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Stress and long working hours are regrettably common among early-career researchers, reveals a survey by the group the Young Academy of Europe.
The NIH and the FBI are targeting ethnic Chinese scientists, including U.S. citizens, searching for a cancer cure. Here's the first account of what happened to Xifeng Wu.
Francis Collins pledged to decline to speak at conferences that do not include enough women in prominent speaking roles.
We are scientists from various disciplines and we will go on strike on 14 June 2019. Women* are systematically underrepresented to a great degree at Swiss higher education institutions.
The British Journal of Anaesthesia's unusual experiment is designed to broaden replicability efforts beyond just methods and results.
The history of science has often seen women's work overlooked and their credit stolen.
medRxiv aims to meet the unique preprint needs of the clinical research community with a free, non-profit service.
Fake publications are corrupting the world of research- and influencing real news.
A North American framework for creating transformative change in the scholarly publishing industry based on initial insights from the University of California's 2018-19 negotiations with Elsevier.
To promote effective sharing, we must create an enduring link between the people who generate data and its future uses, urge Heather H. Pierce and colleagues.
A new Research England funded project is set to help universities, researchers, libraries and publishers to make more, and better, use of open access book publishing.
All researchers should strive to improve the quality, relevance and reliability of their work.
Why colleges and universities that claim to take teaching seriously need a comprehensive and fair system of evaluating it.
Changing the name on a CV affects how physics and biology faculty members view theoretical applicants, according to a new study.
While statistical significance sends the so-called significant results into the literature, the results on the other side of the threshold often disappear into the “famous file drawer”.
As the transition to a system for sharing knowledge that is open by default accelerates, the question “open for whom?” is essential—both to consider and to act upon.
An interdisciplinary team has come up with a mobile app for identifying plants based on users taking a photo of the plant on their mobile. For Citizen Science the enthusiastic engagement of the public with Flora Incognita shows a clear path forward for more widespread uses of machine learning in public participation with science and scholarship, and in knowledge creation.
The president of Switzerland's top-ranked university warned that both Switzerland and the European Union would lose out if his country were excluded from the next big EU research programme.
ASAPbio launched Transpose, a database of journal peer review, co-reviewing, and preprint policies relating to media coverage, licensing, versions, and citation.
CERN has launched an ambitious drive towards open source software after Microsoft revoked its academic discount and introduced a new contract which was set to lead to a tenfold increase in licensing costs.
Neil Jacobs, Head of Open Science and research lifecycle at UK not-for-profit, Jisc, has been appointed as interim programme manager for cOAlition S.
IEEE to provide more high-quality options for authors and researchers.
Professor Martin Eve will lead Birkbeck's part in the project, which has been made possible through a £2.2 million grant from Research England.
Women are protesting against the slow pace of change, calling for "more money, time and respect".
The purpose of peer review is often portrayed as being a simple ‘objective’ test of the soundness or quality of a research paper. However, it also performs other functions primarily through linking and developing relationships between networks of researchers.
The Ben Barres Spotlight Awards will give scientists in underrepresented communities an opportunity to gain visibility for their work and increase collaboration.
