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NSF Bio Directorate Announces Cancellation of #DDIG Program
NSF’s Directorate of Biological Sciences just announced that they are getting rid of the Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) program.
Trump Retains Collins as NIH Director
Long-time physician-scientist retains job he has held since 2009.
New Science Data-Sharing Rules Are Two Scoops of Disappointment
The rules fail to make data sharing mandatory for papers to be published, which raises the prospect that some authors might decide to ignore the hint.
Why We Can't Trust Academic Journals to Tell the Scientific Truth
Academic journals don’t select the research they publish on scientific rigour alone. So why aren’t academics taking to the streets about this?
Romania's Science Reforms Prompt Boycott
Researchers refuse to sit on evaluation panels after government bans international participation.
Dozens of Recent Clinical Trials May Contain Wrong or Falsified Data, Claims Study
Fresh concerns over reliability of papers published in journals as suspicious statistical patterns prompt investigations into some of the identified trials
Dutch Contracts Have to Be Disclosed
Ahead of his address at Going Global 2017, Phil Baty looks at the relationship between the world’s best universities and their place in the world
NIH Plan to Reduce Overhead Payments Draws Fire
White House wants to reduce indirect payments from 28% to 10%.
Dutch Contracts Have to Be Disclosed
The open access contracts between the Dutch universities and publishers Elsevier and Springer have to be publicly disclosed. That is the verdict of the committee charged with considering the appeal of the publishers against a freedom of information request.
1.1 Billion for Innovation Projects
The Research Council of Norway is announcing a record-high amount of funding for Innovation Projects for the Industrial Sector.
5 Million Euros to Fund Blockchain Surveillance Research
5 Million Euros to Fund Blockchain Surveillance Research
A group of EU government agencies, law enforcement groups and academic researchers are partnering on a new digital currency surveillance project.
A Giant New Machine Is Sucking Carbon Directly from the Air
Experts debate whether technology is useful for curbing climate change.
Pilot Programme Encourages Researchers to Share the Code
New project, partly designed by a University of Cambridge researcher, aims to improve transparency in science by sharing ‘how the sausage is made’.
Helping Scientists Learn To Talk To The Rest Of Us
A new book by actor Alan Alda is all about communication — and miscommunication — between doctors, scientists and civilians.
A Thankless Job That One Firm Wants to Change
Publons wants scientists to be rewarded for assessing others’ work.
Welcome to eLife 2.0
We’re moving the online journal forward, and we hope you’ll join us on our journey.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing
Striking a Balance: Embracing Change While Preserving Tradition in Scholarly Communications
Pay-to-View Blacklist of Predatory Journals Set to Launch
Private firm says its watchlist of untrustworthy journals will be objective and transparent — but not free.
NIH Finds Using Anonymous Proposals to Test for Bias is Harder than it Looks
NIH Finds Using Anonymous Proposals to Test for Bias is Harder than it Looks
Race-blind reviews very difficult and may not help, researchers say
Website Flags Wrongly Paywalled Papers
Thousands of open access papers have mistakenly asked readers to pay access fees, but publishers are correcting the errors.
Crowd-Based Peer Review Can Be Good and Fast
Confidential feedback from many interacting reviewers can help editors make better, quicker decisions.
Towards Greater Reproducibility for Life-Sciences Research in Nature
Nature will publish more details on experiments described in life-sciences papers.
Zenodo Now Supports DOI Versioning
This feature enables users to update the record’s files after they have been made public and researchers to easily cite either specific versions of a record or to cite, via a top-level DOI, all the versions of a record.