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Increasing evidence of women's under-representation in some scientific disciplines is prompting researchers to reassess common narratives that women's under-representation is due to limited skills and/or social centrality.
This study examines psychologists' motivations to share data and how to better promote psychologists' data sharing and open data badge adoption.
Global South scientists say that an open-access movement led by wealthy nations deprives them of credit and undermines their efforts.
Governments that ignore or delay acting on scientific advice are missing out on a crucial opportunity to control the pandemic.
An "XKCD" comic and its many remixes perfectly captures the absurdity of academic research.
The decision by the Biden administration to support the proposal comes after months of fruitless talks at the World Trade Organization.
The urgency of the climate crisis demands individual ethics as much as a willingness to cooperate with power. But reconnecting humans with the natural world also forces us to revisit the promises of ever-growing efficiency and a culture of exploitation.
When Martin Eve had a stroke five years ago, paywalls prevented him researching his condition. He argues that the current system is patronising, elitist, and needs to change.
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One of the biggest antitrust lawsuits in the history of Big Tech kicked off this week - here's what you need to know.
Many scientist couples move abroad together, but Gidiane Scaratti and Rafael Kenji Nishihora chose to live and work in different countries. This is what they learnt.
A mental health startup built its business on easy-to-use technology. Patients joined in droves. Then came a catastrophic data breach.
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Analysis of remains of crew on Henry VIII's favourite warship sheds light on diversity in Tudor England
The dictate of 'systemic importance' is being used to purge all forms of culture resistant to marketization. A newly strengthened alliance between the cultural sector and civil society has emerged in response. But an anti-democratic backlash is also gaining ground, not least from within culture itself.
Universities, funders and others want to expand the contributions that the scientific community values and recognizes, says Karen Stroobants.
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.
Companies like Facebook aren’t building technology for you, they’re building technology for your data. They collect everything they can from FB, Instagram, and WhatsApp in order to sell visibility into people and their lives.
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.
The Senate is considering Eric S. Lander's nomination after months of delay. Some experts ask if an adviser can actually have an impact.
The virus will overwhelm health services across South America, Asia and Africa unless world leaders take urgent action.
As two UK universities cut their courses, historians fear others could follow.
Research assessment exercises in the UK ostensibly serve to evaluate research, but they also shape and manage it. The author argues that the REF promotes a narrow vision and calls for a wider distribution of research funding to prevent fields being captured by dominant academic cultures.
Early career researchers appear to be at the vanguard of open research, with them reporting more positive attitudes towards sharing of code compared to more experienced researchers.
