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Welcome to Hotel Elsevier: You Can Check-Out Any Time You Like … Not
Welcome to Hotel Elsevier: You Can Check-Out Any Time You Like … Not
Trying to understand what private data Elsevier collects; what private data Elsevier sells; and what to do about it.
Why I Teach My Students About Scientific Failure
"It's a lesson I wish I'd learned before starting grad school."
Making Science More Open Is Good for Research-but Bad for Security
The open science movement pushes for making scientific knowledge quickly accessible to all. But a new paper warns that speed can come at a cost.
Scientific Collaborations Are Precarious Territory for Women
Closed networks and ingrained biases can make women's collaborations a balancing act.
Mainstream Economic Policy Must Factor Climate Change into Its Growth Calculus
Dismantling the Ivory Tower's Knowledge Boundaries
How has the pandemic changed public access to journal articles?
Open Access and the Direction Moving Forward
This post offers recommendations for how funding agencies and research institutions can better lead the change toward open access.
Career Change: When Dreams Don't Come True
As she closes the door on her time in academia, a neuroscientist faces unexpected grief.
The Pandemic Revolutionized Disease Surveillance. Now What?
The Pandemic Revolutionized Disease Surveillance. Now What?
Covid forced the world to develop some of the best epidemiological surveys ever done. Now they're being cut back, even as the threat of the virus lingers.
It's Time for Science to Take Down Bullies in Its Own Ranks
Academics too often use intellectual attainment to excuse abusive behavior. That needs to stop.
Time to Recognize Authorship of Open Data
The open data revolution won't happen unless the research system values the sharing of data as much as authorship on papers.
A Decade of Open Data in Research - Real Change or Slow Moving Compliance?
A Decade of Open Data in Research - Real Change or Slow Moving Compliance?
This post looks at the progress that's been made toward open research data -- what's been achieved, what still needs work, and what happens next?
No Agreement on the Horizon − a No-win Situation for the UK, the EU and European Research - HEPI
No Agreement on the Horizon − a No-win Situation for the UK, the EU and European Research - HEPI
In the second year of the Horizon Europe programme, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are not formally associated with the largest research and innovation funding programme in the world.
The Importance of Science Diplomacy During Difficult Times
If the vaunted features of science that are used rhetorically to promote and justify its status as an aid to international affairs are truly valued, it would be precisely in the most trying circumstances that science diplomacy should remain a viable alternative.
Scientists Must Be Free to Communicate Without Politicians' Spin
Whether it's about COVID or badger culls, the science can be unclear. But the public must hear about it from the researchers, not from government press officers.
Social-Media Reform is Flying Blind
Redesigning social media to improve society requires a new platform for research.
Long Covid Could Create a Generation Affected by Disability, Expert Warns
Prof Danny Altmann, immunologist at Imperial College London, says UK's approach fails to take the impact of infections seriously
This is No Time to Stop Tracking COVID-19
To live with the coronavirus, we cannot be blind to its movements.
Are There Limits to Economic Growth? It's Time to Call Time on a 50-year Argument
Are There Limits to Economic Growth? It's Time to Call Time on a 50-year Argument
Researchers must try to resolve a dispute on the best way to use and care for Earth's resources.
Gender Equality Will Enhance Research Around the World
If researchers want to have maximum impact, women must be at the table.
How Hybrid Working Took Hold in Science
Two years since COVID-19 forced labs to shut down, group leaders describe how academic research has changed, perhaps forever.
Women in Science Should Be the Norm, Not the Exception
This International Women's Day, let's start working towards ending gender discrimination in science for good.
Viewpoint: Time for a Long-term Strategy on Russian Science Relations and Academic Collaborations
Viewpoint: Time for a Long-term Strategy on Russian Science Relations and Academic Collaborations
For about 20 years, Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet has maintained a partnership with one of Russia's main cardiology clinics, the Almazov National Medical Research Centre in St. Petersburg. This institutional tie was abruptly suspended on 2 March, as part of Sweden's sanctions for the war in Ukraine.
Want to Promote Diversity in Science? Offer Better Support.
Stereotypes, biases and lack of recognition by teachers and mentors are destroying the confidence of talented female students and driving them from physical sciences, says Chandralekha Singh.
Plan S and Scholarly Publishing: Some Lessons Learned
Review of a webinar featuring several key players in implementing Plan S, asking what lessons have been learned?