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Statement: CERN Stands for Diversity | Media and Press Relations

Statement: CERN Stands for Diversity | Media and Press Relations

CERN considers the presentation delivered by an invited scientist during a workshop on High Energy Theory and Gender as highly offensive. It has therefore decided to remove the slides from the online repository, in line with a Code of Conduct that does not tolerate personal attacks and insults.

Tips from the Other Side: How to Write the Best Graduate Fellowship Applications

Tips from the Other Side: How to Write the Best Graduate Fellowship Applications

A few tips and tricks for both doing your best on the application and making it through the process with your self esteem intact.

Advice from the High Seas: How to Transition to a New Lab

Advice from the High Seas: How to Transition to a New Lab

Respect for what you and your colleagues bring to the table is vital to successful integration.

Machine Learning Gets to Grips with Plankton Challenge

Machine Learning Gets to Grips with Plankton Challenge

Marine biologists are using artificial intelligence to help them identify objects in millions of images.

Cochrane Collaboration Expels Cofounder, Prompts Resignations

Cochrane Collaboration Expels Cofounder, Prompts Resignations

Physician Peter Gotzsche, a board member of the organization, has been an outspoken critic of certain vaccines and of the pharma industry in general.

Are Research Infrastructures the Answer to All Our Problems?

Are Research Infrastructures the Answer to All Our Problems?

Embracing a global view of EU research infrastructures could boost science diplomacy and break down walls put up by divisive politics. But new rules on cooperation and more funding are needed to deliver the vision.

Gender Gap in Engineering

Gender Gap in Engineering

The Swiss Science Council reports that according to recent statistics, the gender gap in the technical sciences and engineering fields is still disproportionately high in Europe and North America. European countries with high-income have a surprisingly low proportion of female engineers in research and industry, in comparison to developing countries like Eastern Europe, Central and South Asia and Latin America.

From 101 Innovations to a Roadmap for Collaboration

From 101 Innovations to a Roadmap for Collaboration

Last month, I participated virtually in the Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools (JROST) workshop as 86 individuals from 58 different organizations gathered in Berkeley on August 27-28 to explore the growing category of open source scholarly workflow tools, to…

Top US Science Agency Unveils Hotly Anticipated Harassment Policy

Top US Science Agency Unveils Hotly Anticipated Harassment Policy

The National Science Foundation's rules for reporting harassment by grant recipients are the strictest yet instituted by a US government science agency.

Turmoil Erupts over Expulsion from Leading Evidence-based Medicine Group

Turmoil Erupts over Expulsion from Leading Evidence-based Medicine Group

One of the medical world’s most respected expert bodies is in turmoil as its annual meeting gets underway after its governing board voted to expel a member.

A Look Inside Chan Zuckerberg, the Philanthropic Project Funded by Billions in Facebook Stock Sales

A Look Inside Chan Zuckerberg, the Philanthropic Project Funded by Billions in Facebook Stock Sales

Two years after Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced an audacious plan to use their Facebook fortune to try and end disease in their children's lifetime, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has ballooned to 250 people. 

58 Organizations Gather to Workshop a Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools

58 Organizations Gather to Workshop a Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools

86 people from 58 different organizations gathered in Berkeley, CA and remotely to attend the first workshop convened by the Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools, to develop a common vision, user stories, and roadmap to support open science research workflows, and better coordinate work across the community of open science projects.

Half of European Clinical Trials Haven’t Reported Results

Half of European Clinical Trials Haven’t Reported Results

EU rules say clinical trial results must be reported onto the EU register for every trial there within 12 months of the end of the trial, yet no one has ever been sanctioned for breaking the European rules. European academic institutes are lagging far behind companies in complying with the reporting rules.

COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data Usage Metrics release 1

COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data Usage Metrics release 1

COUNTER and members of the Make Data Count team (California Digital Library, DataCite, and DataONE) collaborated in drafting the Code of Practice for Research Data Usage Metrics release 1.

CRISPR Patent Decision Didn't Get the Science Right. But the Ruling Was Fair

CRISPR Patent Decision Didn't Get the Science Right. But the Ruling Was Fair

Many scientists disagree with the CRISPR patent ruling, believing it doesn't represent how molecular biology is practiced. That doesn't make it wrong.