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In its most recent publication, Education International examines the publishing giant Elsevier, whose success on the market is based on ethically questionable practices which endanger the transmission of knowledge and its condition as a public good.
Ideas in support of an upward trend in universities and academics setting up their own presses in an environment increasingly dominated by large commercial publishing houses.
A survey reveals some lab heads are using the need for visas to create unacceptable conditions for junior researchers.
The development of a brand-new version of Libero will be governed under a model that puts the community at the heart of the project.
The main aim of CHANGE is it to support research performing organisations (RPOs) to design and implement gender equality plans. This will be achieved by involving key actors, called Transfer Agents (TAs), within each organisation who will together with the core consortium partners transmit co-produced gender equality knowledge inside their institutions.
So, as the Statistical War and Tone War are in a lull, the Preregistration conflict has flared up yet again.
Much science communication research focuses on how science is represented and how science communication products are consumed. This article instead explores the production of a set of science communication projects, arguing that actor-network theory (ANT) can be one possible tool for such research.
Men are overrepresented in senior academic positions in Economics. What factors can explain this phenomenon, and how can we make the academic environment more inclusive?
Academic training, where senior scientists transfer their knowledge and skills to junior scientists through apprenticeship, plays a crucial role in the development of scientists. This study focuses on two aspects of academic training, autonomy and exploration.
When embarking on the next career step, is someone's PhD a blessing or a curse?
The way institutions conceptualise doctoral candidates - as individuals without baggage, able to devote all their time to their research - has very real consequences for those who do not fit this profile.
Science is mired in a "replication" crisis. Fixing it will not be easy.
Another big project has found that only half of studies can be repeated. And this time, the usual explanations fall flat.
A team of 186 researchers conducted replications of 28 classic and contemporary findings in psychology.
A new study suggests that scientists must embrace not fear Twitter.
Information on the size of academic search engines and bibliographic databases (ASEBDs) is often outdated or entirely unavailable. Hence, it is difficult to assess the scope of specific databases.
Research funders impose length limits on applications for practical reasons: to discourage epic submissions, and to ease the burden on reviewers. It’s also true that concise ideas are generally stronger ideas. But sticking to these limits can often seem a difficult and frustrating task.
Teams should comprise all gender identities to spark the most innovative endeavours, say researchers.
There is a myth that the public are sceptical about the merits of universities. In fact, as this research shows, the opposite is true. The public are hugely positive towards universities and see the benefits of a university education.
The solutions adopted by the high-energy physics community to foster reproducible research are examples of best practices that could be embraced more widely. This first experience suggests that reproducibility requires going beyond openness.
Data re-use can generate new insights that in turn lead to vital health benefits. To stimulate and celebrate the innovative re-use of data, the Wellcome Trust today launched the Wellcome Data Re-use Prizes.
It is a great challenge to get Early Career Researchers (ECRs) involved in peer review and to get them the necessary training to be confident reviewers.
Yoshua Bengio wants to stop talk of an AI arms race, and make the technology more accessible to the developing world.
If elected, Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson will, among other things, bring a different attitude toward climate science.
UBC scientists spent decades developing Glybera, the world's first approved gene therapy. But market forces needed just two years to make the potentially life-saving drug disappear.
An algorithm makes highly precise predictions about who will win the Nobel Prize but disagrees with the committee on the 2008 prize winner.
