How can we keep science honest in a world of open data?
The advantages of making scientific data available for further analysis are clear, but it could also enable the trawling of data to find significant, or preferred, results.
Fundable, but not funded
How can research funders ensure ‘unlucky’ applications are handled more appropriately?
Last man in the university
Control, surveillance and thought manipulation: there is an undercurrent of 1984 in today’s academy, doublethinks Eric Blair
OpenTrials
Towards a collaborative open database of all available information on all clinical trials
A new network for science advice in Africa
There are plenty of reasons to be upbeat about the prospects for science and research across Africa. The next challenge is to bring more of that evidence and expertise into decision making.
ORCID goes national in Germany
At ScienceOpen, there’s nothing more we like than good news for open science! That’s why we’re happy this week to see ORCID announcing a new partnership with the DFG, the German R…
Creating a more inclusive academy
Although there has been a welcome increase in discussion about gender disparities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), broad participation of women from all backgrounds in academic STEM will not be achieved until institutions are transformed.
Tech expert and cancer survivor to lead U.S. 1-million-person health study
A technology guru and cancer survivor has been tapped to head President Obama’s ambitious 1-million-person personalized medicine study.
E.U. urged to free all scientific papers by 2020
Dutch push for a quantum leap in open access
Revolutionizing research communication through a new academic publishing platform
The way that researchers communicate their work has not changed significantly in the last few centuries; academic publishing still relies on journal articles an…
The evolving relationship between business and science
The interface between science and business is where innovation is brought to life, but do the two fields always get along?
Harsh grades for ‘Europe’s MIT’
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) gets poor grades from the European Union’s financial watchdog.
Million-dollar babies
As Silicon Valley fights for talent, universities struggle to hold on to their stars
How grad students get paid affects where they work
Surprising results add to fierce debate over how NIH funds graduate students
NSF test finds eliminating deadlines halves number of grant proposals
NSF geosciences advisory committee reveales the preliminary results from a pilot program that got rid of grant proposal deadlines in favor of an anytime submission.
The complex role of gender in faculty hiring
In computer science faculty hiring decisions, gender is indirectly considered through its correlation with measures like productivity, study finds
Britain’s scientists must not be gagged
A ban on state-funded academics using their work to question government policy is to begin on 1 May. It’s either a cock-up or a conspiracy
Why A Culture of Preprints Developed in Physics, But Not Biology
Scientific journal policies, physics' head start with arXiv, and differences in the culture of the two disciplines may all play a role.
The Unintended Consequences of the New Focus on Replicating Scientific Research
The Unintended Consequences of the New Focus on Replicating Scientific Research
And how to fix them. By Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus.
Brandon Stell Is the Vigilante of Scientific Publishing
The rationale is simple: More anonymity means more scrutiny for published papers, and more scrutiny means more errors are caught.
Biases in grant proposals
Biases in grant proposal success rates, funding rates and award sizes affect the geographical distribution of funding for biomedical research
On Moose and Medians
If Thomson Reuters can calculate Impact Factors and Eigenfactors, why can’t they deliver a simple median score?
Science fairs are as flawed as my solar-powered hot dog cooker
As the White House prepares for its annual science fair, it's worth remembering that these events leave some children behind.
It's time to stand up to greedy academic publishers
The UK’s higher education institutions spend more than £180m on journal subscriptions every year. We need to come together and create a better system
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