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NOAA Gets Go-ahead to Study Climate Plan B: Geoengineering

NOAA Gets Go-ahead to Study Climate Plan B: Geoengineering

The top climate change scientist for NOAA said he has received $4 million from Congress and permission from his agency to study two emergency - and controversial - methods to cool the Earth if the U.S. and other nations fail to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

The NSF Inouye Solar Telescope's First Movie (Cropped)

The NSF Inouye Solar Telescope's First Movie (Cropped)

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope has produced the highest resolution observations of the Sun’s surface ever taken. In this movie, taken at a wavelength of 705nm over a period of 10 minutes, we can see features as small as 30km (18 miles) in size for the first time ever.

What to Do when You Don't Trust Your Data Anymore

What to Do when You Don't Trust Your Data Anymore

Science is built on trust. Trust that your experiments will work. Trust in your collaborators to pull their weight. But most importantly, trust that the data we so painstakingly collect are accurate and as representative of the real world as they can be. And so when I realized that I could no longer trust the data that I had reported in some of my papers, I did what I think is the only correct course of action. I retracted them.

Edward Snowden to the Hundreds of AMLD Participants at EPFL: "Don't Stay Safe. Stay Free! "

Edward Snowden to the Hundreds of AMLD Participants at EPFL: "Don't Stay Safe. Stay Free! "

The main points developed by Edward Snowden during his speech at the Applied Machine Learning Days at EPFL. In the second part of his speech, the American answered questions. The main part of this interview are also reported.

Conflict Between Open Access and Open Science: APCs Are a Key Part of the Problem, Preprints Are a Key Part of the Solution

Conflict Between Open Access and Open Science: APCs Are a Key Part of the Problem, Preprints Are a Key Part of the Solution

Will preprinting accelerate the death of predatory journals and facilitate better models for scholarly communication?

Trump's Dismantling of Environmental Regulations Unwinds 50 Years of Protections

Trump's Dismantling of Environmental Regulations Unwinds 50 Years of Protections

President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to "ensure" that the United States has the "cleanest air" and the "cleanest water," but his administration's efforts to slash environmental regulations have been extensive.

ACM Signs New Open Access Agreements with Four Leading Universities

ACM Signs New Open Access Agreements with Four Leading Universities

New ACM Open Publishing Model Promises to Accelerate ACM's Transition to Full Open Access  New York, NY, January 23, 2020-ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, entered into transformative open access agreements with several of its largest institutional customers, including the University of California (UC), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Iowa State University (ISU). The agreements, which run for three-year terms beginning January 1, 2020, cover both access to and open access publication in ACM's journals, proceedings and magazines for these universities, and represent the first transformative open access agreements for ACM.  "This joint agreement shows …

It's Not What Libraries Hold; It's Who Libraries Serve

It's Not What Libraries Hold; It's Who Libraries Serve

The business of higher education, as it relates to libraries, is undergoing continued and drastic change. Managing collections is now only one aspect of library management, which is moving towards a user-centered future.

Berghahn will flip thirteen anthropology journals to open access in 2020

Berghahn will flip thirteen anthropology journals to open access in 2020

Berghahn Books will take the step of publishing thirteen core anthropology journals as open access starting with their 2020 volumes under the subscribe-to-open model (S2O). 

Open Scholarship Knowledge Base

Open Scholarship Knowledge Base

The Open Scholarship Knowledge Base is a collaborative initiative to curate and share knowledge about the what, why, and how of open scholarship.

Future of UK Science Hangs in the Balance in Crucial Year

Future of UK Science Hangs in the Balance in Crucial Year

Promises to double funding and create new blue skies research agency sit uneasily with likelihood of crashing out of EU science programmes.

Journal Brand and Research Culture

Journal Brand and Research Culture

Opinion: Things are not right in the culture of research, and that this is ultimately to the detriment of research. Two issues emerge: the huge complexity of the research ecosystem, and the related problem of collective action that this complexity creates.

Universities Must Overhaul the Toxic Working Culture for Academic Researchers | Anton Muscatelli

Universities Must Overhaul the Toxic Working Culture for Academic Researchers | Anton Muscatelli

A survey has warned that researchers are too stressed. It's up to universities to improve their working environment

Recommendations for Transparent Communication of Open Access Prices and Services

Recommendations for Transparent Communication of Open Access Prices and Services

An independent report published by Information Power aims to improve the transparency of Open Access (OA) prices and services.

Viewpoint: We Lost the Brexit Argument. But We Need to Fight on

Viewpoint: We Lost the Brexit Argument. But We Need to Fight on

The Scientists for EU group is gearing up for 2020 after the desperate disappointment of losing its three-and-a-half year campaign against Brexit - a result that has major implications for research.

Conversational AI Can Propel Social Stereotypes

Conversational AI Can Propel Social Stereotypes

As AI gets more talkative, designers need to consider the ethics of gendering not just voices, but the finer nuances of speech patterns.

Science Institutions for a Complex, Fast-Paced World

Science Institutions for a Complex, Fast-Paced World

The post-World War II model for organizing science remains powerful, but moving beyond its limits will be necessary for assuring the contributions of science to solving a wide array of challenges.

Oceans Are Warming at the Same Rate As if Five Hiroshima Bombs Were Dropped in Every Second

Oceans Are Warming at the Same Rate As if Five Hiroshima Bombs Were Dropped in Every Second

The world's oceans are now heating at the same rate as if five Hiroshima atomic bombs were dropped into the water every second, scientists have said.

Atlas of Open Science and Research in Finland 2019 Published

Atlas of Open Science and Research in Finland 2019 Published

This evaluation of Finnish research organisations, research-funding organisations, academic and cultural institutes abroad and learned societies and academies examines the key indicators chosen to assess the performance on openness. Key indicators are used to provide some insights on the competences and capacity of the research system in supporting progress towards openness. Barriers and development needs are discussed, with suggestions for improvement.

The T&F Buyout of F1000 Neutralizes the Plan S Threat Infrastructures

The T&F Buyout of F1000 Neutralizes the Plan S Threat Infrastructures

I am tempted to think that Taylor & Francis's acquisition of F1000 should be critiqued on grounds of yet more gross for-profit consolidation in the scholarly publishing ecosystem. I believe this is true. But funders won't care. The EU wants to maintain its stance of market non-interference and I do not believe that the for-profit status of such entities bothers others like Wellcome or Gates.

Could the Apprenticeship Levy Be the Answer to the UK's Diversity Crisis and £63bn Skills Shortage?

Could the Apprenticeship Levy Be the Answer to the UK's Diversity Crisis and £63bn Skills Shortage?

The current skills gap costs the UK £63 billion a year, with an estimated 600,000 job vacancies in digital technology alone. There are currently more FTSE100 companies being led by men called David and Steve, than companies led by women and ethnic minorities. Meanwhile, we know that companies that achieve...

New Report on Internal Cost Reallocation Models Within the Bibsam Consortium

New Report on Internal Cost Reallocation Models Within the Bibsam Consortium

Robert van der Vooren conducted a study commissioned by the National Library of Sweden about new ways of distributing publisher contract costs to Bibsam Consortium participants. The study is intended to be a basis when the Bibsam Consortium makes cost distribution future proof for full open access publishing.