Do academic social networks share academics’ interests?
David Matthews examines the approach of ResearchGate, Academia.edu and Mendeley to profit, user data and open access publishing
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Top Tips to Make Your Research Irreproducible
It is an unfortunate convention of science that research should pretend to be reproducible; our top tips will help you mitigate this fussy conventionality, enabling you to enthusiastically showcase your irreproducible work.
A faked, retracted study of changing people's minds on gay marriage turns out to have been right
A faked, retracted study of changing people's minds on gay marriage turns out to have been right
A famous faked study gets proved right—by the people who unmasked it in the first place.
How to be an Outstanding Proposal Writer
Key areas that you’ll need to work on to be an outstanding proposal writer.
Last man in the university
Control, surveillance and thought manipulation: there is an undercurrent of 1984 in today’s academy, doublethinks Eric Blair
Taking peer review seriously | EMBO Reports
Taking peer review seriously | EMBO Reports
Why Is It So Expensive to Read Academic Research?
Content piracy may be illegal, but price gouging is at least as despicable.
How scientists can reduce their carbon footprint?
Cutting down on long-distance air travel is the best way to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases by the scientific community.
Publication bias is boring. You should care about it anyway.
You all know about publication bias, don't you? Sure you do. It's the tendency to publish research that has bold, affirmative results and ignore research that concludes there's nothing going on.
What if you could peer review the arXiv?
What if you could peer review the arXiv?
What if I told you that you don't need journals to do peer review?
EU action plan for Open Science
The Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science is the key outcome of the two-day conference ‘Open Science.
The scientific impact of Brexit: it's complicated
Is UK science better off in or out of the EU? The arguments are complex and only partially evidence-based. And that’s not surprising.
Character traits: Scientific virtue
Character traits: Scientific virtue
Elite scientists generally agree on what character traits make for excellent science.
Recognize the value of social science
A professional body for UK social scientists can help to improve research practice — and not just in public engagement, says Andrew Webster.
Moedas: journal papers based on EU-funded science should be free to access
Moedas: journal papers based on EU-funded science should be free to access
The days of open science have arrived and it is time to move from pay-to-read to free-to-read, says EU's R&D Commissioner. But publishers want to keep their subscriptions.
Universities stonewall investigations of research misconduct
Two high-profile cases in which universities — who by US law are the ones that must open an investigation into misconduct — stonewalled the effort.
The Immoral Landscape? Scientists Are Associated with Violations of Morality
The Immoral Landscape? Scientists Are Associated with Violations of Morality
Do people think that scientists are bad people? Although surveys find that science is a highly respected profession, a growing discourse has emerged regarding how science is often judged negatively.
"Open science: share and succeed"
Speech by Commissioner Carlos Moedas in Amsterdam, NL
Crossref initiatives will support reporting to funders
Now that most major research funders require researchers to make their outputs available in open access (OA), new developments in the field are coming faster than ever.
Dare to share
This advisory report is about open science, and more specifically about access to scholarly publications (open access) and research data (open research data). What impact is this likely to have for the world of science itself, for society and for business? What level of openness is publicly desirable and what does this imply for government policy?
Self-presentation in scholarly profiles
Characteristics of images and perceptions of professionalism and attractiveness on academic social networking sites
Conflict-of-interest information is often buried in studies. These researchers want to change that.
The challenges for scientific publishing, 60 years on
On the democratization of science via the Internet and the dramatic change in the communication of data and in their interpretation.
Denmark and Sweden take another look at how they investigate scientific misconduct
After a series of scandals in Nordic science, Denmark and Sweden are rethinking how they investigate allegations of academic fraud and misconduct.
A spiritual successor to Aaron Swartz is angering publishers all over again
Meet accused hacker and copyright infringer Alexandra Elbakyan.
How economists rode maths to become our era’s astrologers
By fetishising mathematical models, economists turned economics into a highly paid pseudoscience
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