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Our Machines Now Have Knowledge We’ll Never Understand
Knowing the world may require giving up on understanding it.
ProgrammingHistorian.org
A novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate their research.
Horizon 2020 Success Rates Are Higher Than They Appear
Take proposals that should never have been submitted out of the figures, and the chances of winning funding look a lot brighter.
Mozilla Learning: Web Literacy
A framework for entry-level web literacy & 21st Century skills.
Historic Co-Authorships Speed up Editor Handling Times
Journal editors tend to accept manuscripts written by prior collaborators more quickly.
Reproducible and Reusable Research: Are Journal Data Sharing Policies Meeting the Mark?
Reproducible and Reusable Research: Are Journal Data Sharing Policies Meeting the Mark?
The pervasiveness and quality of data sharing policies in the biomedical literature.
Hey, Computer Scientists! Stop Hating on the Humanities
Computer science departments need to teach coders more than just how to code.
Employment Status Given to Nearly All PhD Candidates
The Swedish government has changed the university law to ensure all doctoral candidates are made an employee of the university with a salary.
Too Many Studies Have Hidden Conflicts of Interest. A New Tool Makes It Easier to See Them.
Inside eLife: Forking Software Used in ELife Papers to GitHub
New eLife's GitHub account to track new software or a new algorithm when they are central to an article and to make sure that the right version of the code that was used within an article persists.
Jimmy Wales Goes After Fake News with Wikitribune
In an exclusive video with WIRED, Wales said he wants Wikitribune to 'bring the fact-based, fact-checking mentality we know from Wikipedia to news'
What We Can Learn From Tweets Linking to Research Papers
3 basic issues inherent in using tweets for research evaluation: whose tweets can be used to assess a paper, what objects can be evaluated, and how to score the paper according to each tweet.
March for Science: Protesters Gather Worldwide to Support 'Evidence'
Crowds massed in the US capital and around the world Saturday to support science and evidence-based research -- a protest partly fueled by opposition to President Donald Trump's threats of budget cuts to agencies funding scientists' work.
Scientists Are Armed with the Truth. But it Won’t Win Them the Culture War.
We all love science when it’s making life better, longer and easier. It’s a much harder sell when it points to inconvenient truths about our way of life
An Open Source Pharma Roadmap
How open source methods of working could be applied to the discovery and development of new medicines.
More Surgeons Must Start Doing Basic Science
They say they don't have the time or incentives to do research — and that’s dangerous for translational medicine.
107 Cancer Papers Retracted Due to Peer Review Fraud
New papers were found through investigations into previous fraud.
Federal Funding for Basic Research Led to the Gene-Editing Revolution. Don't Cut It.
Federal Funding for Basic Research Led to the Gene-Editing Revolution. Don't Cut It.
Patients in red states and blue states alike benefit from work funded by the National Institutes of Health
Donald Trump Shouldn’t Appoint a Science Adviser. He Doesn’t Deserve One, and It Won’t Help.
Donald Trump Shouldn’t Appoint a Science Adviser. He Doesn’t Deserve One, and It Won’t Help.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has been headless since Donald Trump moved into the White House.
Open Research,Open Engineering, and the Role of the University in Society
Open Research,Open Engineering, and the Role of the University in Society
Thoughts and reflections on the role that open research can play in defining the purpose and activities of the university.
McGill Institute Takes Open Science to a New Level
All research findings at the Montreal Neurological Institute are being shared publicly to accelerate scientific discovery.
SHERPA RoMEO: Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving
SHERPA/RoMEO database of publishers' policies on copyright and self-archiving.
Want to Fix Science’s Replication Crisis? Then Replicate
Researchers should spend more trying to reproduce other scientists' results.
We Need a GitHub for Academic Research
The academic paper has some inherent limitations—chief among them, that it can provide only a summary of a given research project.
A Story About Science Together
The unconference about tools and rules in collaborative research.
It Takes a Village: One Year of Journals Requiring ORCID iDs
Getting researcher buy-in to new tools and systems can be challenging - even when those tools are intended to help free them of administrative burden.