Universities Show Their True Colours in Court
Institutions cannot boast of a respectful environment for researchers and trainees if they flout those values to cut legal liability, says Steven Piantadosi.
Interview - Brian Nosek on Open Science
Jonathan and Chris interview Brian Nosek, a professor of psychology and the co-founder and director of the Center for Open Science. They discuss problems and solutions in modern scientific research, such as committing scientists.
The Disciplines Where No Black People Earn Ph.D.s
In more than a dozen academic fields-largely STEM related-not a single black student earned a doctoral degree in the US in 2017.
The Bologna Process Needs to Go Back to Basics
The crisis of academic freedom in Europe emerged as the main theme at the recent "Bologna Process Beyond 2020: Fundamental values of the EHEA" conference in Bologna. More than 200 university rectors and 800 other stakeholders participated.
I Hate Open Science
Blog post encourages using more specific terms to decrease ambiguity in discussions around open science.
Inside a “Fake” Conference: A Journey Into Predatory Science
Science journalist attends a predatory conference and interviews scientists involved.
Elsevier Strikes Its First National Deal with Large Open-access Element
Agreement with Norwegian consortium allows researchers to make the vast majority of their work free to read on publication in Elsevier journals.
Science-Graphic Art Partnerships to Increase Research Impact
Graphics are becoming increasingly important for scientists to effectively communicate their findings to broad audiences, but most researchers lack expertise in visual media.
China-US Research Collaborations Are in Decline - This is Bad News for Everyone
China-US Research Collaborations Are in Decline - This is Bad News for Everyone
Scientists say that the drop in partnerships between the scientific powerhouses will hold back research on priorities such as global warming.
Commission Launches Support Platform for Ukrainian Scientists
The European Commission today launched a portal that pulls together information and support services for researchers in Ukraine and those fleeing the Russian invasion of the country, amid calls for coordinated EU action. The portal offers help with finding housing, job opportunities and recognition of education qualifications.
National Goals and Guidelines for Open Access to Research Articles
The government’s goal is that all pubclicly funded Norwegian research articles should be made openly available by 2024, and the government has established guidelines and measures for open access to research articles.
Huge Study Documents Gender Gap in Chemistry Publishing
Analysis finds female-led papers are more likely to be rejected, and less likely to be cited, than those with male corresponding authors.
How COVID Vaccines Shaped 2021 in Eight Powerful Charts
The extraordinary vaccination of more than four billion people, and the lack of access for many others, were major forces this year - while Omicron's arrival complicated things further.
Nobelist: Toughest, Not Most Talented, Stay in Academia
Brian Schmidt says academia is losing brightest researchers because they cannot endure 'intolerable' precarity throughout their thirties
In a first, botanists vote to remove offensive plant names from hundreds of species
Undue burdens
Proposed controls on foreign operations in China are a threat to scientific collaboration.
Encouraging Palaeontologists to Stop Hiding the Bones
New preprint services could bring niche scientific communities into the open.
It's not only peer-reviewed, it's reproducible!
Peer review is one of the oldest and most respected instruments of quality control in science and research. Peer review means that a paper is evaluated by a number of experts on the topic of the article (the peers). The criteria may vary, but most of the time they include methodological and technical soundness, scientific relevance, and presentation.
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.
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?
New Year's Resolution: Research Group Aims to Fix the Way the World Collaborates on Technology
New Year's Resolution: Research Group Aims to Fix the Way the World Collaborates on Technology
With the COVID-19 crisis still underway and a climate crisis looming, an international group of senior researchers is pushing the world's biggest economies to reform the way they manage collaboration on emerging technologies. In coming years, argues a group participant, David Delpy, professor of medical photonics at University College London, the world risks conflict over who controls and benefits from a range of emerging technologies from climate control to 6G wireless networks.
We need to talk about sexism in science
The events that culminated in the resignation of Bora Zivkovic from Scientific American last week demonstrate that women in science face a long struggle to root out sexism.
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.
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