A tribute to an old video game and to the greatest scientists in history.

A Year in Reviews

Some scientists are taking it upon themselves to go beyond their core research areas to study where the scientific system can go wrong.

Having to dismiss lab members is not easy, but there are ways to make the process less painful for all involved.

Looking across the three generations in my family, I see huge improvements in the experience of women in science, but obstacles still remain for my daughter's generation.

Have you heard the latest wisecrack about Harvard? People are calling it a hedge fund with a university attached.

On the many ways to say the same thing.

The NIH joins forces with a tech company to launch a matchmaking program that aims to help investigators find secondary funding sources.

Scale can be achieved by broadly outsourcing the editorial process. Does this lead to a loss in quality control, and is this acceptable?

Peer review and criticism is an essential part of academic discourse, and it is why journal articles are of such high quality and rigor. But you don’t get paid for it.

The fight over the Crispr patents.

The replication crisis is a sign that science is working.

Putting Science 2.0 and Open Science into practice

Video, podcast and summary.

The number of researchers doubles every ten to fifteen years. In his manuscript, Gottfried Schatz highlights the problems which growth creates for science. He explains the difference between knowledge and science and the reason why less knowledge and more science should be taught in our kindergartens, schools and universities.

High level European policy meeting on funding research data to support open innovation, 6 April 2016, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Last week my friend Andy Kern (a population geneticist at Rutgers) went on a bit of a bender on Twitter prompted by his discovery of PLOS’s IRS Form 990 – the annual required financial filing of non-profit corporations in the United States.

We're delighted to announce a new project - ORCID DE - launched recently to foster and support ORCID adoption in Germany.

Once again, reproducibility is in the news. Most recently we hear that irreproducibility is irreproducible and thus everything is actually fine...

Benefits and costs to the authors of posting preprints as a function of the time of posting.

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Many in the scientific community praise preprints as a means of overcoming the high costs and lengthy peer review process of elite journals, which some argue thwart progress.

The problem with p-values.

In this massively data rich world, the equilibrium between information and knowledge has increasingly shifted from knowledge toward information. Advanced text and data mining (TDM) is not yet ubiquitous and even if it were, not all content is structured enough to leverage TDM potential. In developing the supercomputer Watson with the ability to process, analyze and extract information from natural language such as PLOS article text, IBM is beginning to shift the equilibrium back to knowledge. Understanding Relationships PLOS and IBM Watson are collaborating to bring quality Open Access biomedical literature to healthcare entrepreneurs and innovators, and to do so in a way that provides full article content and context including PubMed citation information from the National Library of Medicine. The collaboration is “not just about PLOS or Open Access,” says PLOS Chief Technology Officer CJ Rayhill, “it’s about improved healthcare through immediate access to relevant clinical,

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Recently, some have begun to explore the utilization of the crowd for various purposes in medical research, including fundraising as well as crowdsourcing for intellectual analyses and insights.

To engage the public in your work, whilst also solving that all-important research funding problem?

Colette Bourlier, who awarded a high distinction for her thesis on immigrant workers, said it took so long because she ‘took breaks’.

Alok Jha examines the practices and cultures that can undermine the integrity of science.

The era of predictable improvement in computer hardware is ending. What comes next?