AI Company Specialized in Analyzing Scientific Literature
Meta’s mission is to unlock all of the world’s scientific and technical information through artificial intelligence.
Aim High, Publish Fast
New service offers a rigorous independent peer review and helps you publish quickly in the best possible journal. Submission is free.
Biden Presents Five-Year Cancer Moonshot Plan
Biden announced a comprehensive plan for his Cancer Moonshot initiative, which seeks to achieve a decade’s worth of progress on cancer research in five years.
Who Cares about the Connection?
How easy is it really to exactly replicate a scientific experiment by just reading the published result?
Freeing a Scientific Mind to Envision Big Research: Packard Fellowship to Will Ratcliff
Funding can focus science on the long game; just ask Will Ratcliff, freshly named a Packard Fellow.
Biden’s Moonshot Cancer Plan Calls for More Data Sharing
New report describes steps to double progress in 5 years
Open Access in a Time of Change
Speech by EU Commissioner C. Moedas at the Frankfurt Book Fair
ScienceOpen Partners with PeerJ
PeerJ will be indexing one of their flagship open access journals, PeerJ Computer Science, with ScienceOpen.
Budget Cap Would Stifle Brazilian Science
Constitutional amendment would freeze public spending at current levels for 2 decades.
Being the Enabler
A career in research development can offer a way for scientists to stay connected to research while also leveraging their soft skills
High Impact, Fast Decisions and Reasonable Rejection Rates
Rejection rates in Frontiers journals are around ~27%, most manuscripts are published within 3 months, and yet, Frontiers’ citations rates are amongst the very highest.
Encourage Governments to Heed Scientific Advice
To stop evidence-based policy losing its clout, researchers need to engage with policymakers and understand their needs, says Bill Colglazier.
Facebook Couple Commits $3 Billion to Cure Disease
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative aims to have major impact by 2100.
Grading the Presidential Candidates on Science
Scientific American evaluates responses from Clinton, Trump, Johnson and Stein to 20 questions
How Academics Can Use Twitter Most Effectively
A guide on how to make Twitter work for academic purposes.
Women Need to Be Seen and Heard at Conferences
A neuroscience initiative is boosting the number of female invited speakers at meetings. Other disciplines should do the same.
Science Group Seeks to Guide Silicon Valley Philanthropists
Uncertain government funding drives effort to beef up private support for research
Keep Politics Out of Science?
Taking potshots at some scientific research is a pastime of American politics. But critics need to assess the merits of the research they target beforehand.
ScienceOpen Partners with Open Library of Humanities
ScienceOpen partners with the Open Library of Humanities to open up the context of HSS research
Ten Simple Rules for Digital Data Storage
Ten Simple Rules for Digital Data Storage
This article describes ten simple rules for digital data storage that grew out of a long discussion among instructors for the Software and Data Carpentry initiatives.
Citizen Scientists Discover Potential New Hunting Ground for Exoplanets
Via a NASA-led citizen science project, eight people with no formal training in astrophysics helped discover what could be a fruitful new place to search for planets outside our solar system.