From analyzing millions of satellite images to finding healthy strains of plant microbiome, these startups have raised over $500M to bring AI and robotics to agriculture.

“My university's resources to combat abusive supervisors are laughably ineffective.”

BulliedIntoBadScience.org for early career researchers who aim for a fairer, more open and ethical research and publication environment.

Affordable dwellings are rare in many areas where junior researchers want to study or work.

Unencumbered dissemination of scientific research depends on a fair Internet.

A new blog journal on Science Policy.

Exciting new discoveries get all the attention — leaving just-as-important negative results in the dust. And fixing the problem is easier said than done.

The current funding climate certainly doesn’t favour changes, but that doesn’t mean that change isn’t possible.

How are scholars and researchers working to restore confidence in peer-reviewed science?

In a decentralized architecture, anyone has the ability to download and re-host data without changing it's permanent identifier.

Supporting efforts to help do better science, build community around projects or develop tools.

How deep learning is helping scientists cope with a data deluge.

Why breaking down walls between different academic disciplines could enhance our understanding of why research evidence does − or doesn’t − make it into policy.

A working group aiming to advance scientific research and discovery, promote technology that assists the scientific and academic communities, and make research available worldwide for the good of all humanity.

Scientists are more concerned about the impact of sloppy science than outright scientific fraud.

A recently published study in Research Integrity and Peer Review, that surveyed 178 trainee doctors, finds that although peer review is perceived as an important means of quality control by this community, there is little value placed on being able to scrutinize peer review themselves.

Between August 2014 and September 2016, the Academic Book of the Future Project, initiated by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Library, explored the current and future status of the traditional academic monograph.

Authors from western, individualist cultures are more likely to use many self-citations than authors from more collectivist cultures.

1. Write for the intended audience.

A new way to access and consume science from your desktop using peer-to-peer technology.

Frontiers’ CEO, Kamila Markram, makes a case for why open science is the key to innovation, economic growth and solutions to a sustainable future.

Sci-Hub is not a search engine and it stores papers in its own repository.

Academic promotion panels must take into account a scholar’s presence in popular media.

Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan, creator of the site Sci-Hub.

There are probably much better reasons for creating a diverse team and organization than boosting creativity.

A global network for academic collaboration.

The recent long read about scientific publishing in the Guardian is fantastic. It depicts a very telling story of the research publishing landscape.

A time-limited exercise in which academics from many disciplines and from all over the world were brought together virtually to produce an academic article.

5–8 September 2017, Bern, Switzerland

Constructive criticism of the graphics of climate science.