Ranks of Scientists Aging Faster Than Other Workers
The work force is aging in the United States, and scientists are leading the way. From 1993 to 2008, the share of scientists aged 55 and older increased by nearly 90 percent.
Why the US Science and Engineering Workforce Is Aging Rapidly
The science and engineering workforce has aged rapidly, both absolutely and relative to the workforce, which is a concern if the large number of older scientists crowds out younger scientists.
They Will Pay as Much Attention to Us as We Do to Ants
Jürgen Schmidhuber says artificial intelligence will surpass humans’ in 2050, enabling robots to have fun, fall in love – and colonise the galaxy.
The Earth Is Flat (p>0.05)
Significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research
The Growing Case for Geoengineering
As climate change accelerates, a handful of scientists are eager to move ahead with experiments testing ways to counteract warming artificially.
Moore Foundation Rolls out New Open Access Policy
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation recently announced a new Open Access Policy that will help to maximize the impact of research.
Nature Index Country Collaboration
The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles. The infographic indicates patterns of international collaboration captured by the Nature Index.
Why Open Source Pharma Is the Path to Both Cheaper and New Medicines
Breaking the cycle in which only highly profitable drugs reach the market is not just the responsibility of government.
The Stars Are Aligning
An overview of recent events and the current state of preprints in the scholarly communications landscape.
Open Knowledge Maps
Open Knowledge Maps is a visualization tool for researchers that allows them to view groupings of manuscripts that share common words when searching for a new research topic
Five Hacks for Digital Democracy
Beth Simone Noveck urges researchers to work out how technology can improve public institutions.
Scientists, Stop Thinking Explaining Science Will Fix Things. It Won’t.
Scientists, Stop Thinking Explaining Science Will Fix Things. It Won’t.
Scientists need to learn how to communicate science strategically.
Want to Fix Science’s Replication Crisis? Then Replicate
Researchers should spend more trying to reproduce other scientists' results.
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.
A Story About Science Together
The unconference about tools and rules in collaborative research.
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.
Open Research,Open Engineering, and the Role of the University in Society
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.
Anticipated Effects of an Open Access Policy at a Private Foundation
Evaluating the impact of the Moore Foundation Open Access new policy.
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.
A World Without Science — Part 1: Infectious Diseases
Advances in science and public health policy have saved over 107 million lives in 25 years.
SHERPA RoMEO: Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving
SHERPA/RoMEO database of publishers' policies on copyright and self-archiving.
An Open Source Pharma Roadmap
How open source methods of working could be applied to the discovery and development of new medicines.
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.
107 Cancer Papers Retracted Due to Peer Review Fraud
New papers were found through investigations into previous fraud.
Federal Funding for Basic Research Led to the Gene-Editing Revolution. Don't Cut It.
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
Donald Trump Shouldn’t Appoint a Science Adviser. He Doesn’t Deserve One, and It Won’t Help.
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.
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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