„Eine gute Forschungsstätte räumt Hindernisse aus dem Weg," meint Jürgen Knoblich, stellvertretender Direktor des Instituts für Molekulare Biotechnologie (IMBA) des ÖAW.
The number of female students considering university courses in STEM subjects has seen a bigger increase over the last seven years than for male students, according to new research.
A biennial volume providing a broad base of quantitative information on the U.S. and international science and engineering enterprise.
New research from the London School of Economics and Political Science shows that universities across the world actually benefit during recessions.
This paper analyses an approach to fostering the skills required for successful cross-disciplinary collaboration from the perspective of an interdisciplinary group of early-career researchers.
An interview with Professor Sydney Brenner, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2002.
Maybe the researchers deeply believed that their findings were true. But that is the problem. The more passionate scientists are about their work, the more susceptible they are to bias.
Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don't matter in today's great debates.
Scientists are not as secular as people think.
Universities are drowning in digital information. It's time senior leaders made openness – and its consequences – their concern.
Higher education needs to break down the barriers that block pathways to cross-subject study.
Mehr Schulen, mehr Abiturienten, mehr Lehrer und mehr Akademiker. Die Bildungsexpansion ist beispiellos. Fachleute streiten, wie lang sie weitergeht. Und wozu.
This book will give researchers, scientists, decision makers, politicians, and stakeholders an overview on the basics, the tools, and the vision behind the current changes we see in the field of knowledge creation.
The assessment of scientific merit and individuals has a long and respectable history which has been demonstrated in numerous methods and models utilizing different data sources and approaches.
The non-rivalness of scientific knowledge has traditionally underpinned its status as a public good. This publication models science as a contribution game in which spillovers differentially benefit contributors over non-contributors.
With the announcement of its new Data Grants program, Twitter is inviting academic researchers to propose experiments that take advantage of the full "firehose" of its 500 million daily tweets. But some researchers worry that the terms of the deal give Twitter ownership of their ideas.
More than half a million researchers have now signed up for an online science passport: a unique 16-digit identity number, with an accompanying online profile, from the Open Researcher and Contributor ID ( ORCID) project. There, researchers can maintain an up-to-date record of their professional pursuits.
A newly released report recommends a simplified set of funding instruments at the Research Council of Norway, better strategic planning at the universities, and less detailed guiding principles from the ministries.
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The UK-based Wellcome Trust, the world's second-largest funder of medical research behind the Gates Foundation, has launched a free online magazine called Mosaic that is dedicated to longform science writing. The site will be run by former Times science editor Mark Henderson - who was involved with a monthly science magazine published by the Times...
The good news: Many more women than ever before are completing Ph.D.'s in the sciences. Back in 2000, when I was appointed the first female dean of the graduate division at the University of California at Berkeley, I was delighted to learn that about half of the incoming doctoral students in the biological sciences-and more than 30 percent in heavily male fields like chemistry and engineering-were women.
As universities move towards a corporate business model, precarity is being imposed by force. The following is an edited transcript (prepared by Robin J. Sowards) of remarks given by Noam Chomsky last month to a gathering of members and allies of the Adjunct Faculty Association of the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, Penn.
Study of psychology departments finds that female full professors are less likely to co-author papers with lower ranking women
Our PhD employment problem is very simply described: there's a mismatch between the number of graduate students earning doctorates each year and the number of tenure-track faculty positions available to them. There are too few tenure-track jobs for the PhD recipients who are qualified to compete for them.
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The US Senate confirmed astrophysicist France Córdova to lead the agency, roughly a year after former director Subra Suresh resigned mid-term.
Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Netherlands file most applications per capita.
The Spanish National Research Council will not issue a call for new PhD, postdoctoral and technical staff in the next two years, according to its latest action plan for 2014-2017.
Core science gets budget boost in a bid to change research culture and increase innovation.
In March 1989 Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist working at CERN, submitted a proposal to develop a radical new way of linking and sharing information over the internet. The document was entitled Information Management: A Proposal . And so the web was born.
