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Making a Plan When Planning Is Impossible

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Making a Plan When Planning Is Impossible

Travel bans, office closures, and conference cancellations have publishers and societies thinking about how best to ensure that scholarly content continues to be reviewed and distributed. This post by Angela Cochran looks at some of the impacts and questions whether.

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A Disease Tracker Backed by Gates and Zuckerberg Tackles Covid-19 in Cambodia

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A Disease Tracker Backed by Gates and Zuckerberg Tackles Covid-19 in Cambodia

The two tech titans funded an effort to bring metagenomic sequencing and software to poor countries. Now, it's helping trace the spread of the new coronavirus.

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Cancel Everything

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Cancel Everything

Social distancing is the only way to stop the coronavirus. We must start immediately.

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Does Closing Schools Slow the Spread of Coronavirus? Past Outbreaks Provide Clues

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Does Closing Schools Slow the Spread of Coronavirus? Past Outbreaks Provide Clues

A researcher who forecasts epidemic spread argues that proactive closures, though disruptive, could help.

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Share of Women in Top Roles Up, but Still Far from Equal

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Share of Women in Top Roles Up, but Still Far from Equal

European academia still trailing on gender equality, particularly for leadership roles

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Why Do People Migrate In Europe? A New Online Tool Explains

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Why Do People Migrate In Europe? A New Online Tool Explains

Universities and research organisations have joined forces to develop a new interactive tool that explores how free movement has affected EU economies and societies.

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COVID-19: Funding Bodies Around the World Pledge New Money for Virus Research

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COVID-19: Funding Bodies Around the World Pledge New Money for Virus Research

Research charities Wellcome Trust and the Gates Foundation announced they are joining forces with the credit card company MasterCard in a $125 million push to speed up development of drugs for treating COVID-19 infections, in the latest example of the rush to fund research into the novel coronavirus.

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Why It Took Me Eight Years and Three Postdoc Jobs to Describe Myself As a Scientist

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Why It Took Me Eight Years and Three Postdoc Jobs to Describe Myself As a Scientist

Research and reading helped Shipra Jain to gain confidence in her abilities.

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How Canceled Events and Self-quarantines Save Lives, in One Chart

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How Canceled Events and Self-quarantines Save Lives, in One Chart

This is how we all help slow the spread of coronavirus.

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Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

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Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) is a new global problem. This is our overview of the early research and data on the outbreak. We will extend this page in the days ahead.

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'Flattening the Curve' May Be the World's Best Bet to Slow the Coronavirus

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'Flattening the Curve' May Be the World's Best Bet to Slow the Coronavirus

Experts say by taking aggresive measures, governments have a shot at stamping out new chains of transmission of the coronavirus.

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Do Us a Favor

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Do Us a Favor

While scientists are trying to share facts about the epidemic, the administration either blocks those facts or restates them with contradictions. Transmission rates and death rates are not measurements that can be changed with will and an extroverted presentation.

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Coronavirus Crisis Hits Ice-locked Arctic Research Expedition

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Coronavirus Crisis Hits Ice-locked Arctic Research Expedition

A team member on the huge project has tested positive for the virus, delaying the air mission.

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Hundreds of Scientists Have Peer-Reviewed for Predatory Journals

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Hundreds of Scientists Have Peer-Reviewed for Predatory Journals

Many of these titles have some editorial oversight - but the quality of reviews is in question.

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Who Reviews for Predatory Journals? A Study on Reviewer Characteristics
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Who Reviews for Predatory Journals? A Study on Reviewer Characteristics

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Who Reviews for Predatory Journals? A Study on Reviewer Characteristics

While the characteristics of scholars who publish in predatory journals are relatively well-understood, nothing is known about the scholars who review for these journals. This article aims to shed light on the reviewers for predatory journals. 

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Reducing the Risk of Infection

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Reducing the Risk of Infection

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L’apport des sciences humaines et sociales à l‘innovation en Suisse

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L’apport des sciences humaines et sociales à l‘innovation en Suisse

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Meta-Research: Reader Engagement with Medical Content on Wikipedia

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Meta-Research: Reader Engagement with Medical Content on Wikipedia

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ELife Latest: Taking Steps to Increase the Diversity of Our Editorial Board

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ELife Latest: Taking Steps to Increase the Diversity of Our Editorial Board

As the Board of Reviewing Editors reaches 500, we reflect on recent recruitment efforts.

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‘An Earthquake’: Coronavirus Crisis Rocks Higher Education, Forcing Students and Professors Into Uncharted Territory

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‘An Earthquake’: Coronavirus Crisis Rocks Higher Education, Forcing Students and Professors Into Uncharted Territory

The Coronavirus pandemic sends students around the world home from university campuses and into online courses.

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"Was Der Bundesrat Beschlossen Hat, Ist Absurd" ' Higgs

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Switzerland

"Was Der Bundesrat Beschlossen Hat, Ist Absurd" ' Higgs

Gestern Donnerstag haben 25 Forschende aus der Schweiz den Bundesrat aufgefordert zur Linderung der Corona-Epidemie "einschneidende ...

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What Does It Take to Achieve Science-informed Policy?

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What Does It Take to Achieve Science-informed Policy?

Giving the keynote address at the 2020 Centre for Science and Policy Annual Lecture, Dame Sally shared her behind-the-scenes account of her work on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as the UK’s Chief Medical Officer, while reflecting on what it takes to get the right science to inform the right policy questions at the right time.

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How Can Scientists Engage with the Policy World?

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How Can Scientists Engage with the Policy World?

How do government, public policy development processes, and science interact? How can scientists engage with the policy world? How do politics, evidence and the logistics of delivery play into policymaking decisions?

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Global Officials Call for Free Access to Covid-19 Research

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Global Officials Call for Free Access to Covid-19 Research

Government science advisers in a dozen countries are asking scientific journals to make data on the disease more widely available.

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COVID-19 Highlights the Need for EOSC

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COVID-19

COVID-19 Highlights the Need for EOSC

The future European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) can be the answer to societal challenges as they emerge. The goal of EOSC is to open up all scientific data and publications and combine the results to drive new discoveries and tackle key societal challenges.

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Data Sharing and Open Source Software Help Combat Covid-19

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Data Sharing and Open Source Software Help Combat Covid-19

Scientists are rapidly analyzing genetic samples from infected patients and sharing the data. But to move too fast is to risk making mistakes.

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Science Communication

Can Scientists Fill the Science Journalism Void? Online Public Engagement with Science Stories Authored by Scientists

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Can Scientists Fill the Science Journalism Void? Online Public Engagement with Science Stories Authored by Scientists

In recent years traditional journalism has experienced a collapse, and science journalism has been a major casualty. This study suggests that filling the science news void by scientists as science reporters leads to normal levels of audience engagement.

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Africa

Strengthening Capacity for Natural Sciences Research in African Research Institutions

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Africa

Strengthening Capacity for Natural Sciences Research in African Research Institutions

A qualitative assessment to identify good practices, capacity gaps and investment priorities, whose results could serve as strategic investment targets for the joint efforts of national governments and international organisations that fund programmes for strengthening research capacity in low- and middle-income countries.

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How to fight the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and its disease, CoVID-19

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How to fight the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and its disease, CoVID-19

An informational briefing on COVID-19.

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COVID-19: Logistic Double With Initial Conditions

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COVID-19: Logistic Double With Initial Conditions

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