'The Netflixisation of Academia': is This the End for University Lectures?
Universities are increasingly recording lectures, but academics are wary of being spied on or made obsolete.
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Chinese Universities with Military Ties Classed As "Risky" Collaborators
Forty-three Chinese universities should be considered "very high" or "high" risk collaborators because of their involvement in research for military and defence purposes, according to an Australian think tank.
More Indigenous and Latin American Students Are Joining US Graduate Programmes - But Overall Diversity Remains Low
More Indigenous and Latin American Students Are Joining US Graduate Programmes - But Overall Diversity Remains Low
Proportions of female students and those from under-represented ethnic groups are rising, yet parity is a way off.
Dutch End 'one-sided' Research Focus and Hope World Follows
Proposals include new job classifications, a rolling back of metrics, and shorter publication lists in a bid to end excessive 'emphasis on research performance'.
UK Election 2019: What the 'wisdom of Crowds' Forecasts
Crowd-based prediction markets have even been shown to outperform intelligence analysts.
Nasa's Parker Solar Probe Beams Back First Insights from Sun's Edge
Flying closer than any other mission, spacecraft set to unravel the sun's mysteries
A Reminder That "Fake News" Is An Information Literacy Problem - Not A Technology Problem
A Reminder That "Fake News" Is An Information Literacy Problem - Not A Technology Problem
Beneath all "fake news", misinformation, disinformation, digital falsehoods and foreign influence lies society's failure to teach its citizenry information literacy: how to think critically about the deluge of information that confronts them in our modern digital age.
Why Science Failed to Stop Climate Change
It's a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time. Scientists have been seriously investigating the subject of human-made climate change since the late 1950s and political leaders have been discussing it for nearly as long. In 1961, Alvin Weinberg, the director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, called carbon dioxide one of the "big problems"
Even 50-year-old Climate Models Correctly Predicted Global Warming
Study debunks idea that older models were inaccurate
Cheers to Horizons, the Independent Swiss Science Magazine!
Horizons should stimulate debate about research and science policy, writes Matthias Egger, the President of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Are You Ready to ROR? An Inside Look at This New Organization Identifier Registry
What is the Research Organization Registry (ROR) and why do we need it? Learn more from the team behind it (CDL, Crossref, DataCite, and Digital Science) in this interview with Alice Meadows.
The New Europe PMC is Here
It's time to embrace change. Today Europe PubMed Central (PMC) proudly unveils a new website, packed with useful features, including a better search and reading experience, as well as better access to data.
Webinar: PhD Students Take on Openness and Academic Culture
Webinar: PhD Students Take on Openness and Academic Culture
OASPA webinar of 2019: invitation to speakers to consider contemporary debates in open research and open access.
The People You Won't Hear from at One of the World's Largest Scientific Meetings
The People You Won't Hear from at One of the World's Largest Scientific Meetings
Researchers from racial and ethnic groups that are under-represented in US geoscience are the least likely to be offered opportunities to speak at the field's biggest meeting.
Publishers Announce a Major New Service to Plug Leakage
A group of leading publishers is announcing a major new service to plug leakage, improve discovery and access, fight piracy, compete with ResearchGate, and position their platform for the OA ecosystem.
Mosaic to Close After Five Years of Award-winning Long-form Journalism
Mosaic, Wellcome's digital platform for long-form journalism, is closing on 10 December 2019.
Biased Algorithms Are Easier to Fix Than Biased People
Racial discrimination by algorithms or by people is harmful - but that's where the similarities end.
Towards Responsible Research Career Assessment
Growing evidence suggests that the evaluation of researchers’ careers on the basis of narrow definitions of excellence is restricting diversity in academia, both in the development of its labour force and its approaches to address societal challenges. Recommendations are suggested for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.
On Being Accepted: The Views of Four People with Disabilities Working in Scholarly Communications
On Being Accepted: The Views of Four People with Disabilities Working in Scholarly Communications
What's it like to be work in scholarly communications as a person with a disability - physical or mental?
The Plan S Open Access Initiative Creates More Opportunities Than Threats for Latin America
The Plan S Open Access Initiative Creates More Opportunities Than Threats for Latin America
Concerns about the threat from the Global North to Latin America's exemplary tradition of open access publishing are understandable but ultimately misplaced.
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Amazon Joins Tech's Great Quantum Computing Race
The company's AWS unit will allow customers to tap quantum machines from three startups.
EPFL's Student Solves a 100-year-old Physics Enigma
An EPFL Bachelor's student has solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for 100 years.
Lib Dems Warn of Brexit Brain Drain As EU Academics Quit
Figures show 11,000 have left UK universities in three years since referendum.
NASA Finds India's Vikram Moon Lander Crash Site, With Amateur's Help
NASA Finds India's Vikram Moon Lander Crash Site, With Amateur's Help
Since India lost contact with the spacecraft in September, the precise location of its crash has been a mystery.
Releasing a New CORE Discovery Browser Extension
CORE Discovery helps users find freely accessible copies of research papers that might be behind a paywall on the publisher's website. It is backed by our huge dataset of millions of full text open…
Chinese Students Paid to Rort Australian Universities As Government Tackles Cheating
Chinese Students Paid to Rort Australian Universities As Government Tackles Cheating
Most agencies claim a 100 per cent pass rate with zero risk of being found out. New laws are being drafted to target contract cheating in Australia.
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