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The Impact of AI on Work: Implications for Individuals, Communities, and Societies

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The Impact of AI on Work: Implications for Individuals, Communities, and Societies

The impact of AI technologies on work and working life, and renewed public and policy debates about automation and the future of work.

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The Lawyer Who Became a Scientist to Find a Cure for Her Fatal Disease

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The Lawyer Who Became a Scientist to Find a Cure for Her Fatal Disease

When Sonia Vallabh found out she was likely to develop a terminal brain disease, she and her husband, Eric Minikel, changed careers to find a cure.

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Code Ocean: Discover & Run Scientific Code

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Code Ocean: Discover & Run Scientific Code

Code Ocean is a cloud-based computational reproducibility platform that provides researchers and developers an easy way to share, discover and run code published in academic journals and conferences.

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Reproducibility

More and More Scientists Are Preregistering Their Studies. Should You?

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More and More Scientists Are Preregistering Their Studies. Should You?

Declaring in advance what you're going to study, and how, helps avoid p-hacking and publication bias.

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How Predictable is Scientific Success?

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How Predictable is Scientific Success?

Even sophisticated, data-driven models of academic careers have trouble forecasting the highs and lows.

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Blockchain

Will Blockchain Revolutionise the Internet of Things

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Will Blockchain Revolutionise the Internet of Things

Blockchain technology is essentially a secure, distributed ledger that can serve as the foundation for many systems. It’s strange to think that something

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Technology

ETH Zurich Spin-out Auterion Raises $10M to Disrupt the Drone Industry

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ETH Zurich Spin-out Auterion Raises $10M to Disrupt the Drone Industry

How has this Swiss start-up attracted some of the world's top investors?  Could Auterion's success be attributed to just 3 success factors?

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Are Research Infrastructures the Answer to All Our Problems?

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Are Research Infrastructures the Answer to All Our Problems?

Embracing a global view of EU research infrastructures could boost science diplomacy and break down walls put up by divisive politics. But new rules on cooperation and more funding are needed to deliver the vision.

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Biomedicine

Cochrane Collaboration Expels Cofounder, Prompts Resignations

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Cochrane Collaboration Expels Cofounder, Prompts Resignations

Physician Peter Gotzsche, a board member of the organization, has been an outspoken critic of certain vaccines and of the pharma industry in general.

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Open Access

The State and Evolution of Gold Open Access: A Country Level Analysis

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The State and Evolution of Gold Open Access: A Country Level Analysis

A large-scale analysis of the state of open access pulising across various countries from 1990 to 2016.

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Frivolities

Curve-Fitting Methods

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Curve-Fitting Methods

And the messages they send.

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Reproducibility

Congratulations. Your Study Went Nowhere.

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Congratulations. Your Study Went Nowhere.

Researchers should embrace negative results instead of accentuating the positive, which is one of several biases that can lead to bad science.

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Skepticism Surrounds Renowned Mathematician

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Skepticism Surrounds Renowned Mathematician

The Riemann hypothesis, a formula related to the distribution of prime numbers, has remained unsolved for more than a century.

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Do Strict Data Sharing Policies Affect Submissions?

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Do Strict Data Sharing Policies Affect Submissions?

Journal Editors commonly fear that data policies will hurt submissions, but data from 12 evolution and ecology journals say otherwise.

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Transdisciplinary

No More First Authors, No More Last Authors

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Transdisciplinary

No More First Authors, No More Last Authors

If we really want transdisciplinary research, we must ditch the ordered listing of authors that stalls collaborative science.

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Machine Learning Gets to Grips with Plankton Challenge

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Machine Learning Gets to Grips with Plankton Challenge

Marine biologists are using artificial intelligence to help them identify objects in millions of images.

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Advice from the High Seas: How to Transition to a New Lab

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Advice from the High Seas: How to Transition to a New Lab

Respect for what you and your colleagues bring to the table is vital to successful integration.

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Tips from the Other Side: How to Write the Best Graduate Fellowship Applications

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Tips from the Other Side: How to Write the Best Graduate Fellowship Applications

A few tips and tricks for both doing your best on the application and making it through the process with your self esteem intact.

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The "Problem" of Predatory Publishing Remains a Relatively Small One and Should Not Be Allowed to Defame Open Access

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The "Problem" of Predatory Publishing Remains a Relatively Small One and Should Not Be Allowed to Defame Open Access

A recent investigation led by an international group of journalists raised concerns over the scale of the problem of deceptive publishing practices, but the problem of predatory publishing was overstated while at the same time discrediting open access publishing.

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Better, Fairer, More Meaningful Research Evaluation – in Seven Hashtags

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Better, Fairer, More Meaningful Research Evaluation – in Seven Hashtags

Considering the future of research assessment, Elizabeth Gadd outlines how she believes research evaluation could be made better, fairer, and more meaningful. The resulting seven guiding principles…

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Rankings

World University Rankings 2019: Results Announced

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World University Rankings 2019: Results Announced

China is now home to the best university in Asia, while France’s Sorbonne University is the highest-ranked newcomer in the table.

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Careers

The Quest for Postdoctoral Independence

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Careers

The Quest for Postdoctoral Independence

How to step out from the shadow of your principal investigator.

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Misconduct

Cornell Food Researcher's Downfall Raises Larger Questions For Science

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Misconduct

Cornell Food Researcher's Downfall Raises Larger Questions For Science

The fall of a prominent food and marketing researcher may be a cautionary tale for scientists who are tempted to manipulate data and chase headlines.

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A Simple and Practical Method for Incorporating Augmented Reality into the Classroom and Laboratory

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A Simple and Practical Method for Incorporating Augmented Reality into the Classroom and Laboratory

Manuscript showing how Augmented Reality, which is the projection of virtual information onto a real-world object, can be applied in the classroom and in the laboratory. 

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Visualizing the research ecosystem of ecosystem research via Wikidata

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Visualizing the research ecosystem of ecosystem research via Wikidata

Using Scholia as a starting point for exploring how information about biodiversity and ecosystem research is represented in Wikidata and how it can be explored, curated and reused.

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Crossref Hits 100'000'000 Records

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Crossref Hits 100'000'000 Records

100 Million - what does your contribution look like?

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Research Data

Google and Research Data

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Research Data

Google and Research Data

Peter Kraker on Google Dataset Discovery, the open science movement, and his #DontLeaveItToGoogle campaign.

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Greek Scientists Part of a Larger Problem; Economic Crisis and Greek Reality

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Greek Scientists Part of a Larger Problem; Economic Crisis and Greek Reality

Key findings from European agencies, government authority reports, and local NGO surveys.

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Prizes

Why Nobel Prizes Fail 21st-century Science

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Prizes

Why Nobel Prizes Fail 21st-century Science

It is the ultimate accolade, but critics claim the award is now out of step with modern collaborative research methods.

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Gender

Statement: CERN Stands for Diversity | Media and Press Relations

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Gender

Statement: CERN Stands for Diversity | Media and Press Relations

CERN considers the presentation delivered by an invited scientist during a workshop on High Energy Theory and Gender as highly offensive. It has therefore decided to remove the slides from the online repository, in line with a Code of Conduct that does not tolerate personal attacks and insults.

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