NIH Director Francis Collins Says he Would Remain in Post Under Trump
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins said Friday that it would be a "privilege" to remain in that post if asked to stay by President-elect Donald Trump.
Peer Review Post-mortem: How a Flawed Aging Study was Published in Nature
How could an article with numerous shortcomings be published in top-tier journal Nature? Hester van Santen reveals how the gate-keepers of science knowingly let flawed research slip through.
To My Fellow Lawmakers: Let’s Read Real Science News, Not Breitbart
Fellow Congress members should rely on peer-reviewed science, not fake news.
Favourite Reads of 2016 as Chosen by Scientists
Writers from the Guardian’s science blog network pick out the books from across the cultural spectrum that delighted them most this year
Million-dollar babies
Million-dollar babies
As Silicon Valley fights for talent, universities struggle to hold on to their stars
Why Researchers Should Get the Same Client Confidentiality As Doctors
Promises made by researchers to participants to elicit the truth may not be worth the paper their written on if the courts can bulldoze though them.
Publishing Better Science through Better Data 2016
Publishing Better Science through Better Data 2016
All the videos and slides from #scidata16.
SciLite
A platform for displaying text-mined annotations as a means to link research articles with biological data
CiteScore–Flawed But Still A Game Changer
The real innovation of CiteScore is not another performance metric, but a new marketing model focused on editors.
Letting Researchers Choose Their Peer Reviewers Gets Another Shot
The open-access microbiology journal mSphere will give authors a "super-fast track" option toward publication. The idea has some ardent fans, but is also drawing doubts.
Best Universities in the World for Learning to Code
A worldwide coding competition reveals the universities producing the very best coders.
A Blueprint for Getting More Women into Information Technology
How to address high tech’s missing XX factor
The Proof of the Pudding: University Responses to The European Research Council
Author-Initiated Peer Review of Manuscripts
A little over 1 year ago, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) launched mSphere as an open-access, online, pan-microbial sciences journal. We established two major goals: publish cutting-edge science and implement policies and processes to make the publication experience less onerous for authors.
How Long Do Top Scientists Maintain Their Stardom?
Research performance of all Italian professors in the sciences over three consecutive four-year periods.
A New Impact Factor in the New Publication Landscape
The measurement of Impact Factor – how many citations a publication or a researcher is able to attract, is one of the most controversial yet most widely used quality indicators in science.
Altmetric's Top 100 Research Articles for 2016
What academic research caught the public imagination in 2016?
Scientists Are Frantically Copying U.S. Climate Data, Fearing It Might Vanish Under Trump
Scientists Are Frantically Copying U.S. Climate Data, Fearing It Might Vanish Under Trump
One Trump adviser suggested that NASA no longer should conduct climate research and instead should focus on space exploration.
Why I Still Won’t Review For or Publish With Elsevier–And Think You Shouldn’t Either
A list of some of the shady things Elsevier has been previously caught doing
I Made My Grant Application Public
If funding applications were made under open access, science would benefit from more universal scrutiny.
Guidelines on Good Science Publishing
French, German, and UK's joint guidelines for high-quality publications in scientific journals.
Preventing the Ends from Justifying the Means
Preventing the Ends from Justifying the Means
Withholding results to address publication bias in peer-review
Corporate Culture Spreads to Scandinavian Institutes
The trend of turning universities into businesses is limiting research freedoms in traditionally liberal institutes in northern Europe.
Simply Studying Populism Is No Longer Enough
Sociologist Matthijs Rooduijn explains why the darkening political mood must force academics to step up and choose sides.
CRISPR Heavyweights Battle in US Patent Court
The University of California, Berkeley, and the Broad Institute are vying for lucrative rights to the gene-editing system.