Can tweets predict citations?
A study of 2011 suggests that highly tweeted articles were 11 times more likely to be highly cited than less-tweeted articles.
How nations fare in PhDs by sex
How women and men fare in doctoral studies around the world.
Swiss resarcher part of US BRAIN initiative
Related: [10]NIH announces first wave of BRAIN grants
2014 Golden Goose Award winners
The Golden Goose Award is a new award that recognizes scientists and engineers whose federally funded research has had significant human and economic benefits.
Grand openings
Changes that will bring scientific discovery more freely into the public domain are happening.
Are we producing too few or too many science and technology grads?
According to a new report, the answer is "both."
Safe European home
I have a dream…. that one day top‐quality science will be practised all over the world. Yes, I know: it's just another of my silly dreams.
Why the best way to fix it isn't going to work
Wall Street analysts say open access has failed, but their analysis might help us succeed. If we dare.
About the size of Google Scholar
The emergence of academic search engines has revived and increased the interest in the size of the academic web, since their aspiration is to index the entirety of current academic knowledge.
Scientific writing: the online cooperative
Collaborative browser-based tools aim to change the way researchers write and publish their papers.
The impact of researcher development
A collection of papers based on workshops at the Vitae Researcher Development International Conference, 3-4th September 2013, Manchester, UK
Sciencestarter
Sciencestarter is the first German crowdfunding platform for science projects.
250 great minds
The University of Leeds is seeking to recruit up to 250 exceptional early career academics to tenure track equivalent Academic Fellowships over the next three years.
MozFest: Bringing the Web to Science
MozFest: Bringing the Web to Science
October 24-26, London
Europe's brain project is 'back on track'
Europe's brain project is 'back on track'
Henry Markram said the executive board was working to 'isolate the scientific concerns' expressed by dissenting neuroscientists.
A congressman's plan to make NIH grantees younger
Congressman wants to order the NIH to bring down the average age at which new investigators receive their first grant by 4 years within a decade.
NIH Common Fund announces 2014 high-risk, high-reward research awardees
NIH to fund 85 awards to support highly innovative biomedical research.
Open letter : they have chosen ignorance
Open letter stating that research cannot follow political cycles.
Young, brilliant and underfunded
"More people over 65 are funded by research grants than those under 35."
Nobel prizewinner John O'Keefe urges UK to nurture young scientists
Joint winner says move to UK was important to his success and fears impact of government migration controls and funding freeze.
Reproducing experiments is more complicated than it seems
A new way to measure whether an experimental result is really replicated.
Why we need badges in science
There's a lot that gets done that goes unrecognized. That unrecognized work can not only be crucial for getting to the actual research outcome put forward in the form of publications, but also for reflecting important skills gained.
Make your own Silicon Valley
Clearly, the key features of Silicon Valley that foster innovation and entrepreneurship can be replicated in and adapted to a wide variety of contexts.
The world's largest 2-way dialogue between scientists and the public
A new interview series on the Reddit social news site this year allows scientists to answer questions whose responses are read by millions of readers.
On the changing role of the Postdoc and why publishers should care
It seems that if there’s a market that we ought to be thinking about, it’s postdocs. Guest Post by Phill Jones, Head of Publisher Outreach for Digital Science.
Dimensions for Funders
Dimensions for Funders
UberResearch is a software solutions company which helps funding organizations, nonprofits, and governmental institutions make more informed decisions about science funding.
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