As LinkedIn continues to reign as the world’s largest social network for the wider working world, we are seeing the rise of alternatives that are besting and beating it in specific verticals.
Amendments aim to protect autonomy and the independence of research funders from political interference.
A tool developed by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Basel to track Zika, Ebola and other viral disease outbreaks in real time.
Researchers must seek out others’ deposited biological sequences in community databases, urges Franziska Denk.
Goldman Sachs, the Wellcome Trust, and Bill Gates all put money into the Berlin company, which has over 12 million scientists on its platform.
The European Commission has changed the Horizon 2020 model grant agreement, to try to address complaints about low salary levels among the newer 13 member states.
New technologies could make the scientific review process more objective and accurate — but some worry about the risks of letting computers determine what gets published.
A clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions.
The rise of fake news has dominated the world of politics recently, but fake news is not at all new in the world of science.
A new study suggests that, contrary to common fears, the answer is no.
The Edward Snowden of peer review.
Editor asked to resign from journal for saying he’ll review only papers whose data he can see.
If you are a futurist or make predictions, send them to us, and the whole world will see them.
Financing massive-scale copyright infringement.
Founder of the Institute for Scientific Information passes away suddenly.
How centralization of journals led to the serials crisis and why democratizing digital journal publishing using services is the key to fixing it.
Leaving research doesn’t mean that the skills you developed will be wasted.
Diego Gomez, a Colombian graduate student, currently faces up to eight years in prison for doing something thousands of researchers do every day: posting research results online for those who would not otherwise have a way to access them.
It often feels as though today’s health headlines are some scientific version of Mad Libs. And now there’s a study that provides evidence for that hunch.
There’s this pervasive idea that science is somehow exempt from the ugly political world in which the rest of us wallow. But even a perfunctory look at the history of American science shows that this hasn’t always been the case.
Report highlighting the need for a reference database of research organisations.
Researchers are cutting short travel, ending collaborations and rethinking their US ties.
Stencila, an app for creating and viewing data-driven reproducible publications.
Report unveiled at union’s congress highlights ‘unreasonable, unsafe and excessive hours’. Get the report at www.ucu.org.uk/workload
Jeremy Freeman, a neuroscientist from the multimillion-dollar research project set up by the Facebook founder to find global health solutions, talks about his goals
From Australia to Singapore, David Matthews and John Elmes weigh the pros and cons of likely destinations
Environmental scientists and policymakers value long-term research to an extent that far outstrips the amount of funding awarded for it.
