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Tips for grad students: the options for communicating your research beyond the dissertation or journal article are nearly endless and range from video games to comic books, but two of the easiest to work with are podcasts and infographics.
Strategy for gender balance and equal opportunities for women and men at the ETH Domain.
In a profession rewarding productivity in the form of papers and grants, sitting down to deeply read journal articles can feel like wasted time. Professor logs every paper she read over multiple years to gain insight on personal research practices.
Based on Crossref Data (2014-2017) - 42,339 Journals - 12 Million Articles - 36 Million Citations.
The results of the latest public opinion survey undertaken by Research!America showed that 67% of respondents had a positive image of science and indeed thought that public policy should be based on the best science available.
Moon missions, ancient genomes and a publishing showdown are set to shape research.
The pre-print database for scientists to test the peer-review waters was set up in 1991 as a relatively simple electronic bulletin board on a single computer. Twenty-six years later, the site arXiv.org has surpassed a full billion downloads of papers and receives more than 10 million submissions each month.
Ultimately, the power to enforce change resides in the hands of scientists.
For science to progress, we have to accept the inevitability of error.
Rogier Creemers advises early career academics to be ruthless and put themselves first to move up the ladder.
There is no shortage of problems facing humankind. What role science has in tackling them has long been debated.
Maryam Mirzakhani was a mathematician, but worked like an artist, always drawing.
The goal is to customize treatments for cancer and other diseases to a patient's own biology. But something as simple as failing to take care of tissue samples en route to the lab can derail that.
There have been two distinct responses to the replication crisis – by instituting measures like registered reports and by making data openly available. But another group continues to remain in denial.
They’re not hiding behind language - they’re acting in plain sight.
Towards a fully-fledged policy proposal, including issues of cost and fairness.
Ensuring appropriate credit and recognition in increasingly collaborative research involving multiple investigators and research groups.
Lucy Patterson reports back from Science Hack Day Berlin.
Initiatives are in place to keep early-career investigators in the biomedical system, but more support is needed.
Scientists and career experts reveal how to take your job to the next level.
Thomas Bayes had the right idea: Even scientific laws can benefit from an update.
