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Evaluation des Forschungskredits der Universität Zürich

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Evaluation des Forschungskredits der Universität Zürich

Studie der Sozialforschungsstelle der Universtität Zürich.

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Likely New House Science Chair Seeks to Move Away from "Suspicion" of Science

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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.

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Posting your latest article? You might have to take it down

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Posting your latest article? You might have to take it down

Researchers have been receiving notices from Academia.edu with takedown requests from Elsevier.

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Prof, no one is reading you

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Prof, no one is reading you

An average academic journal article is read in its entirety by about 10 people. To shape policy, professors should start penning commentaries in popular media.

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The Trump Administration’s War on Science

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The Trump Administration’s War on Science

Trump's first budget blueprint is a cramped document that sacrifices American innovation to small-bore politics, shortchanging basic scientific research across the government.

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Biomedicine

Pharmaceutical Companies Follow Public Funders of Research in Efforts to Reform Science Publishing

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Biomedicine

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.

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SciCombinator

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SciCombinator

Discover the most talked about and the latest scientific content, sorted by Altmetric scores and topics.

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EU Launches Ukrainian Research Aid Scheme As It Boosts Horizon Europe Budget

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Horizon Europe

EU Launches Ukrainian Research Aid Scheme As It Boosts Horizon Europe Budget

The European Commission officially launched a €25 million direct aid package of Marie Skłodowska-Curie grants for researchers from Ukraine, as it announced a €562 million increase for the Horizon Europe budget in 2022.

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One of the Fathers of AI is Worried About Its Future

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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.

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Integrity

Call the cops

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Integrity

Call the cops

The long arm of the law has reached into an investigation of alleged scientific misconduct in Italy.

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How the Dutch Delivered a Traffic Safety Revolution

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Society

How the Dutch Delivered a Traffic Safety Revolution

Drivers and pedestrians in the Netherlands faced injury risks similar to those in the U.S. in 1970. Since then, American streets have become far more dangerous. What happened? 

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Ten Simple Rules to Consider Regarding Preprint Submission

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Ten Simple Rules to Consider Regarding Preprint Submission

We formulate ten simple rules for considering using preprints as a scientific communication mechanism.

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Plan S

Plan S Impact Survey

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Plan S

Plan S Impact Survey

cOAlition S values the opinion of all researchers. We want to understand if and how Plan S affects your publishing practices and your views on Open Access.

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Publishing

In Praise of ‘B’ Journals

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Publishing

In Praise of ‘B’ Journals

Academic publishing is becoming more about establishing a pecking order and less about pursuing knowledge.

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EU

My laboratory would fall apart if Britain left the EU

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My laboratory would fall apart if Britain left the EU

My team is drawn from all over Europe and beyond – the researchers bring in talent, income and dedication.

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A new chapter in science

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A new chapter in science

This transformation will be a huge undertaking for all those involved, and exactly what these new forms of publication will look like none of us yet knows.

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How to structure the discussion part in your journal article

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Science Communication

How to structure the discussion part in your journal article

Helping scientists communicate: The CommKit is a collection of guides to successful scientific communication, written by MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering Communication Fellows.

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Integrity Starts with the Health of Research Groups

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Integrity Starts with the Health of Research Groups

Funders should force universities to support laboratories’ research health

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COVID is Amplifying the Inadequacy of Research-Evaluation Processes

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Research Assessment

COVID is Amplifying the Inadequacy of Research-Evaluation Processes

Systems for assessing scientists' work must properly account for a lost year of research - especially for female researchers.

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Communication

Popular Science Writing And Our Fascination With Speculation

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Communication

Popular Science Writing And Our Fascination With Speculation

Popular-audience science writing are more concerned with what we don't know than what we do.

 

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Open Access

Plan U

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Open Access

Plan U

Plan U: A proposal to achieve universal access to scientific and medical research via funder preprint mandates.

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Open Access

Area-wide transition to open access is possible

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Open Access

Area-wide transition to open access is possible

The Max Planck Digital Library has put forward a study on the transformation of the subscription-driven system for scientific publications to an Open Access model. For the first time, quantitative parameters are presented showing that the liberation of scholarly literature is possible at no extra costs..

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Open Science

Digital Regulation That Works for Research and Education

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Open Science

Digital Regulation That Works for Research and Education

Education's digital transition has allowed students to study and researchers to work remotely throughout the pandemic, however we need to ensure te...

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Innovation
Ethics

Physiognomy’s New Clothes

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Innovation
Ethics

Physiognomy’s New Clothes

Rapid developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning have enabled scientific racism to enter a new era, in which machine-learned models embed biases present in the human behavior used for model development.

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Astronomy

The Moon Has a Comet-Like Tail. Every Month It Shoots a Beam Around Earth.

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Astronomy

The Moon Has a Comet-Like Tail. Every Month It Shoots a Beam Around Earth.

"It almost seems like a magical thing," said one of the astronomers involved in studying the lunar phenomenon.

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Careers

Profiles Not Metrics

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Careers

Profiles Not Metrics

Clarivate Analytics' Institute for Scientific Information Launches Global Research Report titled Profiles Not Metrics.

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Publishing

JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments

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Publishing

JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments

The world's first peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed scientific video journal.

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Climate

Climate Change Swells Odds of Record India, Pakistan Heatwaves

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Climate Change Swells Odds of Record India, Pakistan Heatwaves

A UK study says record-breaking temperatures in NW India and Pakistan are now 100 times more likely.

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Want to get your research noticed by politicians?

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Want to get your research noticed by politicians?

There’s no doubt political parties listen to think tanks. Using them to present academic work could help researchers penetrate the Westminster bubble.

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Climate

Survey of Gender Bias in the IPCC

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Gender
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Climate

Survey of Gender Bias in the IPCC

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change needs to do more to include the expertise and voices of women, even as numbers and policies improve.

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