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Open Science

Open Science - Altmetrics and Rewards

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Open Science - Altmetrics and Rewards

Incentives and Rewards to engage in Open Science Activities.

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Could Bitcoin technology help science?

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Could Bitcoin technology help science?

Blockchain could lend security measures to the scientific process, but the approach has its own risks.

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Women Are Invited to Give Fewer Talks Than Men at Top U.S. Universities

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Women Are Invited to Give Fewer Talks Than Men at Top U.S. Universities

It’s not because they turn down talks more often, or because there aren’t enough women to invite.

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Reproducibility

Sustainable Computational Science: The ReScience Initiative

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Reproducibility

Sustainable Computational Science: The ReScience Initiative

ReScience resides on GitHub where each new implementation of a computational study is made available together with comments, explanations, and software tests.

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The New Face of the Science-Policy Interface

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The New Face of the Science-Policy Interface

The role of Canada's new Chief Science Advisor in evidence-based decision-making.

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Top 100 Preprints of 2017

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Preprints
Rankings

Top 100 Preprints of 2017

This week we released the Top 100 Preprints for 2017 among 18 services hosted on OSF.

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Equality

Study Finds Men Speak Twice as Often as Do Women at Colloquiums

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Study Finds Men Speak Twice as Often as Do Women at Colloquiums

Study finds that men speak twice as often as women do at colloquiums, a difference that can't be explained away by rank, speaker pool composition or women's interest in giving talks.

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Diversity

Ethnicity Cannot Be Counted

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Diversity

Ethnicity Cannot Be Counted

Counting the number of women and men is considered to be rather unproblematic. But how do you measure diversity?

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Technology

10 Things Everyone Should Know About Machine Learning

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10 Things Everyone Should Know About Machine Learning

As someone who often finds himself explaining machine learning to non-experts.

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UK Losses in Horizon 2020 Most Severe for Collaborative Grants

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UK Losses in Horizon 2020 Most Severe for Collaborative Grants

The drop in the UK’s share of EU funding for research and innovation has been steepest in the more collaborative parts of the Framework programme.

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Open Access

Challenges and opportunities for Open Science

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Challenges and opportunities for Open Science

Incentives for “Open”, perception as additional work and lack of training, and diversity and inclusivity.

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Gender

Women in Science: Addressing the Implications of the Gender Imbalance

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Women in Science: Addressing the Implications of the Gender Imbalance

How do we create a social structure to foster empowerment?

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How Care for Elders, Not Children, Denies Women a Paycheck

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How Care for Elders, Not Children, Denies Women a Paycheck

The focus on child care may conceal a bigger barrier to female participation in the labor force: tending to the growing ranks of aging family members.

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Brain Drain At the EPA

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Brain Drain At the EPA

Some 300 scientists and environmental protection specialists have departed the agency during the Trump administration.

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Foresight

7 Science Stories in 2017 That Made Us Go, "Whoa, That's Awesome"

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7 Science Stories in 2017 That Made Us Go, "Whoa, That's Awesome"

The news that lifted our existential dread.

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The Year in Review: 2017 On The Scholarly Kitchen

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The Year in Review: 2017 On The Scholarly Kitchen

A statistical look back at the year in The Scholarly Kitchen.

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Open Access

Commission to Scientists: Stop Ruining Our Copyright Plans With Your Facts and Your Research!

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Commission to Scientists: Stop Ruining Our Copyright Plans With Your Facts and Your Research!

A 30 page paper panning the Commission’s copyright plans on press publishers written by JRC never saw the light of the day.

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2017's scientific Breakthrough of the Year: Colliding neutron stars

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2017's scientific Breakthrough of the Year: Colliding neutron stars

Cosmic convergence confirmed astrophysical models, revealed origins of heavy elements -- and, yes, created gravitational waves.

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Little Holiday Cheer for U.S. Science Agencies as Congress Extends Spending Freeze

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Little Holiday Cheer for U.S. Science Agencies as Congress Extends Spending Freeze

But final deal on a 2018 budget could bring substantial spending increases.

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Nobel laureate will step down from leading embattled Salk Institute

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Nobel laureate will step down from leading embattled Salk Institute

Elizabeth Blackburn cuts short her tenure at Salk amid gender discrimination lawsuits, which have also led Inder Verma to take leave of absence from editor-in-chief of PNAS

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Careers

The Young and the Restless

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Careers

The Young and the Restless

Initiatives are in place to keep early-career investigators in the biomedical system, but more support is needed.

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Preprints

Top 200 PeerJ Preprints

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Top 200 PeerJ Preprints

PeerJ preprints that have grabbed the attention of the masses.

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Communication
Website

ERCcOMICS

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Communication
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ERCcOMICS

ERCcOMICS is a creative and ambitious project which exploits the power of visual storytelling to innovate the way European science is communicated.

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Careers

Top Ten Tips to Kick-Start Your Career in 2018

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Careers

Top Ten Tips to Kick-Start Your Career in 2018

Scientists and career experts reveal how to take your job to the next level.

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Scientists Tainted by Misconduct of Former Collaborators

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Scientists Tainted by Misconduct of Former Collaborators

The stigma has a punitive effect on citations for prior collaborators of fraudulent researchers.

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US Government Lifts Ban on Risky Pathogen Research

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US Government Lifts Ban on Risky Pathogen Research

The National Institutes of Health will again fund research that makes viruses more dangerous.

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Equality
Gender

Evidence From Peer Review That Women Are Held to Higher Standards

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Equality
Gender

Evidence From Peer Review That Women Are Held to Higher Standards

Tougher editorial standards and/or biased referee assignment may force women to write better, and may also reduce their productivity.

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Integrity

Want to Win a Nobel Prize? Retract a Paper. Really!

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Integrity

Want to Win a Nobel Prize? Retract a Paper. Really!

This advice is both hyperbolic and not nearly as crazy as it sounds.

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Gender

Female Grant Applicants Are Equally Successful When Peer Reviewers Assess the Science, but Not When They Assess the Scientist

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Equality
Gender

Female Grant Applicants Are Equally Successful When Peer Reviewers Assess the Science, but Not When They Assess the Scientist

Gender gaps in grant success rates were significantly larger when there was an explicit review focus on the principal investigator.

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History

The Statistician Who Believed in Miracles

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The Statistician Who Believed in Miracles

Thomas Bayes had the right idea: Even scientific laws can benefit from an update.

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