86 people from 58 different organizations gathered in Berkeley, CA and remotely to attend the first workshop convened by the Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools, to develop a common vision, user stories, and roadmap to support open science research workflows, and better coordinate work across the community of open science projects.
For the first time, the Wellcome Trust is publishing received project proposals, and will be adding funding decisions end of October.
A factsheet summarising why the UK leaving the EU with no-deal is a bad deal for science, and outlining what a deal for science should look like.
As artificially intelligent tools for literature and data exploration evolve, developers seek to automate how hypotheses are generated and validated.
We continue our Peer Review Week celebrations with a roundup of articles about bias, diversity, and inclusion in peer review, by Alice Meadows, including eight lessons we can all learn from them.
Riding on some types of roller-coaster is an effective way of removing kidney stones.
Two years after Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced an audacious plan to use their Facebook fortune to try and end disease in their children's lifetime, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has ballooned to 250 people.
Rates of sexual abuse and harassment in academic science are second only to the military. It's estimated that at least half of women faculty and staff face.
One of the medical world’s most respected expert bodies is in turmoil as its annual meeting gets underway after its governing board voted to expel a member.
Essay on how traditional publishing works: its market mechanism and editorial strategy.
The measles outbreak in the United States and Europe keeps spreading despite the availability of a safe and effective vaccine. The cause? Science-denial.
The implications of a simultaneous redirection of the big publishers' business strategy towards open access business models and the acquisition of scholarly infrastructure utilizing the conceptual framework of rent-seeking theory.
Governing board of the evidence-based medicine group may now be dissolved entirely.
Compiling the evidence from dozens of studies doesn't always bring clarity.
Even sophisticated, data-driven models of academic careers have trouble forecasting the highs and lows.
Collaboration across institutes can train students in open, team science, which better prepares them for challenges to come.
The National Science Foundation's rules for reporting harassment by grant recipients are the strictest yet instituted by a US government science agency.
Last month, I participated virtually in the Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools (JROST) workshop as 86 individuals from 58 different organizations gathered in Berkeley on August 27-28 to explore the growing category of open source scholarly workflow tools, to…
Plan S proposes to take a hammer to how we fund peer review and publication. Submission fees deserve serious consideration.
The Swiss Science Council reports that according to recent statistics, the gender gap in the technical sciences and engineering fields is still disproportionately high in Europe and North America. European countries with high-income have a surprisingly low proportion of female engineers in research and industry, in comparison to developing countries like Eastern Europe, Central and South Asia and Latin America.
Swiss Academy of Sciences conference on metrics and assessment.
The SCNAT is organizing this one day event in Bern, with the aim to give the research community the chance to raise their concern and also the SNF and the European Commission to present their view and to inform about recent trends. The workshop should provide recommendations on how to implement the open data requirements.
