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The Art of Crafting Conferences
The benefits and challenges of three approaches to scientific meetings.
DARPA Has an Ambitious USD1.5 Billion Plan to Reinvent Electronics
DARPA Has an Ambitious USD1.5 Billion Plan to Reinvent Electronics
The US military agency is worried the country could lose its edge in semiconductor chips with the end of Moore’s Law.
Boycott the Journal Rankings
Journal rankings are a rigged game. The blacklist of history of economic thought journals isn’t a fluke nor a conspiracy - it exposes how citation rankings really work.
Peer Review of Health Research Funding Proposals: A Systematic Map and Systematic Review of Innovations for Effectiveness and Efficiency
Peer Review of Health Research Funding Proposals: A Systematic Map and Systematic Review of Innovations for Effectiveness and Efficiency
Virtual peer review using videoconferencing or teleconferencing appears promising for reducing costs by avoiding the need for reviewers to travel, but again any consequences for quality have not been adequately assessed.
Reputation or Peer Review? the Role of Outliers
We present an agent-based model of paper publication and consumption that allows to study the effect of two different evaluation mechanisms, peer review and reputation, on the quality of the manuscripts accessed by a scientific community.
When It Comes to Sexual Harassment, Academia Is Fundamentally Broken
Even after reading every single related news article, it is still worth reading the 300-plus page National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine report on Sexual Harassment in its entirety. The report lays out why academia is fundamentally broken and incapable of dealing with harassment.
In the Era of Brexit and Fake News, Scientists Need to Embrace Social Media
In the Era of Brexit and Fake News, Scientists Need to Embrace Social Media
Social media can promote openness in research as international partnerships and collaborations are jeopardised, while increased adoption by scientists can also redress the balance that has shifted towards ill-evidenced news on some platforms.
This Woman Discovered Scintillating Deep-Space Objects, and Her Male Colleague Got the Nobel Prize
This Woman Discovered Scintillating Deep-Space Objects, and Her Male Colleague Got the Nobel Prize
Jocelyn Bell Burnell's skills on the radio telescope were on point. Following the discovery of pulsars, Bell Burnell faced casual sexism from the media and public as well.
Science, Research and Innovation Performance of the EU
"Science, research and innovation performance of the EU, 2018" (SRIP) analyses Europe’s performance dynamics in science, research and innovation and its drivers, in a global context.
How We Judge Research Outputs When Making Funding Decisions
Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, and Jim Smith, Director of Science, discuss the steps Wellcome is taking to fulfil the principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).
The Important Thing is Not to Win, It is to Take Part
What if scientists benefit from participating in research grant competitions?
Girls Who Code Encourages STEM, One Coding Class at a Time
The nonprofit's Summer Immersion Program aims to catch girls before their interest in computer science plummets.
Affordable Open Access: There's a Way, Now We Need a Will
What will it take to make the majority of scholarship open access so anyone can read it without a paywall?
Preprints Promote Transparency and Communication
The potential of preprints to drive scientific understanding and innovation, and even support good journalism.
DOAJ Under Attack from an Unknown Third Party
After much investigation and active measures, we can state that the DOAJ is effectively under attack from an unknown third party.
Science Alone Won’t Save the Earth. People Have to Do That.
We need to start talking about what kind of planet we want to live on.
How Freely Should Scientists Share Their Data?
How Freely Should Scientists Share Their Data?
The Open Science movement champions transparency, but how much and how quickly is a matter of dispute.
Tokyo Medical School Admits Changing Results to Exclude Women
Tokyo Medical School Admits Changing Results to Exclude Women
University manipulated test scores for more than a decade to ensure more men became doctors.
How Accessible is Psychology Data?
In a slightly depressing new paper, researchers describe how they tried to get access to the data behind 111 of the most cited psychology and psychiatry papers published in the past decade. Only 14% of the datasets were made available with no restrictions on who could access them.
Who Would You Share Your Funding With?
I want to see whether the wisdom of crowds does a better job than conventional grant review at supporting research, says Johan Bollen.
Saudi-Canada Dispute: Students Forced to Return Home
Students from Saudi Arabia studying Canada are have been ordered by their government to leave the country in the middle of their courses.
Saudi Arabia to Withdraw Students from Canada
Withdrawal is ordered as part of larger diplomatic spat over Canadian criticism of Saudi arrests of human rights activists.
Europe Pulls Together in Scientific Union
Smaller countries rely more on regional collaborations than on domestic interaction.
Rosalind Franklin and the Damage of Gender Harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed - and what hasn’t.
Citizen Science Can Make Systematic Reviews Faster and More Efficient
Citizen Science Can Make Systematic Reviews Faster and More Efficient
Citizen science: crowdsourcing for systematic reviews looks at how people can contribute their expertise to scientific studies using new online platforms - even if they don’t think of themselves as researchers or scientists.