Why Data Citation Matters to Publishers and Data Repositories
Transparency and reproducibility, reuse, and credit are three key reasons why data sharing and data citation are important for scientific progress.
Science is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck
Despite vast increases in the time and money spent on research, progress is barely keeping pace with the past. What went wrong?
Likely New House Science Chair Seeks to Move Away from "Suspicion" of Science
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.
The Million-dollar Drug
UBC scientists spent decades developing Glybera, the world's first approved gene therapy. But market forces needed just two years to make the potentially life-saving drug disappear.
Time to Get ECRs Involved
It is a great challenge to get Early Career Researchers (ECRs) involved in peer review and to get them the necessary training to be confident reviewers.
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.
British Public Proud of the UK's Universities, New Poll Reveals
There is a myth that the public are sceptical about the merits of universities. In fact, as this research shows, the opposite is true. The public are hugely positive towards universities and see the benefits of a university education.
Open is Not Enough
The solutions adopted by the high-energy physics community to foster reproducible research are examples of best practices that could be embraced more widely. This first experience suggests that reproducibility requires going beyond openness.
The Ideal PhD Researcher Has No Baggage
The way institutions conceptualise doctoral candidates - as individuals without baggage, able to devote all their time to their research - has very real consequences for those who do not fit this profile.
Psychology's Replication Crisis Is Running Out of Excuses
Another big project has found that only half of studies can be repeated. And this time, the usual explanations fall flat.
28 Classic and Contemporary Psychology Findings Replicated in More Than 60 Laboratories Each Across Three Dozen Nations and Territories
28 Classic and Contemporary Psychology Findings Replicated in More Than 60 Laboratories Each Across Three Dozen Nations and Territories
A team of 186 researchers conducted replications of 28 classic and contemporary findings in psychology.
Why A New Study Says Scientists Should Use Twitter
A new study suggests that scientists must embrace not fear Twitter.
Google Scholar to Overshadow Them All? Comparing the Sizes of 12 Academic Search Engines and Bibliographic Databases
Google Scholar to Overshadow Them All? Comparing the Sizes of 12 Academic Search Engines and Bibliographic Databases
Information on the size of academic search engines and bibliographic databases (ASEBDs) is often outdated or entirely unavailable. Hence, it is difficult to assess the scope of specific databases.
How to Save Space and Stick to the Limit when Writing Research Funding Applications
Research funders impose length limits on applications for practical reasons: to discourage epic submissions, and to ease the burden on reviewers. It’s also true that concise ideas are generally stronger ideas. But sticking to these limits can often seem a difficult and frustrating task.
Why Diversity Helps to Produce Stronger Research
Teams should comprise all gender identities to spark the most innovative endeavours, say researchers.
Preregistration: Try It (Or Not)
So, as the Statistical War and Tone War are in a lull, the Preregistration conflict has flared up yet again.
Science Communication Is Not an End in Itself: (Dis)Assembling the Science Festival
Science Communication Is Not an End in Itself: (Dis)Assembling the Science Festival
Much science communication research focuses on how science is represented and how science communication products are consumed. This article instead explores the production of a set of science communication projects, arguing that actor-network theory (ANT) can be one possible tool for such research.
How to Make Career Advancement in Economics More Inclusive
Men are overrepresented in senior academic positions in Economics. What factors can explain this phenomenon, and how can we make the academic environment more inclusive?
Sustainable Development of Science and Scientists
Academic training, where senior scientists transfer their knowledge and skills to junior scientists through apprenticeship, plays a crucial role in the development of scientists. This study focuses on two aspects of academic training, autonomy and exploration.
Life After PhD - where Do We Go Now?
When embarking on the next career step, is someone's PhD a blessing or a curse?
Breaking the Ice Well, Part 2
2017 marked the first year of the AAAS Community Engagement Fellows Program (CEFP), funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
A Data Citation Roadmap for Scientific Publishers
A practical roadmap for scholarly publishers to implement data citation in accordance with the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles (JDDCP).
The Experiments Are Fascinating. But Nobody Can Repeat Them.
Science is mired in a "replication" crisis. Fixing it will not be easy.
Elsevier: the Price of Success
In its most recent publication, Education International examines the publishing giant Elsevier, whose success on the market is based on ethically questionable practices which endanger the transmission of knowledge and its condition as a public good.
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