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Empowering Early Career Scientists to Engage in Science Advocacy, Policy and Communication
What Are the Ten Most Cited Sources on Wikipedia? Let's Ask the Data.
Understanding the provenance of information used by Wikipedians, also allows us to lift a veil on its gaps - the types of sources, languages, and perspectives - that are not represented, which in turn can inform community efforts to improve coverage in underserved content areas.
Making the Leap Back to Research
After leaving the lab, these three scientists decided they wanted to go back and made it happen.
On Being Excluded: Testimonies by People of Color in Scholarly Publishing
Firsthand account about the experience of racism in scholarly publishing, showing we have "a great deal of powerful and humbling work to do" to address racism and the white-dominated culture of our industry.
To Steal or Not to Steal? Could Sci-Hub Change the Publishing Industry?
Elsevier, a major scientific publisher, has a 36 percent profit margin - bigger than Apple, Amazon, and Google. And it's just one of many. But Sci-Hub could change all that by releasing every article for free.
How to Get the Most Out of a Conference
It helps to choose the right scholarly meeting and to swallow your discomfort with schmoozing.
Writing a Peer Review Is a Structured Process That Can Be Learned and Improved
Writing a Peer Review Is a Structured Process That Can Be Learned and Improved
12 steps, relevant to both first-time peer reviewers and those keen to brush up on their skills.
How You Count Counts
The difference between full counting and fractional counting of publiations should inform our interpretation of the headlines.
What’s Wrong with the JIF in 5 Graphs
Scholars love to hate the journal impact factor, but how flawed is it?
The Training Handbook
A group of fourteen authors came together in February 2018 at the TIB (German National Library of Science and Technology) in Hannover to create an open, living handbook on Open Science training.
How Are Academic Lives Sustained?
Gender and the ethics of care in the neoliberal accelerated academy.
No Women No Panel Campaign
The No Women No Panel Campaign initiated by Commissioner Mariya Gabriel has been supported and reiterated by several of her colleagues from the European Commission. She committed to ensuring at least one other woman is part of panels she is invited to speak at.
Investigating the Context of Citations
A report from a short project using natural language processing and machine learning on open-access content to understand what lies beneath a citation.
Scientists Reverse Finding That Gene Editing Technology Had Flaws
It seems that CRISPR technology may indeed be all that it promises.
Open Access to Scientific Publications Must Become a Reality by 2020
Making scientific publications free to read is a big change in a world dominated by subscription journals. Why is it so important that science publications become open access?
Mining 50 Years of Astronomy and Astrophysics Publications Data
Looking at of the gender gap in 50 years of publications in astronomy and astrophysics.
The IBM Think 2018 Science Slam
5 technologies under development at the IBM Research labs.
The Science People See on Social Media
Science-related Facebook pages draw millions of followers but 'news you can use' posts or ads outnumber ones about scientific discoveries.
How to Sail Smoothly from Academia to Industry
To beat the stiff competition, highlight your skills in collaboration, teamwork and meeting deadlines.
The Identity of the Lone Woman Scientist in This 1971 Photo Was a Mystery. Then Twitter Cracked the Case
Stem Is Losing Male LGBT Undergrads
But female LGBQ students are more likely than their heterosexual peers to stay in STEM, a survey of college seniors across the United States reveals.
Asthma Inhalers Fail Minority Children Due to a Lack of Diversity in Research
Artifacts.ai: A Blockchain Platform for Scientific & Academic Research
Artifacts.ai: A Blockchain Platform for Scientific & Academic Research
Researcher-centric communication, collaboration and attribution platform powered by blockchain - with proof-of-existence and real-time, permanent, citing for all scientific and scholarly works.