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Graeme Atherton, Director of the National Education Opportunities Network (NEON), University of West London and Gordon Marsden, Shadow Minister for Higher and Further Education and Skills from 2015 to 2019. You can find Graeme and Gordon on Twitter @NEONHE @GordonMarsden. Lighter days, brighter COVID statistics and the tremendous NHS achievement of mass vaccination across the […]
The University of California system will no longer require SAT and ACT scores for admission after reaching a settlement agreement, a statement from the UC system said.
This is a series of webinars on six engaging and relevant topics as a precursor to a live event in 2022. These discussions will form part of the broader RI dialogue, and set a foundation we hope to build on in Cape Town when the RI community gather to – at long last – meet in person.
Decades of misinformation and bad science has distorted what we think about illicit drugs - but that's changing. We're exploring what this paradigm shift could mean for our health and well-being.
Did you get the COVID-19 vaccine? A) Yes, because I'm ready to get back out there and start partying again! B) Yes, because I am haunted by the prospect of accidentally killing my parents or saddling my children with lifelong health complications.
Mit privaten Mitteln gründen Liberale an der Uni Luzern eine Denkfabrik. Wie viel Geld geflossen ist und was sie vorhaben, verraten die Involvierten nicht.
Creativity often flourishes in stressful times because innovation evolves out of need. During the coronavirus pandemic, we are witnessing a range of creative responses from individuals, communities, organizations, and industries.
There is no real evidence that the public has lost trust in science. So why are science-based recommendations often ignored?
Our feline friends certainly wow us with their cleverness - they can fetch things, open doors, navigate seemingly impossible obstacles, and even understand basic instructions (when they feel like it, anyway).
One of the biggest antitrust lawsuits in the history of Big Tech kicked off this week - here's what you need to know.
Can you upload a CSV file? Are you an ORCID Consortia Member? Then you can add affiliation data to your researchers' records with our Affiliation Manager!
In the introductory talk of this event, the speakers argue that the role of data in society needs to be grasped as not only a development of capitalism, but as the start of a new phase in human history that rivals in importance the emergence of historic colonialism.
This discussion paper describes and discusses the problems and the consequences of science disinformation in three areas of concern, namely climate change, vaccines and pandemics, and what we can do to increase awareness and minimize harm caused by the spread of disinformation.
A comparison of preprints and their final journal publications show discrepancies in results reporting and spins in interpretation.
6 arguments are presented that articulate why cOAlition S organisations will not financially support the hybrid model of publishing.
Announcing the launch of five new journals, all addressing global health and environmental challenges and rooted in the full values of Open Science.
This post explores how scholarly publishing should relate to scholarly communication. Ostensibly aligned, publishing and communication have diverged. Some processes involved in scholarly publishing are getting in the way of optimal scholarly communication, as the present pandemic amply reveals.
COVID-19 has transformed the world in the last 12 months. Communicating data has been a central part of the pandemic. Here are some of the most important lessons we can take from this period.
cOAlition S strategy of applying a prior licence to the Author's Accepted Manuscript (AAM) is designed to facilitate full and immediate open access of funded scientific research for the greater benefit of science and society.
A group of scholars argue, with an extensive review of the available evidence, that the primary mode of transmission from human to human of the virus responsible for Covid-19 is via aerosols, not through droplets or surfaces.
The scientific merit of a paper and its ability to reach broader audiences is essential for scientific impact. Thus, scientific merit measurements are made by scientometric indexes, and journals are increasingly using published papers as open access (OA).
The BMBF project OPTIMETA aims to strengthen the Open Access publishing system by connecting open citations and spatiotemporal metadata from open access journals with openly accessible data sources.
Renke Siems on user tracking on science publisher platforms, its implications for their individual users and ways to face this issue
Communication within the scientific community without twitter has become hard to imagine. It was only a matter of time, then, until someone started examining what makes a tweet scientific in itself. Dr Athanasios Mazarakis has examined this more closely and, in his guest article, reveals what he discovered when researching the scientific character of tweets.
This factsheet is a result of the 57th online seminar "Practical Steps Towards Open and Reproducible Research" (10 February 2021), organised by the Helmholtz Open Science Office.
Tracking how factors such as biases and conflicts of interest creep into editorial boards requires better data.
