Zuckerberg aims to 'cure, prevent and manage' all disease
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan plan to invest $3bn over next decade to help scientists develop and utilise tools such as artificial intelligence and blood monitors to treat illnesses
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Mass production of review articles is cause for concern
A torrent of low-quality meta-analyses and systematic reviews in biomedicine might be hiding valuable research and misleading scientists.
OpenCon Berlin 2016: Advancing Openness in Research and Education
ScienceOpen has teamed up with OpenAIRE and Digital-Science, alongside two of their portfolio companies – Figshare and Overleaf, to organise an OpenCon ‘satellite’ event to be held in Berlin on the 24-26th November.
Robot-written reviews fool academics
Peer reviews created by self-generated text machines are the latest threat to scientific integrity.
Data manipulation charges against prominent researchers
Anonymous individual or group claims that 22 papers from the University of Tokyo contain fabricated or falsified data.
Big dreams emerge for big brain science projects
Organizers of national neuroscience projects meet to coordinate goals.
HHMI Launches New Program for Early-Career Scientists
New program aims to recruit and retain early-career scientists who are from gender, racial, ethnic, and other groups underrepresented in the life sciences, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Research Ministry demands Open Access
Federally funded research will now come with an open access clause – but uncertainties remain
The FTC Is Cracking Down on Predatory Science Journals
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing predatory journal publishing company, OMICS Group, for hiding fees and deceiving researchers. It's a first for the largely unregulated industry.
The Rise of the Trump Academic
We can all recognise the ambitious researcher at the conference who is anxious to advertise their own work. It resonates with my current work on academic self-promotion via university profile pages. And I start to wonder, is a new academic habitus beginning to emerge?
What's the point of maths research?
We don't know what knowledge we'll need in the future, and that's where maths research comes in.
Is your spreadsheet program altering your data?
Is your spreadsheet program altering your data?
The move to providing the underlying data behind research articles has been a major step towards promoting reproducibility, transparency and data re-use. However, analyses of the quality and annota…
Is More Recognition the Key to Success?
As we celebrate Peer Review Week, this post summarizes some of the reviewer preferences along with ways to boost recognition for peer review activities.
The librarian's role in text and data mining
The librarian's role in text and data mining
The relatively new exception to copyright law that we enjoy in the UK, permitting text and data mining (TDM) for the purposes of non-commercial research, offers potential to further knowledge and make scientific and medical breakthroughs.
UN report calls for a greater place for science in international decision-making
Science is a public good and deserves to be valued more highly and used effectively by decision-makers at all levels.
Why scientific criticism sometimes needs to hurt
As a researcher who gets such severe criticism, you have to go through the 5 stages of grief...
Raising the Status of Peer Review With Publons
An interview with Tom Culley, Marketing Director of Publons, on how provide recognition for this vital part of the scientific process.
Clinical trial rules aim to improve public reporting of results
Researchers will have to publicly report the results of many more clinical trials under new government rules announced Friday.
Complementarities and ambivalences in the development and use of indicators
Complementarities and ambivalences in the development and use of indicators
The tension between simple but invalid indicators that are widely used and more sophisticated indicators that are not used or cannot be used in evaluation practices because they are not transparent for users, cannot be calculated, or are difficult to interpret.
The evolving U.S. policy environment for open research data
This paper presents a brief overview of emerging policies to open up access to research data in the United States.
Turkey’s purge of academia leads to record asylum requests
Post-coup crackdown has led to a huge number of requests for help, say charities for at-risk scholars.
6 Easy Things Scientists Can do to End Pseudoscience
Don't believe every science study you read, because sometimes not even their authors believe them. Here are the issues corrupting good, honest science – and how to fix them.
The office experiment: Can science build the perfect workspace?
Windows, desks and employees are being wired up in a quest to create healthy, evidence-based environments.
New Proposals to Solve the Ongoing Reproducibility Crisis
Recap of contest launched by the Winnower and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to answer the question – How do we ensure that research is reproducible?
Danish universities face more cuts and more political control
The Lars Løkke Rasmussen government is moving to cut funding for universities and the student financing system and increase political control over higher education institutions.
The future of peer review is now!
The future of peer review is now!
It’s the most wondrous time of the year! Peer Review Week is the time when the scholarly communications community comes together to recognise the importance and value of peer review and peer review…
Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications
Today, a scientist's most desired citation may be from a publication not often thought of as prestigious: Wikipedia.
Impact of referendum on immigration still uncertain
Two and a half years ago now, a narrow majority of the Swiss electorate approved the so-called popular 'Stop Mass Immigration' initiative or MEI proposed by the Swiss People’s Party or SVP...
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