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New Brief: Could Industry Fill The Gaps Following Federal R&D Cuts?

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New Brief: Could Industry Fill The Gaps Following Federal R&D Cuts?

The evidence suggests limits to industry's willingness to fund R&D vacated by the federal government, should Congress go along with the White House's.

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Understanding the Costs of Scholarly Publishing

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Understanding the Costs of Scholarly Publishing

Why we need a public data infrastructure of publishing costs.

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Trashing Science in Government Grants Isn’t Normal

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Trashing Science in Government Grants Isn’t Normal

The Case of the EPA, John Konkus, and Climate Change.

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Ireland's Health Research Board Launches Their Own Publication Platform: HRB Open Research

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Ireland's Health Research Board Launches Their Own Publication Platform: HRB Open Research

Ireland's Health Research Board is the first public funder to launch their own publication platform.

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Building a Culture of Data Sharing: Policy Design and Implementation for Research Data Management in Development Research

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Building a Culture of Data Sharing: Policy Design and Implementation for Research Data Management in Development Research

Investigating the implementation of data management and sharing requirements within seven development research projects.

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Share Your Data

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Share Your Data

An analysis of a collection of open-access datasets quantifies their benefit to the scientific community.

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Collaboration and Concerted Action Are Key to Making Open Data a Reality

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Collaboration and Concerted Action Are Key to Making Open Data a Reality

How to make widespread open data a reality.

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Wait for Trump's Science Adviser Breaks Modern-Era Record

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Wait for Trump's Science Adviser Breaks Modern-Era Record

Top White House science job stays empty more than nine months after president took office.

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How Science Transformed the World in 100 Years

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How Science Transformed the World in 100 Years

We need to be more concerned than ever about how society uses scientific discoveries, says Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society UK.

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‘Health Valley’ Gets even Healthier

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‘Health Valley’ Gets even Healthier

ADC Therapeutics, a Swiss start-up that specialises in cutting-edge cancer drugs, has raised almost CHF200 million ($200 million) in private funds.

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Mona Nemer Appointed Canada's New Chief Scientist

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Mona Nemer Appointed Canada's New Chief Scientist

​Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has selected Ottawa heart researcher Mona Nemer to be the country's top scientist. Canada has been without a national science adviser since 2008.

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Many Junior Scientists Need to Take a Hard Look at Their Job Prospects

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Many Junior Scientists Need to Take a Hard Look at Their Job Prospects

Permanent jobs in academia are scarce, and someone needs to let PhD students know.

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Science and the Reformation

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Science and the Reformation

The scientific and religious revolutions that began 500 years ago were not causally related, but were both stimulated by printing, argues David Wootton.

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EU Applicants to UK Universities on the Rise

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EU Applicants to UK Universities on the Rise

The number of EU students applying to UK undergraduate courses with an October deadline has risen in 2017.

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PREreview, A New Resource for the Collaborative Review of Preprints

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PREreview, A New Resource for the Collaborative Review of Preprints

Reviewing preprints provides feedback to the authors and helps involve more scientists in peer review.

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How Does Blogging Work as a Teaching Concept?

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How Does Blogging Work as a Teaching Concept?

The opportunities and experiences of blogging as part of teaching.

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Key Legislator Tells Trump Officials to Back off on Proposed Overhead Spending Cap for NIH

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Key Legislator Tells Trump Officials to Back off on Proposed Overhead Spending Cap for NIH

House Republican says cap on indirect costs would be unreasonable and ultimately destructive.

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A Massive Health Study on Booze, Brought to You By Big Alcohol

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A Massive Health Study on Booze, Brought to You By Big Alcohol

One of the biggest and best studies of alcohol's effects on health is underway. But funding from the alcohol industry is already undercutting its results.

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Do You Believe in Life After Lab?

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Do You Believe in Life After Lab?

Pursuing extracurricular interests shouldn't be a crime.

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The Unexpected Reason Researchers Choose Open Access

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The Unexpected Reason Researchers Choose Open Access

Open-access publishing held to the same standards as paid subscription journals.

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Graduate Survey: A Love–Hurt Relationship

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Graduate Survey: A Love–Hurt Relationship

Despite many problems with doctoral programmes, PhD students are as committed as ever to pursuing research careers.

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European Open Science Cloud

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European Open Science Cloud

The Commission made the Declaration of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) available to all scientific stakeholders, for their endorsement and commitments to the realisation by 2020.

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Big Science in a Small Country

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Big Science in a Small Country

Switzerland's unique geography and economy put it at the centre of the world when it comes to scientific collaboration.

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Swiss University Dissolves Astronomy Institute after Misconduct Allegations

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Swiss University Dissolves Astronomy Institute after Misconduct Allegations

ETH Zurich in Switzerland launched an investigation into allegations that a leading professor mistreated graduate students for more than a decade.

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International Science Council to Be Formed

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International Science Council to Be Formed

About 40 scientific unions and associations plus 140 national and regional science academies and research councils will be subsumed under the umbrella organisation.

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Is Health Care Ready for Routine DNA Screening? A Massive New Trial Will Find Out

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Is Health Care Ready for Routine DNA Screening? A Massive New Trial Will Find Out

More than 400 Pennsylvanians have already learned of disease mutations.

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European Commission to Invest €30 Billion in New Solutions for Societal Challenges and Breakthrough Innovation

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European Commission to Invest €30 Billion in New Solutions for Societal Challenges and Breakthrough Innovation

"Artificial Intelligence, genetics, blockchain: science is at the core of today's most promising breakthrough innovations", says Moedas.

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Open Letter Defends ETH Professors

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Open Letter Defends ETH Professors

Some of the colleagues of a professor couple facing bullying allegations at the ETH Zurich have written an open letter of support.

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Open Access

Not Just Available, but Also Useful: We Must Keep Pushing to Improve Open Access to Research

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Not Just Available, but Also Useful: We Must Keep Pushing to Improve Open Access to Research

Could the real open access please stand up? If more research was published according to true open access principles, we'd see better application of evidence for everyone's benefit.

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Idea Farming for Open Science: Sharing Wider Scientific Outputs Will Stimulate Ideas, Discoveries and Outcomes

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Idea Farming for Open Science: Sharing Wider Scientific Outputs Will Stimulate Ideas, Discoveries and Outcomes

Ideas and data can interact, and our work can certainly benefit from the bad ideas that, in the short-term, do not seem to directly benefit discovery. 

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