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The efforts of young researchers to fight the perverse incentives that dominate science right now are all the more impressive because these scientists are at the most vulnerable point of their careers.
Millions of Flickr images were sucked into a database called MegaFace. Now some of those faces may have the ability to sue.
Publishers, reviewers and other members of the scientific community must fight science's preference for positive results - for the benefit of all.
Wellcome is right to call out hyper-competitiveness in research and question the focus on excellence. But other funders must follow its move.
A Chinese scientist’s startup fled the U.S. after a federal investigation that included a failed sting, airport stops and an unfounded child-porn search.
What does it mean to you, being a female scientist? Twenty women share their thoughts.
Australian chief scientist Alan Finkel calls for formal action to bake in better research practices.
Unlike most faulty research practices, fraud actively evades detection. It is also overlooked because the scientific community has been unwilling to have frank and open discussions about it.
ORCID has provided peer review functionality for going on three years. Peer review recognition is part of our broader commitment to improve recognition for all research contributions. It’s something that reviewers feel strongly about too.
Psychology’s replication crisis has changed the field. Today, authors are voluntarily posting their data, replication attempts are published in top journals, and researchers are increasing their sample sizes and committing to data collection and analysis plans in advance.
The entrepreneur and author on how universities can create a healthy working culture
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!
