Mice or rats, pigs or dogs, they were usually male: researchers avoided using female animals for fear that their reproductive cycles and hormone fluctuations would confound the results of delicately calibrated experiments.
Five hundred million tweets are broadcast worldwide every day on Twitter. With so many details about personal lives, the social media site is a data trove for scientists looking to find patterns in human behaviors, tease out risk factors for health conditions and track the spread of infectious diseases.
Little attention has been paid to the large, changing inequalities in the world of scientific research.
Ben McNeil, founder of thinkable.org, thinks our science funding mechanism is fundamentally broken. Here's why, and what he thinks we should do about it.
Participants discuss the importance of finding a viable Open Access model for books, and of the funding that would be lost, particularly in the humanities and social sciences.
Report based on four workshops organized by the initiators of Science in Transition in the spring of 2013.
A European research collaboration aimed at understanding the ways in which researchers are evaluated by their peers and by institutions, and at assessing how the science system can be improved and enhanced.
Simple explanation of the basic workings of the European Commission and how EU policy relates to science and research.
A community of students, researchers, Nobel Laureates, philanthropists, science-lovers and research institutes to launch a new way to support the big, risky blue-sky research the world needs.
Launch of the new interdisciplinary Francis Crick Institute in central London.
Neues Förderungsprogramm ermöglicht Nachwuchsforschenden in der Medizin, ihre Arbeit in der Klinik zu reduzieren. Zugunsten ihrer Forschung.
Signal of gravitational waves was too weak to be significant, studies suggest.
Nature announced the launch of its new journal: Scientific Data.
Mit Walter Gehring ist einer der letzten grossen, umfassend gebildeten Biologen von uns gegangen.
New NSF director jumps into the frying pan served up by Congress as it reviews agency programs.
Many scientists in the UK could soon find themselves isolated from their colleagues in Europe and Scotland. That must not happen.
Eight commandments on how to build a bad research center.
A large fraction of academic scientists are obsessed with the issue of 'when will I have done enough to complete my PhD?'
Although the rating of colleges and universities around the world has been heavily criticized by educators and politicians alike, the academic rankings business is big, and booming.
Algorithm based on publications finds that first-author articles in leading journals matter most.
Studie zur Mobilität der Wissenschafter.
The lower bound number of scholarly documents, published in English, available on the web is roughly 114 million.
Studie der Sozialforschungsstelle der Universtität Zürich.
Two themes sound repeatedly among those who would taper the flow of money: social science research isn't as economically valuable or as "high quality" as technological or medical research, and social science research can't be justified in austere times.
Most academic papers today are published only after some academic peers have had a chance to review the merits and limitations of the work. This seems like a good idea, but there is a growing movement that wants to retort as Albert Einstein did to such a review process.
An open invitation to anyone and everyone to participate in a decentralized effort to explore the opportunities of open science in neuroimaging.
Academic funding agencies should support research in unfashionable fields; a letter to David Cameron.
The NIH is working on multiple fronts to get to the bottom of unexplained racial disparities in R01 grant funding and to maximize fairness in NIH peer review.
A final version of NIH document presents an estimate of the money needed.
