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Epic's Call to Block a Proposed Data Rule is Wrong for Many Reasons

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Epic's Call to Block a Proposed Data Rule is Wrong for Many Reasons

Epic, the large electronic health record company, wants to scuttle a rule that requires information to flow freely between EHRs. It should embrace it.

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Boost for UK Science with Unlimited Visa Offer to World's Brightest and Best

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Boost for UK Science with Unlimited Visa Offer to World's Brightest and Best

Top scientists to be given fast-tracked entry into the UK.

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Edward Snowden to the Hundreds of AMLD Participants at EPFL: "Don't Stay Safe. Stay Free! "

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Edward Snowden to the Hundreds of AMLD Participants at EPFL: "Don't Stay Safe. Stay Free! "

The main points developed by Edward Snowden during his speech at the Applied Machine Learning Days at EPFL. In the second part of his speech, the American answered questions. The main part of this interview are also reported.

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U.S. Accuses Harvard Scientist of Concealing Chinese Funding

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U.S. Accuses Harvard Scientist of Concealing Chinese Funding

Prosecutors say Charles M. Lieber, the chair of Harvard's chemistry department, lied about contacts with a Chinese state-run initiative that seeks to draw foreign-educated talent.

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Implementing Research Data Management Policies Across Europe

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Implementing Research Data Management Policies Across Europe

Science Europe's report addresses requirements for data management plans (DMPs), how they should be updated and whether new ones need to be developed.

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How Do Bats Live With So Many Viruses?

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How Do Bats Live With So Many Viruses?

They are considered the probable source of the coronavirus outbreak spreading from China. It turns out that they may have an immune system that lets them coexist with many disease-causing viruses.

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Elsevier Mirror Journals 'X': Fully Open Access Without Impact Factor

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Elsevier Mirror Journals 'X': Fully Open Access Without Impact Factor

Elsevier introduced about 40 mirror journals, also known as X-journals, which enable researchers to publish Open Access and as such meet the requirements of Plan S and other funders.

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Top Tips for Getting Your Science out There

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Top Tips for Getting Your Science out There

Craig Cormick explains how scientists can get their arguments across to members of the public.

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Brexit is happening: what does it mean for science?

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Brexit is happening: what does it mean for science?

Negotiators have less than a year to agree on how the United Kingdom will participate in European Union research programmes.

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The Deceptively Simple Number Sparking Coronavirus Fears

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The Deceptively Simple Number Sparking Coronavirus Fears

Here's what the oft-cited R0 number tells us about the new outbreak-and what it doesn't.

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What Should the Next President Do to Restore Science to Decisionmaking?

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What Should the Next President Do to Restore Science to Decisionmaking?

The new report, Presidential Recommendations for 2020: A Blueprint for Defending Science and Protecting the Public, outlines a suite of recommendations that the next president can take to protect the health and safety of the public through restoring science to government decisionmaking processes. The report focuses on strengthening three major principles underlying science-based decisionmaking: independence, transparency, and free speech.

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What to Do when You Don't Trust Your Data Anymore

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What to Do when You Don't Trust Your Data Anymore

Science is built on trust. Trust that your experiments will work. Trust in your collaborators to pull their weight. But most importantly, trust that the data we so painstakingly collect are accurate and as representative of the real world as they can be. And so when I realized that I could no longer trust the data that I had reported in some of my papers, I did what I think is the only correct course of action. I retracted them.

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The NSF Inouye Solar Telescope's First Movie (Cropped)

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The NSF Inouye Solar Telescope's First Movie (Cropped)

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope has produced the highest resolution observations of the Sun’s surface ever taken. In this movie, taken at a wavelength of 705nm over a period of 10 minutes, we can see features as small as 30km (18 miles) in size for the first time ever.

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What You Want Nature to Do Next

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What You Want Nature to Do Next

Nature asked readers what it should focus on in the next decade. Here is what the respondents said.

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US National Academies Launches Search for Evidence-based Programmes to Support Scientist Parents

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US National Academies Launches Search for Evidence-based Programmes to Support Scientist Parents

The advisory organization wants to halt the exodus of caregivers from research.

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Are Altmetrics Able to Measure Societal Impact in a Similar Way to Peer Review?

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Are Altmetrics Able to Measure Societal Impact in a Similar Way to Peer Review?

Altmetrics have become an increasingly ubiquitous part of scholarly communication, although the value they indicate is contested. A recent study examined the relationship of peer review, altmetrics, and bibliometric analyses with societal and academic impact. Drawing on evidence from REF2014 submissions, it argues altmetrics may provide evidence for wider non-academic debates, but correlate poorly with peer review assessments of societal impact.

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NOAA Gets Go-ahead to Study Climate Plan B: Geoengineering

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NOAA Gets Go-ahead to Study Climate Plan B: Geoengineering

The top climate change scientist for NOAA said he has received $4 million from Congress and permission from his agency to study two emergency - and controversial - methods to cool the Earth if the U.S. and other nations fail to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Sharing Research Data and Findings Relevant to the Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) Outbreak

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Sharing Research Data and Findings Relevant to the Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) Outbreak

A call on researchers, journals and funders to ensure that research findings and data relevant to this outbreak are shared rapidly and openly to inform the public health response and help save lives.

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Impact 'Agenda' Or Impact 'Phantom'? 

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Impact 'Agenda' Or Impact 'Phantom'? 

Responding to an emerging debate around the changing nature of the impact agenda in the UK, the author argues that the current moment presents an opportunity to exorcise the ghosts of previous regimes of incentivising and assessing impact.

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Five 'Power Skills' for Becoming a Team Leader

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Five 'Power Skills' for Becoming a Team Leader

Volunteering with an organization can improve communication and help you adapt to the unexpected.

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SciCV - SNSF Tests New CV Format in Biology and Medicine

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SciCV - SNSF Tests New CV Format in Biology and Medicine

The SNSF is testing a new, standardised structure for CVs. The aim is to facilitate comparisons between applicants and make track record assessment more transparent.

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OA Switchboard Initiative: Progress Report January 2020

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OA Switchboard Initiative: Progress Report January 2020

The OA Switchboard aims to facilitate the fulfilment of open access strategies across business models, policies and agreements, and reduce complexity for all relevant stakeholders.

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FAIR - Fast, Active, Integrated and Responsive: How the EOSC FAIR Working Group Rolls

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FAIR - Fast, Active, Integrated and Responsive: How the EOSC FAIR Working Group Rolls

The EOSC FAIR Working Group is examining researcher practice and developing a PID policy, metrics, certification guidelines and an Interoperability Framework to implement a web of FAIR data in EOSC.

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Calls for Continued UK-EU Cooperation As Brexit Bell Tolls

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Calls for Continued UK-EU Cooperation As Brexit Bell Tolls

On the day of the UK leaving the EU, 36 research and higher education organisations from across Europe published a joint statement stressing that they “wish to continue working together”, and called for the UK to fully participate in future EU R&D and education programmes.

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Why Is Academic Research Important?

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Why Is Academic Research Important?

Read this complete guide to learn everything you need to know about the importance of academic research.

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'We're Opening Everything': Scientists Share Coronavirus Data in Unprecedented Way to Contain, Treat Disease

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'We're Opening Everything': Scientists Share Coronavirus Data in Unprecedented Way to Contain, Treat Disease

Normally, science is highly competitive and secretive, with universities and private sector companies patenting knowledge, scientific journals putting research behind paywalls and all research peer-reviewed before the data is released. But for the moment those barriers have fallen as scientists share research and work together to battle this coronavirus epidemic.

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New System Will Measure Journals' Research Transparency

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New System Will Measure Journals' Research Transparency

A new ranking system for academic journals measuring their commitment to research transparency will be launched next month - providing what many believe will be a useful alternative to journal impact scores.

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Brexit: Implications for Swiss Higher Education Institutions

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Brexit: Implications for Swiss Higher Education Institutions

Resources compiled by swissuniversities to address questions that UK researchers and students on mobility programmes within Swiss higher education institutions will be confronted with after the Brexit.

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So Long, and Thanks for All the Research: UK is Out, but What Does the Future Hold?

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So Long, and Thanks for All the Research: UK is Out, but What Does the Future Hold?

And so it is finally happening: tomorrow at midnight central European time, the EU bids farewell to the UK. After a tortured three-and-a-half year plod to the exit, the country heads into an eleven month transition period where everything stands still, and then into the unknown of the yet-to-be negotiated Future Relationship. In light of the historic moment, Science|Business contacted science figures around Europe, to find out:

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EU and UK Research Organisations Plan a Strong Future Relationship Post Brexit

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EU and UK Research Organisations Plan a Strong Future Relationship Post Brexit

On the day that the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, higher education and research organisations from across the UK and Europe have reaffirmed their commitment to working together, and are calling on their respective governments to make this a priority.

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