What Is a Hackathon?
And why should you care? There's a global trend of companies integrating hackathons into their overall innovation strategy.
Why Can Elsevier Keep Insulting Scholars without Consequences?
Academic publishers in general and Elsevier in particular have a reputation for their ruthless profiteering, using professional negotiators pitting hapless librarians against their own faculty.
Engaging Policy in Science Writing: Patterns and Strategies
Translating scientific research and findings into policy discussion often requires an understanding of the institutional complexities of policy processes. This study developed a set of metrics to examine how researchers have undertaken that challenge.
A Deadly Coronavirus Was Inevitable. Why Was No One Ready?
Scientists warned of a coming pandemic for decades. Yet when Covid-19 arrived, the world had few resources and little understanding-despite years of work that outlined almost exactly what the virus would look like and how to mitigate its impact.
It would aid amateur scientific breakthroughs
Discoveries by laypeople are rare but free access to research results would increase the likelihood
The Top 10 Scientific Surprises of Science News' First 100 Years
In the 100 years since Science News started reporting on it, science has offered up plenty of unexpected discoveries.
The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
There is an urgent need to improve the infrastructure supporting the reuse of scholarly data. A diverse set of stakeholders—representing academia, industry, funding agencies, and scholarly publishers—have come together to design and jointly endorse a concise and measureable set of principles that we refer to as the FAIR Data Principles.
We Need the Humanities More Than Ever, Despite All the Shouting
We Need the Humanities More Than Ever, Despite All the Shouting
In today’s knowledge economy, the practical value of a STEM degree is obvious. Yet our future depends on graduates who are steeped in the humanities and social sciences.
There Is an Absence of Scientific Authority over Research Assessment as a Professional Practice, Leaving a Gap That Has Been Filled by Database Providers
There Is an Absence of Scientific Authority over Research Assessment as a Professional Practice, Leaving a Gap That Has Been Filled by Database Providers
To what extent does the academic research field of evaluative citation analysis confer legitimacy to research assessment as a professional practice?
Use of positive and negative words in scientific PubMed abstracts between 1974 and 2014
Use of positive and negative words in scientific PubMed abstracts between 1974 and 2014
Analyzing three decades' worth of PubMed-indexed abstracts, scientists find a notable increase in the frequency of positive words, like "innovative" and "novel", over time.
UK Needs Bigger Role for Science in Government, Says Chief Scientist
UK Needs Bigger Role for Science in Government, Says Chief Scientist
The UK's Chief Scientific Advisor says every government department needs to take science into consideration and invest more in R&D.
Negative Gender Ideologies and Gender-Science Stereotypes Are More Pervasive in Male-Dominated Academic Disciplines
'Friendly' Reviewers Rate Grant Applications More Highly
Swiss funding agency banned applicant-nominated referees after a 2016 study found evidence of bias. Those results are now being made public.
Science Papers You Should Be Reading About the Coronavirus
Here are a few of the papers our scientists are reading that you might want to check out, too.
Attention decay in science
The exponential growth in the number of scientific papers makes it increasingly difficult for researchers to keep track of all the publications relevant to their work. Consequently, the attention that can be devoted to individual papers, measured by their citation counts, is bound to decay rapidly.
Women in Science Should Be the Norm, Not the Exception
This International Women's Day, let's start working towards ending gender discrimination in science for good.
Why Chinese Minds Still Bear the Long Shadow of Keju
Keju, China's incredibly difficult civil service test, strengthened the state at the cost of freedom and creativity.
Is Most Published Research Really False?
Common underpinning problems with the scientific and data analytic practices and point to tools and behaviors that can be implemented to reduce the problems with published scientific results.
Should we put our money where our citations are?
Pros and cons of an alternative for today’s method of allocating research funds using peer review.
Does US Science Have a Future in Antarctica? Trump Cuts Threaten to Cancel Fieldwork and More
Three Men Just Won a Nobel Prize for the Work of More Than a Thousand People
1 experiment. 1,011 people. Here's the full list of the legion of the unsung.
Effectiveness of Anonymization in Double-Blind Review
In a controlled experiment with two disjoint program committees, the ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'17) found that reviewers with author information were 1.76x more likely to recommend acceptance of papers from famous authors, and 1.67x more likely to recommend acceptance of papers from top institutions.
Signs of 'citation Hacking' Flagged in Scientific Papers
An algorithm developed to spot abnormal patterns of citations aims to find scientists who have manipulated reference lists.
Allen Institute for AI Eyes the Future of Scientific Search
A new search engine called Semantic Scholar helps academics deal with the increasingly enormous volume of academic research.
What AI Asks of Open Access
As AI systems increasingly reason from the scientific literature, the integrity signals that make research trustworthy - open data, structured metadata, robust retraction processes - matter more than ever.
To Have and Have Not: The Drama of EU Research Funding Enters Its next Act
To Have and Have Not: The Drama of EU Research Funding Enters Its next Act
More EU ministers and commissioners are voicing support for bigger research and innovation funding - but the political argument is a long way from won. To win the case for more funding, innovation fans are going to have to talk, not abstractly, but concretely.
Ukrainian Researchers Pressure Journals to Boycott Russian Authors
Most titles are still considering manuscripts irrespective of nationality - but Russia plans to remove a requirement for scientists to publish in foreign titles.
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