The appropriation of genetic research by those with extremist views on race has scientists grappling with how to respond.
For a country often celebrated for its composers, digital statecraft and quietly radical governance, Estonia has now achieved something even more improbable; according to a new analysis of global citation data, this nation of 1.3 million has become the world’s third most scientifically wealthy country.
The University of California faces a Dec. 31 deadline to reach a renewal deal on subscriptions to 1,500 scientific journals. Here's why it might not regret letting its subscriptions lapse.
Open-source software is largely developed by active scientists, yet university hierarchies and national funding bodies generally do not recognise code as valuable output.
Women with female PhD supervisors publish more papers and are 50% more likely to become academics than those with male advisers.
Students need to be given real and significant things from the world to think with and about if teachers want to influence how they do that thinking.
There are 13,000 business schools on Earth. That’s 13,000 too many.
Across time, public understanding about how science works is affected by journalism. A journalist, with very little extra effort, can increase the accuracy of public understanding and minimize public vulnerability to distortions of science.
As a researcher who gets such severe criticism, you have to go through the 5 stages of grief...
Recent studies highlight why policy changes are needed to make science more receptive to novelty, our columnist writes.
His experiences on a panel reviewing Canadian grant allocation has convinced Jonathan Grant that the evidence base for current practice needs serious reinforcement.
For years university researchers have complained that the publishing giant has driven up the costs of journals. Now, as data-sharing becomes more valuable, the company’s shifting focus is raising new concerns.
To democratise scholarly publishing, individual academics need to take action.
Making scientific publications free to read is a big change in a world dominated by subscription journals. Why is it so important that science publications become open access?
We surveyed 2,000 researchers and practitioners about what they want from academic societies; here’s what they told us.
Atmospheric scientist Angie Pendergrass spoke to Nature about a newly-published guide to broadening participation in conferences.
The AI field is increasingly turning to conference publications and free, open-review websites while shunning traditional outlets - sentiments dramatically expressed in a growing boycott of a high-profile AI journal.
The inconvenient truth is that scientists can achieve fame and advance their careers through accomplishments that do not prioritize the quality of their work.
Self-citations, if left unchecked, can have a negative impact on the scientific workforce, the way that we publish new knowledge, and ultimately the course of scientific advance.
Like junior doctors, early career biomedical researchers have an issue with contracts (or lack of them). So why don’t we strike too?
The reality of academia is stifling the passion and creativity needed both to enjoy science, and to do it well.
The production, archival, and sharing of data may actually be a more effective way to contribute to the advancement of scientific knowledge.
Discovery is the pathway to context. Context of an article is all about how research fits into increasingly complex domains, and using structured networks to decipher its value. With the power of the internet at our disposal, putting research in context should be of key importance in a world where there is ever more research being published that is impossible to manually filter.
Women outnumber men in a raft of science courses – but when they start their careers, they find many insurmountable barriers.
Integration of lab notebook tool will help researchers enrich their data and make it more suitable for reuse
It seems that if there’s a market that we ought to be thinking about, it’s postdocs. Guest Post by Phill Jones, Head of Publisher Outreach for Digital Science.
