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.
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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.
Anticipated Effects of an Open Access Policy at a Private Foundation
Evaluating the impact of the Moore Foundation Open Access new policy.
What All Those Scientists on Twitter Are Really Doing
Analysis reveals that female researchers are over-represented on the social-media site and that mathematicians and life scientists are less likely to use it.
A World Without Science — Part 1: Infectious Diseases
Advances in science and public health policy have saved over 107 million lives in 25 years.
Moore Foundation Rolls out New Open Access Policy
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation recently announced a new Open Access Policy that will help to maximize the impact of research.
Nature Index Country Collaboration
The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles. The infographic indicates patterns of international collaboration captured by the Nature Index.
Why Open Source Pharma Is the Path to Both Cheaper and New Medicines
Breaking the cycle in which only highly profitable drugs reach the market is not just the responsibility of government.
The Stars Are Aligning
An overview of recent events and the current state of preprints in the scholarly communications landscape.
Five Hacks for Digital Democracy
Beth Simone Noveck urges researchers to work out how technology can improve public institutions.
They Will Pay as Much Attention to Us as We Do to Ants
Jürgen Schmidhuber says artificial intelligence will surpass humans’ in 2050, enabling robots to have fun, fall in love – and colonise the galaxy.
The Growing Case for Geoengineering
As climate change accelerates, a handful of scientists are eager to move ahead with experiments testing ways to counteract warming artificially.
Open Knowledge Maps
Open Knowledge Maps is a visualization tool for researchers that allows them to view groupings of manuscripts that share common words when searching for a new research topic
Automation Will Force Governments to Introduce Universal Basic Income
Automation Will Force Governments to Introduce Universal Basic Income
Elon Musk believes artificial intelligence that is much smarter than the smartest human on Earth could result in dangerous situations. He argues that the government must introduce a universal basic income program in order to compensate for automation.
Ranks of Scientists Aging Faster Than Other Workers
The work force is aging in the United States, and scientists are leading the way. From 1993 to 2008, the share of scientists aged 55 and older increased by nearly 90 percent.
The Evolution of Scholarly Access and Sharing
A webinar on how to access and engage with content and the importance of open access to scholarly research communication.
Science Is Society's Best Insurance Policy
Squeezed budgets for basic research will make it harder to respond to disease outbreaks and other global threats, say Arturo Casadevall & Ferric Fang.
Why Scientists Must Share Their Failures
Opinion piece by Ijad Madisch, co-founder and CEO of ResearchGate, the professional network that connects the world of science and opens research up to all.
Track How Technology Is Transforming Work
Without data on how artificial intelligence is affecting jobs, policymakers will fly blind into the next industrial revolution, say Tom Mitchell and Erik Brynjolfsson.
Five Reasons Blog Posts Are of Higher Scientific Quality Than Journal Articles
Open data, code, materials and other reasons make blog posts score better on some core scientific values.
How A Budget Squeeze Can Lead To Sloppy Science And Even Cheating
The hypercompetitive world of biomedical research occasionally drives scientists to cheat. More often, scientists make decisions that undercut their results. That can lead colleagues astray.
Why Do Scientists Fabricate And Falsify Data?
A matched-control analysis of papers containing problematic image duplications.
What Role Does Technology Play in Record Levels of Income Inequality?
What Role Does Technology Play in Record Levels of Income Inequality?
The disparity between the rich and everyone else is larger than ever in the United States and increasing in much of Europe. Why?
Five Reasons Blog Posts Sre of Higher Scientific Quality than Journal Articles
In this blog, I will examine the hypothesis that blogs are, on average, of higher quality than journal articles.
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