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Making Medicine, Not Money: How One U of T Researcher's Startup Is Rethinking Big Pharma's Business Model

Making Medicine, Not Money: How One U of T Researcher's Startup Is Rethinking Big Pharma's Business Model

The latest medical innovation to spring from Aled Edwards’s University of Toronto lab isn’t a new protein structure or potential drug target – it’s a business model.

The Titans of AI Are Getting Their Work Double-Checked by Students

The Titans of AI Are Getting Their Work Double-Checked by Students

A challenge investigating reproducibility of empirical results submitted to the 2018 International Conference on Learning Representations.

100 Hottest and 43 Emerging Specialty Areas in Global Scientific Research

100 Hottest and 43 Emerging Specialty Areas in Global Scientific Research

Clarivate Analytics identifies 143 prominent areas of scientific research over the past years.

Public Money, Public Code: Show Your Support For Free Software in Europe

Public Money, Public Code: Show Your Support For Free Software in Europe

Public Money, Public Code is a campaign of the Free Software Foundation Europe that seeks to transform that ideal into European law.

Springer Nature Blocks Access to Articles in China

Springer Nature Blocks Access to Articles in China

Academic publisher Springer Nature says it has blocked access to articles within China to comply with demands from the Chinese government.

Financial Ties of Medical Journal Editors Should Be Disclosed

Financial Ties of Medical Journal Editors Should Be Disclosed

Approximately half of the editors of 52 prestigious U.S. medical journals received payments from the pharmaceutical and medical device industry in 2014.

These Professors Want to Lower the Rankings of Schools That Underpay Adjunct Faculty

These Professors Want to Lower the Rankings of Schools That Underpay Adjunct Faculty

Four Penn professors have signed a petition calling on the U.S. News & World Report to alter its rankings by docking points from schools that underpay adjunct faculty members.

Building a Culture of Data Sharing: Policy Design and Implementation for Research Data Management in Development Research

Building a Culture of Data Sharing: Policy Design and Implementation for Research Data Management in Development Research

Investigating the implementation of data management and sharing requirements within seven development research projects.

Trashing Science in Government Grants Isn’t Normal

Trashing Science in Government Grants Isn’t Normal

The Case of the EPA, John Konkus, and Climate Change.

Authorship Revised: Alternatives to Traditional Authorship

Authorship Revised: Alternatives to Traditional Authorship

The author line provides no adequate information on the qualitative contribution of the single persons listed.

A Radically Open Approach to Developing Infrastructure for Open Science

A Radically Open Approach to Developing Infrastructure for Open Science

Hindawi’s CEO, Paul Peters, explains the problems inherent in proprietary solutions for Open Science infrastructure and presents a proposal for how things can be done differently.

Research Results Are Increasingly Available For Free

Research Results Are Increasingly Available For Free

A movement to make the fruits of research available without charge has helped students and faculty members gain access to an increasing number of academic articles.

How A Data Visualization Of Sperm Led To A Scientific Breakthrough

How A Data Visualization Of Sperm Led To A Scientific Breakthrough

Two scientists set out to animate how sperm moves. They ended up making a major discovery.

Philanthropists Are Getting Behind a New Push for Government Science Funding

Philanthropists Are Getting Behind a New Push for Government Science Funding

Philanthropy’s no replacement for crucial government science funding, but that message can get lost amid the high-profile gifts. Some science funders are now backing a push to protect federal funding.

Scientists in the Lurch After Imprecise MHRD Notice About 'Paid Journals'

Scientists in the Lurch After Imprecise MHRD Notice About 'Paid Journals'

A "completely confusing statement" in a gazette notification has scientists wondering which of their papers will and won't be considered towards their promotions in the future.

A Very Quick Intro to Blockchain and Open Scholarship

A Very Quick Intro to Blockchain and Open Scholarship

Everybody talks about Blockchain these days, but why should we consider this technology when thinking about Open Scholarship?