Inspiriring young women to pursue a career in geoscience.

A guide on how to make Twitter work for academic purposes.

Florida ecologist uses a parody Twitter account as a way of highlighting issues in science and academia.

Rejection rates in Frontiers journals are around ~27%, most manuscripts are published within 3 months, and yet, Frontiers’ citations rates are amongst the very highest.

Funding can focus science on the long game; just ask Will Ratcliff, freshly named a Packard Fellow.

How easy is it really to exactly replicate a scientific experiment by just reading the published result?

Royal Society’s policy work on machine learning.

President Obama Hosts Frontiers Conference, Focusing on the Potential of Science, Technology, and Innovation to Drive Prosperity and Address Challenges in Personal, Local, National, Global, and Interplanetary Frontiers for the Next 50 Years and Beyond.

We should write our draft, go over it with our co-authors, and then put it on a preprint server. And wait. After a year, when we had the opportunity to share this paper with colleagues, then we can submit it.

An interactive visualization of article publication data from the 2016 NSF Science & Engineering Report suggest discrepancies in the cultures of science around the world.

Are the Article Processing Charge (APC) levels set for high-end OA journals too low to be sustainable?

Colin Macilwain presents five take-home messages from today's Framework 9 event in Brussels.

European Commission fact sheet.

Failing to record the version of any piece of software or hardware, overlooking a single parameter, or glossing over a restriction on how to use another researcher's code can lead you astray.

Undergraduates from small, elite institutions have the best chance of winning a Nobel prize.

A cartoon about psychology's reproducibility problem.

This chart shows a gender breakdown of Nobel Prize winners since 1901.

What machine learning could do, and barriers to its use, with global pharmaceutical companies, sector associations, regulators, start-ups and SMEs.

Chris Carroll argues that the impact of an academic research paper might be better measured by counting the number of times it is cited within citing publications rather than by simply measuring if it has been cited or not.

When you open the app you see one at random and you can rate it according to two criteria.

A voluntary commitment to the values of openness and transparency in science.

A place for academics to review the publishing process at peer-reviewed journals.

More than 2,000 researchers from a variety of disciplines contributed to a survey conducted by Elsevier and the Publishing Research Consortium.

Many reviewers feel that some form of public acknowledgment is more valuable than monetary payment when it comes to their services.

That Sci-Hub’s activities are illegal is not disputed. However, according to Iván Farías Pelcastre and Flor González Correa the issue at the core of the debate is the current publishing and knowled…

Authorea, The Winnower, and Reddit are teaming up to explore the role of social media in research and discovery. We want to hear from you, in essay form!

Citation network maps may indicate when gaming is taking place. Proving intention is a different story.

Thomson Reuters Web of Science 2016 Nobel Prize Predictions based on Citations.

Who gets credit for the technology to cut-and-paste the human genome?