Europe's brain project is 'back on track'
Europe's brain project is 'back on track'
Henry Markram said the executive board was working to 'isolate the scientific concerns' expressed by dissenting neuroscientists.
Big Pay Differences Among New Male, Female Ph.D.s
Female Ph.D.s in science and engineering earn 31 percent less than their male cohorts one year after graduation, according to a new study in American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings. When controlling for the fact that women tend to earn degrees in fields that pay less than those in which more men earn degrees, the observed gap dropped to 11 percent. And the gap disappeared when controlling for whether the women were married and had children.
An Author and Reviewer in Conversation
An author and reviewer in conversation – the road to FAIRness in scientific publishing
From Babies' Brains to Bacterial Warfare: ERC Invests €650 Million in Ground-Breaking Research
7 facts about a revolutionary technology
7 facts about a revolutionary technology
What everyone should know about cut-and-paste genetics.
Senior Scientists as Allies for Equity
Asking the scientific system to fix itself from the bottom up could place an unacceptable burden on junior scientists.
She Figures 2015 - Preliminary Results
This leaflet presents some initial results of the She Figures 2015 data collection. It provides data on the proportions of women and men amongst top level graduates and researchers.
The librarian's role in text and data mining
The librarian's role in text and data mining
The relatively new exception to copyright law that we enjoy in the UK, permitting text and data mining (TDM) for the purposes of non-commercial research, offers potential to further knowledge and make scientific and medical breakthroughs.
Five Hacks for Digital Democracy
Beth Simone Noveck urges researchers to work out how technology can improve public institutions.
Science on the map
Science on the map
Easy-to-use mapping tools give researchers the power to create beautiful visualizations of geographic data.
Does Academia Need Another Alternative to For-Profit Scholarly Platforms?
Last week another nonprofit platform called ScholarlyHub announced its plans for a site where researchers can also exchange ideas and work—if they pay a subscription fee.
Science Undivided
A pledge not to take part in scientific conferences in the United States that cannot be attended by all, regardless of their nationality or religion.
A Paper on Field Theory Delivers a Wake-Up Call to Academics
Oliver Rosten believes the postdoctoral system played a role in his friend’s suicide. Disseminating that opinion in a scientific journal took perseverance.
Congress gives big funding increase to NIH
The spending bill for the federal government ends more than 12 years of stagnant budgets for NIH.
As a Saudi Woman Scientist, I'm Tired of Negative Stereotypes
I’ve encountered even more prejudice as a researcher from the Middle East than as a woman working in Saudi Arabia, says Malak Abedalthagafi.
Robot-written reviews fool academics
Peer reviews created by self-generated text machines are the latest threat to scientific integrity.
What All Those Scientists on Twitter Are Really Doing
Analysis reveals that female researchers are over-represented on the social-media site and that mathematicians and life scientists are less likely to use it.
In the beginning
This month marks the 350th anniversary of arguably the first and longest-running scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World.
A New Model for Science Communication
SciComm: Why it is essential, and how we can do it better.
The world's largest 2-way dialogue between scientists and the public
A new interview series on the Reddit social news site this year allows scientists to answer questions whose responses are read by millions of readers.
The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science
They distort the nature of the scientific enterprise, rewrite its history, and overlook many of its most important contributors.
Science's shameful secret
At the frontiers of scientific discovery, there is a growing problem. Can we still trust our scientists?
Academics, forget about public engagement, stay in your ivory towers
Researchers are urged to make their work accessible, but simplifying complex ideas doesn’t support great scholarship.
National Research Agenda
Dutch agenda presenting 140 overarching scientific questions as a result of a unique bottom-up initiative, driven by the general public and a vast number of organisations in the Netherlands.
Half of biomedical research studies don't stand up to scrutiny and what we need to do about that
Half of biomedical research studies don't stand up to scrutiny and what we need to do about that
What if I told you that half of the studies published in scientific journals today - the ones upon which news coverage of medical advances is often based - won't hold up under scrutiny?
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