Five Better Ways to Assess Science
Hong Kong Principles seek to replace 'publish or perish' culture.
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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.
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.
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?
Career Funding: the Researcher's Overall Performance Counts
Career Funding: the Researcher's Overall Performance Counts
The SNSF has adopted the DORA recommendations in its career funding schemes and adapted some other criteria. This will make the selection process even fairer and more inclusive of re-searchers with diverse career paths.
How Scientists Can Stop Fooling Themselves over Statistics
Sampling simulated data can reveal common ways in which our cognitive biases mislead us.
How to Think Like an Epidemiologist
Don't worry, a little Bayesian analysis won't hurt you.
Developing Open Science in Africa: Barriers, Solutions and Opportunities
Developing Open Science in Africa: Barriers, Solutions and Opportunities
The paper argues for the development of open science in Africa as a means of energising national science systems and their roles in supporting public and private sectors and the general public.
Workspaces That Move People
Today's offices don't encourage us to mingle-but that's what creativity and productivity demand.
The Pandemic is Hitting Scientist Parents Hard, and Some Solutions May Backfire
New data quantify lost work hours and productivity, but the way forward remains uncertain.
How the Pandemic Defeated America
A virus has brought the world's most powerful country to its knees.
#BlackBirdersWeek, #BlackInNeuro: Black scientists, physicians are using hashtags to uplift
#BlackBirdersWeek, #BlackInNeuro: Black scientists, physicians are using hashtags to uplift
Black scientists are embracing the hashtag movement that forced the nation to take a hard look at systemic racism.
I Was Wrong: We Can't Skip Phase 3 Vaccine Trials
On the risks of skipping Phase 3 vaccine trials.
Opinion | I'd Need Evidence Before I Got a Covid-19 Vaccine. It Doesn't Exist Yet.
Scientists need to show us the data. And that's exactly what they're working on.
Ten takeaways from ten years at Retraction Watch
Retraction Watch looks back at some lessons learned.
The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free
Why is it that while the most vital, and most rigorously tested, information is often locked up behind a paywall, yet falsehoods are readily available?
How the Coronavirus is Gutting Diversity in Science
The pandemic is sabotaging the careers of researchers from under-represented groups, but institutions can help to staunch the outflow.
'The Biggest Monster' Is Spreading. And It's Not the Coronavirus.
Tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people each year. Lockdowns and supply-chain disruptions threaten progress against the disease as well as H.I.V. and malaria.
From 'Brain Fog' to Heart Damage, COVID-19's Lingering Problems Alarm Scientists
Some COVID-19 survivors are still sick months later. Doctors want to learn why and what they can do
The Work-From-Home Shift Shocked Companies-Now They're Learning Its Lessons
The Work-From-Home Shift Shocked Companies-Now They're Learning Its Lessons
Tens of millions of Americans are working from home and many will never go back; employers scramble to figure out what tools they'll need to stay productive.
You Must Not 'Do Your Own Research' When It Comes To Science
Research is for the experts. Listen to them instead.
The Mysterious Case of Man Who Can Read Letters, but Not Numbers, exposes Roots of Consciousness
The Mysterious Case of Man Who Can Read Letters, but Not Numbers, exposes Roots of Consciousness
With a condition that's "too strange for words," patient can do mental math but cannot recognize numerals.
Cite Yourself Excessively, Apologize, then Republish the Papers with Fewer Self-citations. Journal says: Fine.
Cite Yourself Excessively, Apologize, then Republish the Papers with Fewer Self-citations. Journal says: Fine.
Via Wikimedia A journal has allowed a geophysicist who cited his own work hundreds of times across 10 papers to retract the articles and republish them with a fraction of the self-citations.
Covid-19 Data in the US Is an 'Information Catastrophe'
The order to reroute CDC hospitalization figures raised accuracy concerns. But that's just one of the problems with how the country collects health data.
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