Discrimination starts even before grad school, study finds
Instructors at 259 US institutions were, on average, more likely to respond to fake email requests for mentoring if the senders' names sounded white and male.
Let's Speed Up Science by Embracing Open Access Publishing
Open access publishing that permits commercial reuse enables the kinds of public-private partnerships that are essential to scientific innovation.
Memo to Research Funders: If You Want Open Science, Try Harder
Kamila Markram, head of open science platform Frontiers, argues research funders must do much more to speed openness in science.
How Unpaywall Is Transforming Open Science
Unpaywall has become indispensable to many academics, and tie-ins with established scientific search engines could broaden its reach.
Our Disabilities Have Made Us Better Scientists
But only because we have had access to health care, emotional support and institutional backing.
COVID Vaccines Have Higher Approval in Less-Affluent Countries
Surveys show that people in ten low- and middle-income nations are generally more eager to receive the COVID-19 jab than people in two wealthier nations where vaccine is plentiful.
Nature to Join Open-Access Plan S, Publisher Says
Springer Nature says it commits to offering researchers a route to publishing open access in Nature and most Nature-branded journals from 2021.
When Science Discourages Correction: How Publishers Profit from Mistakes
Obama orders effort to build first exascale computer
The US is committed to building a computer some 30x more powerful than today's top machine.
Raising the Status of Peer Review With Publons
An interview with Tom Culley, Marketing Director of Publons, on how provide recognition for this vital part of the scientific process.
How Some Men Are Challenging Gender Inequity in the Lab
Six male researchers describe their efforts to support their female colleagues.
Growing into Teaching Career Diversity for Historians
Growing into Teaching Career Diversity for Historians
Students should actively consider and prepare for the work they are personally most suited to, whether within or beyond the academy.
EU Will Be 'Shooting Itself in Foot' if It Bars UK, Switzerland, Israel from Quantum and Space Projects
EU Will Be 'Shooting Itself in Foot' if It Bars UK, Switzerland, Israel from Quantum and Space Projects
Excluding researchers based in the UK, Israel and Switzerland from major EU quantum and space research projects would see the bloc "shoot itself in the foot", according to German MEP Niklas Nienass, spokesman on space for the Parliament's green group.
On the importance of being negative
Negative findings matter too and new OA publications are helping researchers to give a fuller account of themselves.
UK Universities Reach New National Open Access Deal
Researchers from 180 UK universities can now benefit from a national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers, the second largest fully open access publisher in the UK.
Study Examines Diversity in Research Publishing
Science is often seen as a meritocracy, where the best work rises to the top along with the researchers who shepherd those advances. A new study tests that premise at the intersection of race and gender and finds cracks in that façade.
Are older academics past their productive peak?
A recent paper claims that the quality of researchers declines with age. Five senior scientists consider the data and how they’ve contributed through the years.
How to Come Up With Wild and Crazy Ideas
“”Imagination is more important than knowledge.” - Albert Einstein
How Fair Is It for Just Three People to Receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?
How Fair Is It for Just Three People to Receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?
Alfred Nobel didn’t foresee the current era of mega scientific collaboration.
Before Reproducibility Must Come Preproducibility
Most papers fail to report many aspects of the experiment and analysis that we may not with advantage omit - things that are crucial to understanding the result and its limitations and to repeating the work. Instead of arguing about whether results hold up, we should strive to provide enough information for others to repeat the experiments.
The Truth About Artificial Intelligence? It Isn't That Honest
Tests of natural language processing models show that the bigger they are, the bigger liars they are. Should we be worried?
Can Science Be Both Open and Secure? Nations Grapple with Tightening Research Security As China's Dominance Grows
Can Science Be Both Open and Secure? Nations Grapple with Tightening Research Security As China's Dominance Grows
Predicting scientific success based on coauthorship networks
Paper challenging the perception of citations as an objective, socially unbiased measure of scientific success.