Excluded, intimidated and harassed: LGBT physicists face discrimination
Transgender people are the most affected.
Wellcome Trust and COAF Open Access Spend, 2014-15
The Wellcome Trust publishes details of Open Access spend and analysis of whether they get what they pay for.
How Journalists Can Help Hold Scientists Accountable
Amid the so-called replication crisis, could better investigative reporting be the answer? Maybe it’s time for journalists and scientists to work more closely together.
The Societal and Economic Impacts of Academic Research
A report produced by Digital Science, together with an international collaboration of leading higher education professionals and policy experts who give their views on the global impact agenda in research policy and discuss what evidence of impact is useful to them.
Set up a ‘self-retraction’ system for honest errors
Notices should make obvious whether a withdrawal of research is the result of misconduct or a genuine mistake, says Daniele Fanelli.
Turkish scholar who eluded arrest describes 'witch hunt'
Three of Meral Camcı’s fellow academics are imprisoned for criticizing the government; more arrests may follow.
Springer Nature To Extend Content Sharing To Whole Springer Nature-owned Journal Portfolio
Springer Nature To Extend Content Sharing To Whole Springer Nature-owned Journal Portfolio
Authors and subscribers will be able to share content from over 2,700 journals and 300,000 new articles per annum with researchers across widely accessible platforms
What is the ethical compensation for nonprofit executives? (Should you boycott PLOS?)
What is the ethical compensation for nonprofit executives? (Should you boycott PLOS?)
Over the last week, there's been a storm over the executive compensation and financials at the Public Library of Science (PLOS).
"Is There a Future for In-Depth Science Journalism?"
Video, podcast and summary.
Twitter creates ‘new academic hierarchies’, suggests study
US analysis questions link between Twitter success and scholarly merit, raising doubts about the use of social media data in altmetrics.
International Conference on Science 2.0
Putting Science 2.0 and Open Science into practice
Cultural conundrum
The Chinese government’s professed commitment to transparency and responsiveness has had a rocky start.
South Korea trumpets $860-million AI fund after AlphaGo shock
Historic win by Google DeepMind's Go-playing program has South Korean government playing catch-up on artificial intelligence.
Microsoft pioneer invests big, again, in bioscience
Two new centers and four investigators selected by Paul Allen’s new funding group
Government policy is wrecking science
Tim Birkhead warns of the ‘end of science’ unless academics push back against threats to creativity and integrity
Junior biomedical scientists and preprints
Researchers, publishers and representatives of funding agencies gathered at ASAPBio to discuss the use of preprint publications in biology. It became clear through the discussion on Twitter with #ASAPBio that many were unclear as to the purpose of the meeting, how preprints could help or hinder junior scientists, or even what preprints are.
An ounce of prevention
Crises of infectious diseases are becoming more common. The world should be better prepared
Science Needs to Learn How to Fail So It Can Succeed
Social science is great at making wacky, wonderful claims about the way the world—and the human mind—works. But a lot of them are wrong.
Failure Is Moving Science Forward
The replication crisis is a sign that science is working.
Elsevier publishing – a look at the numbers, and more
Key journal performance data for 2015 and other highlights from a business that is doing a lot more than publishing.
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