Nature Outlook on Innovation
In the fiercely competitive world of drug discovery and development, secrecy is no longer as important as it once was.
Swiss scientists share Brexit concerns
What could a Brexit mean for the United Kingdom’s higher education, research and student mobility? Switzerland offers some clues. ...
Are older academics past their productive peak?
A recent paper claims that the quality of researchers declines with age. Five senior scientists consider the data and how they’ve contributed through the years.
Quality Assessment of Studies Published in Open Access
A comparison of the methodological quality and the quality of reporting of primary epidemiological studies and systematic reviews and meta-analyses published in OA and non-OA journals.
Top Medical Journals Give Women Researchers Short Shrift
Women only got top billing in 37 percent of medical studies published in leading journals over the past two decades.
Even Psychologists Respond To Meaningless Rewards
Even Psychologists Respond To Meaningless Rewards
All they needed to be more open with their data was the promise of a badge showing they did it.
EuroScience Open Forum 2016
Top speakers announced at the next EuroScience Open Forum 2016, held in Manchester this summer (July 24-27).
The White House Launches the National Microbiome Initiative
Half a billion dollars are being pledged to study the microbes in humans, crops, soils, oceans, and more.
Scientists’ Reputations Are Based on Getting It Right, Not Being Right
Reputational assessments of scientists were based more on how they pursue knowledge and respond to replication evidence, not whether the initial results were true.
Researchers just released profile data on 70,000 OkCupid users without permission
A group of researchers has released a data set on nearly 70,000 users of the online dating site OkCupid. The data dump breaks the cardinal rule of social science research ethics: It took identifiable personal data without permission.
Scientists Talk Privately About Creating a Synthetic Human Genome
Scientists are now contemplating the fabrication of a human genome, meaning they would use chemicals to manufacture all the DNA contained in human chromosomes.
Avoiding a lost generation of scientists
By sharing their experiences, early-career scientists can help to make the case for increased government funding for researchers.
STEM Career Outcomes of Female and Male Graduate Students
Evidence from UMETRICS Data Linked to the 2010 Census
Why scientists should learn to embrace failure
Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley live by the motto of “Fail fast, fail often." Scientists would do well to likewise embrace failure.
Why Altmetric scores should never be used to measure the merit of scientific publications
Why Altmetric scores should never be used to measure the merit of scientific publications
Or 'how to tweet your way to honour and glory'.
In science, follow the money - if you can
In science as in politics, most people agree that transparency is essential. Top journals now require authors to disclose their funding sources so that readers can judge the possibility of bias, and the British Medical Journal recently required authors to disclose their data as well so that experts can run independent analyses of the results. But as transparency becomes the standard, many academics are resisting the trend without pushback from their universities.
On the productivity of scientists
Ever since Reagan and Thatcher made neoliberal ideas palatable to an unsuspecting public, concepts such as “New Public Management” or the more general notion that competition between in…
Q&A: Helga Nowotny
Austrian social scientist Helga Nowotny was president of the European Research Council between 2010 and 2013. Now a professor emerita of ETH Zurich and author of The Cunning of Uncertainty (Polity, 2015), Nowotny discusses the growing pressure to capitalize on academic research, and how countries can get it right in the absence of a universal recipe.
Engagement upgrade
The value that Australia places on publication quality over quantity has elevated it into the top echelon of science. Can it now improve its flagging track record in commercialization?
How many PLoS ONE papers said: All relevant data are within the paper
When PLoS announced its data policy that all data should be made publicly available, everyone applauded. It was a big step toward an open science and data sharing.
It’s silly to assume all research funded by corporations is bent
If the work is properly monitored, there is no reason not to trust the results
Inside the News Hub That Shapes the Science You Read
Launched twenty years ago this week, EurekAlert has tracked, and in some ways shaped, the way science is covered in the digital era.
Social-sciences preprint server snapped up by publishing giant Elsevier
The Social Science Research Network says that it will continue to offer free submissions and downloads under its new owner.
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