Freeing a Scientific Mind to Envision Big Research: Packard Fellowship to Will Ratcliff
Funding can focus science on the long game; just ask Will Ratcliff, freshly named a Packard Fellow.
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Funding can focus science on the long game; just ask Will Ratcliff, freshly named a Packard Fellow.
Biden announced a comprehensive plan for his Cancer Moonshot initiative, which seeks to achieve a decade’s worth of progress on cancer research in five years.
More than $300M in new STEM initiatives were announced at the White House Frontiers Conference.
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Open Knowledge International is delighted to announce the launch of the public preview beta version of OpenTrials at a panel session on ‘Fostering Open Science in Global Health’.
Research must be sent to DfE two days before publishing
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A voluntary commitment to the values of openness and transparency in science.
A place for academics to review the publishing process at peer-reviewed journals.
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This paper presents a brief overview of emerging policies to open up access to research data in the United States.
The replication crisis in science is largely attributable to a mismatch in our expectations of how often findings should replicate and how difficult it is to actually discover true findings in certain fields.
Why government leaders should publish the reams of data they’re collecting — and why citizens everywhere should push them to do so.
On The Natural Selection of Bad Science.
Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus praise the growing scrutiny of scientific publications.
Covering sexism and sexual harassment in the sciences and academia may not yet be a full-fledged beat for journalists, but it's getting there.
UC Davis and CDL Investigation of the Institutional Costs of Gold Open Access
New 2016 Top 500 world university rankings conducted by CWCU of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Academic Ranking of World Universities).
Nobel prize winning ideas are not always accepted by the community. By definition, they are paradigm shifting, revolutionary.
Encourage girls to explore scientific career paths.
Stephanie Wykstra Ivan Oransky Stuart Buck Brian Nosek Julia Galef (Moderator) How can we produce research findings that are both useful and robust?