How to improve reproducibility: contest winners
Not just a competition but a resource that will continue to be useful now and in the future as we tackle improving reproducibility in the sciences.
Open Source Won. So, Now What?
Open source now runs the world. But it still faces problems
Digital Science White Paper
Through highlighting six recent advances in research infrastructure, this whitepaper seeks to recast how we think about metadata - not as a series of static records, but as objects that move between systems and organizations.
A Joke Syllabus With a Serious Point: Cussing Away the Reproducibility Crisis
Sanjay Srivastava’s assessment of the state of psychology mixes a certain four-letter word and gallows humor with a desire to raise awareness of important research issues in his field.
Foot print of a paper: accountability in academic publishing
There needs to be a transparent and openly recorded submission and review process.
Digital Scholarship and the future of cross-disciplinary work in research
Digital Scholarship and the future of cross-disciplinary work in research
A figshare case study of Micah Vandegrift's Digital Humanities research.
Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2016
New 2016 Top 500 world university rankings conducted by CWCU of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Academic Ranking of World Universities).
The Changing Face of Scientific Collaboration
A spirit of collective enterprise in scientific research is being replaced by a rush to assign precise credit for who did what.
Citizen Science Isn’t Just About Collecting Data
Nonscientists should take part in discussions about research priorities and more.
Science Without Open Data Isn't Science
Science Without Open Data Isn't Science
Without open data, a scientific paper is little more than a statement that, in the author’s opinion, some evidence supports a certain set of claims.
Mouse microbes may make scientific studies harder to replicate
The zoo of bacteria and viruses within each lab animal may be confounding experiments.
Should systematic reviewers report suspected misconduct?
Authors of systematic review articles sometimes overlook misconduct and conflicts of interest present in the research they are analyzing, according to a recent study published in BMJ Open.
Creation of a Central Preprint Service for the Life Sciences
At the ASAPbio Funders’ Workshop (May 24, 2016, NIH), representatives from 16 funding agencies requested that ASAPbio “develop a proposal describing the governance, infrastructure and standards desired for a preprint service that represents the views of the broadest number of stakeholders.” We are now holding a Technical Workshop to advise on the infrastructure and standards for a Central Service (CS) for preprints. ASAPbio will integrate the output of the meeting and community and stakeholder feedback into a proposal to funding agencies this fall. The funders may issue a formal RFA to which any interested parties could apply for funding.
Interview with Richard Morey: radical transparency, evidence, and skepticism.
Richard Morey on thinking about evidence, selling dog food, and how individual scientist can deal with the crisis in the social sciences.
Towards Open Science: The Case for a Decentralized Autonomous Academic Endorsement System
Towards Open Science: The Case for a Decentralized Autonomous Academic Endorsement System
A system of academic endorsement based on blockchain technology would be decoupled from the publication process, which would allow expeditious appraisal of all kinds of scientific output in a transparent manner without relying on any central authority.
UC Pay It Forward Project
UC Davis and CDL Investigation of the Institutional Costs of Gold Open Access
Sexual Harassment in the Sciences: A New Journalistic Beat?
Covering sexism and sexual harassment in the sciences and academia may not yet be a full-fledged beat for journalists, but it's getting there.
Two Cheers for the Retraction Boom
Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus praise the growing scrutiny of scientific publications.
Bad Science Evolves. Stopping It Means Changing Institutional Selection Pressures
Bad Science Evolves. Stopping It Means Changing Institutional Selection Pressures
On The Natural Selection of Bad Science.
Fabricating science: discussing fraud can rebuild community confidence and deepen understanding of how science works
Fabricating science: discussing fraud can rebuild community confidence and deepen understanding of how science works
Openly discussing the history of science, where is has gone wrong, and the incredible efforts individual scientists go to uncover fraud should inspire confidence in its self-correcting nature.
Donald Trump's Lack of Respect for Science Is Alarming
The U.S. presidential election shows how far the political conversation has degenerated from the nation's founding principles of truth and evidence.
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.
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