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Who Will Debunk The Debunkers?
In 2012, network scientist and data theorist Samuel Arbesman published a disturbing thesis: What we think of as established knowledge decays over time.
Are the disruptions of uberisation a bane or boon for science?
For every characteristic of uberisation, there is a parallel in the world of research. This raises the question of whether research was "uberised" before Uber even existed?
Merck Wants Its Money Back if University Research Is Wrong
Merck Wants Its Money Back if University Research Is Wrong
If academic discoveries turn out to be wrong, one drug company wants its money back.
How can academia kick its addiction to the impact factor?
The impact factor is academia’s worst nightmare. So much has been written about its flaws, both in calculation and application, that there is little point in reiterating the same tired points here …
If scientists want to influence policymaking, they need to understand it
Turning scientific evidence into policy exposes a gulf between how scientists think and how policymakers work. Here’s what scientists need to know
OpenCon 2016
Empowering the Next Generation to Advance Open Access, Open Education and Open Data.
When privacy-bound research pays for open science
A new open science business model charges those who want to keep information private to subsidise those who share it
The Lego approach to scientific publishing
In this interview with EuroScientist, Lawrence Rajendran explains why he created Matters, to change the way we communicate science.
Call for papers: publish your confirmatory and non-confirmatory results
Call for papers: publish your confirmatory and non-confirmatory results
In response to rising concerns about irreproducible science and the lack of somewhere to openly discuss these issues, we recently launched the Preclinical Reproducibility and Robustness Channel.
Supporting Europe's innovators through open innovation
Supporting Europe's innovators through open innovation - 2014-2019
Speak up about subtle sexism in science
Female scientists face everyday, often-unintentional microaggression in the workplace, and it won't stop unless we talk about it, says Tricia Serio.
Peer review appears to be a poor predictor of impact
Peer review appears to be a poor predictor of impact
David Kent breaks down an eLife article that suggests peer review scores cannot distinguish very good grants from excellent grants. In fact, at a certain point in the process, it is pretty much a random lottery.
Australia’s national labs learn details of staff cuts
Climate scientists skeptical of plans for new center
Yet more evidence for questionable research practices in Psychology
The replicability of psychological research is surprisingly low. Why? In this blog post I present new evidence showing that questionable research practices contributed to failures to replicate psyc…
A guide to new data and measurement in innovation policy
A look at novel methods to improve measurement of innovation and growth in the modern economy.
Who Reads Science Blogs? The Results are In.
Who reads science blogs, and why? This broad question started this Experiment.com project, and now the results are in.
Economic thoughts about “gold” open access
There is increasing support in the scholarly communications community for “flipping” the standard journal publishing model from subscription-based to “gold” open access...
Why Brexit Runs Completely Counter to Modern Science
Whilst Brexit looms more ominously in the background, the next generation of data publishing is moving towards an ever-more collaborative and open place in which researchers can easily choose to make discoveries and data sets available across borders and cultures.
When the payoff for academics drops, commercialization suffers
A 2002 law in Norway that ended the country's long-running practice of giving academics 100% ownership of their intellectual property and adopted a U.S.-style system caused the per capita number of patents from academics to drop by 53% in the next 5 years.
Measuring metrics
A 40-year longitudinal cross-validation of citations, downloads, and peer review in astrophysics
New Stanford center for scientific cartography
The new David Rumsey Map Center, which opened last week at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, showcases what was once one of the world’s great private map collections—more than 150,000 maps, globes, and cartographic artifacts.
CERN releases 300TB of Large Hadron Collider data into open access
CERN releases 300TB of Large Hadron Collider data into open access
Cancel your plans for this weekend! CERN just dropped 300 terabytes of hot collider data on the world and you know you want to take a look.
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