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COVID-19
United States

How the Pandemic Defeated America

The Atlantic
COVID-19
United States

How the Pandemic Defeated America

A virus has brought the world's most powerful country to its knees.

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COVID-19

I Was Wrong: We Can't Skip Phase 3 Vaccine Trials

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COVID-19

I Was Wrong: We Can't Skip Phase 3 Vaccine Trials

On the risks of skipping Phase 3 vaccine trials.

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COVID-19

Opinion | I'd Need Evidence Before I Got a Covid-19 Vaccine. It Doesn't Exist Yet.

nytimes
COVID-19

Opinion | I'd Need Evidence Before I Got a Covid-19 Vaccine. It Doesn't Exist Yet.

Scientists need to show us the data. And that's exactly what they're working on.

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Retractions

Ten takeaways from ten years at Retraction Watch

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Retractions

Ten takeaways from ten years at Retraction Watch

Retraction Watch looks back at some lessons learned.

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Open Access
Fake News

The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free

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Open Access
Fake News

The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free

Why is it that while the most vital, and most rigorously tested, information is often locked up behind a paywall, yet falsehoods are readily available?

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Work Place

Workspaces That Move People

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Work Place

Workspaces That Move People

Today's offices don't encourage us to mingle-but that's what creativity and productivity demand.

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Open Access

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back - The Pandemic's Impact on Open Access Progress

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Open Access

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back - The Pandemic's Impact on Open Access Progress

The COVID pandemic may leave us stuck between a growing consensus that open science is the superior way to drive progress and an inability to invest what may be needed to make it happen.

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Climate

Rising Temperatures Will Cause More Deaths Than All Infectious Diseases - Study

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Climate

Rising Temperatures Will Cause More Deaths Than All Infectious Diseases - Study

Poorer, hotter parts of the world will struggle to adapt to unbearable conditions, research finds

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Open Access

Will COVID-19 Mark the End of Scientific Publishing As We Know It?

phys
Open Access

Will COVID-19 Mark the End of Scientific Publishing As We Know It?

Under the pressure of a global health crisis, the argument for open access has sunk in. Is this the catalyst that breaks up the bonds of an old publishing model once and for all?

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Early Career Researchers

Career Funding: the Researcher's Overall Performance Counts

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Switzerland
Early Career Researchers

Career Funding: the Researcher's Overall Performance Counts

The SNSF has adopted the DORA recommendations in its career funding schemes and adapted some other criteria. This will make the selection process even fairer and more inclusive of re-searchers with diverse career paths.

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Research Data
Statistics

How Scientists Can Stop Fooling Themselves over Statistics

nature
Research Data
Statistics

How Scientists Can Stop Fooling Themselves over Statistics

Sampling simulated data can reveal common ways in which our cognitive biases mislead us.

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Pandemics

How to Think Like an Epidemiologist

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Pandemics

How to Think Like an Epidemiologist

Don't worry, a little Bayesian analysis won't hurt you.

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Africa
Open Science

Developing Open Science in Africa: Barriers, Solutions and Opportunities

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Africa
Open Science

Developing Open Science in Africa: Barriers, Solutions and Opportunities

The paper argues for the development of open science in Africa as a means of energising national science systems and their roles in supporting public and private sectors and the general public.

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COVID-19
Foresight

How the Pandemic Might Play out in 2021 and Beyond

nature
COVID-19
Foresight

How the Pandemic Might Play out in 2021 and Beyond

This coronavirus is here for the long haul - here's what scientists predict for the next months and years.

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Publishing
Preprints
COVID-19

How the COVID-19 Crisis Has Prompted a Revolution in Scientific Publishing

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Publishing
Preprints
COVID-19

How the COVID-19 Crisis Has Prompted a Revolution in Scientific Publishing

Preprint servers have existed for decades, but the fight against the coronavirus has seen their use soar. They're changing how science is done-but need important guardrails.

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Open Data

Leveraging Machine Learning to Fuel New Discoveries with the ArXiv Dataset

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Preprints
Open Data

Leveraging Machine Learning to Fuel New Discoveries with the ArXiv Dataset

To help make the arXiv more accessible, a free, open pipeline on Kaggle to the machine-readable arXiv dataset: a repository of 1.7 million articles, with relevant features such as article titles, authors, categories, abstracts, full text PDFs, and more is made available.

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Racism
Social Media

#BlackBirdersWeek, #BlackInNeuro: Black scientists, physicians are using hashtags to uplift

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Diversity
Racism
Social Media

#BlackBirdersWeek, #BlackInNeuro: Black scientists, physicians are using hashtags to uplift

Black scientists are embracing the hashtag movement that forced the nation to take a hard look at systemic racism.

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Careers
DORA
Policy

Look Beyond Publication Records, Urges Report

nature
Careers
DORA
Policy

Look Beyond Publication Records, Urges Report

Science Europe recommends assessing societal impact and contributions to knowledge and policy when awarding grants and promotions.

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Open Access
Book

Library Support for OA Books Workshop: the German Perspective

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Open Access
Book

Library Support for OA Books Workshop: the German Perspective

COPIM, OPERAS-P and open-access.network aim at gaining a better understanding of the national-specific issues surrounding collective funding for OA books from a library perspective.

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Publishing
DORA
Integrity
Evaluation

Five Better Ways to Assess Science

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Publishing
DORA
Integrity
Evaluation

Five Better Ways to Assess Science

Hong Kong Principles seek to replace 'publish or perish' culture.

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Publishing
Equality

Toolkits for Equity

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Publishing
Equality

Toolkits for Equity

While a growing awareness of racial disparities has resulted in a groundswell of support for inclusivity in scholarly publishing, the resulting initiatives would be more effective if professional associations were able to provide training materials to help transform organizational cultures.

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Integrity

Study of China's Ethnic Minorities Retracted As Dozens of Papers Come Under Scrutiny for Ethical Violations

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Integrity

Study of China's Ethnic Minorities Retracted As Dozens of Papers Come Under Scrutiny for Ethical Violations

A legal journal has retracted a 2019 article on the facial genetics of ethnic minorities in China for ethics violations. Springer Nature is investigating more than two dozen other articles for similar concerns.

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Science Policy

NSF Grant Changes Raise Alarm About Commitment to Basic Research

nature
US
Science Policy

NSF Grant Changes Raise Alarm About Commitment to Basic Research

The US National Science Foundation's new focus on computer science could also put already-under-represented groups at a disadvantage, critics say.

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Technology
Biomedicine

Scientists Rename Human Genes to Stop Microsoft Excel from Misreading Them As Dates

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Technology
Biomedicine

Scientists Rename Human Genes to Stop Microsoft Excel from Misreading Them As Dates

Microsoft Excel: 1 - Human Genetics: 0.

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Gender
Careers

Does the Queen Bee Phenomenon Still Exist in Academia?

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Gender
Careers

Does the Queen Bee Phenomenon Still Exist in Academia?

Successful women in male-dominated contexts don’t always support women in early career stages. An international team of scientists show that this phenomenon is linked to the difficulties they encounter in the workplace.

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COVID-19

Why the Coronavirus Is More Likely to 'Superspread' Than the Flu

nytimes
COVID-19

Why the Coronavirus Is More Likely to 'Superspread' Than the Flu

Most people won't spread the virus widely. The few who do are probably in the wrong place at the wrong time in their infection, new models suggest.

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Science Communication

Journalists Need To Get It Right: Epidemiology Training Can Help

forbes
Science Communication

Journalists Need To Get It Right: Epidemiology Training Can Help

COVID-19 has turned all journalists into health journalists. Epidemiology training can help journalists improve their reporting, and help fight misinformation.

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Racism
STEM

Responses to 10 Common Criticisms of Anti-Racism Action in STEM

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Racism
STEM

Responses to 10 Common Criticisms of Anti-Racism Action in STEM

Table of Contents 1. "There is no evidence of racism in STEM."2. "Don't politicize STEM! Stick to the science, not social issues."3. "I'm not a racist, so I don't need to do anything."4. "I only hire/award/cite based on merit; I do not need to consider race."5. "There just aren't as many BIPOC who want to…

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COVID-19
United States

America's Window of Opportunity to Beat Back Covid-19 is Closing

statnews
COVID-19
United States

America's Window of Opportunity to Beat Back Covid-19 is Closing

The United States has a chance to make things better before things get much, much worse. But much of the country appears to be squandering the opportunity.

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Science Communication
COVID-19

How Science Communication Can Challenge Conspiracy Theories in Times of Covid-19

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Science Communication
COVID-19

How Science Communication Can Challenge Conspiracy Theories in Times of Covid-19

Mike Schäfer & Jing Zeng on the particularities of conspiracy theories on COVID-19, how to face them, and what role science communicators play while doing so.

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