Research Networks ‘More Important’ for Female Scientists
Study finds a stronger correlation for women between success and being central to a network
Science Communication Course Seeks to Interrogate, Not Celebrate
Existing model of outreach that seeks to inform an ‘ignorant’ public is broken.
U of C Axes Hundreds of Journal Subscriptions
Universities across the country are struggling with rising journal prices
AI and the End of Truth
Think the current fake news issue is bad? It won’t get any better with AI.
Watch the first trailer for HBO’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
HBO has released the first teaser for its upcoming film The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The story of Henrietta Lacks was documented in Rebecca Skloot’s 2010 book of the same title.
Reminder of New Policies Now – Or Soon To Be – In Effect
A number of NIH policies became effective in January. Here’s a brief recap.
March for Science: Reaching out for Bottom-Up Governance
As top-down governance gives signs of obsolescence, it is time to adopt greater bottom-up input from scientists into policies influencing our lives.
Erasmus Prize 2017 Awarded to MichèLe Lamont
The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation has awarded the 2017 Erasmus Prize to the Canadian cultural sociologist Michèle Lamont.
Forecasting the Growth of Preprints in Biology
Funders, scientists, and journal editors will continue to play vital roles in defining a communication system that embraces both modern technology and the human need for curation.
Ebola Funding Surge Hides Falling Investment in Other Neglected Diseases
Global research funds for these illnesses are at their lowest levels for a decade, when cash for West Africa epidemic is excluded.
How Writing Science Books for Children Benefited My Academic Career
Trying to find a way to explain to a six-year-old how natural selection works is valuable practise for trying to write a lay summary in a grant proposal.
Hybrid Open Access Is Unreliable
In February 2017, when Elsevier were accused of selling one paid-for hybrid open access article, at first they sowed doubt about it, then three days later admitted it to be true.
ESA Affirms Open Access Policy for Images, Videos and Data
ESA Affirms Open Access Policy for Images, Videos and Data
ESA today announced it has adopted an Open Access policy for its content such as still images, videos and selected sets of data.
Empirical Assessment of Published Effect Sizes and Power in the Recent Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology Literature
Empirical Assessment of Published Effect Sizes and Power in the Recent Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology Literature
Llow replication success in psychology is realistic and worse performance may be expected for cognitive neuroscience.
Big and Open Data Are Prompting a Reform of Scientific Governance
Big and Open Data Are Prompting a Reform of Scientific Governance
Data-centric science is emerging in concert with calls for increased openness in research.
Dutch Plan for Open Science
The motto being "as open as possible, as closed as necessary".
If AI Can Fix Peer Review in Science, AI Can Do Anything
Reading a scientific paper is not the same as understanding Shakespeare.
Hundreds Rally for Science at Demonstration Near AAAS Meeting
Crowd troubled by direction of Trump administration.
Researchers Should Reach Beyond the Science Bubble
Scientists ought to address the needs and employment prospects of taxpayers who have seen little benefit from scientific advances.
Figuring out a Handshake
A solution to fix the replication crisis in science: why do scientists not simply sell what they learn from their research?
Got "Significosis?" Here Are the Five Diseases of Academic Publishing
How to prevent, diagnose, and treat the five diseases of academic publishing.
Reproducible Data-Driven Discovery
Chronicle of a two-day workshop curriculum to teach reproducible research using an interactive computational environment.
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