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EPFL's Student Solves a 100-year-old Physics Enigma
An EPFL Bachelor's student has solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for 100 years.
Lib Dems Warn of Brexit Brain Drain As EU Academics Quit
Figures show 11,000 have left UK universities in three years since referendum.
Publishers Announce a Major New Service to Plug Leakage
A group of leading publishers is announcing a major new service to plug leakage, improve discovery and access, fight piracy, compete with ResearchGate, and position their platform for the OA ecosystem.
Mosaic to Close After Five Years of Award-winning Long-form Journalism
Mosaic, Wellcome's digital platform for long-form journalism, is closing on 10 December 2019.
Biased Algorithms Are Easier to Fix Than Biased People
Racial discrimination by algorithms or by people is harmful - but that's where the similarities end.
Towards Responsible Research Career Assessment
Growing evidence suggests that the evaluation of researchers’ careers on the basis of narrow definitions of excellence is restricting diversity in academia, both in the development of its labour force and its approaches to address societal challenges. Recommendations are suggested for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.
On Being Accepted: The Views of Four People with Disabilities Working in Scholarly Communications
On Being Accepted: The Views of Four People with Disabilities Working in Scholarly Communications
What's it like to be work in scholarly communications as a person with a disability - physical or mental?
The Plan S Open Access Initiative Creates More Opportunities Than Threats for Latin America
The Plan S Open Access Initiative Creates More Opportunities Than Threats for Latin America
Concerns about the threat from the Global North to Latin America's exemplary tradition of open access publishing are understandable but ultimately misplaced.
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Amazon Joins Tech's Great Quantum Computing Race
The company's AWS unit will allow customers to tap quantum machines from three startups.
NASA Finds India's Vikram Moon Lander Crash Site, With Amateur's Help
NASA Finds India's Vikram Moon Lander Crash Site, With Amateur's Help
Since India lost contact with the spacecraft in September, the precise location of its crash has been a mystery.
Releasing a New CORE Discovery Browser Extension
CORE Discovery helps users find freely accessible copies of research papers that might be behind a paywall on the publisher's website. It is backed by our huge dataset of millions of full text open…
Chinese Students Paid to Rort Australian Universities As Government Tackles Cheating
Chinese Students Paid to Rort Australian Universities As Government Tackles Cheating
Most agencies claim a 100 per cent pass rate with zero risk of being found out. New laws are being drafted to target contract cheating in Australia.
The Guardian's View on University Strikes: a Battle for the Soul of the Campus
The Guardian's View on University Strikes: a Battle for the Soul of the Campus
The market model in higher education has created an intellectual precariat who are right to fight back.
Monitoring Agreements with Open Access Elements: Why Article-Level Metadata Are Important
Monitoring Agreements with Open Access Elements: Why Article-Level Metadata Are Important
With more agreements including some form of Open Access, consortia and academic institutions need to monitor the number of Open Access publications, the costs and the value of these agreements.
'I Have a Ph.D. in Not Having Money'
Medical school is expensive for everyone. But for low-income students, the hidden costs can be prohibitive.
The Natural Selection of Bad Science
Poor research design and data analysis encourage false-positive findings. The persistence of poor methods results partly from incentives that favour them, leading to the natural selection of bad science.
Data Repository Selection: Criteria That Matter
This blog post is a joint announcement of an initiative by several publishers in collaboration with Fairsharing and DataCite to help authors select appropriate data repositories.
I'm Striking Because Insecure Academic Contracts Are Ruining My Mental Health
I'm Striking Because Insecure Academic Contracts Are Ruining My Mental Health
A recent University and College Union (UCU) survey reported that 70% of the 49,000 researchers in higher education in the UK are currently employed on fixed-term contracts, as are 37,000 teaching staff (the majority of whom are paid hourly). The authors argues that the yearly search for new work is harming their health and is forcing them to put their life on hold.
Europe's New Space Budget to Enable CO2 Mapping
Europe will press ahead with a network of satellites to track carbon dioxide emissions across the globe. The enhanced capability is expected to be a potent tool in helping all nations - not just European ones - better understand their carbon footprint.
The Tyranny of Unintended Consequences: Richard Poynder on Open Access and the Open Access Movement
The Tyranny of Unintended Consequences: Richard Poynder on Open Access and the Open Access Movement
A recent opinion paper by Richard Poynder offers analysis and prognostication with regard to the current state and future prospects of the open access movement.
The Challenges of Sharing Data in an Era of Politicized Science
Can journals help to “protect” the scientific community and the public from unscrupulous reanalysis of data?
Marc Schiltz Re-elected President of Science Europe
Marc Schiltz, Secretary General and Executive Head of the FNR, has been re-elected President of Science Europe, an association of major European research funding and research performing organisations.
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