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Responding to an emerging debate around the changing nature of the impact agenda in the UK, the author argues that the current moment presents an opportunity to exorcise the ghosts of previous regimes of incentivising and assessing impact.
Volunteering with an organization can improve communication and help you adapt to the unexpected.
The SNSF is testing a new, standardised structure for CVs. The aim is to facilitate comparisons between applicants and make track record assessment more transparent.
The OA Switchboard aims to facilitate the fulfilment of open access strategies across business models, policies and agreements, and reduce complexity for all relevant stakeholders.
The EOSC FAIR Working Group is examining researcher practice and developing a PID policy, metrics, certification guidelines and an Interoperability Framework to implement a web of FAIR data in EOSC.
On the day of the UK leaving the EU, 36 research and higher education organisations from across Europe published a joint statement stressing that they “wish to continue working together”, and called for the UK to fully participate in future EU R&D and education programmes.
Science is built on trust. Trust that your experiments will work. Trust in your collaborators to pull their weight. But most importantly, trust that the data we so painstakingly collect are accurate and as representative of the real world as they can be. And so when I realized that I could no longer trust the data that I had reported in some of my papers, I did what I think is the only correct course of action. I retracted them.
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope has produced the highest resolution observations of the Sun’s surface ever taken. In this movie, taken at a wavelength of 705nm over a period of 10 minutes, we can see features as small as 30km (18 miles) in size for the first time ever.
Nature asked readers what it should focus on in the next decade. Here is what the respondents said.
Altmetrics have become an increasingly ubiquitous part of scholarly communication, although the value they indicate is contested. A recent study examined the relationship of peer review, altmetrics, and bibliometric analyses with societal and academic impact. Drawing on evidence from REF2014 submissions, it argues altmetrics may provide evidence for wider non-academic debates, but correlate poorly with peer review assessments of societal impact.
The top climate change scientist for NOAA said he has received $4 million from Congress and permission from his agency to study two emergency - and controversial - methods to cool the Earth if the U.S. and other nations fail to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Prosecutors say Charles M. Lieber, the chair of Harvard's chemistry department, lied about contacts with a Chinese state-run initiative that seeks to draw foreign-educated talent.
Science Europe's report addresses requirements for data management plans (DMPs), how they should be updated and whether new ones need to be developed.
They are considered the probable source of the coronavirus outbreak spreading from China. It turns out that they may have an immune system that lets them coexist with many disease-causing viruses.
Elsevier introduced about 40 mirror journals, also known as X-journals, which enable researchers to publish Open Access and as such meet the requirements of Plan S and other funders.
Craig Cormick explains how scientists can get their arguments across to members of the public.
Negotiators have less than a year to agree on how the United Kingdom will participate in European Union research programmes.
Here's what the oft-cited R0 number tells us about the new outbreak-and what it doesn't.
The new report, Presidential Recommendations for 2020: A Blueprint for Defending Science and Protecting the Public, outlines a suite of recommendations that the next president can take to protect the health and safety of the public through restoring science to government decisionmaking processes. The report focuses on strengthening three major principles underlying science-based decisionmaking: independence, transparency, and free speech.
Top scientists to be given fast-tracked entry into the UK.
The main points developed by Edward Snowden during his speech at the Applied Machine Learning Days at EPFL. In the second part of his speech, the American answered questions. The main part of this interview are also reported.
Analysis of publishing activity on the Wellcome Open Research platform and preview of some of the activities planned for 2020.
Even in the best-case scenario, developing, testing, and mass-producing a new vaccine takes many months.
Epic, the large electronic health record company, wants to scuttle a rule that requires information to flow freely between EHRs. It should embrace it.
Just 10 days after it was first reported, scientists released the genetic sequence of the coronavirus. The freely available data unleashed a massive collaborative research effort.
Will preprinting accelerate the death of predatory journals and facilitate better models for scholarly communication?
