Brazil’s Scientists Battle to Escape 20-Year Funding Freeze
Cap at current spending levels could spell 'end of science in Brazil', researchers say.
Is the Peer Review System Sustainable?
Is the Peer Review System Sustainable?
What do Godzilla and scientific peer review have in common? Each ought to be collapsing under its own weight, yet somehow they stand.
How to be an Outstanding Proposal Writer
Key areas that you’ll need to work on to be an outstanding proposal writer.
Academics Aren't Lobbyists – So Our Research Changes Nothing
Researchers naturally want their work to make a difference, but the sad fact is that it often has little influence beyond academia
Scientific Language Is Becoming More Informal
Biologists in particular are writing their papers in a less formal style.
Wellcome Open Research: The Start of a New Journey
The first articles have gone live on Wellcome Open Research; 15 of them in total, with more submissions in the pipeline.
Disgraced Stem-Cell Entrepreneur Under Fresh Investigation
Davide Vannoni is barred from offering a controversial stem-cell therapy in Italy but may be continuing his work abroad.
Open-Access Mega-Journals: A Bibliometric Profile
While the total output of the eleven open-access mega-journals grew by 14.9% between 2014 and 2015, this growth is largely attributable to the increased output of Scientific Reports and Medicine.
An Open Letter from and to Female Scientists
In the aftermath of the election results, a group of women in the sciences has banded together to speak out against anti-intellectualism, inequality, sexism and discrimination.
Science Doesn’t Have All the Answers
In a fractured world, the humanities are key to an understanding of others.
The Gamble of a PhD Hiatus
Pressure to barrel through a PhD can make taking a break seem daunting — but there are ways to limit career damage.
The Optimal Peer Review System?
The Optimal Peer Review System?
Will F1000Research and Wellcome Open Research be replacing journals and editors?
What to Do With the Data?
Physicists and scientific computing experts prepare for an onslaught of petabytes.
SciHashtag.com
A collection of Twitter hashtags about science communication to facilitate engagement with academics and professionals on Twitter.
President Trump
The winners in Trump's America were likely to be the defence industry, oil and energy, private prisons, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Not health. What should be the response of the public health community?
Revenge of the Nerds
PIDapalooza, the first ever festival of persistent identifiers, set out not only to bring together the creators and users of PIDs, but also to make PIDs cool.
Single-blind vs Double-blind Peer Review in the Setting of Author Prestige
Single-blind vs Double-blind Peer Review in the Setting of Author Prestige
This study investigates whether bias with single-blind review is greatest in a setting of author or institutional prestige.
Cautious Welcome for UK's Vague £2 Billion Research Pledge
Following a £2 billion research pledge, questions remain around commitment to boost science investment.
Microsoft Spends Big to Build a Computer Out of Science Fiction
Microsoft is putting its considerable financial and engineering muscle into the experimental field of quantum computing as it works to build a machine that could tackle problems beyond the reach of today’s digital computers.
Google’s DeepMind AI Can Lip-Read TV Shows Better Than a Pro
An artificial intelligence system developed by researchers at DeepMind and the University of Oxford got so good by watching 5000 hours of BBC programmes.
Under Trump, Scientists May Get a Break on Data-Sharing
The Association of American Universities worries that the open-access policies federal research agencies are developing now are not sufficiently aligned. Any slowdown in putting them in place, it says, is "probably a positive."
Peer-Review 'Heroes' Do Lion's Share of the Work
Peer-Review 'Heroes' Do Lion's Share of the Work
20% of the scientists undertook between 69% and 94% of reviews last year.
The New Digital Divide Raises Questions About Future Academic Research
Without access to large companies' datasets or the expertise to analyse them, research is confronted with a replication crisis and is vulnerable to commercial motivations.