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Women and men are equally able to perform excellent frontier research. This is the view of ERC Scientific Council. Each process within the ERC - from creating awareness about the ERC to signing of grant agreements – is designed to give equal opportunities to men and women. To monitor gender balance in ERC calls, in 2008, the ERC set up a dedicated working group.
Scientific publications are getting more and more names attached to them
The Big Data era, the impact of data science and its impact biological research and healthcare: interview with Phil Bourne.
As the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rises comes into force this month, these are the universities that have, between 2011 and 2015, produced the environmental science research with the greatest impact
Community driven paid reviews could work in conjunction with a feed-back loop to young scientists. This promote the integration of reviews into an academic career.
Experiments are invaluable and have, in the past, shown the consensus opinion of experts to be wrong. But those who fetishize this methodology can also impair progress toward the truth.
Making up names and CVs is one of the latest tricks to game scientific metrics.
Twenty percent of medical researchers do up to 95 percent of the peer reviewing.
But grave challenges remain before the promise of individually tailored medicine becomes reality.
Guest post by Professor Elizabeth Loftus, winner of the 2016 John Maddox Prize
An artificial intelligence system developed by researchers at DeepMind and the University of Oxford got so good by watching 5000 hours of BBC programmes.
The Association of American Universities worries that the open-access policies federal research agencies are developing now are not sufficiently aligned. Any slowdown in putting them in place, it says, is "probably a positive."
20% of the scientists undertook between 69% and 94% of reviews last year.
Without access to large companies' datasets or the expertise to analyse them, research is confronted with a replication crisis and is vulnerable to commercial motivations.
A good idea is important of course, but much of the success of a start-up enterprise relies on it setting up in the right place.
A judge has ordered Marie-Ève Maille to provide names and transcripts from her study on a wind farm
The winners in Trump's America were likely to be the defence industry, oil and energy, private prisons, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Not health. What should be the response of the public health community?
Having examined the organisation of Europe’s academic labour markets, Alexandre Afonso outlines the main differences between countries across the continent. There is greatest variance in two …
In a fractured world, the humanities are key to an understanding of others.
Pressure to barrel through a PhD can make taking a break seem daunting — but there are ways to limit career damage.
