017 among 18 services hosted on OSF.

At Camp Invention in Norwalk, Connecticut, elementary school girls string beads marked with 0s and 1s. They’re getting an introduction to the binary system that underlies computer coding.

An overview of open data for data publishers including information on database rights, best practices and added data to Wikidata.

"Why does this story sound so darned familiar?"

On the need to recognise good practice, engage researchers early in their career with research data management and use peers to talk to those who are not ‘onboard’.

Slides explaining the publishing process and how Open Access fits in the traditional journal-subscription based model.

Having children can offer unique career benefits, this scientist writes.

Professional isolation and stress-induced illness during a protracted investigation leave a survivor to wonder: Would keeping quiet have been the wiser choice?

Why do we need an open, global, grant identifier?

How can one discern if the paper that they are reading is from a predatory journal or not?

The story of the deliberate creation of the modern mass-surveillance state includes elements of Google’s surprising, and largely unknown, origin. It is a somewhat different creation story than the one the public has heard, and explains what Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page set out to build, and why.

A broad TDM Exception is important for everyone (not just researchers), would boost Europe’s economy and doesn’t mean that publishers would lose money.

Discussing the negative impacts of inaccessible outcomes, unavailable data, and doctored results in advancing science in general, and that impact in very concrete personal terms.

An interview presents the perspectives of Jonathan Tennant, an early-career researcher.

Research labs and field sites are swarming with men who sexually harass and assault their colleagues. But when women come forward, the perpetrators aren’t punished—the victims are.