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COVID-19

The Evidence is Clear: if Countries Act Together, They Can Suppress Covid

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COVID-19

The Evidence is Clear: if Countries Act Together, They Can Suppress Covid

As England prepares to lock down again, it should look to the example set by east Asian and African nations, says professor of global public health Devi Sridhar

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Life Science

Science History: Yue Xiong's Great Leap

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Life Science

Science History: Yue Xiong's Great Leap

Yue Xiong is a microbiologist who emigrated to the United States from China to complete his doctorate in 1989. He is the chief scientific officer of pharmaceutical company Cullgen and was a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This article follows Yue Xiong’s quest for education and is based on an interview from the Science History Institute’s oral history archive conducted in 2000 by historian William Van Benschoten.

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Switzerland

Swiss science diplomacy

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Switzerland

Swiss science diplomacy

Switzerland utilizes the swissnex and embassy science sections to support science, technology, and innovation networks for its scientific and industrial competitiveness.

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Integrity

Statisticians Found One Thing They Can Agree On: It’s Time To Stop Misusing P-Values

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Statisticians Found One Thing They Can Agree On: It’s Time To Stop Misusing P-Values

The p-value was never intended to be a substitute for scientific reasoning.

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Open Data
Research Data

Wellcome’s New Policy on Sharing Research Data

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Research Data

Wellcome’s New Policy on Sharing Research Data

What it means for researchers.

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Science

One in Five Genetics Papers Contains Errors Thanks to Microsoft Excel

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One in Five Genetics Papers Contains Errors Thanks to Microsoft Excel

Autoformatting in Microsoft Excel has caused many a headache—but now, a new study shows that one in five genetics papers in top scientific journals contains errors from the program.

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Reproducibility

ELife Launches Executable Research Articles for Publishing Computationally Reproducible Results

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Reproducibility

ELife Launches Executable Research Articles for Publishing Computationally Reproducible Results

Authors with a published eLife paper can now enrich their work with embedded code blocks and computed outputs to make their results more transparent, interactive and reproducible.

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Careers

What a Personal Saga Reveals About Scientists' Lives - and About Science Itself

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Careers

What a Personal Saga Reveals About Scientists' Lives - and About Science Itself

Two scientists allowed Nature to chronicle their lives for three years. Their story speaks to the epic professional and personal struggles involved in establishing a career in research.

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Crowdfunding

Scientists experiment with crowdsourcing

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Scientists experiment with crowdsourcing

Labs at Yale are researching mosquito sterilization and the abilities of rubber-decomposing fungus, all without grants. As grants from federal organizations like the National Institutes of Health become increasingly difficult to secure, researchers at Yale and across the nation are turning to a new source of support.

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Open Science

Making Data and Tools Available for the World To See

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Open Science

Making Data and Tools Available for the World To See

At ATLAS, data sharing and an open, innovative approach to information collaboration has become a fundamental part of this important scientific community.

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International

Romania's Science Reforms Prompt Boycott

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International

Romania's Science Reforms Prompt Boycott

Researchers refuse to sit on evaluation panels after government bans international participation.

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Open Science

I Hate Open Science

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Open Science

I Hate Open Science

Blog post encourages using more specific terms to decrease ambiguity in discussions around open science.

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Careers

Getting the Job: It's Not Just Who You Know, but How You Know Them

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Careers

Getting the Job: It's Not Just Who You Know, but How You Know Them

People are more likely to land high-paying jobs through friends of friends than through their close friends or family, study finds.

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Funding

Chinese science needs fund formula

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Funding

Chinese science needs fund formula

Fury is the word the minister of science and technology used on the weekend to describe his feelings about the misappropriation of scientific research funds.

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Publishing

Sci-Hub tears down academia's illegal copyright paywalls

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Sci-Hub tears down academia's illegal copyright paywalls

In a lawsuit filed by Elsevier, Sci-Hub.org is facing millions of dollars in damages. However, the site has no intentions of backing down and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open.

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Metrics

A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions

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A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions

Although the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is widely acknowledged to be a poor indicator of the quality of individual papers, it is used routinely to evaluate research and researchers. Here, we present a simple method for generating the citation distributions that underlie JIFs.

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Publishing

Is Elsevier Committed to Open Access?

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Publishing

Is Elsevier Committed to Open Access?

As per a new open access policy, all academic research from Dutch scientists should be made available under gold open access by 2024.

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AI

Newly Released AI Software Writes Papers for You

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AI

Newly Released AI Software Writes Papers for You

This week, we received a press release that caught our attention: A company is releasing software it claims will write manuscripts using researchers’ data. 

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Evaluation

Counting is Not Enough - How Plain Language Statements Could Improve Research Assessment

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Evaluation

Counting is Not Enough - How Plain Language Statements Could Improve Research Assessment

Academic hiring and promotion committees and funding bodies often use publication lists as a shortcut to assessing the quality of applications. In order to avoid bias towards prestigious titles, plain language statements should become a standard feature of academic assessment.

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COVID-19

Opinion | The Secret Life of a Coronavirus

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COVID-19

Opinion | The Secret Life of a Coronavirus

An oily, 100-nanometer-wide bubble of genes has killed more than two million people and reshaped the world. Scientists don't quite know what to make of it.

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Funding
Innovation

NIH Initiates Pilot Grant Program for Innovative Neurological Research

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Innovation

NIH Initiates Pilot Grant Program for Innovative Neurological Research

Pilot award strategy designed to enhance funding stability to researchers.

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Citations
Open Data
Research Data

Making Magic Happen: Implementing and Contributing Data Citations in Support of Today's Scholarship

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Citations
Open Data
Research Data

Making Magic Happen: Implementing and Contributing Data Citations in Support of Today's Scholarship

If we believe data should be valued like other research outputs, we must take action to achieve this. Supporting the open data movement means providing proper support for data citations.

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COVID-19
Europe

Europe is Locking Down a Second Time. But What is Its Long-term Plan?

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COVID-19
Europe

Europe is Locking Down a Second Time. But What is Its Long-term Plan?

New measures seek to lower the spread of the coronavirus, but some scientists say Europe should eliminate it.

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COVID-19
Open Science

New Patent-Free COVID Vaccine Developed As "Gift to the World"

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COVID-19
Open Science

New Patent-Free COVID Vaccine Developed As "Gift to the World"

A new COVID-19 vaccine, developed by researchers from the Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, is being offered patent-free to vaccine manufacturers across the world.

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Society
Climate
Biodiversity
Digitalization

Preserving Citizens' Economic Well-being: Evaluating Risks and Policy Solutions for Climate Change, Digitalisation, and Biodiversity Loss Financial-related Threats

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Society
Climate
Biodiversity
Digitalization

Preserving Citizens' Economic Well-being: Evaluating Risks and Policy Solutions for Climate Change, Digitalisation, and Biodiversity Loss Financial-related Threats

By researching and anticipating financial risks, a team of few scientists assesses the financial challenges posed by climate change, digitalization and biodiversity loss. Today, we spoke with them to learn more about their research.
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Peer Review

Post publication peer review

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Peer Review

Post publication peer review

New scientists have grown up commenting on their friends pictures, their silly comments on Facebook and their favorite YouTube videos. Will this practice carry over into their scientific publishing?

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Equality

The Special Challenges of Being Both a Scientist and a Mom

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Equality

The Special Challenges of Being Both a Scientist and a Mom

I didn’t really understand how unjust the academic system was for career advancement for women until I had children  

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Equality
Africa

Meet the African Girls Who Are Coding to Make a Difference

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Equality
Africa

Meet the African Girls Who Are Coding to Make a Difference

More than 80 girls from 34 African countries attended the first Coding Camp in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for 10 days in August 2018.

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Peer Review

Quality in Peer Review: An Interview with Tracey Brown, Sense About Science

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Peer Review

Quality in Peer Review: An Interview with Tracey Brown, Sense About Science

Continuing our celebration of Peer Review Week 2019, today Alice Meadows interviews Tracey Brown, OBE, Director of Sense about Science, which has been involved in Peer Review Week from the start.

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Ethics

Jeffrey Epstein’s Harvard Connections Show How Money Can Distort Research

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Ethics

Jeffrey Epstein’s Harvard Connections Show How Money Can Distort Research

Letting the rich pay for science that interests them is a bad idea—even if they aren’t convicted sex offenders.

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