Trump’s timing on science jobs not unusual for presidents.

The Third Annual Academics with Cats Awards, organised by Academia Obscura, celebrates academic cats and injects a bit of fun into the pre-Christmas panic.

In a paper published today, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) looks at interdisciplinarity as a powerful driver of knowledge creation, scientific progress and innovation.

Using analytics to improve hiring decisions has transformed industries from baseball to investment banking. So why are tenure decisions for professors still made the old-fashioned way?, asks Erik Brynjolfsson from MIT.

How 50 years of the information age transformed college forever.

A partnership of funding organizations committed to the open sharing of research outputs.

Sick of relying on commercial platforms for academic sharing? Humanities Commons, SocArXiv, and the Center for Open Science to the rescue!

A guide to help selfish academics ensure that everyone at a conference knows they are very special indeed.

How the research librarian of the future might work, utilising new data science and digital skills to drive more collaborative and open scholarship.

A list of some of the shady things Elsevier has been previously caught doing

The real innovation of CiteScore is not another performance metric, but a new marketing model focused on editors.

All the videos and slides from #scidata16.

A preliminary analysis of the new Elsevier's CiteScore journal metric.

Many early career researchers have ‘not gone to the library for years’, according to a report detailing the rise of the Google search among young academics.

Stories about science, research, and being a scientist.

A free and open tool for collaborative editing, instant publishing, continuous review, and grassroots journals. PubPub is supported and advised by many MIT Media Lab professors, students, and friends.

Books have the power to trigger a lifelong urge to know more about the world and its environs.

A free, open dataset of research output.

It’s not a new story, although “the reproducibility crisis” may seem to be. For life sciences, I think it started in the late 1950s. A timeline.

PeerJ offers the better technology and user experience than bioRxiv, but bioRxiv has greater adoption in the biodata sciences.

Meet 5 inspiring people—none named Einstein—who helped these scientists find their calling.

Times Higher Education is looking at what happens when academics make an honest mistake in their research. Can you take the time to answer four simple questions?You will not be asked to leave your name, email address or any other personal information. We cannot track who has taken part.The survey is completely anonymous, so please answer honestly.

Getting ready to unveil the 21st “Breakthrough of the Year”...

How Open Data and Open Science are Transforming Biomedical Research

Guest post by Professor Elizabeth Loftus, winner of the 2016 John Maddox Prize

The Association of American Universities worries that the open-access policies federal research agencies are developing now are not sufficiently aligned. Any slowdown in putting them in place, it says, is "probably a positive."

An artificial intelligence system developed by researchers at DeepMind and the University of Oxford got so good by watching 5000 hours of BBC programmes.

PIDapalooza, the first ever festival of persistent identifiers, set out not only to bring together the creators and users of PIDs, but also to make PIDs cool.

A collection of Twitter hashtags about science communication to facilitate engagement with academics and professionals on Twitter.