"I'm not a scientist." How many times have you heard that lately from politicians who are trying to duck questions about important scientific topics like climate change and vaccines?
Too many university posts are given to men without proper competition.
Study reveals gender bias favoring male applicants over female applicants in the prioritization of their “quality of researcher” evaluations and success rates.
The potential benefits and challenges that could arise from the use of quotas as one way to achieve better gender balance in academia.
The current and future issues around post-publication open peer review and the protagonists and platforms that encourage open peer review, pre-and post-publication.
Ebook covering key insights about traditional and alternative research impact indicators.
The bullet 'pointization' of information is making us stupid and irresponsible.
The Open Library of Humanities launches with seven journals and the support of 99 institutions.
The NIH Advisory Committee to the Director issued recommendations laying out a blueprint for the Obama Administration's precision medicine initiative, including the framework for building a large-scale, national research cohort of 1 million or more Americans.
GigaScience launched a project providing an alternative way to give authors credit for their work, contributing more to collaboration, transparency and better data.
Authors with an ORCID iD will be able to have Crossref automatically push information about their published work to their ORCID record.
The League of European Research Universities calls for leadership on gender equality issues.
The world dominance of US universities has further waned in the THE World University Rankings 2015-2016. ETHZ is 9th.
Would we be possibly be better off without any patents at all?
[19]PubPeer is a bit like an extended journal club; not a bad idea to promote communication among scientists, you might think, so why the controversy?
To me, volunteering your time means forgoing payment for your time. But how is this affected when someone else is cashing in on your time instead?
The lead paper describing Homo naledi has been viewed more than 170,000 times in one week.
A massive increase in the power of digital technology over the past decade allows us today to publish any article, blog post or tweet in a matter of seconds.
Is "Precision Medicine" another case of rebranding, as chemistry has morphed into nanotech?
BMC editors show that the quality of peer review is slightly higher in BMC Infectious Diseases that operates open peer review compared to BMC Microbiology operating single-blind peer review.
A new regulatory framework for the 21st century.
A OECD Report on the benefits and the action required to make open science a reality.
Switzerland named world’s most competitive economy, again, for the seventh year in a row.
Citizen science is an innovative concept to involve the general public in scientific processes.
A 10-year series of annual meetings where high-level stakeholder representatives work together to improve the future of how research information gets published, shared and accessed.
A new program will connect researchers with universities but won't give them preferential treatment.
