Science policy is slowly waking up to the realisation that the value of science may lie in people and places rather than papers and patents.
The Third Annual Academics with Cats Awards, organised by Academia Obscura, celebrates academic cats and injects a bit of fun into the pre-Christmas panic.
McGill's Neurological Institute open science agenda includes open access publication of all research data and findings, and an end to the practice of patenting the university's findings.
Researchers at top-flight institutions are not immune to charms of questionable journals
Earlier this year, the Montreal Neurological Institute announced an ambitious commitment to the principles of open science. The Neuro will be eschewing patents for its discoveries and doing all it can to make its research findings widely available. While there have been other large-scale open science initiatives the Neuro is the first major research institute of its kind to make such a wide-ranging commitment to open science.
An analysis focusing on the efficacy or durability of GM Bt crops and ties between the researchers carrying out these studies and the GM crop industry showing that ties between researchers and the GM crop industry were common, with 40% of the articles considered displaying conflicts of interest (COI).
Open access publishing that permits commercial reuse enables the kinds of public-private partnerships that are essential to scientific innovation.
Trump’s timing on science jobs not unusual for presidents.
Research – news, analysis, funding and data for the academic research and policy community
Information graphics and the fight for science in Trump’s America
This January will not only mark a new year but a new administration and with that over 4000 new presidential appointees across the federal government. One appointment that has the potential to either hinder or benefit the biomedical research community is that of the director of the National Institutes of Health.
Information on universities’ expenditure on publications
Poor experimental design and statistical analysis could contribute to widespread problems in reproducing preclinical animal experiments.
Recommendation engine Instrumentl aims to speed grant searching.
Political compromise settles immigration row that could have severed Swiss–EU research agreements.
A basic set of rules to improve figure design and to explain some of the common pitfalls.
A joint guide by the CNRS and the French Conference of University Presidents.
10 simple rules to help you get across the main idea of your paper.
What would physics look like if Einstein had never existed, or biology without Darwin?
