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Research Your Career Options Well Before Graduation

Research Your Career Options Well Before Graduation

A recent book guides Ph.D. students and postdocs through the process of preparing for a career outside academe.

Centre for Open Science Announces Elsevier as New Signatory to TOP Guidelines

Centre for Open Science Announces Elsevier as New Signatory to TOP Guidelines

Elsevier develops and implements comprehensive new journal data guidelines.

10+ Scientists Reveal Their Most Embarrassing Fieldwork Fails

10+ Scientists Reveal Their Most Embarrassing Fieldwork Fails

When scientists step outside their safe laboratories, anything can happen. Of course, studying wild animals or digging out million-year-old fossils sounds exotic and exciting, but that's only one side of the spectrum.

3 Examples Of Crowdsourcing Science

3 Examples Of Crowdsourcing Science

The time for crowdsourcing science has arrived. From idea generation to job hunting, crowdsourcing science can have an impact in your research.

How a Polymath Transformed Our Understanding of Information

How a Polymath Transformed Our Understanding of Information

It took a polymath to pin down the true nature of ‘information’. His answer was both a revelation and a return.

No Deal, No Review – #nodealnoreview

No Deal, No Review – #nodealnoreview

A template for responding the invitations for editorial and reviewer tasks for journals that you wish to boycott.

These Heroes Are Rescuing Our Government’s Data

These Heroes Are Rescuing Our Government’s Data

After a post-election frenzy to save government data, open-access advocates are refocusing their energies toward a long-term strategy.

A Nobel Doesn't Make You an Expert

A Nobel Doesn't Make You an Expert

In an excerpt from her book "Making Sense of Science," Cornelia Dean of The New York Times shares hard-won insights in teasing out substance from hype.

Collection of Letters by Codebreaker Alan Turing Found in Filing Cabinet

Collection of Letters by Codebreaker Alan Turing Found in Filing Cabinet

The correspondence, dating from 1949 to 1954, was found by an academic in a storeroom at the University of Manchester.

To Tweet or Not To Tweet — an Academic Question

To Tweet or Not To Tweet — an Academic Question

I doubt that twitter has made my academic papers directly more impactful, but does that stop me tweeting about my group’s work? No way.

Announcing the new British Library Research Data Strategy

Announcing the new British Library Research Data Strategy

Our vision for the British Library is that research data are as integrated into our collections, research and services as text is today. The

I Was an Exxon-Funded Climate Scientist

I Was an Exxon-Funded Climate Scientist

A new study confirms what many already know: Exxon for years sowed uncertainty and doubt about climate change in the public. Should scientists reject certain funding sources?

Why Diversity Programs Fail

Why Diversity Programs Fail

Companies get better results when they ease up on the control tactics. It’s more effective to engage managers in solving the problem, expose them to people from different groups, and encourage social accountability for change.

The U.S. Is Risking an Academic Brain Drain

The U.S. Is Risking an Academic Brain Drain

As foreign-born Ph.Ds and post-docs ponder their future in an uncertain political climate.