For young immigrant women like me, the pressures of early career research are even greater than for most. But it doesn't have to be that way.
The desire for better evidence for public management, a growing movement calling for open access to the results of publicly funded research and the vastly increased power of computing and communications coincide to support policy interest in steering and sharing research results and data about them.
Over 150 Georgia State University faculty members signed an open letter to the school's president, Mark Becker, regarding a greater push for diversity and inclusion within its faculty.
Researchers have developed a tool to assess wildlife markets for risks of zoonotic outbreaks. It can help governments decide on courses of action, with strict veterinary requirements potentially more effective than bans.
If the hydrogen-gobbling, methane-producing microorganisms existed, they would have caused their own demise
Just a hunch? Hardly. Think germ theory, atomic theory and the theory of evolution.
To understand how false news spreads, Vosoughi et al. used a data set of rumor cascades on Twitter from 2006 to 2017. About 126,000 rumors were spread by ∼3 million people. False news reached more people than the truth; the top 1% of false news cascades diffused to between 1000 and 100,000 people, whereas the truth rarely diffused to more than 1000 people. Falsehood also diffused faster than the truth.
New rules also loosen restrictions on Cuban-made pharmaceuticals.
A call to simplify an overly complicated process
The authors of a book marking the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's "Descent of Man" discuss "a most interesting problem" - namely how the naturalist's fundamental misconceptions on sex and race still shape society.
As the world cuts Russia off from more and more joint research and innovation projects following its invasion of Ukraine, there's been deafening silence from the ITER megaproject that is seeking to demonstrate the potential of nuclear fusion by building the world's largest tokamak in south west France.
"It’s really not a mathematician kind of thing, but I’ll probably survive." - C. Hacon
The practice was probably used to improve the children's chances of securing a university place.
The controversies surrounding Sci-Hub touch on many hot-button topics in librarianship. This primer lays out multiple perspectives on the issues.
Tired of alternative facts, two Seattle professors aim to strike a blow for science. Their weapon? A new course: “Calling Bullshit In the Age of Big Data.”
Teach anyone how to create reproducible reports, with reusable environments, using technologies like Nix, LaTeX, and KnitR for languages like R, Python and JavaScript.
The financial strain of having a baby during her Ph.D. put this researcher's career in jeopardy.
Search a 4,000-word database to see how language in the magazine evolved over time
In a collaborative open peer review process, the editor's role changes as much as the reviewer's role.
My campus survey shows a lack of female leadership in areas where women are underrepresented later in life.
On the democratization of science via the Internet and the dramatic change in the communication of data and in their interpretation.
Here's how PhD students can prepare for different careers, and how lab heads can help.
More disciplines must embrace a system of academic credit that rewards a greater range of roles more specifically.
But for maximal benefit, more of these academic administrators need to get involved in the scholarly aspect of research.
The way that the global north pays for publishing hampers public, scholar-led efforts in Latin America.
How Sci-Hub breaks the paywall and how did academic journals get so expensive?
