How Sure Are You of Your Result? Put a Number on It
How Sure Are You of Your Result? Put a Number on It
Any scientist publishing a claim should quantify their confidence in it with a probability, argues Steven N. Goodman.
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Postdocs Trying to Transition to Non-academic Careers Should Be Offered More Support by Their Supervisors and Universities
Postdocs Trying to Transition to Non-academic Careers Should Be Offered More Support by Their Supervisors and Universities
Despite the position being billed as a stepping stone on the way to tenure-track academic employment, many postdocs, discouraged by their poor prospects, are questioning their career choices and instead looking to non-academic jobs as an alternative. However, as Chris Hayter and Marla A. Parker reveal, making this transition is not as easy as it might first appear.
Gender Studies Scholars Say the Field is Coming Under Attack in Many Countries Around the Globe
Gender Studies Scholars Say the Field is Coming Under Attack in Many Countries Around the Globe
Scholars say their field is coming under increasing pressures from forces outside the academy who want to delegitimize it.
Aligning Strategies to Enable Open Access
The 14th Berlin Open Access Conference, hosted by the Max Planck Society and organized by the Max Planck Digital Library on behalf of the Open Access 2020 Initiative (oa2020.org), has just come to an end after two intense days with 170 participants from 37 countries around the world discussing where the research organizations and their library consortia stand in their negotiations with scholarly publishers in transitioning scholarly publishing to open access. The participants represented research performing and research funding organizations, libraries and government, associations of researchers and other umbrella organizations, many of them holding high-level positions at their organizations. In his welcoming address, Max Planck Society President Martin Stratmann captured the spirit of the meeting when he stated: "Open Access is the responsibility of all of us."
Netherlands Plans Overhaul of Academic Careers in Move Away from Metrics
The Netherlands will radically shake up how academics are assessed and promoted, including a shift away from relying on citations and journal impact factors.
Talent Identification at the Limits of Peer Review: an Analysis of the EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships Selection Process
Talent Identification at the Limits of Peer Review: an Analysis of the EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships Selection Process
A study evaluating two aspects of the selection process of the top-ranked applicants to the EMBO Long-Term Fellowship program in 2007.
Researchers Sign Petition Backing Plans to End Paywalls
More than 1,400 researchers sign an online letter arguing that Plan S will not impinge on academic freedom, as some critics claim.
Plan S: Impact on Society Publishers
Plan S implementation guidance has not provided reassurance to anxious society publishers.
A Random Approach to Innovation
In 2019, innovation funding will be increasingly randomised.
The Case Against Quantum Computing
The proposed strategy relies on manipulating with high precision an unimaginably huge number of variables
ELife Supports SwipesForScience to Gamify Crowdsourced Research and Machine Learning
ELife Supports SwipesForScience to Gamify Crowdsourced Research and Machine Learning
By helping scientists gamify the crowdsourcing of data analysis, SwipesForScience will engage the community to speed up research.
Illuminating Dark Knowledge - Generation R
How innovation in search engines needs renewing with open working and open indexes.
What a Massive Database of Retracted Papers Reveals About Science Publishing's 'death Penalty'
What a Massive Database of Retracted Papers Reveals About Science Publishing's 'death Penalty'
Better editorial oversight, not more flawed papers, might explain flood of retractions
The CRISPR Baby Scandal Gets Worse by the Day
The alleged creation of the world's first gene-edited infants was full of technical errors and ethical blunders. Here are the 15 most damning details.
First Law of Leadership: Be Human First, Scientist Second
Want to get the best research from your team? Take these six steps to invest in stronger relationships.
Does Science Have a Bullying Problem?
A spate of bullying allegations have rocked several high-profile science institutions. Here's how researchers, universities, funders and others are dealing with the issue.
Statistical Pitfalls of Personalized Medicine
Misleading terminology and arbitrary divisions stymie drug trials and can give false hope about the potential of tailoring drugs to individuals, warns Stephen Senn.
On the Value of Preprints: an Early Career Researcher Perspective
A perspective from an interdisciplinary group of early career researchers on the value of preprints, advocating the wide adoption of preprints to advance knowledge and facilitate career development.
Sci-Hub "Pirate Bay of Science" Blocked in Russia Over Medical Studies
Many of Sci-Hub's domains have been blocked in Russia following a complaint from academic publisher Springer Nature that three studies covering heart and brain health were offered without obtaining an appropriate license.
CRISPR Inventor Feng Zhang Calls for Moratorium on Gene-edited Babies
A leading scientist wants Chinese researchers to halt a project to create genetically modified children.
Why You Should Move Country
Researchers who are mobile get more citations and build broader teams of collaborators than those who aren't, concludes a recent study.
Effect of Open Peer Review on Quality of Reviews and on Reviewers' Recommendations: a Randomised Trial. - ScienceOpen
Effect of Open Peer Review on Quality of Reviews and on Reviewers' Recommendations: a Randomised Trial. - ScienceOpen
European Gender Scholars Unite in Resistance Against Right-wing Attacks
How are Hungarian, Polish and Swedish gender scholars responding to criticism and campaigns to discredit their work? Not only do they emphasize the intrinsic value of gender studies - they also use humour to counter the anti-gender campaigns.
Gender and Quality Create Conflict when Hiring Academics
Many believe it is difficult to reconcile demands for gender equality and measures such as moderate quotas with academia's conception of quality. This is according to a new master's thesis on assessments and gender in hiring processes for senior-level positions.
Men and Women Use Their Time Differently, but Everyone Works Too Much
Male post-docs and PhD candidates work more than their female colleagues, but female professors work the most hours of all, according to the latest time use survey.
Have University Leaders Changed After the Vice-chancellor Pay Scandal?
After a troubled year for universities, the next generation of leaders is emerging. They're tech savvy, low ego and skilled in soft power
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