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Can You Rescue a Damaged Reputation?
How administrative procedure and law failed a scientist accused of research misconduct.
It’s Been 53 Years Since a Woman Won the Nobel Prize in Physics. What’s the Holdup?
7 Bad Science and Health Ideas That Should Die With 2016
There’s no shortage of misinformation in the world — particularly around health and science topics.
Publishing Photography Competition 2016
The Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition celebrates the power of photography to communicate science.
Top 16 Research Tools of 2016
A roundup of the top trending online tools of 2016 that were most appreciated and used by the LabWorm community.
If Not Darwin, Who?
What would physics look like if Einstein had never existed, or biology without Darwin?
Overview of Costs Incurred by Universities for Books and Journals by Publisher
Overview of Costs Incurred by Universities for Books and Journals by Publisher
Information on universities’ expenditure on publications
Sturgeon Confirms Scotland Will Seek to Remain in Horizon 2020
Research – news, analysis, funding and data for the academic research and policy community
Researchers Anxiously Await Trump’s Pick for Science Adviser
Trump’s timing on science jobs not unusual for presidents.
Academics With Cats 2016: The Winning Photographs
The Third Annual Academics with Cats Awards, organised by Academia Obscura, celebrates academic cats and injects a bit of fun into the pre-Christmas panic.
How Universities Unlock its Power to Innovate
In a paper published today, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) looks at interdisciplinarity as a powerful driver of knowledge creation, scientific progress and innovation.
Moneyball for Professors?
Using analytics to improve hiring decisions has transformed industries from baseball to investment banking. So why are tenure decisions for professors still made the old-fashioned way?, asks Erik Brynjolfsson from MIT.
Open Research Funders Group
A partnership of funding organizations committed to the open sharing of research outputs.
Socializing Academia
Sick of relying on commercial platforms for academic sharing? Humanities Commons, SocArXiv, and the Center for Open Science to the rescue!
How to Act Like a Superstar Scholar
A guide to help selfish academics ensure that everyone at a conference knows they are very special indeed.
The Research Librarian of the Future: Data Scientist and Co-Investigator
How the research librarian of the future might work, utilising new data science and digital skills to drive more collaborative and open scholarship.
Why I Still Won’t Review For or Publish With Elsevier–And Think You Shouldn’t Either
A list of some of the shady things Elsevier has been previously caught doing
CiteScore–Flawed But Still A Game Changer
The real innovation of CiteScore is not another performance metric, but a new marketing model focused on editors.
Publishing Better Science through Better Data 2016
Publishing Better Science through Better Data 2016
All the videos and slides from #scidata16.
Comparing Impact Factor and Scopus CiteScore
A preliminary analysis of the new Elsevier's CiteScore journal metric.
Before the Abstract
Stories about science, research, and being a scientist.
PubPub
A free and open tool for collaborative editing, instant publishing, continuous review, and grassroots journals. PubPub is supported and advised by many MIT Media Lab professors, students, and friends.
Turn Children on to Science Through Reading
Books have the power to trigger a lifelong urge to know more about the world and its environs.