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My uncle immigrated to the United States in 1956 with no assets, a brilliant mind, ambition, and a faith that America was a great country of opportunity. He escaped from Hungary, a country of communists, at the time a source of great fear among many US politicians. If the US President at his time were making policy similar to our President today, my uncle would’ve never been allowed in the US.
Many bibliometricians and university administrators remain wary of Google Scholar citation data, preferring “the gold standard” of Web of Science instead.
The outline cuts at least $7 billion for research on climate change, diseases, and energy.
Private funding isn't enough to offset the president's proposed budget cuts, they say.
Revised text of a talk given by the Director of Libraries at MIT.
Very few academics do a great deal to share their often important and relevant research with the general public. What's holding them back?
Steve Keen laments loss of ‘time and freedom’ for universities’ ‘original thinkers’
Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here’s why not much has changed—and what might actually work.
The Commission wants to knit existing data infrastructures into a shared pan European resource.
As the European Research Council celebrates its 10-year anniversary, three Starting Grant awardees describe their career paths.
We asked three experts for their takes.
Misconduct in academia isn’t rampant but should be taken more seriously: let’s consider independent anti-corruption units
The Nature journals continue journey towards greater rigour.
A few months ago, Stephen Heard wrote a blog post that prompted us to have a brief twitter discussion on whether we sign our reviews.
A resource-centric communication protocol for for decentralised article publishing, annotations and peer to peer interactions.
Program brings artificial general intelligence a step closer by using previous knowledge to solve fresh problems
Building a coherent collaboration environment that facilitates scholarly communication workflows of social scientists in the roles of authors, reviewers, editors and readers.
Ten suggestions to help increase your reach and impact according to ScienceOpen.
Computational thinking and techniques are so central to the quest of understanding life that today all biology is computational biology.
Democratization of journal publishing: the key to lowering journal costs and facilitating Open Access.
From ideas to action: discussion on how to write a grant proposal
If we abandon the cult of the Great White Innovator, we will understand the history of technology in a much deeper way.
