Ebola Now Curable After Trials of Drugs in DRC, Say Scientists
Congo results show good survival rates for patients treated quickly with antibodies.
Finally, Some Good News About Ebola: Two New Treatments Dramatically Lower the Death Rate in a Trial
Finally, Some Good News About Ebola: Two New Treatments Dramatically Lower the Death Rate in a Trial
Experimental Ebola treatments carried out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have shown strong signs of being able to save patients’ lives.
The Endangered Species Act is Incredibly Popular and Effective. Trump is Weakening It Anyway.
The Endangered Species Act is Incredibly Popular and Effective. Trump is Weakening It Anyway.
A million species are threatened worldwide. This is how Trump responds.
Key Concepts for Making Informed Choices
Teach people to think critically about claims and comparisons - they will make better decisions.
The Anthropocene Is a Joke
Humans are now living in a new geological epoch of our own making: the Anthropocene. On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch.
2°C: Beyond the Limit
New Jersey may seem an unlikely place to measure climate change, but it is one of the fastest-warming states in the nation. Its average temperature has climbed by close to 2 degrees Celsius since 1895 — double the average for the Lower 48 states.
Research Outputs Find a Home at IndiaRxiv
Open Access India partners with the Center for Open Science to launch IndiaRxiv on the eve of India’s 73rd Independence Day as the country joins the global march for open science.
Quality Criteria in Scholarship and Science: Proposing a Visualization of Their Interactions
Quality Criteria in Scholarship and Science: Proposing a Visualization of Their Interactions
Proposing a model for thinking about the interactions of rigor, cogency, accessibility, significance, openness, and impact in scholarly quality.
Communicating Science to Policymakers: Six Strategies for Success
Communicating Science to Policymakers: Six Strategies for Success
Scientists can improve how they inform politicians and other policymakers on how to make decisions.
SpringerOpen Pricing Trends 2018 - 2019
Of the 215 active journals published by SpringerOpen, 54% charge APCs. The average APC was 1,212 EUR, an increase of 8% over the 2018 average, 6 times the EU inflation rate for June 2019 of 1.3%.
Medicine Ignored Women's Health for Years - That's Finally Changing
For decades, the medical field has dismissed female health concerns. Women have been told that they’re imagining signs of heart attacks and other life-threatening ailments and had few resources devoted to researching their medical problems, but, at last, that seems to be changing.
DeepMind's Losses and the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Alphabet's DeepMind unit, conqueror of Go and other games, is losing lots of money. Continued deficits could imperil investments in AI.
Journals Retract More Than a Dozen Studies from China That May Have Used Executed Prisoners' Organs
Journals Retract More Than a Dozen Studies from China That May Have Used Executed Prisoners' Organs
In the past month, PLOS ONE and Transplantation have retracted fifteen studies by authors in China because of suspicions that the authors may have used organs from executed prisoners.
Desperately Seeking Scientists
When so many email addresses on journal articles don't work, we have a problem.
Ph.D. Students Resent Expectation That They Bring Food and Drinks to Their Thesis Defenses
Ph.D. Students Resent Expectation That They Bring Food and Drinks to Their Thesis Defenses
As it turns out, many Ph.D. students resent the expectation that they bring food and drinks to their thesis defenses. UCLA's psychology department just said they shouldn't do it.
Preregistration Is Hard - And Worthwhile
Making decisions before conducting analyses requires practice. Respecting both what was planned and what actually happened requires good judgment and humility in making claims. With the accelerating adoption of preregistration, we now face the challenge of figuring out how to use this methodology to its fullest potential.
Equity is Possible: Forging Paths Toward Equity and Anti-Racism in Scholarly Publishing
Equity is Possible: Forging Paths Toward Equity and Anti-Racism in Scholarly Publishing
In this guest post, Gisela Fosado and Cathy Rimer-Surles of Duke UP share highlights and a video from their panel session on equity at the 2019 AUPresses Annual Meeting, plus helpful recommendations to help us achieve equity in scholarly communications.
E.P.A. Broke Rules in Shake-Up of Science Panels, Federal Watchdog Says
The Government Accountability Office found that the administration "did not consistently ensure" that appointees to E.P.A. advisory boards met federal ethics requirements.
In Departure for NIH, Cancer Moonshot Requires Grantees to Make Papers Immediately Free
In Departure for NIH, Cancer Moonshot Requires Grantees to Make Papers Immediately Free
The long-standing debate over open access to research results has been marked by a geographic divide - but the divide is starting to blur.
Chemists Make First-ever Ring of Pure Carbon
Long after most chemists had given up trying, a team of researchers has synthesized the first ring-shaped molecule of pure carbon — a circle of 18 atoms.
Scientists Who Leave Research to Pursue Other Careers in Science Are Still Scientists
Actually, Gender-Neutral Pronouns Can Change a Culture
In 2012 a nongendered pronoun dropped into Swedish discourse. Today it's widely used-and it's nudging people to see the world a little differently.
Mind the Gap
A Landscape Analysis of Open Source Publishing Tools and Platforms catalogs and analyzes all available open-source software for publishing and warns that open publishing must grapple with the dual challenges of siloed development and organization of the community-owned ecosystem
The Science of Gun Violence
A growing chorus of researchers wants to study gun violence in the U.S. as a public health issue, similar to the way they have tracked automobile or workplace safety for decades.
Replication and the Manufacture of Scientific Inferences: A Formal Approach
Replication and the Manufacture of Scientific Inferences: A Formal Approach
The field of replication studies remains a controversial, misunderstood.To help bring order to the chaos, the author suggests a theory of manufactured inferences.
Study Examines How Media Around the World Frame Climate Change News
While richer countries tend to frame climate change coverage as a political issue, poorer countries more often frame it as an international issue that the world at large needs to address.
Can We Transform Scholarly Communication with Open Source and Community‐Owned Infrastructure?
Can We Transform Scholarly Communication with Open Source and Community‐Owned Infrastructure?
'Transformative' Open Access Publishing Deals Are Only Entrenching Commercial Power
'Transformative' Open Access Publishing Deals Are Only Entrenching Commercial Power
Funders and researchers are squandering a huge opportunity to create a more just and effective system, says Jon Tennant
What Difference Do Retractions Make? An Estimate of the Epistemic Impact of Retractions on Recent Meta-analyses
What Difference Do Retractions Make? An Estimate of the Epistemic Impact of Retractions on Recent Meta-analyses
Every year, several hundred publications are retracted due to fabrication and falsification of data or plagiarism and other breeches of research integrity and ethics. However, the extent to which a retraction requires revising previous scientific estimates and beliefs is unknown.
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