Should Scientists Be Taught How to Work in a Team?
Soft skills like teamwork and communication could boost undergraduates' career prospects.
What, You Can’t Tell Two Lemurs Apart? Computers Can
New software that sees spots and stripes are helping biologists track animals in the wild without the tranquilizer guns and radio collars.
Robots and AI could soon have feelings, hopes and rights
We have long believed ourselves to be the only intelligent beings on Earth – that may soon change and the consequences will be dramatic for law, politics and society in general.
Why This Robot Ethicist Trusts Technology More Than Humans
MIT’s Kate Darling, who writes the rules of human-robot interaction, says an AI-enabled apocalypse should be the least of our concerns.
AI Learns to Write Its Own Code by Stealing From Other Programs
Software called DeepCoder has solved simple programming challenges by piecing together bits of borrowed code.
In Finland, Kids Learn Computer Science Without Computers
Students can learn the basics with a set of knitting needles.
Who Has All the Content? A Taxonomy of Services
Several services attempt to gather up “all” of the content across publishers. This post provides an overview and taxonomy.
New Algorithm Hopes to Counter Potential Bias on Panels
Mathematical model works by trying to remove skewing of results in group funding decisions
Two Top Chinese-American Scientists Have Dropped Their US Citizenship
China gets bragging rights to two more internationally recognized researchers
Why Scientists Shouldn’t Replicate Their Own Work
For a career-minded scientist, to fail to replicate your own work is worse than never doing the replication at all.
Emory Receives $1.2 Million to Shape Future of Scholarly Publishing
Emory College of Arts and Sciences has launched a $1.2 million effort that positions it to be a national leader in the future of scholarly publishing. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is funding the multiyear initiative to support long-form, open-access publications in the humanities in partnership with university presses.
Learn From Canada's Dark Age of Science
Lessons to US scientists in how to protect scientific integrity under US President Donald Trump.
Oliver Smithies (1925-2017)
Oliver Smithies (1925-2017)
Nobel-winning inventor of ways to modify genes
The Journal of Open Source Software
A free, open-access journal designed to publish brief papers about research software.
The Hi-Tech War on Science Fraud
The problem of fake data may go far deeper than scientists admit. Now a team of researchers has a controversial plan to root out the perpetrators
A Principled Method for Panel Assessment
How to take into account differences in standards, confidence and bias in assessment panels.
WHO Publishes List of Bacteria for which New Antibiotics Are Urgently Needed
WHO Publishes List of Bacteria for which New Antibiotics Are Urgently Needed
WHO today published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant "priority pathogens"—a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health.
Does Engagement in Advocacy Hurt the Credibility of Scientists?
It is often assumed that issue advocacy will compromise the credibility of scientists.
A Post-Publication Peer Review Success Story
A Post-Publication Peer Review Success Story
In 2016, Joel Pitt and Prof. Helene Hill published an intriguing paper with us looking at the prevalence of scientific fraud in preclinical research...
Concerns Regarding the ASAPbio Central Service and Center
Preprints are clearly the future of scientific communication, but currently face multiple obstacles.
How Bidding for Publishing Services Could Lower Academic Journal Costs
How Bidding for Publishing Services Could Lower Academic Journal Costs
Why journal publishing should be upended from the current model, in which institutions pay publishers for access to content, to one in which the academic community pays for services to publish content and retains ownership of research.
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