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Communication
Society

Scientists, Stop Thinking Explaining Science Will Fix Things. It Won’t.

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Communication
Society

Scientists, Stop Thinking Explaining Science Will Fix Things. It Won’t.

Scientists need to learn how to communicate science strategically.

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Reproducibility

Want to Fix Science’s Replication Crisis? Then Replicate

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Reproducibility

Want to Fix Science’s Replication Crisis? Then Replicate

Researchers should spend more trying to reproduce other scientists' results.

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Preprints
Metrics

When is a Preprint Server Not a Preprint Server?

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Metrics

When is a Preprint Server Not a Preprint Server?

When does a preprint become a publication?

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Publishing

We Need a GitHub for Academic Research

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Publishing

We Need a GitHub for Academic Research

The academic paper has some inherent limitations—chief among them, that it can provide only a summary of a given research project.

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Collaboration

A Story About Science Together

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Collaboration

A Story About Science Together

The unconference about tools and rules in collaborative research.

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Authorship

It Takes a Village: One Year of Journals Requiring ORCID iDs

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It Takes a Village: One Year of Journals Requiring ORCID iDs

Getting researcher buy-in to new tools and systems can be challenging - even when those tools are intended to help free them of administrative burden.

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Open Science
Education

Open Research,Open Engineering, and the Role of the University in Society

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Education

Open Research,Open Engineering, and the Role of the University in Society

Thoughts and reflections on the role that open research can play in defining the purpose and activities of the university.

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Open Access

Anticipated Effects of an Open Access Policy at a Private Foundation

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Anticipated Effects of an Open Access Policy at a Private Foundation

Evaluating the impact of the Moore Foundation Open Access new policy.

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Social Media

What All Those Scientists on Twitter Are Really Doing

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Social Media

What All Those Scientists on Twitter Are Really Doing

Analysis reveals that female researchers are over-represented on the social-media site and that mathematicians and life scientists are less likely to use it.

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History

A World Without Science — Part 1: Infectious Diseases

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History

A World Without Science — Part 1: Infectious Diseases

Advances in science and public health policy have saved over 107 million lives in 25 years.

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Website

SHERPA RoMEO: Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving

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SHERPA RoMEO: Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving

SHERPA/RoMEO database of publishers' policies on copyright and self-archiving.

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Open Science

An Open Source Pharma Roadmap

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An Open Source Pharma Roadmap

How open source methods of working could be applied to the discovery and development of new medicines.

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Research

More Surgeons Must Start Doing Basic Science

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More Surgeons Must Start Doing Basic Science

They say they don't have the time or incentives to do research — and that’s dangerous for translational medicine.

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Misconduct

107 Cancer Papers Retracted Due to Peer Review Fraud

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Misconduct

107 Cancer Papers Retracted Due to Peer Review Fraud

New papers were found through investigations into previous fraud.

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Funding

Federal Funding for Basic Research Led to the Gene-Editing Revolution. Don't Cut It.

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Federal Funding for Basic Research Led to the Gene-Editing Revolution. Don't Cut It.

Patients in red states and blue states alike benefit from work funded by the National Institutes of Health

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US

Donald Trump Shouldn’t Appoint a Science Adviser. He Doesn’t Deserve One, and It Won’t Help.

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Donald Trump Shouldn’t Appoint a Science Adviser. He Doesn’t Deserve One, and It Won’t Help.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has been headless since Donald Trump moved into the White House.

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March for Science: Protesters Gather Worldwide to Support 'Evidence'

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March for Science: Protesters Gather Worldwide to Support 'Evidence'

Crowds massed in the US capital and around the world Saturday to support science and evidence-based research -- a protest partly fueled by opposition to President Donald Trump's threats of budget cuts to agencies funding scientists' work.

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Funding

Too Many Studies Have Hidden Conflicts of Interest. A New Tool Makes It Easier to See Them.

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Too Many Studies Have Hidden Conflicts of Interest. A New Tool Makes It Easier to See Them.

PubMed, the Google of scientific search, is now publishing funding information in its abstracts.

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Publishing

Inside eLife: Forking Software Used in ELife Papers to GitHub

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Inside eLife: Forking Software Used in ELife Papers to GitHub

New eLife's GitHub account to track new software or a new algorithm when they are central to an article and to make sure that the right version of the code that was used within an article persists.

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Social Media

What We Can Learn From Tweets Linking to Research Papers

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What We Can Learn From Tweets Linking to Research Papers

3 basic issues inherent in using tweets for research evaluation: whose tweets can be used to assess a paper, what objects can be evaluated, and how to score the paper according to each tweet.

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Interview
Foresight

Driverless Cars? How the Road to the Future Will Be Driven by Machine Learning

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Foresight

Driverless Cars? How the Road to the Future Will Be Driven by Machine Learning

How might machine learning shape the way we move through and interact with the immediate environment around us?

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Funding

If Trump Wants to Make America Great Again, the Nation Should Spend More on R&D, Not Less

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If Trump Wants to Make America Great Again, the Nation Should Spend More on R&D, Not Less

The president’s proposed cuts to research funding would cripple American innovation. We should be spending more on R&D, not less.

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Careers

I Found a Tenure-Track Job. Here’s What it Took.

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Careers

I Found a Tenure-Track Job. Here’s What it Took.

Two hiring seasons and 112 applications.

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Digitalization

Our Machines Now Have Knowledge We’ll Never Understand

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Digitalization

Our Machines Now Have Knowledge We’ll Never Understand

Knowing the world may require giving up on understanding it.

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Website

ProgrammingHistorian.org

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Website

ProgrammingHistorian.org

A novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate their research.

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Statistics
EU
Funding

Horizon 2020 Success Rates Are Higher Than They Appear

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Funding

Horizon 2020 Success Rates Are Higher Than They Appear

Take proposals that should never have been submitted out of the figures, and the chances of winning funding look a lot brighter.

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Education

Mozilla Learning: Web Literacy

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Education

Mozilla Learning: Web Literacy

A framework for entry-level web literacy & 21st Century skills.

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Peer Review
COI

Historic Co-Authorships Speed up Editor Handling Times

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Peer Review
COI

Historic Co-Authorships Speed up Editor Handling Times

Journal editors tend to accept manuscripts written by prior collaborators more quickly.

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Research Data

Reproducible and Reusable Research: Are Journal Data Sharing Policies Meeting the Mark?

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Reproducible and Reusable Research: Are Journal Data Sharing Policies Meeting the Mark?

The pervasiveness and quality of data sharing policies in the biomedical literature.

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Humanities

Hey, Computer Scientists! Stop Hating on the Humanities

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Humanities

Hey, Computer Scientists! Stop Hating on the Humanities

Computer science departments need to teach coders more than just how to code.

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