How to catalyse collaboration
Turn the fraught flirtation between the social and biophysical sciences into fruitful partnerships with five principles.
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Interdisciplinary research by the numbers
An analysis reveals the extent and impact of research that bridges disciplines.
Unpatients - why patients should own their medical data
Unpatients - why patients should own their medical data
For the benefits of digital medicine to be fully realized, we need not only to find a shared home for personal health data but also to give individuals the right to own them.
Agencies plan research-ethics overhaul
Long-awaited revision proposed for regulations governing studies of human subjects.
Report claims success for elite universities drive
Report praises US$5-billion scheme for making leading universities more competitive - but some smaller institutions have done just as well.
Women are funded more fairly in social science
UK data hold lessons for how to close the gender gap in bioscience grant applications, success and size, argue Paul Boyle and colleagues.
Institutions must do their part for reproducibility
Tie funding to verified good institutional practice, and robust science will shoot up the agenda.
PubPeer founders reveal themselves, create foundation
The creators of PubPeer dropped their own anonymity today, as part of an announcement about a new chapter in the life of the post-publication peer review site..
Biohackers gear up for genome editing
Amateurs are ready and able to try the CRISPR technique for rewriting genes.
Papers with shorter titles get more citations
Intriguing correlation mined from 140,000 papers.
Rise of the citizen scientist
From the oceans to the soil, technology is changing the part that amateurs can play in research. But this greater involvement raises concerns that must be addressed.
Courts refuse scientists' bids to prevent retractions
US judges dismiss injunctions against journals.
Tips for promoting your research paper
Alert your followers on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and other social networking sites by announcing your published work along with a link to your article. To encourage sharing - use hashtags relevant to your subject and tag co-authors or department colleagues who may also want to share your paper. Looking for more ideas?
Better than riches
The involvement of online discussion sites in the identification of errors, anomalies and worse in the published literature continues to demonstrate the usefulness of post-publication review. It also highlights the ambiguous power of anonymity.
The future of science will soon be upon us
The European Commission has abandoned consideration of 'Science 2.0', finding it too ambitious.
Making data count
Results from a survey on perceptions of data sharing, discovery, and metrics.
Bioethics accused of doing more harm than good
[3]Opinion piece that calls for bioethics to ‘get out of the way’ prompts self-reflection among ethicists.
Could students solve the irreproducibility crisis?
Scientists on social media debate a call to require PhD students to replicate research before they can graduate.
Why we are teaching science wrong, and how to make it right
Active problem-solving confers a deeper understanding of science than does a standard lecture. But some university lecturers are reluctant to change tack.
US project aims for ethnic balance
Massive study seeks to succeed where others failed, but faces tight deadline and questions about strategy.
It's good to talk
Survey results released last week by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) included an interesting nugget. Some 72% of respondents said that they had been unable to replicate a published experimental result. Yet a higher proportion (77%) said that they had never been told that their work could not be replicated.
Collaborate and listen to reproduce research
Better communication between labs may resolve many reproducibility problems, according to [28]report.
Science professors need leadership training
To drive discovery, scientists heading up research teams large and small need to learn how people operate, argue C. Leiserson and C. McVinney.
Don't distort policy in the name of national pride
What can go wrong when governments use research to make a country look good.
Science foundation shuts down
Dynasty Foundation liquidated after Ministry of Justice labels it a 'foreign agent'.
Genome researchers raise alarm over big data
Storing and processing genome data will exceed the computing challenges of running YouTube and Twitter.
A numbers game
Institutions must be plain about research metrics if academics are to engage with them.
Greek scientists lose access to digital journals
The country's economic crisis is hitting researchers hard.
Practical policies can combat gender inequality
Mechanisms to help researchers to balance work and home lives have made a positive difference to the gender balance at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne.
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