Der amerikanische Literaturagent John Brockman stellt der Cyber-Elite jedes Jahr seine Edge-Frage. Lesen Sie an dieser Stelle eine Auswahl der jüngsten aufregenden und überraschenden Antworten.
1. Give all scientists an annual, unconditional fixed amount of funding to conduct their research. 2. All funded scientists are obliged to donate a fixed percentage of all of the funding that they previously received to other researchers: the funding circulates through the community, converging on researchers that are expected to make the best use of it.
The Finch Report , the Government's acceptance of its key recommendations, the new RCUK policies on open access, and the consultation by the Funding Councils on possible open access requirements for material to be submitted to the REF expected in 2020, have changed the open access landscape in the UK.
In a 7 mins talk, Adam Savage walks through two examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple methods anyone could have followed: the calculation of the Earth's circumference around 200 BC and the measurement of the speed of light in 1849.
Francis S. Collins and Lawrence A. Tabak discuss initiatives that the US National Institutes of Health is exploring to restore the self-correcting nature of preclinical research.
Impactstory will be buying a new data stream: Twitter, G+, and Facebook data from Altmetric.com. Altmetric have spent years working on the thorny problem of connecting tweets with articles.
My campus survey shows a lack of female leadership in areas where women are underrepresented later in life.
Research careers are built on publishing in high-profile journals, so can postdocs be expected to take a stand against them?
Knowledge generated with public funds should be accessible to everyone, says Dr Al Shorbaji, Director of Knowledge, Ethics and Research at WHO.
A special issue of the EuroScientist focusing on the evolving solution for research evaluation
Le sociologue et historien des sciences Yves Gingras vient de publier "Les dérives de l'évaluation de la recherche. Du bon usage de la bibliométrie", chez Raison d'agir.
A report prepared by Elsevier for the UK's department of business, innovation and skills (BIS).
Publishing everything is more effective than only reporting significant outcomes.
An increasing number of publishers and funding agencies require public data archiving (PDA) in open-access databases. PDA has obvious group benefits for the scientific community, but many researchers are reluctant to share their data publicly because of real or perceived individual costs.
The academic torrents network is built for researchers, by researchers. Its distributed peer-to-peer library system automatically replicates your datasets on many servers, so you don't have to worry about managing your own servers or file availability. Everyone who has data becomes a mirror for those data so the system is fault-tolerant.
A movement exploring the absence of Black Professors in UK higher education institutions.
Long-term study will monitor healthy people in detail — and encourage them to respond to the results
Why don't proposals given better scores by the NIH lead to more important research outcomes?
Die Einführung von Tenure Track-Modellen für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs ist in Deutschland neuerdings in aller Munde.
Although the representation of women and racial or ethnic minorities within the scientific community has increased in recent decades, the overall pace of diversification remains relatively slow.
Die Bedeutung von Drittmitteln in der universitären Forschung hat dramatisch zugenommen und wächst immer noch weiter.
Antonio Loprieno, Rektor der Uni Basel, im Interview
Survey on 40 research questions amongst science policy makers suggests that participatory exercises can establish priorities to guide funders of research.
A platform comparing research journal's performance aiming to make the peer review process more efficient.
Times Higher Education rankings editor Phil Baty uncovers the secrets behind the California Institute of Technology's extraordinary global success
The EU's academic output is 20% higher than the US. This shouldn't really be a surprise given the EU's combined population of over 500m versus America's 300m. In fact, Europe produces a third of the world's research outputs and, like China, investment is being ramped up while UK and US investments are treading water.
