We need to deal swiftly with fraud when it is identified. But time after time I have watched not only the accused, but everyone around them, be treated with such sanctimonious disdain. by Michael Eisen
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The SNSF meticulously examines its funding activities. From now on, it will publish these analyses on its data portal. To kick things off, Open Access, ERC grants and women scientists during the pandemic are in focus.
The government peer-review committees that oversee grants are conservative by design. Given that their job is to put taxpayers’ money to good use, they are often reluctant to take big risks. The opposite is often true for crowdfunded projects.
A new database of female historians joins a growing group of lists that aim to promote a more diverse group of experts. Such databases have previously been more common in the hard sciences.
After being given the green light by research ministers earlier this year, an ambitious initiative to enable Europe’s 1.7 million researchers to share data and research tools is now on course to be launched before the end of the year. But what should the next steps be?
But critics worry the metrics remain prone to misuse.
Inequities and other social realities must be factored into diagnoses and tracing of COVID-19.
Tolerating bad behavior means wasted tax dollars, disrupted scientific advancements and weakened innovation.
Going back to normal is not enough. A revamp is required.
It is clear that APCs cover both the direct processing costs and the indirect costs of running the entire publishing business. Therefore, the term APC is itself misleading.
Smartphones, sensors and consumer habits reveal much about society. Too few people have a say in how these data are created and used.
Demand for steady output stymies discovery. To pursue the most important research, scientists must be allowed to shift their focus.
Significant strides in improving public access to scholarly publications and digital data help usher in an era of open science.
We should strive for open but also be realistic about the options truly available to researchers and discuss them transparently and honestly, argues Dustin Fife.
The website is called The Scientific 23 because each interviewee was asked 23 questions.
Teach anyone how to create reproducible reports, with reusable environments, using technologies like Nix, LaTeX, and KnitR for languages like R, Python and JavaScript.
All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.
How to address high tech’s missing XX factor
"The future of science (& humanity) isn't about funding, it's about supporting scientists to take risks once again."
Biochemist Juliet Gerrard will advise the government on key science issues when she takes up the position next month.
Most open access journals lack the technical means and plans to preserve their articles, despite a mandate from some funders that they do so. Specialists worry about a potential loss to scholarship.
Analysis of millions of papers finds that junior biomedical researchers tend to work on more innovative topics than their senior colleagues do.
Bitcoin mining - the process in which a bitcoin is awarded to a computer that solves a complex series of algorithm - is a deeply energy intensive process
The pandemic has worsened the plight of postdoctoral researchers. Funders need to be offering more than moral support.
