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As long men can score points for producing mountains of output, women will never get a fair shot at academic promotion
A Princeton professor’s frankness hides the grim reality about work for many young people
Not a scientist? As David Lang shows, you can still play a meaningful role in solving science’s hardest problems.
Psychologist Tania Lombrozo and a colleague, both moms, built an academic conference keeping in mind parents who are trying to juggle the competing demands of caregiving and professional advancement.
Researchers are increasingly relying on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and its crowdsourced labor.
Science magazine just published a great piece on the utility of Sci-Hub. Unfortunately, its defense of its own business model is flawed.
In 2012, network scientist and data theorist Samuel Arbesman published a disturbing thesis: What we think of as established knowledge decays over time.
13 tips to make submitting your paper a breeze
Concerns over AI are not simply fear-mongering. Progress in the field will affect society profoundly, and it is important to make sure that the changes benefit everyone.
David Kent breaks down an eLife article that suggests peer review scores cannot distinguish very good grants from excellent grants. In fact, at a certain point in the process, it is pretty much a random lottery.
Female scientists face everyday, often-unintentional microaggression in the workplace, and it won't stop unless we talk about it, says Tricia Serio.
Turning scientific evidence into policy exposes a gulf between how scientists think and how policymakers work. Here’s what scientists need to know
Whilst Brexit looms more ominously in the background, the next generation of data publishing is moving towards an ever-more collaborative and open place in which researchers can easily choose to make discoveries and data sets available across borders and cultures.
An outspoken biologist uses social media as a megaphone as he calls out his colleagues for hyping their research findings and ignoring women scientists.
Dodgy results are fuelling flawed policy decisions and undermining medical advances. They could even make us lose faith in science. New Scientist investigates
Figshare has brought science publishing into the digital age so that academics can publish and share their research fully
Pivotal moments in the history of academic refereeing have occurred at times when the public status of science was being renegotiated.
There’s a replication crisis in biomedicine—and no one even knows how deep it runs.
Saying that Sci-Hub is about copyright infringement is like saying the Boston Tea Party was about late-night vandalism.
The UK’s higher education institutions spend more than £180m on journal subscriptions every year. We need to come together and create a better system
As the White House prepares for its annual science fair, it's worth remembering that these events leave some children behind.
The rationale is simple: More anonymity means more scrutiny for published papers, and more scrutiny means more errors are caught.
And how to fix them. By Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus.
