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Reaching higher uptake and acceptance of open science practice at the University of Göttingen.
Letters about women include more doubt-raising phrases than those about men, and that even one such phrase can make a difference in a job search.
Biochemist Juliet Gerrard will advise the government on key science issues when she takes up the position next month.
Teach anyone how to create reproducible reports, with reusable environments, using technologies like Nix, LaTeX, and KnitR for languages like R, Python and JavaScript.
From a failed coup in Turkey, to prolonged financial crises in Greece and Spain, researchers in the region are struggling to keep up.
Retraction Watch retraction database, being built with the support of the MacArthur and Arnold Foundations.
Existing policies to address the issue are ineffective, concludes a long-awaited report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Spending bills would boost construction account without cutting research grants, marking the second year that lawmakers have rejected President Donald Trump’s plans for the agency, which called for deep cuts in 2018 and flat funding in 2019.
Horizon Europe will pay article processing charges only "for purely open-access publishing venues (i.e. not 'hybrid' journals)". The change would be controversial as it could prevent researchers from publishing in their first-choice locations.
As a major funder of this report, NSF emphasizes its commitment to a more inclusive STEM culture and climate - one free of harassment.
A "significant number" of fraud cases involving research funds and academia have been uncovered in recent years, including professional exchanges which never actually took place, or projects that never came to fruition.
Kai-Fu Lee - a former Apple, Microsoft and Google executive turned investor - is placing big bets on machine learning. And China is leading the way.
Google Scholar presents a broader view of the academic world because it has brought to light a great number of sources that were not previously visible.
The drinking study had raised concerns because NIH officials had solicited funding for the $100 million project from liquor companies, with the money funneled through the private NIH Foundation.
After being given the green light by research ministers earlier this year, an ambitious initiative to enable Europe’s 1.7 million researchers to share data and research tools is now on course to be launched before the end of the year. But what should the next steps be?
A massive project to supercharge the world’s largest particle collider launched in the hope that the beefed-up machine will reveal fresh insights into the nature of the universe.
Study says editors of major political science journals demonstrate no systematic bias against female authors. Yet women authors remain underrepresented in the field. Why?
The US Department of Energy and IBM unveiled Summit, America’s latest supercomputer, which is expected to bring the title of the world’s most powerful computer back to America from China.
A new database of female historians joins a growing group of lists that aim to promote a more diverse group of experts. Such databases have previously been more common in the hard sciences.
Early-career researchers can learn about peer review by discussing preprints at journal clubs and sending feedback to the authors.
A cartoon showing how the feisty orange-black butterfly uses a toolbox of biological tricks to find its way down to Mexico for winter and flap north again in spring.
The EPO announced the winners of the European Inventor Award 2018 at a ceremony today in Paris, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, attended by some 600 guests from the areas of politics, business, intellectual property, science and academia.
They fear the online platform used for collaborating on research data and software will become less open, but other researchers say the buyout could make GitHub more useful.
Publishing exclusively in English can cause the deterioration of a culture’s local knowledge, brain drain, and hinder the emergence of important research. There are scholarly journals from the Global South who won’t flip to open access because they know they will be immediately labelled as predatory. Fixing these problems will require reconsidering how we talk about predatory publishers, no longer recommending blacklists, and using databases beyond Scopus and Web of Science.
Average spending has increased by 19 per cent in four years, Freedom of Information requests reveal.
