Undue burdens
Proposed controls on foreign operations in China are a threat to scientific collaboration.
If science is going to save the world, we need to make it open
The last few weeks have been a momentum time in the sciences: not because of a breakthrough in gene therapy or quantum computing, but because world leaders have twice called for scientific papers to be made freely available to all.
Don’t Let Useful Data Go to Waste
Don’t Let Useful Data Go to Waste
Researchers must seek out others’ deposited biological sequences in community databases, urges Franziska Denk.
Low publication output for female scientists
Analysis suggests that male physicists and mathematicians author nearly 50% more papers than female colleagues.
Faculty Promotion Must Assess Reproducibility
Research institutions should explicitly seek job candidates who can be frankly self-critical of their work, says Jeffrey Flier.
Stem-cell method faces fresh questions
Papers describing acid-bath technique under more scrutiny after institute’s investigation finds errors in methodology
Tracking the Evolution of Reference Resources
A new study from Oxford University Press further documents the decline of reference resources, a category of scholarly material more than ready for an innovative era in its evolution.
Scientists can draw very different meanings from the same data, study shows
Giving the same information to multiple scientific teams can lead to very different conclusions, a report published today in Nature shows.
Overselling Results is a Problem in Science
Climate skeptics, conspiracy theorists, and the anti-immunization movement are on the rise. At the same time, fraudulent research and issues with the replicability of scientific results prompt the question if science is still a reliable source for political decision-making.
Wondering if I'm the next Tim Hunt
Would we worry a little more about academic freedom—about his right to hold an unpopular view and still be a member of the academic community?
Humans Run Experiments, a Robot Writes the Paper
The future of automated scientific writing is upon us—and that's a good thing.
The benefits of negative science
A new JAMA study found the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is silent on matters of scientific misconduct and fraud.
Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability
Data from several lines of evidence suggest that the methodological quality of scientific experiments does not increase with increasing rank of the journal.
Dear Scholars, Delete Your Account At Academia.Edu
As privatized platforms like Academia.edu look to monetize scholarly writing even further, researchers, scientists and academics across the globe must now consider alternatives to proprietary companies that aim to profit from our writing and offer little transparency as to how our work will be used in the future.
Conflicting Academic Attitudes to Copyright Are Slowing the Move to Open Access
The open access movement has prompted a shift towards retention of rights and the use of creative commons licenses to control how works are used by publishers. However, in many cases, researchers continue to agree to standard assignment terms offered by publishers without fully investigating or understanding them.
Don't hide the decline
US scientists should not be placated by the ‘flat budget’ myth. Funds are decreasing, and the situation will get worse.
Here’s What You Need To Know About ‘Failure’ Before You Start Your PhD
Taking an unconventional route after studying for a doctorate should not be seen as a failure, says Fiona Whelan
The Forgotten Life of Einstein's First Wife
She was a physicist, too—and there is evidence that she contributed significantly to his groundbreaking science.
The web will either kill science journals or save them
Scientific research is awesome-we read it, we build upon it, we innovate with it, and we love it. But the process of getting research from the scientists who spend months or years with their data to the academics who want to read it can be messy.
It's time to ditch the PDF
The PDF makes reading science research even more difficult and prevents a two-way conversation from taking place.
A 21st Century Solution to the Serials Crisis
How centralization of journals led to the serials crisis and why democratizing digital journal publishing using services is the key to fixing it.
Scientists criticise new "open access" journal
One hundred and fifteen scientists have signed an open letter to the AAAS expressing concerns over the launch of a new scientific journal, Science Advances.
Who Reads Science Blogs? The Results are In.
Who reads science blogs, and why? This broad question started this Experiment.com project, and now the results are in.
Trump Administration Restricts News from Federal Scientists at USDA, EPA
The curbs echo what happened in Canada six years ago.
Weak Demand Forces Springer Nature to Cancel 3.2 Billion Euro Float at Last Minute
Weak Demand Forces Springer Nature to Cancel 3.2 Billion Euro Float at Last Minute
Springer Nature, the publisher of science magazines Nature and Scientific American, cancelled its 3.2 billion euro (2.8 billion pound) stock market flotation planned for Wednesday on weak investor demand, dealing a heavy blow to Germany's vibrant IPO season.
I Made My Grant Application Public
If funding applications were made under open access, science would benefit from more universal scrutiny.
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