Cultural water and Indigenous water science
Australia shows the need for more sustainable and just water management.
Achieving human and machine accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications
Achieving human and machine accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications
The paper proposes how to achieve widespread, uniform human and machine accessibility of deposited data, in support of significantly improved verification, validation, reproducibility and re-use of scholarly/scientific data.
How to Grow Rhinos in a Lab: the Science That Could Save an Endangered Species
Efforts to save one species can provide scientific knowledge that enables us to save other creatures in need.
How scientists fool themselves and how they can stop
Humans are remarkably good at self-deception. But growing concern about reproducibility is driving many researchers to seek ways to fight their own worst instincts.
Scientists who cheat
Cheating in scientific and academic papers is a longstanding problem, but it is hard to read recent headlines and not conclude that it has gotten worse.
Video Games Could Be a Short-term Answer to Science's Gender Problem
New research shows girls are more likely to take physical science or technology degrees if they play video games.
Defining and identifying Sleeping Beauties in science
Scientific papers typically have a finite lifetime. Previous studies pointed out the existence of a few blatant exceptions: papers whose relevance has not been recognized for decades, but then suddenly become highly influential and cited. This study investigates how common Sleeping Beauties are in science.
How Wikipedia Infiltrated Academia
Wikipedia should be embraced by universities as an open-access source of information that can be the starting point for deeper research and learning, says John Lubbock.
Soft Power, Hard Choices: Science Diplomacy and the Race for Solutions
Applying the latest scientific insight and evidence is the starting point for science diplomacy. Three experts shine a light on the missing links between the two.
Research Hackdays
On June 5 and 6, 2015, Opendata.ch invites researchers and experts, designers, developers, journalists and all people who would like to embrace experimentation with data to participate in our hackdays in Zurich and Lausanne.
Supporting open science in the Arab world
The Arab region comprises 22 member states across the Gulf, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Although economic circumstances, and available human, physical and digital capacities vary widely across these 22 states, the region as a whole has the resources and capability to play a pivotal role in the global transition towards more accessible, sustainable and inclusive research and education models.
Get Horizon Europe Association Done, UK Academics Say in Parliament Hearing
Get Horizon Europe Association Done, UK Academics Say in Parliament Hearing
Academics in the UK have urged the government to get the Horizon Europe association deal over the line to limit the damage that the two-year delay - and counting - is having on research cooperation with peers in Europe. "The government should just get association done," said Paul Nurse, director of the Francis Crick Institute, echoing the infamous 'Get Brexit done' slogan used by the Conservative Party in the December 2019 election.
Bourguignon's statement on Hunt's comments
ERC President statement on reported comments by ERC Scientific Council member
Five Ways Academics Can Contribute to Wikipedia
Contributing to Wikipedia is rewarding, but it can be a significant commitment of time and effort; there are, however, plenty of other ways you can help that don’t involve one-off editing events
re3data - Indexing the Global Research Data Repository Landscape Since 2012
re3data - Indexing the Global Research Data Repository Landscape Since 2012
For more than ten years, re3data, a global registry of research data repositories (RDRs), has been helping scientists, funding agencies, libraries, and data centers with finding, identifying, and referencing RDRs.
Undue burdens
Proposed controls on foreign operations in China are a threat to scientific collaboration.
Distrust in Grant Peer Review - Reasons and Remedies
While peer review has long been perceived as the cornerstone of self-governance in science, researchers have expressed distrust in the peer review procedures of funding agencies.
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.
Strengthening Public Trust in Science
Funded by the European Commission under Horizon Europe, the VERITY project seeks to increase trust in science and innovation by developing a set of guidelines to increase trust in science to engage stakeholders and citizens, which could have far-reaching implications in areas such as public health and the environment. Are citizens becoming more sceptical about science?
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?
When the Numbers Tell Different Stories
Men produce twice as many scientific publications as women. At least that's the long-held assumption. But Lynn Nygaard, a special adviser and doctoral research fellow at PRIO, challenges this widespread belief in her recent article.
Likely New House Science Chair Seeks to Move Away from "Suspicion" of Science
Likely New House Science Chair Seeks to Move Away from "Suspicion" of Science
If elected, Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson will, among other things, bring a different attitude toward climate science.
U.S.-China Tensions Could Complicate Effort to Renew Key Research Pact
U.S.-China Tensions Could Complicate Effort to Renew Key Research Pact
Rising tensions between the United States and China could derail the renewal of a 44-year-old agreement on scientific cooperation between the two countries. Last week, U.S. President Joe Biden invited China to spend the next 6 months discussing changes to the broad agreement, first signed in 1979, that enables joint research.
Participatory Action Research
Participatory action research (PAR) involves the participation and leadership of people experiencing issues, who take action to produce emancipatory social change, through conducting systematic research to generate new knowledge. In this Primer, Cornish et al. set out key considerations for the design of a PAR project and discuss ways to overcome the challenges faced by PAR projects.
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.
Pharmaceutical Companies Follow Public Funders of Research in Efforts to Reform Science Publishing
Pharmaceutical Companies Follow Public Funders of Research in Efforts to Reform Science Publishing
Open Pharma, which works with pharma to drive fast and transparent medical publishing, is encouraging pharmaceutical companies to use their influence more.
One of the Fathers of AI is Worried About Its Future
Yoshua Bengio wants to stop talk of an AI arms race, and make the technology more accessible to the developing world.
Four Incredible Objects That Made Science History
One of the first scientific findings signed by a woman is now online for the public to see for the first time. Martha Gerrish's descriptions of the stars in 1734 joins discoveries by Isaac Newton, Victorian fossil hunters and pioneer photographers. The documents have been digitised by the Royal Society in London.
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