Your new manager likely doesn't have a PhD, and she's higher on the food chain because experience is more valued than a doctorate. Tips on becoming a more pragmatic professional when transitioning to a career outside of academia.
Researchers who receive federal help consistently fail to report their results to the public. The government should hold them accountable.
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?
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.
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).
We propose to use the R-factor, a metric that indicates whether a report or its conclusions have been verified.
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
Quickly sharing the genetic sequence of the new coronavirus in early 2020 made all the difference in the response to the pandemic.
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.
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.
Discussing the negative impacts of inaccessible outcomes, unavailable data, and doctored results in advancing science in general, and that impact in very concrete personal terms.
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.
Open data sharing is critical for scientific progress. Yet, many authors refrain from sharing scientific data, even when they have promised to do so.
A survey of researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital provides insights into the challenges and opportunities involved in adopting an open science policy across an entire patient-oriented academic institution.
Demand for steady output stymies discovery. To pursue the most important research, scientists must be allowed to shift their focus.
Approximately half of the editors of 52 prestigious U.S. medical journals received payments from the pharmaceutical and medical device industry in 2014.
Lawsuit alleges that the institution mishandled complaints about cognitive scientist Florian Jaeger.
Significant strides in improving public access to scholarly publications and digital data help usher in an era of open science.
Thomas Insel's biggest lesson from his shift from NIMH director to Silicon Valley entrepreneur: academic and technology company researchers should partner up.
Senate, House of Representatives panels examine proposals for massive spending hike and new directorate.
The website is called The Scientific 23 because each interviewee was asked 23 questions.
