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Revisiting the past can help to inform ideas of the present: science without consensus would be chaos. But the price of consensus is eternal vigilance against complacency, and a willingness to contemplate the road otherwise not travelled.
Being open about failure is one thing, but we must also look at how we define success, says Shahidha Bari
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To make research more accessible, separate the review and dissemination processes.
Evolve governance structures, practices and metrics to accelerate innovation in an era of digital connectivity, writes Martin Curley.
Governments need to tighten regulation if the sharing of clinical-trial data is to succeed.
Has teaching been the poor cousin of research for too long?
If the work is properly monitored, there is no reason not to trust the results
The value that Australia places on publication quality over quantity has elevated it into the top echelon of science. Can it now improve its flagging track record in commercialization?
Austrian social scientist Helga Nowotny was president of the European Research Council between 2010 and 2013. Now a professor emerita of ETH Zurich and author of The Cunning of Uncertainty (Polity, 2015), Nowotny discusses the growing pressure to capitalize on academic research, and how countries can get it right in the absence of a universal recipe.
In science as in politics, most people agree that transparency is essential. Top journals now require authors to disclose their funding sources so that readers can judge the possibility of bias, and the British Medical Journal recently required authors to disclose their data as well so that experts can run independent analyses of the results. But as transparency becomes the standard, many academics are resisting the trend without pushback from their universities.
Or 'how to tweet your way to honour and glory'.
Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley live by the motto of “Fail fast, fail often." Scientists would do well to likewise embrace failure.
By sharing their experiences, early-career scientists can help to make the case for increased government funding for researchers.
What could a Brexit mean for the United Kingdom’s higher education, research and student mobility? Switzerland offers some clues. ...
In the fiercely competitive world of drug discovery and development, secrecy is no longer as important as it once was.
Open competitions bring new minds, skills and collaborations to problems in biomedical research.
Imagine what would happen if the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in the referendum of the 23rd June 2016? To give our readers a better idea of the consequences of the Brexit for the country's scientists, EuroScientist has commissioned UK technology journalist Paul Hill to write a fictional day in the life of a British academic post-Brexit. This gives food for thought on the factors influencing the position of Europe's centre of gravity in research.
Scientists must publish less, or good research will be swamped by the ever-increasing volume of poor work.
The open source physics site arXiv is turning 25, and it's going to get a makeover. But what does that mean for its principles of data transparency?
Science "deserves better than to be twisted out of proportion and turned into morning show gossip."
The seven excuses for not doing so are all invalid.
