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Freeing a Scientific Mind to Envision Big Research: Packard Fellowship to Will Ratcliff

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.

Biden Presents Five-Year Cancer Moonshot Plan

Biden Presents Five-Year Cancer Moonshot Plan

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.

Show us your research two days before publishing, government orders academics

Show us your research two days before publishing, government orders academics

Research must be sent to DfE two days before publishing

United Nations report calls for OA to improve global health

United Nations report calls for OA to improve global health

Last month the United Nations released a report with recommendations on how to improve innovation and access to health technologies.

Academic Journal Reviews

Academic Journal Reviews

A place for academics to review the publishing process at peer-reviewed journals.

MacArthur Fellows 2016

MacArthur Fellows 2016

MacArthur Fellowships, or "Genius Grants" are awarded annually to between 20 and 30 individuals who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the US.

Nobel-Prize Winner Harold Varmus Talks Politics and Science

Nobel-Prize Winner Harold Varmus Talks Politics and Science

The cancer researcher reflects on the 2016 election, his experience as a political adviser, and the difficulties of communicating how science works.

A cross-disciplinary approach to science is helping Nautilus carve a unique niche in science publishing

A cross-disciplinary approach to science is helping Nautilus carve a unique niche in science publishing

With a focus on deep reporting, a print magazine, and an intense affinity for illustrations, nonprofit Nautilus has taken an expensive approach to launching a new science publication.

Raising the Status of Peer Review With Publons

Raising the Status of Peer Review With Publons

An interview with Tom Culley, Marketing Director of Publons, on how provide recognition for this vital part of the scientific process.

The evolving U.S. policy environment for open research data

The evolving U.S. policy environment for open research data

This paper presents a brief overview of emerging policies to open up access to research data in the United States.

Attitudes to animal research in 2016

Attitudes to animal research in 2016

This Ipsos MORI report presents the findings of a 2016 survey commissioned by the Office for Life Sciences to understand current public awareness of, and attitudes towards, the use of animals in research.

A Simple Explanation for the Replication Crisis in Science

A Simple Explanation for the Replication Crisis in Science

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.

How open government data creates smarter societies

How open government data creates smarter societies

Why government leaders should publish the reams of data they’re collecting — and why citizens everywhere should push them to do so.

Sexual Harassment in the Sciences: A New Journalistic Beat?

Sexual Harassment in the Sciences: A New Journalistic Beat?

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.

Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2016

Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2016

New 2016 Top 500 world university rankings conducted by CWCU of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Academic Ranking of World Universities).

Nope! 8 Rejected Papers That Won the Nobel Prize

Nope! 8 Rejected Papers That Won the Nobel Prize

Nobel prize winning ideas are not always accepted by the community.  By definition, they are paradigm shifting, revolutionary.