When we reject failure, we create a culture of punishment, artificial rewards, and scientific bias. There are people running analyses and experiments right now which others will have undoubtedly done before, but just not communicated their results.
The government promised to increase funding for vital scientific R&D to 2.4% of GDP - but its target is already slipping.
Academics too often use intellectual attainment to excuse abusive behavior. That needs to stop.
Academics like keeping definition narrow but worry about tighter deadlines and more record-keeping.
Brussels research lobbies, together with leading MEP Christian Ehler, are calling for more detail and clarity about the European Commission's €175 billion plan for the tenth Framework Programme (FP10).
Why the Norwegian Research Council is taking a stand against hybrid Open Access journals.
In 2016, Joel Pitt and Prof. Helene Hill published an intriguing paper with us looking at the prevalence of scientific fraud in preclinical research...
The author argues that the two biggest forces driving change in the scholarly communication landscape are consolidation and regulation. By consolidation, he means that there’s a now constant cycle of mergers and acquisitions, reducing the number of independent players in the market. By regulation, we’re talking about the increasing number of rules and the compliance burden being put on researchers.
A recent University and College Union (UCU) survey reported that 70% of the 49,000 researchers in higher education in the UK are currently employed on fixed-term contracts, as are 37,000 teaching staff (the majority of whom are paid hourly). The authors argues that the yearly search for new work is harming their health and is forcing them to put their life on hold.
Exclusive: Researchers say Covid-19 hiatus is moment to tackle elite 'super emitters'
The research blog has become a popular mechanism for the quick discussion of scholarly information. However, the characteristics of this form of scientific discourse are not well understood, for example in terms of the spread of blogger levels of education, gender and institutional affiliations.
Did you ever wonder why it says QWERTY up on the left of your keyboard? And what does it have to do with academic publishing?
Most scientists admit to their errors but, as Eve Marder explains, the scientific community as a whole needs to rethink the way it recognizes achievement.
Scientists have few direct incentives to replicate other researchers’ work, including precious little funding to do replications. Can that change?
Funders should assign research grants via a lottery system to reduce human bias, says Dorothy Bishop.
The State of Open Data 2018 looks at global attitudes towards open data. It includes survey results of researchers and a collection of articles from industry experts, as well as a foreword from Ross Wilkinson, Director, Global Strategy at Australian Research Data Commons.
Given the reality of fraudulent publishers and their deceptive practices, will institutions consider more strongly guiding author choice of publishing venue in order to protect institutional reputation?
A decrease in Earth's reflectance shows our planet is absorbing more solar radiation, but it's not clear if the trend will last.
Tianhui Michael Li and Allison Bishop write about the overemphasis on calculus in high school and college math courses. Statistics, linear algebra and algorithmic thinking are more valuable in the digital age.
A look at the literature reveals shortcomings in the way OA and subscription models are being compared and suggests how future studies could build on existing research to provide a more accurate picture
After years of detective work, it's still unclear why a Japanese doctor faked dozens of clinical trials.
Federally funded research and development (R&D) is a hallmark of the U.S. economy but, it's under siege. To maximize and make apparent the economic returns from R&D, the next administration should seek to improve the local economic impact of federal R&D.
Nature will publish more details on experiments described in life-sciences papers.
