Make Data Sharing Routine to Prepare for Public Health Emergencies
Jean-Paul Chretien and colleagues argue that recent Ebola and Zika virus outbreaks highlight the importance of data sharing in scientific research.
In CRISPR Fight, Co-Inventor Says Broad Institute Misled Patent Office
New evidence in the battle to control a gene-editing technology that is worth billions.
Science Communication as a Moral Imperative
While things are improving, we need to do a much better job of encouraging scientists to be stronger communicators, and share the wonders of science, and the important results of their research, to the broader world. To do less is a moral failure of science and academia.
How open government data creates smarter societies
Why government leaders should publish the reams of data they’re collecting — and why citizens everywhere should push them to do so.
The A to Z of social media for academia
Your definitive guide to using social media as an academic
Choosing the nontenure track
“Isn't this just a glorified postdoc position? Won't taking this offer hurt my chances of landing a tenure-track professor position?”
Progress lies in precision
If we want to achieve the ambitions set out by the United Nations for global health and development by 2030, we need to bring two worlds closer together through a new concept—precision public health.
Should writing for the public count toward tenure?
The American Sociological Association is starting a conversation to include “public communication” -- work often largely ignored -- in the assessment of a scholar’s contributions. Why does it matter?
Saving Science
Science isn’t self-correcting, it’s self-destructing. To save the enterprise, scientists must come out of the lab and into the real world.
A Different Kind of Scientific Revolution
Barbara A. Spellman on the role of technological and demographic changes
Nasa to make all its research available free on the Internet
Nasa to make all its research available free on the Internet
The American space agency, Nasa, is to make all its research available free of charge.
How not to respond to reviewers: Eight simple tips
How not to respond to reviewers: Eight simple tips
Responding to reviewer reports is a key part of publishing academic work in peer reviewed journals. But if you’ve received mixed reviews of a paper or are publishing for the first time, where do you start?
The Unpredictable Art of Science — and a Tentative Manifesto to Foster It
If we continue on the current path of adding ever tighter controls and conformities to research without understanding their effects on the impact and quality of that research, then we will likely be wasting money.
Ministry purge may be a lifeline for embattled Russian Academy of Sciences
Ministry purge may be a lifeline for embattled Russian Academy of Sciences
New science minister promises to review controversial reforms
Why scientists are losing the fight to communicate science to the public
Scientists and science communicators are engaged in a constant battle with ignorance. But that’s an approach doomed to failure, says Richard P Grant.
A Simple, Low-Cost, Effective Method for Increasing Transparency
Badges that acknowledge open practices significantly increase sharing of reported data and materials, as well as subsequent accessibility, correctness, usability, and completeness.
Protocols.io: Virtual Communities for Protocol Development and Discussion
This Community Page presents an open-access platform, protocols.io ( https://www.protocols.io/ ), which enables collaborative sharing and discovery of state-of-the-art research methods.
Ten Simple Rules for Taking Advantage of Git and GitHub
All software used for the analysis should be either carefully documented or, better yet, openly shared and directly accessible to others.
Betting big on biomedical science
Ambitious bids in the US to map the brain and cure cancer have not boosted overall research funding.
Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature
Approximately one-fifth of papers with supplementary Excel gene lists contain erroneous gene name conversions.
Nobel-Prize-Winning Chemist, Dies at 70
Ahmed H. Zewail, an Egyptian-American who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999 for developing a revolutionary technique to observe the dance of molecules as they break apart and come together in chemical reactions, died on Tuesday. He was 70.
Iran executes nuclear scientist who returned to country from US
Iranian judiciary confirms hanging of Shahram Amiri who it claims was a spy who had given away state secrets
Replications, ridicule and a recluse
As failures to replicate results using the CRISPR alternative stack up, a quiet scientist stands by his claims.
Bias against novelty in science
Novel breakthroughs in research can have a dramatic impact on scientific discovery but face some distinct disadvantages in getting wider recognition.
Science is Changing, Can I Change Too?
Science is a big thing, but changing it relies on simple decisions made by individual researchers.
If we want to improve peer review, we'll need to invest in training
If we want to improve peer review, we'll need to invest in training
New reviewers are anxious to get some formal coaching before they start commenting the work of fellow academics.
OpenTrials launch date
OpenTrials will officially launch its beta on Monday 10th October 2016 at the World Health Summit in Berlin.
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