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Commitment to Research Transparency and Open Science
A voluntary commitment to the values of openness and transparency in science.
Academic Journal Reviews
Academic Journal Reviews
A place for academics to review the publishing process at peer-reviewed journals.
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
The cancer researcher reflects on the 2016 election, his experience as a political adviser, and the difficulties of communicating how science works.
Bad Blood about CRISPR
Who gets credit for the technology to cut-and-paste the human genome?
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
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
This paper presents a brief overview of emerging policies to open up access to research data in the United States.
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
Why government leaders should publish the reams of data they’re collecting — and why citizens everywhere should push them to do so.
Bad Science Evolves. Stopping It Means Changing Institutional Selection Pressures
Bad Science Evolves. Stopping It Means Changing Institutional Selection Pressures
On The Natural Selection of Bad Science.
Two Cheers for the Retraction Boom
Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus praise the growing scrutiny of scientific publications.
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.
UC Pay It Forward Project
UC Davis and CDL Investigation of the Institutional Costs of Gold Open Access
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
Nobel prize winning ideas are not always accepted by the community. By definition, they are paradigm shifting, revolutionary.
Sign the "For Women in Science Manifesto"
Encourage girls to explore scientific career paths.
The Replication Crisis
Stephanie Wykstra Ivan Oransky Stuart Buck Brian Nosek Julia Galef (Moderator) How can we produce research findings that are both useful and robust?
Research impact of paywalled versus open access papers
Study showing open access papers have a 50% greater citation advantage than articles behind paywalls.
PLOTCON 2016
We bring together scientists, engineers, programmers, business analysts, and journalists to disseminate best-practices in data visualization and accelerate the bleeding edge technology.
The Interdependence of Scientists in the Era of Team Science
How is the rise in team science and the emergence of the research group as the fundamental unit of organization of science affecting scientists’ opportunities to collaborate?
Veruscript
A mission-based, independent publisher standing for fairness and return approximately 25% of revenue to the research community.
Text & Data Mining
Technologies based on the electronic analysis of large amounts of works are still in their infancy, and the possibilities they might open up in the future are largely unpredictable.
Lab Carpentry
Lab Carpentry provides training resources and example documents for lab management to busy scientists.
Mellon Foundation grant of nearly $1M to fund open access platform MUSE Open
Mellon Foundation grant of nearly $1M to fund open access platform MUSE Open
Johns Hopkins University Press' Project MUSE online platform will host scholarly monographs and materials in humanities and social sciences.