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Why an Age of Machine Learning Needs the Humanities

Why an Age of Machine Learning Needs the Humanities

If democracy depends on informed citizens, democracy is in trouble. This is a moment of crisis for many institutions, including higher education, especially in disciplines such as English, philosophy, and history, which promise to prepare students as citizens. To prepare students for a world where information is filtered by computers, we will need a stronger alliance between the humanities and math. This alliance has two reciprocal parts: cultural criticism of the mathematical models shaping our world, and mathematical inquiry about culture.

Practices and Patterns in Research Information Management: Findings from a Global Survey

Practices and Patterns in Research Information Management: Findings from a Global Survey

OCLC Research and euroCRIS, the international organization for research information, partnered to develop a survey and synthesize the results to examine how research institutions worldwide are applying research information management (RIM) practices.

The Biggest Science Stories of 2018

The Biggest Science Stories of 2018

This year taught us more about distant planets and our own world, about the ways we're influencing our environment and the ways we're changing ourselves.

90% of All the Scientists That Ever Lived Are Alive Today

90% of All the Scientists That Ever Lived Are Alive Today

 If science is growing exponentially, then the major technological advancements and upheavals of the past 200 years are only the tip of the iceberg.

Gender and Quality Create Conflict when Hiring Academics

Gender and Quality Create Conflict when Hiring Academics

Many believe it is difficult to reconcile demands for gender equality and measures such as moderate quotas with academia's conception of quality. This is according to a new master's thesis on assessments and gender in hiring processes for senior-level positions.

A Year in ORBIT | ORCID

A Year in ORBIT | ORCID

A year ago, we launched the ORCID Reducing Burden and Improving Transparency (ORBIT) project. Find out how far we've come since then in this post by ORCID staff Josh Brown and Tom Demeranville, who are leading the project.

Margaret Heffernan: 'The More Academics Compete, the Fewer Ideas They Share'

Margaret Heffernan: 'The More Academics Compete, the Fewer Ideas They Share'

The entrepreneur and author on how universities can create a healthy working culture

Open Research | Wellcome

Open Research | Wellcome

We want the research we fund - like publications, data, software and materials - to be open and accessible, so it can have the greatest possible impact.

ESRC Wins International Awards for Videos of Research Impact - Economic and Social Research Council

ESRC Wins International Awards for Videos of Research Impact - Economic and Social Research Council

Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda

Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda

The idea of the conference is to bring to the fore the impact contributions of social sciences and humanities (SSH) research to transformative national and European research and innovation agendas, as well as to openly reflect on and structurally discuss the topic. Due to the huge interest in the conference and limited seating, a live-streaming of the main sessions of the conference on both conference days is offered. 

Open Letter in Support of Funder Open Publishing Mandates

Open Letter in Support of Funder Open Publishing Mandates

The undersigned researchers believe that the world's scholarly literature is a public resource that only achieves its full value when it is freely available to all. 

First Law of Leadership: Be Human First, Scientist Second

First Law of Leadership: Be Human First, Scientist Second

Want to get the best research from your team? Take these six steps to invest in stronger relationships.

How the Entire Scientific Community Can Confront Gender Bias in the Workplace

How the Entire Scientific Community Can Confront Gender Bias in the Workplace

Evidence overwhelmingly shows structural barriers to women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, and suggests that the onus cannot be on women alone to confront the gender bias in our community. Here, I share my experience as a scientist and a woman who has collected data during more than ten years of scientific training about how best to navigate the academic maze of biases and barriers.

The Complexity of the Commons: Scientists Recast Social Dilemmas

The Complexity of the Commons: Scientists Recast Social Dilemmas

A new classification system adds real-world complexity to social dilemmas like the paradigmatic 'tragedy of the commons.'

Release of the FOSTER Open Science Toolkit

Release of the FOSTER Open Science Toolkit

FOSTER Plus developed a set of ten free online courses covering key topics of Open Science. Each course takes about one hour to complete.

OpenUP Policy Recommendations

OpenUP Policy Recommendations

OpenUP Hub is an open, dynamic and collaborative knowledge environment that systematically captures, organizes and categorizes research outcomes, best practices, tools and guidelines. Explore the given material about opening up the review-dissemination-assessment phases of the research lifecycle and practices to support the transition to a more open and gender sensitive research environment.

Reference Implementation for Open Scientometric Indicators

Reference Implementation for Open Scientometric Indicators

Within the project "Reference implementation for Open Scientometric Indicators" (ROSI), new assessments and visualizations of conventional and alternative metrics (altmetrics) will be developed and their effect on researchers will be investigated. For this purpose, a reference implementation based on the open source research information system VIVO will be developed in which various metrics are combined with data from different openly licensed sources. In order to develop the requirements of the target groups, surveys are going to be conducted to investigate the effect of scientometric indicators on scientist's and their expectations regarding those indicators. The objectives of the project are firstly to evaluate the scientometric needs and concerns of the target groups, and secondly to implement a usable reference implementation of a toolset that reflects the results of the study and that enables transparent, license-free, flexibly adaptable analysis of the output of researchers, contributors and organisations.

We Scientists 2035 Workshop Day - with Jacques Dubochet | 7 Feb 2019 | Veranstaltung | Naturwissenschaften Schweiz

We Scientists 2035 Workshop Day - with Jacques Dubochet | 7 Feb 2019 | Veranstaltung | Naturwissenschaften Schweiz

Do you work in a scientific research institution? Are you frustrated with aspects of current research culture, such as the pressure to "publish or perish", the reproducibility crisis, climbing the academic ladder and persistent gender biases? Do you want to shape the culture that you work in? Join us on the 7th of February, 2019 at the University of Lausanne for an afternoon of "We Scientists 2035 Workshops". Let's make small changes today for a better research culture tomorrow!

The European Open Science Cloud is Officially Launched

The European Open Science Cloud is Officially Launched

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is officially launched. The inauguration marks the conclusion of a long process, demonstrates the importance of EOSC for the advancement of research in Europe and introduces the new EOSC Portal.