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Open Data

Science's Data Secrecy Problem

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Science's Data Secrecy Problem

A surprising amount of publicly funded research data stays private. How could that change?

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Open Science: One Term, Five Schools of Thought

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Open Science: One Term, Five Schools of Thought

The infrastructure school, the public school, the measurement school, the democratic school, and the pragmatic school.

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An Ineffective and Unworthy Institution

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An Ineffective and Unworthy Institution

Les Hatton and Gregory Warr give their two-pronged solution to the problems of peer review

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Research Data
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Clinical Trial Reporting for Pharma-Sponsored Trials Shows Improvement

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Clinical Trial Reporting for Pharma-Sponsored Trials Shows Improvement

The Good Pharma Scorecard finds some big pharmaceutical companies are meeting legal standards for disclosing results—but many studies still go unreported.

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Research Data

Spotting Shady Statistics

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Spotting Shady Statistics

When statistical fudging is buried in the way data are sliced and diced after the fact or put through tortured analysis in a search for significant results.

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Misconduct

Book Dissects Research Fraud from an Organizational Level

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Book Dissects Research Fraud from an Organizational Level

Using a database of 750 cases of research fraud from around the world, professors examine fraud as a phenomenon, tracing its history and trajectory and looking at what can be done about it.

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Metrics

New Tools Track Article Buzz Online

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New Tools Track Article Buzz Online

“How’s my paper doing?” It’s such a simple question, and in today’s hyperconnected world it’s relatively easy to work out who’s reading and talking about your scientific publications. But are there conversations you might be overlooking?

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UK

Brexit ‘Breakthrough’ Draws Praise from Science Policy Experts

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Brexit ‘Breakthrough’ Draws Praise from Science Policy Experts

Giving EU nationals the right to remain in the UK will boost confidence, say observers. 

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Publishing

Why Garbage Science Gets Published

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Why Garbage Science Gets Published

Opinion pieces that “represent the viewpoint of an individual” and offer hypotheses without testing them are the opposite of science.

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Graduate Students in Uproar over Proposed Tax Hike

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Graduate Students in Uproar over Proposed Tax Hike

Worries over the cost of an education spill over into protests.

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References and Citations for All

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References and Citations for All

Scholars push for free access to online citation data, saying they need and deserve access to the reference data they helped create.

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The Misinterpretation of P-Values

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The Misinterpretation of P-Values

We wish to answer this question: If you observe a ‘significant’ p -value after doing a single unbiased experiment, what is the probability that your result is a false positive?

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Academia

‘Holding Space’ for Victims of Harassment

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‘Holding Space’ for Victims of Harassment

What can a crowdsourced survey of sexual harassment in academe tell us about the problem?

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Academia

How to Protect Academic Freedom

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How to Protect Academic Freedom

Terence Karran is fighting for a European agreement to enshrine researchers’ rights: a ‘Magna Carta’ for science.

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New Feature Aims to Draw Journals Into Post-Publication Comments on PubPeer

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New Feature Aims to Draw Journals Into Post-Publication Comments on PubPeer

The Journal Dashboards allow journals to see what people are saying about the papers they published, and allows readers to know which journals are particularly responsive to community feedback.

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Funding

The ORCID ORBIT Project

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The ORCID ORBIT Project

ORBIT (ORCID Reducing Burden and Improving Transparency) Project which engages funders to use persistent identifiers to automate and streamline the flow of research information between systems.

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Brexit Agreement Would Allow EU Scientists to Stay in United Kingdom

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Brexit Agreement Would Allow EU Scientists to Stay in United Kingdom

Larger political deal achieves a long-standing goal of scientific community, but hard tasks lie ahead.

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Essay

Jim Simons, the Numbers King

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Jim Simons, the Numbers King

Algorithms made him a Wall Street billionaire. His new research center helps scientists mine data for the common good.

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Male Researchers Given 8 Prestigious Grants, Women Get None

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Male Researchers Given 8 Prestigious Grants, Women Get None

"We've been very concerned for a long time about the difference in success rates for men and women applying to our various schemes," said Professor Anne Kelso, CEO of the NHMRC.

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Open Access

CORE Aggregates the World's Open Access Research Papers

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CORE Aggregates the World's Open Access Research Papers

Offering seamless access to millions of open access research papers, enrich the collected data for text-mining and provide unique services to the research community.

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Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as web pages

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Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as web pages

Arxiv Vanity renders academic papers from arXiv as responsive web pages so you don’t have to squint at a PDF.

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France

Promising to ‘Make Our Planet Great Again,’ Macron lures 13 U.S. climate scientists to France

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Promising to ‘Make Our Planet Great Again,’ Macron lures 13 U.S. climate scientists to France

The awarding of the grants comes as the Trump administration has proposed slashing federal science budgets and has dropped out of the Paris climate accord.

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Open Access

Universities Spend Millions on Accessing Results of Publicly Funded Research

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Universities Spend Millions on Accessing Results of Publicly Funded Research

Universities in New Zealand spent close to US$15 million on subscriptions to just four publishers in 2016, data that was only released following a request to the Ombudsman.

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Women in Science

Sowing the Seeds of Diversity in Engineering

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Women in Science

Sowing the Seeds of Diversity in Engineering

Only 14 percent of all engineers in the U.S. today are women, and the gender imbalance continues, or even worsens, when women enter the workforce.

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First University in Region to Implement Gender Equality Plan

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First University in Region to Implement Gender Equality Plan

International University of Sarajevo will become the first University in the region to implement a Gender Equality Plan, which will be funded by the EU through Horizon2020 program.

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"It Gnaws Away at Me": Female Scientists Report a Horrifying Culture of Sexual Assault

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"It Gnaws Away at Me": Female Scientists Report a Horrifying Culture of Sexual Assault

Research labs and field sites are swarming with men who sexually harass and assault their colleagues. But when women come forward, the perpetrators aren’t punished—the victims are.

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Macron to Award US Climate Scientists 'Make Our Planet Great Again' Grants

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Macron to Award US Climate Scientists 'Make Our Planet Great Again' Grants

French President Emmanuel Macron will award U.S. climate scientists with grants to conduct research in France for the remainder of President Trump’s current presidential term.

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US

Ken Caldeira Explains Why the Tax Overhaul Could Cripple the U.S. As a Leader in Science

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Ken Caldeira Explains Why the Tax Overhaul Could Cripple the U.S. As a Leader in Science

Prominent climate researcher Ken Caldeira says the House tax bill would prevent many graduate students from pursuing advanced degrees and carrying out critical research.

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Altmetric's Top 100 Research Articles in 2017

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Altmetric's Top 100 Research Articles in 2017

What research got the most attention in 2017?

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Censorship

Loss of Net Neutrality Could Harm Research

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Loss of Net Neutrality Could Harm Research

Moves to create a multi-speed Internet could push science into the slow lane.

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