The country desperately needs more egghead lawmakers. Right now, Capitol Hill has almost none.

In the past few months, three high-profile science conferences have ignited internet ire for their lack of representation of women.

The National Academies has launched a new study on how to move toward an open science enterprise.

One of scientists’ favourite statistics — the P value — should face tougher standards, say leading researchers.

The European Commission plans to launch its open science cloud by 2020, but calls on universities to train more data scientists

Proposal to change widely accepted p-value threshold stirs reproducibility debate.

A new paper argues that journal publishers should become much more transparent about their peer review practices.

Microsoft, Google and Baidu are joining forces in Open Academic Search, an initiative led by Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

What it means for researchers.

The 2014 REF results show only a very weak relationship between excellence in research and achieving societal impact.

A number of so-called scientific journals have accepted a Star Wars-themed spoof paper.

Top 10% of grantees get 37% of the money.

Researchers had complained about proposal review process, success rates.

Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and Professor Marc Edwards showed science and scholarship are powerful tools for social change.

The European Research Council is planning to reduce the budgets for its single-investigator grants in 2018, to fund the return of the multi-investigator Synergy Grants.

Spanish researchers are still waiting for the full implementation of a law which was approved six years ago.

Macron's promise to ring fence university funding did not last two months, says the National Union of Higher Education.

Authors will have the opportunity to submit their manuscripts directly for consideration to Science.

ORCID have recognised ScienceOpen for leadership in integrating their services as part of their Collect and Connect program.

A small change would open up a whole new class of works for which publishers could demand payment for the use of small snippets, apparently including works that the author had released under an open access license.

F1000 is reducing the open access publishing charges for all articles containing an interactive Plotly figure by 50%.

Recent announcements from the creator of Sci-Hub raise the distinct possibility that Scholarly Publishers have been systematically compromised.

Authorea, the collaborative document editor for researchers, announced a partnership and direct submission agreement with bioRxiv, the leading preprint server for biological research.

Google wants to move on from this discussion and let the academics speak for themselves.

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These institutions join around 60 others that hope to put increasing pressure on the publishing giant in ongoing negotiations for a new nationwide licensing agreement.

House of Representatives spending panel adds language that limits the National Science Foundation’s ability to set priorities.

Major evaluation of country’s research landscape also found that internationalisation was a key area for improvement.

Government funding of science is essential to early career scientists.

Two top scientists are suing their employer, the Salk Institute, alleging that they and other women have suffered long-term gender discrimination at the renowned California research center.