Ethical Research - the Long and Bumpy Road from Shirked to Shared
From all too scarce, to professionalized, the ethics of research is now everybody's business, argues Sarah Franklin.
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Academics Protest As Cambridge Fellow Told to Leave Britain
Letter warns immigration rules may damage UK universities' ability to attract global talent
Citizen Science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Citizen Science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Data from conventional sources cannot fully measure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Here the authors present a roadmap describing how citizen-science data can integrate traditional data and make a significant contribution in support of the SDGs agenda.
Identifying Publications in Questionable Journals in the Context of Performance-based Research Funding
Identifying Publications in Questionable Journals in the Context of Performance-based Research Funding
Study finds that the number of publications in open access journals rises every year, while the number of publications in questionable journals decreases from 2012 onwards. Both early career and more senior researchers publish in questionable journals.
Impact Factor Volatility to a Single Paper: A Comprehensive Analysis of 11639 Journals
Tenured and Tenure-track Faculty Must Combat an Incremental Erosion of Faculty Governance
Tenured and Tenure-track Faculty Must Combat an Incremental Erosion of Faculty Governance
Tenured and tenure-track faculty are called upon to combat an incremental erosion of faculty governance.
The Internet Archive Is Making Wikipedia More Reliable
The operator of the Wayback Machine allows Wikipedia's users to check citations from books as well as the web.
Math Looks The Same In The Brains Of Boys And Girls, Study Finds
A study of 104 children from ages 3 to 10 found similar patterns of brain activity in boys and girls as they engaged in basic math tasks, researchers reported.
How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong
Few thought it would arrive so quickly. Now we're facing consequences once viewed as fringe scenarios.
Physics Worth More to EU Economy Than Retail and Financial Services
Industries that rely on physics expertise contribute more to the EU economy than financial services or retail, according to a new study.
Increasing Gender Diversity in the STEM Research Workforce
In this article, potentially high-impact policy changesare outlined that build upon existing mechanisms for research funding and governance and that can be rapidly implemented to counteract barriers facing women in science. These approaches must be coupled to vigorous and continuous outcomes-based monitoring, so that the most successful strategies can be disseminated and widely implemented.
'Location-specific' Blocks on Journal Access Could Be OA 'interim Solution'
'Geo-specific access models' will help overcome problem of different nations having different policies towards open access, European Commission expert argues.
The Beijing Declaration on Research Data
The Beijing Declaration is intended as a timely statement of core principles to encourage global cooperation, especially for public research data.
Better Methods Can't Make Up for Mediocre Theory
With better questions, many reproducibility problems will fall away, says Paul Smaldino.
Leaked Document on Elsevier Negotiations Sparks Controversy - ScienceGuide
Leaked Document on Elsevier Negotiations Sparks Controversy - ScienceGuide
In exchange for full open access Elsevier requests full cooperation in a number of (meta)data projects. Initial responses to the proposed deal show a fear of 'vendor lock-in'.
Nature at 150: Evidence in Pursuit of Truth
A century and a half has seen momentous changes in science. But evidence and transparency are more important than ever before.
Octopus: a Radical New Approach to Scientific Publishing
In order to align incentives with good science, we need to move to a system in which work that is well thought-out, well carried-out, and well communicated – regardless of the ‘story’ it tells – is given the highest reward. Changing what is rewarded will change what is done.
Peer Review: New Initiatives to Enhance the Value of eLife's Process
Michael Eisen, eLife's Editor-in-Chief, reflects on lessons learned from a recent peer-review trial, and describes how eLife aims to make peer review more effective.
Make Code Accessible with These Cloud Services
Container platforms let researchers run each other's software - and check the results.
Professor Eveline Crone New ERC Vice-President
Professor Eveline Crone has been elected as the new Vice President of the European Research Council (ERC). She will take up duties on 1 January 2020, alongside two current Vice Presidents. Elected by the ERC Scientific Council, she will be in charge of ERC activities in the domain of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Data Sharing at Scale: A Heuristic for Affirming Data Cultures
Data Sharing at Scale: A Heuristic for Affirming Data Cultures
Addressing the most pressing contemporary social, environmental, and technological challenges will require integrating insights and sharing data across disciplines, geographies, and cultures. Strengthening international data sharing networks will not only demand advancing technical, legal, and logistical infrastructure for publishing data in open, accessible formats; it will also require recognizing, respecting, and learning to work across diverse data cultures. This essay introduces a heuristic for pursuing richer characterizations of the “data cultures” at play in international, interdisciplinary data sharing.
Naomi Oreskes: 'Discrediting Science is a Political Strategy'
The Harvard professor on science and scepticism - and why climate deniers have run out of excuses.
Tale of the Converted: How Complex Social Problems Have Made Me Question the Use of Data in Driving Impact
Tale of the Converted: How Complex Social Problems Have Made Me Question the Use of Data in Driving Impact
In practice the way in which research impacts and influences policy and society is often thought to be a rational, ordered and linear process. Whilst this might represent a ‘common sense’ understanding of research impact, this post reflects on how upending the primacy of data and embracing complexity can lead to a more nuanced and effective understanding of research impact.
Nasa's Voyager 2 Sends Back Its First Message from Interstellar Space
The Nasa craft is the second to travel beyond heliosphere but gives the most detailed data yet.
Self-plagiarism: When is Re-purposing Text Ethically Justifiable?
Mark Israel explores the ethics of self-plagiarism and asks, when is it right to reproduce social research?
Graduate Student's Death at UW Madison is a Devastating Cautionary Tale
Graduate Student's Death at UW Madison is a Devastating Cautionary Tale
A graduate student's suicide at UW Madison is a devastating cautionary tale about abusive lab environments.
7 Things Manifesto Writers Should Know About Science | Wellcome
A UK election has been called for the 12 December. That means the scramble is on for the political parties to pull together a manifesto that will capture the imagination and lead to votes.
Science Must Move with the Times
Can science continue to fulfil its social contract and to reach new horizons by advancing on the same footing into the future? Or does something need to shift?
Open Crowdsourced List of Society Journals
Unpaywall Journals needed data on whether a given journal is associated with an academic society, to help inform librarians in their subscription decisions. Alas there was no open source of this information. There is now!
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