The study shows evidence that the Sustainable Development Goals have had largely a discursive influence and only limited transformative political impact.
"We respect Ukrainian statehood … and we treat the European choice of our neighbours with understanding." So said some 650 Russian scientists and science journalists in an open letter last week criticising Moscow's onslaught against Ukraine.
What contributes to gender-associated differences in preferences such as the willingness to take risks, patience, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity, and trust? Falk and Hermle studied 80,000 individuals in 76 countries who participated in a Global Preference Survey and compared the data with country-level variables. They observed that the more that women have equal opportunities, the more they differ from men in their preferences.
How the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology became a multimillion dollar organization promoting bullshit science through fake conferences and journals.
In a "highly unusual find," archaeologists in the Netherlands uncovered the remains of temples where Roman soldiers once paid tribute to their gods and goddesses.
The privacy backlash over Cambridge Analytica and Facebook may lead to explosive consequences for academics.
One of scientists’ favourite statistics — the P value — should face tougher standards, say leading researchers.
As a regular user of the scholarly literature since before the internet, I have closely followed its digitization. I find it rather frustrating that some of the most basic functionalities are still excluded.
Peer reviewers have the right to view the data and code that underlie a work if it would help in the evaluation, even if these have not been provided with the submission. Yet few referees exercise this right.
From fungal networks sharing information and resources connecting all living things to the open source paradigm: Agroecology needs Open Access.
United Nations resolution on greening plastics is a positive step. As negotiations begin, they must be evidence-based.
Springer Nature announced a collaboration with Watson Health to expand and enhance the integration of valuable genomics.
Study attempts to reproduce values reported in 35 articles published in the journal Cognition revealed analysis pipelines peppered with errors. Elements of a reproducible workflow that may help to mitigate these problems in future research are outlined.
Tornadoes can be destructive and hard to predict. We know why they form and that climate change can play a part - but we can't always see them coming. Here's why.
This International Women's Day, let's start working towards ending gender discrimination in science for good.
For social science and humanities researchers in many parts of the world there are significant barriers to conducting and sharing research, in some cases more so than for science and medicine. In this guest post, Dr. Naveen Minai provides a perspective as a gender studies researcher in Pakistan.
Why do authors continue to cite preprints years after they've been formally published? A citation is much more than a directional link to the source of a document. It is the basis for a system of rewarding those who make significant contributions to public science.
A collection of thirteen papers that were intended to be unpublishable. All were submitted to predatory journals to expose non-existent peer review and exploitative practices.
Most titles are still considering manuscripts irrespective of nationality - but Russia plans to remove a requirement for scientists to publish in foreign titles.
The last few years have been a period of rapid market consolidation in scholarly publishing. Here, a look at the ongoing demise of the independent research society publisher, as more and more continue to sign on with larger publishing partners.
Scientists and the design of experiments under scrutiny after a major project fails to reproduce results of high profile studies.
We propose to use an approach that yields a simple numerical measure of veracity, the R-factor, by summarizing the outcomes of already published studies that have attempted to test a claim.
Storytelling is easy to implement in your manuscript provided you know how. Think of the six plot elements - character, setting, tension, action, climax, resolution - and the three other story essentials - main theme, chronology, purpose. You’ll soon outline the backbone of your narrative and be ready to write a paper that is concise, compelling, and easy to understand.
Russian researchers are losing access to vital lab equipment and computing power as western sanctions against the country begin to bite, potentially crippling Russia's scientific base.
When it’s also big science, the careers of those involved can suffer.
A set of good computing practices that every researcher can adopt, regardless of their current level of computational skill.
