Biden Made a Promise to Scientists. He Can Still Keep It.
Researchers who receive federal help consistently fail to report their results to the public. The government should hold them accountable.
OpenAI's Big Lesson for Science Policy
The incredible success of Large Language Models like ChatGPT is both a scientific breakthrough and a boon for future scientific discovery. What is Open AI's role in this?
Deepfakes and Scientific Knowledge Dissemination
Deepfakes and Scientific Knowledge Dissemination
Science misinformation have significant public policy repercussions. Artificial intelligence-based methods of altering videos and photos (deepfakes) lower the barriers to the mass creation and dissemination of realistic, manipulated digital content.
Investigating the Division of Scientific Labor Using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy
Investigating the Division of Scientific Labor Using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy
Paper analyzes how research contributions are divided across research teams, focusing on the association between division of labor and number of authors, and authors’ position and specific contributions by using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT).
Arguments over European Open-access Plan Heat Up
Biochemist Lynn Kamerlin tells Nature why she has coordinated an open letter - signed by more than 950 scientists - objecting to Plan S.
University of Toronto Researchers Accelerate Embrace of Open Science
Quickly sharing the genetic sequence of the new coronavirus in early 2020 made all the difference in the response to the pandemic.
"If We Are Simply Creating Techies Who Can Only Work With the Technology, We're in Big Trouble."
"If We Are Simply Creating Techies Who Can Only Work With the Technology, We're in Big Trouble."
Mathematician and educator Freeman A. Hrabowski III talks about the importance of the humanities, culture change in academia, and much more. He has led groundbreaking efforts to increase diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields throughout his career. As president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) for three decades, Hrabowski transformed a regional commuter school into a top-tier research university.
Why (almost) Everything We Know About Citations is Wrong: Evidence from Authors
Why (almost) Everything We Know About Citations is Wrong: Evidence from Authors
Although citations and related metrics like the H-index are widely used in academia to evaluate research and allocate resources, the referencing decisions on which they are based are poorly understood. This paper investigates whether authors reference works that influenced them most or those they believe the readers will value most.
Australia Grapples with How to Investigate Scientific Misconduct
The nation currently allows institutes to investigate cases in-house - but calls to change this are mounting.
Scientific Research is Deteriorating
Several cases of renowned scientists being offered large sums of money by institutions in authoritarian countries - such as Saudi Arabia - have been exposed by EL PAIS.
How to Stop Rogue Gene-Editing of Human Embryos?
Some U.S. researchers knew of a Chinese scientist's intentions to implant edited embryos but were unable to stop him. Now scientific institutions are trying to devise global safeguards.
Estimating Social Bias in Data Sharing Behaviours: an Open Science Experiment
Estimating Social Bias in Data Sharing Behaviours: an Open Science Experiment
Open data sharing is critical for scientific progress. Yet, many authors refrain from sharing scientific data, even when they have promised to do so.
Progressing Towards Transparency - More Journals Join Wiley's Transparent Peer Review Pilot
Progressing Towards Transparency - More Journals Join Wiley's Transparent Peer Review Pilot
Wiley claim they are committed to moving towards greater openness and reproducibility of research, including increasing transparency in peer review
The Problem with Scientific Credit
An algorithm makes highly precise predictions about who will win the Nobel Prize but disagrees with the committee on the 2008 prize winner.
New Pharma Rules Risk 'Sabotaging' Life Sciences in Europe, Says the Industry
New Pharma Rules Risk 'Sabotaging' Life Sciences in Europe, Says the Industry
The European Commission has unveiled long-awaited proposals to reform EU's pharmaceutical legislation to enable better access to drugs and promote innovation, but industry doesn't like the look of it. The first revision of the legislation in over 20 years aims to make medicines more available, accessible and affordable, while boosting innovation and industrial competitiveness, by simplifying regulations and speeding up the scientific evaluation and authorisation of new drugs.
First Round of Hearings by Congress Back a More Muscular NSF
Senate, House of Representatives panels examine proposals for massive spending hike and new directorate.
"Just Get the Admin to Do It." Why Research Managers Are Feeling Misunderstood
"Just Get the Admin to Do It." Why Research Managers Are Feeling Misunderstood
Science benefits when there is mutual respect between academics and research managers. Team Science, a six-part series, begins by examining a key workplace relationship.
Australia Aimed For, and Got, More Stem Graduates. So Where Are the Jobs for Them?
Australia Aimed For, and Got, More Stem Graduates. So Where Are the Jobs for Them?
When it comes to employment, science and technology graduates fare only slightly better than 'starving artists'
World Bank Grants for Global Vaccination - Why So Slow?
International financial institutions say that vaccines are the highest-return investment on Earth - it is past time for them to pay up.
Why is the Science Museum Still Being Contaminated by Shell's Dirty Money? | George Monbiot
Why is the Science Museum Still Being Contaminated by Shell's Dirty Money? | George Monbiot
It is extraordinary that the museum is receiving funding from a fossil fuel giant for an exhibition on, of all things, the climate, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot.
Scholarly Communication and Scholarly Publishing
This post explores how scholarly publishing should relate to scholarly communication. Ostensibly aligned, publishing and communication have diverged. Some processes involved in scholarly publishing are getting in the way of optimal scholarly communication, as the present pandemic amply reveals.
James Watson and the Insidiousness of Scientific Racism
Opinion: Black scientists are in the best position to understand what is so broken about the ideas of Watson and his army.
Rainforests Are Under Siege. Here's What You Should Know.
Two-thirds of the world's rainforests have been wiped out or degraded, according to a 2020 analysis.
Meta-Research: Gender Inequalities Among Authors Who Contributed Equally
An analysis of papers in which two or more authors shared first-author position found that male authors were more likely than female authors to appear first in the author list.
Why Meta-regulation Matters for Public Health: the Case of the EU Better Regulation Agenda
Why Meta-regulation Matters for Public Health: the Case of the EU Better Regulation Agenda
Meta-regulation - the rules that govern how individual policies are developed and reviewed - has not received much attention in the study of health policy. Far from value-free and objective, they have however significant potential to shape policy outputs and, as such, health outcomes.
Europe Wrestles with a Plan to Build the 'Amazon of Science'
The European Open Science Cloud is a giant effort to provide a single point of access to all scientific data. But getting all the infrastructures to integrate and engendering a culture of sharing is a daunting task, say those involved in its creation.
Introducing a Novelty Indicator for Scientific Research: Validating the Knowledge-Based Combinatorial Approach
Introducing a Novelty Indicator for Scientific Research: Validating the Knowledge-Based Combinatorial Approach
In this study, a novelty indicator to quantify the degree of citation similarity between a focal paper and a pre-existing same-domain paper from various fields in the natural sciences is applied by proposing a new way of identifying papers that fall into the same domain of focal papers using bibliometric data only.
Do You Have Concerns About Plan S? Then You Must Be an Irresponsible, Privileged, Conspiratorial Hypocrite
Do You Have Concerns About Plan S? Then You Must Be an Irresponsible, Privileged, Conspiratorial Hypocrite
Over 1,200 researchers signed an open letter expressing concern about Plan S. Then Twitter came for them -- and, more particularly, for the woman who organized the letter.
Switzerland Announces €625M in Backup Funding for Horizon Europe Applicants
Switzerland Announces €625M in Backup Funding for Horizon Europe Applicants
The Swiss Federal Council has announced €625 million in grants for researchers to participate this year in Horizon Europe and other EU programmes, such as Euratom, ITER and Digital Europe. Switzerland is not an associated country in Horizon Europe and is currently locked out of other EU programmes as well, which means Swiss researchers have no access to funding from the European Commission. However, they can participate in about two thirds of Horizon Europe calls, provided they have their own money.
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