Guest post by Professor Elizabeth Loftus, winner of the 2016 John Maddox Prize

The Association of American Universities worries that the open-access policies federal research agencies are developing now are not sufficiently aligned. Any slowdown in putting them in place, it says, is "probably a positive."

An artificial intelligence system developed by researchers at DeepMind and the University of Oxford got so good by watching 5000 hours of BBC programmes.

PIDapalooza, the first ever festival of persistent identifiers, set out not only to bring together the creators and users of PIDs, but also to make PIDs cool.

A collection of Twitter hashtags about science communication to facilitate engagement with academics and professionals on Twitter.

In the aftermath of the election results, a group of women in the sciences has banded together to speak out against anti-intellectualism, inequality, sexism and discrimination.

Key areas that you’ll need to work on to be an outstanding proposal writer.

UK scientists are coming up with strategies to deal with the prospect of leaving the EU.

National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins talks about the future of the NIH in light of the election.  

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GitHub is not a solution to the problem of making scripts and software available as part of the permanent record of a publication. But the folk at Zenodo and Mozilla Science Lab (in collaboration with Figshare) have solutions for you now.

The Office of Research Integrity shares a series of infographics addressing the Responsible Conduct of Research and the handling of research misconduct.

In faculty applications, it's important to highlight that you are a good fit for the department and institution. Customizing faculty applications for different departments is well worth the effort.

An animation explaining how genetic technologies work, as well as their possible ethical and societal implications; co-produced by the Royal Society and by the Wellcome Trust.

A collection of tools that might help your research if you adopt them early enough in your academic career.

A dashboard to monitor the evolving landscape of persistent identifiers over the life of the project and beyond.

While offering reviewers any form of guidance is better than none, being thorough and creating a reviewer checklist is by far the best way to help reviewers know the expectations of your journal.

Researchers may publish their best work at any point in their careers, a new study reports. This is not the same as success being the result of random forces or just plain “dumb luck.”

What are your biggest frustrations as a scientist trying to build a research group?

Articles published open access are cited more often than articles that are not. End of Story.

What Open Science means for PLOS.

Program of OpenCon 2016, a platform for the next generation to learn about Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data, develop critical skills, and catalyze action toward a more open system for sharing the world’s information. Held in Washington, DC on November 12-14, 2016.

Explore our data to see the universities, government bodies and pharmaceutical companies that fail to share their clinical trial results.

Tips from Nature Research editors.

At ATLAS, data sharing and an open, innovative approach to information collaboration has become a fundamental part of this important scientific community.

Last Wednesday, I attended a conference called Publishing Better Science Through Better Data at the Wellcome Collection, organized by Scientific Data.

Between 2008 and 2015, public funding to universities increased in 11 countries in Europe but in 7 of these, the student number grew faster than the public funding.

A recently published book offers guidance for scientists’ career planning.

What postdocs present and future should know about the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Blockchain could strengthen science’s verification process, helping to make more research results reproducible, true, and useful, due to its capacity to make digital goods immutable, transparent, and provable.