The Decline of Women's Research Production During the Coronavirus Pandemic
The Decline of Women's Research Production During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Preprints analysis suggests a disproportionate impact on early career researchers.
The People You Won't Hear from at One of the World's Largest Scientific Meetings
The People You Won't Hear from at One of the World's Largest Scientific Meetings
Researchers from racial and ethnic groups that are under-represented in US geoscience are the least likely to be offered opportunities to speak at the field's biggest meeting.
Why Are Successful Scientists Leaving Academia Mid-Career?
Three researchers who left academia share their tales of self discovery, course correction, and growth.
Data Sharing in the Current Crisis
Data sharing and COVID-19- the pandemic is changing the way scientists work and talk to each other. The Early Career Researchers advisory board at Wellcome Open Research discuss how COVID-19 is changing science.
Manifesto to Save 'Lost Generation' of Researchers
Research leaders have this week put their weight behind a manifesto calling for moves to make research careers more attractive in a bid to stop the brain drain away from science.
Female Scientists in Africa Are Changing the Face of Their Continent
Why international researchers should be lining up to collaborate with women working in science across Africa.
Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots
Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots
Nearly half of the Twitter accounts spreading messages on the social media platform about the coronavirus pandemic are likely bots, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University said.
Peer review needs to expand so that more scientists are reviewing papers
Peer review needs to expand so that more scientists are reviewing papers
A new tool that selects peer reviewers by algorithm could make the peer review process more reliable, says Richard Price
Why Ethics and Science Move at Different Speeds, and the Unfortunate Trend to Legalize Research Ethics
Why Ethics and Science Move at Different Speeds, and the Unfortunate Trend to Legalize Research Ethics
When I sat down to think about what to say during this panel entitled "Are there ethical limits to what science can achieve or should pursue", I couldn't help but feel intellectually stuck in three paradoxes, paradoxes that I think animate our condition today, and that I take as a point of departure for my talk. First. Alongside the unprecedented potential of science and technology to solve complex global challenges, there is a perpetual threat of a catastrophe: from the atomic bomb to chemical,
The US Election is Monumental for Science, Say Nature Readers - Here's Why
Poll finds researchers around the world are most worried about climate change and security issues.
Research Evaluation Should Be Pragmatic, Not a Choice Between Peer Review and Metrics
Research Evaluation Should Be Pragmatic, Not a Choice Between Peer Review and Metrics
A more nuanced balance between the use of metrics and peer review in research assessment might be needed.
How You Should Read Coronavirus Studies, or Any Science Paper
Published scientific research, like any piece of writing, is a peculiar literary genre.
Ukrainian Researchers Want to Shift the Focus of International Support from Crisis Response Mode to Rebuilding the Science Ecosystem
Ukrainian Researchers Want to Shift the Focus of International Support from Crisis Response Mode to Rebuilding the Science Ecosystem
While the EU scrambles to help researchers at risk fleeing Russia's war, Ukrainians are urging decision makers to turn their eyes to the situation in the country and start thinking about long-term support.
ERC Awards over €600 Million to Europe's Top Researchers
How will climate change shape the Earth's surface? What are the long-term health effects of food additives? How can online tools change political advocacy and what does this mean for democracy? These are just some of the questions that researchers from around Europe have proposed to explore, and will now be able to, thanks to newly-awarded EU funding.
Building Resilient Learned Societies in an Age of Pandemic and Fear - The Scholarly Kitchen
Building Resilient Learned Societies in an Age of Pandemic and Fear - The Scholarly Kitchen
Learned societies face many new challenges in the face of a pandemic.
Inferring the Causal Effect of Journals on Citations
Articles in high-impact journals are by definition more highly cited on average. But are they cited more often because the articles are somehow "better"? Or are they cited more often simply because they appeared in a high-impact journal?
How Can Your Research Have More Impact? Five Key Principles and Practical Tips for Effective Knowledge Exchange
Peer review and competition in the Art Exhibition Game
Peer review and competition in the Art Exhibition Game
Competition leads to more innovation but also to more unfair reviews and to a lower level of agreement between reviewers. Moreover, competition does not improve the average quality of published works.
Why I Left Physics for Economics
I recently decided to abandon the rules that govern nature for the rules that govern people and markets: economics. Why would I do such a thing?
Cambridge Researchers Fight Back Against ‘Bad Science’
A group of junior researchers at Cambridge have established a campaign against the damaging pressure to produce 'sexier' results
ReFigure – Connecting Scientific Insights Across the Web
An open-source browser extension for linking, curating and sharing scientific insights across publishers.
How Scientific Success in Physics Depends on Network Positions
Utilizing 250,000 papers from ArXiv.org we construct large coauthorship networks to investigate how individual network positions influence scientific success. Surprisingly, inter(sub)disciplinary collaborations decrease the probability of getting a paper published in specialized journals for almost all positions.
The Changing Face of Scientific Collaboration
A spirit of collective enterprise in scientific research is being replaced by a rush to assign precise credit for who did what.
The Word Choices That Explain Why Jane Austen Endures
Two hundred years after her death, Jane Austen commands a cultural empire with her six novels at the center. It raises the question: Why her, as opposed to someone else?
Why Collaboration in Research Matters: An Interview with Mark Hahnel, Founder of figshare
Why Collaboration in Research Matters: An Interview with Mark Hahnel, Founder of figshare
We interviewed Mark Hahnel, founder of figshare to discuss Collections, a new, free resource developed by the figshare team, and how researchers can use this.
Scientists Should Talk Directly to the Public
Our work helps answer some of society's greatest challenges, but it's usually conveyed with technical language in journals most citizens never see.
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