Betting on the Result
Experts are good at betting which scientific experiments can replicate despite some studies not being repeatable.
Gender Disparities in Colloquium Speakers at Top Universities
Women are underrepresented relative to men as colloquium speakers, yet women neither decline talk invitations at greater rates nor question the importance of talks more than men do.
This Celebrity Cat Has Broken the Internet. Now, We Have Its Genome
Scientists now know more about what makes Lil Bub such a unique feline.
Faculty Service Loads and Gender: Are Women Taking Care of the Academic Family?
Plan S: The Ambitious Initiative to End the Reign of Paywalls
The funder-driven push for freely accessible scholarly literature has divided the scientific community.
Two Cheers for the Retraction Boom
Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus praise the growing scrutiny of scientific publications.
Lessons from researcher rehab
Common compliance situations can get good researchers into trouble, warn James M. DuBois and colleagues.
Donald Trump's Lack of Respect for Science Is Alarming
The U.S. presidential election shows how far the political conversation has degenerated from the nation's founding principles of truth and evidence.
Embracing Failure As an Intrinsic Part of Science
When we reject failure, we create a culture of punishment, artificial rewards, and scientific bias. There are people running analyses and experiments right now which others will have undoubtedly done before, but just not communicated their results.
Welcome to The Great Acceleration
The author argues that the two biggest forces driving change in the scholarly communication landscape are consolidation and regulation. By consolidation, he means that there’s a now constant cycle of mergers and acquisitions, reducing the number of independent players in the market. By regulation, we’re talking about the increasing number of rules and the compliance burden being put on researchers.
Will 'Picking Winners' Work?
Why has the UK government returned to an industrial strategy abandoned in the 1980s?
Hope and a Welter of Concerns Greets Europe’s Radical Open Access Plan
Scientists warn the devil is in detail of the European Commission’s latest open access plan, while publishers argue prohibiting researchers from submitting their work to certain journals is a threat to academic freedom.
Huge US University Cancels Subscription with Elsevier
University of California and Dutch publisher fail to strike deal that would allow researchers to publish under open-access terms.
Journal Shares Peer Reviews of Rejected Papers with Rival Titles
BMC Biology's 'portable peer review' policy aims to save editors and researchers time and effort, but academics question whether authors will want to share details of past rejections.
Know the Vital Players in Your Career: Tenure-Track Peers
What you should look for in an academic friend.
The New Configuration of Metrics, Rules, and Guidelines Creates a Disturbing Ambiguity in Academia
The New Configuration of Metrics, Rules, and Guidelines Creates a Disturbing Ambiguity in Academia
The bibliometric system and the rules which accompany it have created an environment in which many if not most researchers can be identified as transgressors.
AI-enhanced Peer Review: Frontiers Launches Next Generation of Efficient, High-quality Peer Review
AI-enhanced Peer Review: Frontiers Launches Next Generation of Efficient, High-quality Peer Review
The integration of AIRA - Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant - into Frontiers' digital peer-review platform enables faster, more efficient quality control and manuscript handling.
Ten Simple Rules for Taking Advantage of Git and GitHub
All software used for the analysis should be either carefully documented or, better yet, openly shared and directly accessible to others.
Science, Sensationalized: How the Press Undermines Research Funding
Science, Sensationalized: How the Press Undermines Research Funding
Climate change is the perfect example of how a cut-and-dry scientific issue can become controversial if it is represented consistently in partisan terms. Let’s not drag funding into the fray as well.
Bell Burnell: Physics Star Gives Away GBP2.3M Prize
One of the UK's leading female astronomers is to donate her GBP2.3M winnings from a major science prize she was awarded. The sum will go to fund women, under-represented ethnic minority and refugee students to become physics researchers.
Scientists Despair As US Government Shutdown Drags on
Space missions can continue to collect data, but thousands of federal researchers are forced to stay home without pay.
Bias against novelty in science
Novel breakthroughs in research can have a dramatic impact on scientific discovery but face some distinct disadvantages in getting wider recognition.
Research Funding Is Harmful to Science – Time for Change
Researchers seeking science funding can be big losers in the equality and diversity game.
Too Much Academic Research Is Being Published
The decision by The Review of Higher Education, a highly respected academic journal, to temporarily suspend submissions due to a backlog of more than two years’ worth of articles awaiting reviews or publication set off a twitter storm and much debate in the corridors of academia about the future of academic publishing, and in particular its very foundation, blind peer review.
Stencila - an Office Suite for Reproducible Research
Stencila launches the first version of its word processor and spreadsheet editor designed for researchers.
A Simple Explanation for the Replication Crisis in Science
The replication crisis in science is largely attributable to a mismatch in our expectations of how often findings should replicate and how difficult it is to actually discover true findings in certain fields.
Science works best when it is open
The sharing of research results, the free circulation of knowledge, and transparency in methodology are key tenets to the scientific method.
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