When right beats might
When right beats might
The final act in a long-running saga should bring tighter controls on unproven therapies, both at home and abroad.
Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA
Researchers planted a working hacker "exploit" in a physical strand of DNA.
Swiss scientists regain access to some E.U. grants through 2016
A new agreement with the European Union means that Swiss researchers are eligible for some Horizon 2020 grants.
'Psychological Fear': MIT Scientists of Chinese Origin Protest Toxic US Climate
'Psychological Fear': MIT Scientists of Chinese Origin Protest Toxic US Climate
Researchers describe how a government crackdown on foreign influence is affecting them following a statement of support from their university.
Updated Open Science Peer Review Oath [OdWEbgJGTuegDl2APXt6__fMPwwQw_400x400.png]
We propose steps to help increase the transparency of the scientific method and the reproducibility of research results.
Increasingly Collaborative Researcher Behaviour Is the Real Threat to the Resilient Academic Publishing Sector
Increasingly Collaborative Researcher Behaviour Is the Real Threat to the Resilient Academic Publishing Sector
Greater collaboration leading to the growing informal use and exchange of free material between researchers.
Clarivate Analytics Announces Landmark Partnership with Impactstory
Novel public/private partnership connects researchers to verified versions of an estimated 18 million new open access articles from Web of Science.
Eurodoc for Open Science
Eurodoc for Open Science
The collection of content related to the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers' (Eurodoc) commitment to Open Science.
Universities and Research Transparency: Are Times Changing?
As journals, societies, and funders have engaged with the reproducibility movement, we are starting to see early signs that university policies are moving in the right direction as well.
Sexual Harassment is Pervasive in US Physics Programmes
Survey of undergraduate women finds that most experienced some type of unwanted sexual attention during their physics studies. "A lot of times, people study how women can change to better fit in a field or be more successful. Perhaps physics needs to think about changing itself.”
Politics, science, and public attitudes
Politics, science, and public attitudes
What we're learning, and why it matters.
New Oxford Policy for RCUK Open Access Block Grant
Oxford researchers are advised that the University’s Research Committee has approved a revised policy for allocating funds from the RCUK Open Access block grant.
COVID-Vaccine Results Are on the Way - and Scientists' Concerns Are Growing
Researchers warn that vaccines could stumble on safety trials, be fast-tracked because of politics or fail to meet the public's expectations.
The ups and downs of data sharing in science
The ups and downs of data sharing in science
Pooling clinical details helps doctors to diagnose rare diseases — but more sharing is needed.
Rare Case of Gender Parity in Academia
The results of this study strongly suggest that when male and female authors publish articles that are comparably positioned to receive citations, their publications do in fact accrue citations at the same rate. This raises the question: Why would gender matter “everywhere but here”?
Science Family of Journals Announces Change to Open-Access Policy
Subscription journals will let some Plan S funded researchers share accepted manuscripts under open licences.
Shake Up Conferences
Emojis, smartphone technologies and revamped guidelines would boost transparency at scientific meetings, say Shai D. Silberberg and colleagues.
How Universities Are Crushing Academics
Exhibiting a dogmatic faith in metrics, higher education executives are being guided less by rational considerations about educational values and more by the "snake oils" of efficiency, profitability, and accountability. But these dark arts exact a price. Due to increasing competition for funds and jobs, and with the jobs themselves becoming increasingly precarious, universities have become "anxiety machines" for academics.
Comparing Journal and Paper Level Classifications of Science
The classification of science into disciplines is at the heart of bibliometric analyses. While most classifications systems are implemented at the journal level, their accuracy has been questioned, and paper-level classifications have been considered by many to be more precise.
Researcher to Reader (R2R) Debate: Is Sci-Hub Good or Bad for Scholarly Communication?
Researcher to Reader (R2R) Debate: Is Sci-Hub Good or Bad for Scholarly Communication?
Transcript of a debate held at the 2019 Researcher to Reader Conference, on the resolution 'Sci-Hub Does More Good Than Harm to Scholarly Communication.'
An analysis of Wellcome Trust OA spend
To help make the costs around open access more transparent, the Wellcome Trust has published details on how much it spent on article processing charges in the year 2013-14.
Who is Actually Harmed by Predatory Publishers?
Established publishers have a strong motivation to hype claims of predation as damaging to the scholarly and scientific endeavour.
A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions
Although the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is widely acknowledged to be a poor indicator of the quality of individual papers, it is used routinely to evaluate research and researchers. Here, we present a simple method for generating the citation distributions that underlie JIFs.
Hold Me, Squeeze Me, Bite My Head
Two recent research efforts looked into the southern alligator lizard, which has one of nature's more extreme mating strategies.
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