The Department of Interior (DOI) and two agencies under the DOI have carried out policies that block or restrain federal scientists from attending or presenting at scientific conferences.
Sarah Tesh and Jess Wade describe Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s highs and lows, as revealed in her recent IOP President’s Medal lecture.
A study documenting acknowledgment sections and identified "acknowledged programmers" in Theoretical Population Biology articles published between 1970 and 1990. While only 7% of authors were women, 43% of acknowledged programmers were women.
Over the last decade, Russian academics and activists have built free, remarkably comprehensive online archives of scholarly works.
Got an idea that could transform the world? NSF is launching a new contest offers prizes for "biggest" research ideas. On 31 August NSF will begin accepting online entries for the contest. Anyone can submit an idea - from individual scientists to professional societies to a high school science class.
Anonymous survey of young scientists reveals fresh accusations of bullying and harassment at astrophysics institute.
Academic publishing is dominated by a small number of commercial firms. How can the academy take control of scholarly publishing?
A study suggesting that implicit biases and social prestige mechanisms (e.g., the Matthew effect) have a powerful impact on where NIH grant dollars go and the net return on taxpayers investments. They support evidence-based changes in funding policy geared towards a more equitable, more diverse and more productive distribution of federal support for scientific research.
An outline of Hindawi's submitted proposal in response to the European Commission’s tender to launch a new publishing platform.
Oaths have their value, but checklists will help put principles into practice.
There are a number of threats to replicability. Some of them are technical, some social.
Generation R is a new editorial platform based on themes, blogposts and learning resources. Its editor, Simon Worthington, answers questions concerning its scope and organization.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently released a report outlining key recommendations for graduate programs and the science enterprise. It highlights the need for employers in all sectors to provide financial support for internships and other types of career experiences to students and recent graduates.
Are you looking after your research data? This simple graphic provides a checklist of the key activities and requirements for making sure your research data is well managed.
This essay is an appeal to the scientific community - researchers, publishers and communicators - to take stock and engage in a discussion of the wider impacts of preprint.
Negotiations with Elsevier have stalled over Open Access deals.
On the research data repository Zenodo you can now view the number of views and downloads on record pages, and you can sort search results by most viewed.
Data on the career paths of young researchers would help to guide the lost generation.
With the current crisis that Academia is witnessing; irreproducibility of scientific research, extravagant costs associated with…
All graduate students should be planning their post-PhD employment from year one. Supported and nurtured by their institutions and their supervisors. There is a catch for supervisors: they are themselves academics, and so will understandably have little clue about what might constitute useful training for the current job market. The onus must so fall on broader shoulders, of the institutions and funders.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine have published a framework to help academics, research institutions and funders bring open science to the fore.
Researcher Jess Wade says efforts to attract girls into science are not evidence-based – and are not working.
The problem with peer review is that, despite its rigor, it suffers from bias because reviewers are competing for the same recognition and resources.
There should be a prominent place for theory within biology papers, both as Results in papers that combine experiment and theory, and as Results in theory papers.
Summarizing the literature on predatory journals, describing its epidemiological characteristics, and extracting empirical descriptions of potential characteristics of predatory journals.
To what extent does the academic research field of evaluative citation analysis confer legitimacy to research assessment as a professional practice?
The scientific community must take measures to keep preprints from distorting the public’s understanding of science, says Tom Sheldon.
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