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Open Access
Switzerland

Swissuniversities and Elsevier Adopt a Pilot Agreement Combining Reading and Publishing

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Open Access
Switzerland

Swissuniversities and Elsevier Adopt a Pilot Agreement Combining Reading and Publishing

Swissuniversities has adopted a new transformative pilot agreement with Elsevier for research access and Open Access publishing in Switzerland.

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Universities
Women in Science

Promoting Equity and Inclusion for Mothers in Academe

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Women in Science

Promoting Equity and Inclusion for Mothers in Academe

What academic workplaces can do.

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Funding
US

U.S. Lawmakers Unveil Bold $100 Billion Plan to Remake NSF

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US

U.S. Lawmakers Unveil Bold $100 Billion Plan to Remake NSF

Agency would get a huge infusion of cash, and responsibility for maintaining U.S. global leadership in innovation, under bipartisan bills that have just been introduced in both houses of Congress.

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Preprints

10 Tips for Submitting a Successful Preprint

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Preprints

10 Tips for Submitting a Successful Preprint

How to stand out in the fast-growing throng.

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Public Health

America's Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms

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America's Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms

Inside the U.S. and Panama's long-running collaboration to rid an entire continent of a deadly disease.

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ERC
Conference

#ECRWednesday Webinar: Reforming Academic Conferences

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Conference

#ECRWednesday Webinar: Reforming Academic Conferences

Join this month's webinar to hear what could be done to reform the conference experience for both organisers and participants.

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COVID-19
China
US

Science Superpowers After COVID-19 Lockdowns Lift: a Letter of Hope from China to the United States

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COVID-19
China
US

Science Superpowers After COVID-19 Lockdowns Lift: a Letter of Hope from China to the United States

Scientists from both countries must rise above political rhetoric for the sake of all, says Xiao-Nong Zhou.

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Astronomy
Geology

The Secret History of the Supernova at the Bottom of the Sea

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Astronomy
Geology

The Secret History of the Supernova at the Bottom of the Sea

How a star explosion may have shaped life on Earth.

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Preprints

Publishers Invest in Preprints

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Publishers Invest in Preprints

Major scholarly publishers have invested substantially in preprints in recent years, integrating preprint deposit into manuscript submission workflows.

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COVID-19

The Epic Battle Against Coronavirus Misinformation and Conspiracy Theories

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COVID-19

The Epic Battle Against Coronavirus Misinformation and Conspiracy Theories

Analysts are tracking false rumours about COVID-19 in hopes of curbing their spread.

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Early Career Researchers
COVID-19

COVID-19 and the Research Community: Struggling to Get Started

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Early Career Researchers
COVID-19

COVID-19 and the Research Community: Struggling to Get Started

As the world attempts to cope with the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers about to start PhDs and postdocs face particular challenges.

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Open Data
Infrastructures

An Opportunity to Do Better, Together

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Infrastructures

An Opportunity to Do Better, Together

Data sharing has not changed, but the pandemic highlights not only how important data sharing is (like other crises have, for instance, the climate crisis) but how it spotlights larger issues in our data sharing social and technical infrastructure.

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Integrity
UK

How Can Any Scientists Stand by This Government Now?

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Integrity
UK

How Can Any Scientists Stand by This Government Now?

The Cummings saga has made it plain that scientific advisers are shielding the government's collapsing reputation on coronavirus, says Lancet editor Richard Horton.

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Funding
Biomedicine

Enabling Foundational Tools for Scientific Discovery

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Biomedicine

Enabling Foundational Tools for Scientific Discovery

23 New Grants Support Essential Open Source Tools in Biomedicine. 

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Open Data
Switzerland

Opendata.ch - 2020 Forum

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Open Data
Switzerland

Opendata.ch - 2020 Forum

The Opendata.ch 2020 Forum will explore New Data Narratives, diving in deep collaborative work, and aiming high!

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Public Health
US

What the Rift Between the US and WHO Means for Global Health

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US

What the Rift Between the US and WHO Means for Global Health

If President Trump sidelines the World Health Organization, experts foresee incoherence, inefficiency and resurgence of deadly diseases.

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COVID-19
Pseudo-science

An Incomplete List of COVID-19 Quackery

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COVID-19
Pseudo-science

An Incomplete List of COVID-19 Quackery

Possibly the only thing spreading faster than COVID-19 is the pseudoscience about COVID-19.

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COVID-19

San Francisco Testing Blitz Shows Covid-19 Hit Mostly Low-wage Workers

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COVID-19

San Francisco Testing Blitz Shows Covid-19 Hit Mostly Low-wage Workers

The testing project is proving to be a national model, because of the challenges the organizers overcame and what it showed about the spread of Covid-19.

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COVID-19
Early Career Researchers

The Precarious Position of Postdocs During COVID-19

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COVID-19
Early Career Researchers

The Precarious Position of Postdocs During COVID-19

Postdoctoral researchers play a crucial role in many research groups, serving as mentors, teachers, and leaders as they develop their skills and prepare for scientific careers. However, the coronavirus disease crisis has put funding and support for postdoc positions at risk, threatening to upend the career paths available to these junior scientists.

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Open Data
Repositories

Virtual OR2020 Meetings - Open Repositories 2021

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Repositories

Virtual OR2020 Meetings - Open Repositories 2021

How can repositories contribute to their FAIR share? A Virtual workshop on June 1st about Equity and democratization of knowledge.

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COVID-19
Integrity

Covid-19 Study on Hydroxychloroquine Use Questioned by 120 Researchers and Medical Professionals

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COVID-19
Integrity

Covid-19 Study on Hydroxychloroquine Use Questioned by 120 Researchers and Medical Professionals

More than 120 researchers and medical professionals from around the world have written an open letter to the editor of the Lancet raising serious concerns about a large and widely publicised global study that prompted the World Health Organisation to halt several Covid-19 clinical trials.

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COVID-19
Equality
Early Career Researchers

How Female Academics Are Losing Ground During the Pandemic

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COVID-19
Equality
Early Career Researchers

How Female Academics Are Losing Ground During the Pandemic

Early analyses suggest that female academics are posting fewer preprints and starting fewer research projects than their male peers.

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Covid-19 Crisis Could Set Women Back Decades, Experts Fear
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Academia
Gender

Protected by Decades-Old Power Structures, Three Renowned Harvard Anthropologists Face Allegations of Sexual Harassment

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Academia
Gender

Protected by Decades-Old Power Structures, Three Renowned Harvard Anthropologists Face Allegations of Sexual Harassment

Senior Anthropology professors Theodore C. Bestor, Gary Urton, and John L. Comaroff have weathered allegations of sexual harassment, including some leveled by students. But affiliates said gender issues in the department stretch beyond them.

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COVID-19
Journalism

COVID19 Infodemics Observatory

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COVID-19
Journalism

COVID19 Infodemics Observatory

A platform to analyze the relationship between the evolution of the COVID-19 epidemic and the information dynamics on social media.

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Gender
Equality

Covid-19 Crisis Could Set Women Back Decades, Experts Fear

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Gender
Equality

Covid-19 Crisis Could Set Women Back Decades, Experts Fear

Concerns 50 years of progress could be put into reverse unless government intervenes.

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Dataviz
COVID-19

Coronavirus in Charts: the Fact-checkers Correcting Falsehoods

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Dataviz
COVID-19

Coronavirus in Charts: the Fact-checkers Correcting Falsehoods

Data and infographic updates on the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Publishing
Society

A Comic to Explain Academic Publishing

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Publishing
Society

A Comic to Explain Academic Publishing

Easy-to-understand comic explains how rigorous science is peer-reviewed and published.  Hint: it's not via YouTube.

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COVID-19
United Kingdom

Covid-19: Questions of Conscience and Duty for Scientific Advisers

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COVID-19
United Kingdom

Covid-19: Questions of Conscience and Duty for Scientific Advisers

England is abandoning lockdown and possibly hope of containing a second wave of covid-19.

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COVID-19
Germany

Covid-19 Expert Karl Friston: 'Germany May Have More Immunological "dark Matter"'

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COVID-19
Germany

Covid-19 Expert Karl Friston: 'Germany May Have More Immunological "dark Matter"'

The neuroscientist who advises Independent Sage on Covid-19 discusses the predictive power of his mathematical modelling.

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Diversity
United States

AAAS CEO Comments on Social Unrest, Racism, and Inequality

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Diversity
United States

AAAS CEO Comments on Social Unrest, Racism, and Inequality

The CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science highlights the importance of leadership in the face of the current social unrest.

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