'A Smoking Gun': Infectious Coronavirus Retrieved From Hospital Air
Airborne viruses play a significant role in community transmission, many experts believe. A new study fills in the missing piece: The floating virus can infect cells.
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A Negative COVID-19 Test Does Not Mean Recovery
Pandemic policy must include defining and measuring what we mean by mild infection.
Young Researcher Groups Reaffirm Support for Plan S
Leaked letter to Commission shows major pushback against ERC Scientific Council's doubt over open-access initiative
Senior U.S. Lawmaker Wants National Academies to Scrutinize Racism in Science
Senior U.S. Lawmaker Wants National Academies to Scrutinize Racism in Science
Study would seek to identify effects of bias and how to promote equity.
Five Tips for Boosting Diversity on Campus
Universities and those who work there must reimagine spaces, behaviour and processes to promote a sense of belonging for everyone.
COVID-19 Forces German Funder to Award Fellowships by Lottery
COVID-19 Forces German Funder to Award Fellowships by Lottery
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has adopted a randomised process for whittling down the applications which were already deemed strong enough to be considered for funding.
Changing How We Evaluate Research is Difficult, but Not Impossible
DORA has evolved into an active initiative that gives practical advice to institutions on new ways to assess and evaluate research. This article outlines a framework for driving institutional change.
Sticky Policies, Dysfunctional Systems: Path Dependency and the Problems of Government Funding for Science in the United States
Sticky Policies, Dysfunctional Systems: Path Dependency and the Problems of Government Funding for Science in the United States
Leaders of the scientific community have declared that American science is in a crisis due to inadequate federal funding. They misconstrue the problem; its roots lie instead in the institutional interactions between federal funding agencies and higher education.
Responses to 10 Common Criticisms of Anti-Racism Action in STEM
Table of Contents 1. "There is no evidence of racism in STEM."2. "Don't politicize STEM! Stick to the science, not social issues."3. "I'm not a racist, so I don't need to do anything."4. "I only hire/award/cite based on merit; I do not need to consider race."5. "There just aren't as many BIPOC who want to…
America's Window of Opportunity to Beat Back Covid-19 is Closing
The United States has a chance to make things better before things get much, much worse. But much of the country appears to be squandering the opportunity.
How Science Communication Can Challenge Conspiracy Theories in Times of Covid-19
How Science Communication Can Challenge Conspiracy Theories in Times of Covid-19
Mike Schäfer & Jing Zeng on the particularities of conspiracy theories on COVID-19, how to face them, and what role science communicators play while doing so.
Why the Coronavirus Is More Likely to 'Superspread' Than the Flu
Most people won't spread the virus widely. The few who do are probably in the wrong place at the wrong time in their infection, new models suggest.
Journalists Need To Get It Right: Epidemiology Training Can Help
COVID-19 has turned all journalists into health journalists. Epidemiology training can help journalists improve their reporting, and help fight misinformation.
Library Support for OA Books Workshop: the German Perspective
COPIM, OPERAS-P and open-access.network aim at gaining a better understanding of the national-specific issues surrounding collective funding for OA books from a library perspective.
Five Better Ways to Assess Science
Hong Kong Principles seek to replace 'publish or perish' culture.
Toolkits for Equity
While a growing awareness of racial disparities has resulted in a groundswell of support for inclusivity in scholarly publishing, the resulting initiatives would be more effective if professional associations were able to provide training materials to help transform organizational cultures.
Study of China's Ethnic Minorities Retracted As Dozens of Papers Come Under Scrutiny for Ethical Violations
Study of China's Ethnic Minorities Retracted As Dozens of Papers Come Under Scrutiny for Ethical Violations
A legal journal has retracted a 2019 article on the facial genetics of ethnic minorities in China for ethics violations. Springer Nature is investigating more than two dozen other articles for similar concerns.
NSF Grant Changes Raise Alarm About Commitment to Basic Research
The US National Science Foundation's new focus on computer science could also put already-under-represented groups at a disadvantage, critics say.
Scientists Rename Human Genes to Stop Microsoft Excel from Misreading Them As Dates
Scientists Rename Human Genes to Stop Microsoft Excel from Misreading Them As Dates
Microsoft Excel: 1 - Human Genetics: 0.
How the COVID-19 Crisis Has Prompted a Revolution in Scientific Publishing
How the COVID-19 Crisis Has Prompted a Revolution in Scientific Publishing
Preprint servers have existed for decades, but the fight against the coronavirus has seen their use soar. They're changing how science is done-but need important guardrails.
Leveraging Machine Learning to Fuel New Discoveries with the ArXiv Dataset
To help make the arXiv more accessible, a free, open pipeline on Kaggle to the machine-readable arXiv dataset: a repository of 1.7 million articles, with relevant features such as article titles, authors, categories, abstracts, full text PDFs, and more is made available.
Workspaces That Move People
Today's offices don't encourage us to mingle-but that's what creativity and productivity demand.
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back - The Pandemic's Impact on Open Access Progress
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back - The Pandemic's Impact on Open Access Progress
The COVID pandemic may leave us stuck between a growing consensus that open science is the superior way to drive progress and an inability to invest what may be needed to make it happen.
Rising Temperatures Will Cause More Deaths Than All Infectious Diseases - Study
Poorer, hotter parts of the world will struggle to adapt to unbearable conditions, research finds
Will COVID-19 Mark the End of Scientific Publishing As We Know It?
Under the pressure of a global health crisis, the argument for open access has sunk in. Is this the catalyst that breaks up the bonds of an old publishing model once and for all?
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