Don’t Let Useful Data Go to Waste
Don’t Let Useful Data Go to Waste
Researchers must seek out others’ deposited biological sequences in community databases, urges Franziska Denk.
Send us a link
Goldman Sachs and Bill Gates Quietly Invested $52 Million in a Social Network for Scientists
Goldman Sachs and Bill Gates Quietly Invested $52 Million in a Social Network for Scientists
Goldman Sachs, the Wellcome Trust, and Bill Gates all put money into the Berlin company, which has over 12 million scientists on its platform.
Horizon 2020 Rules Changed to Tackle Pay Gap
The European Commission has changed the Horizon 2020 model grant agreement, to try to address complaints about low salary levels among the newer 13 member states.
A Principled Method for Panel Assessment
How to take into account differences in standards, confidence and bias in assessment panels.
A Post-Publication Peer Review Success Story
A Post-Publication Peer Review Success Story
In 2016, Joel Pitt and Prof. Helene Hill published an intriguing paper with us looking at the prevalence of scientific fraud in preclinical research...
How Bidding for Publishing Services Could Lower Academic Journal Costs
How Bidding for Publishing Services Could Lower Academic Journal Costs
Why journal publishing should be upended from the current model, in which institutions pay publishers for access to content, to one in which the academic community pays for services to publish content and retains ownership of research.
ResearchGate Raises $52.6M for Its Social Research Network for Scientists
As LinkedIn continues to reign as the world’s largest social network for the wider working world, we are seeing the rise of alternatives that are besting and beating it in specific verticals.
UK Scientists Welcome Changes to Controversial Research Reforms
Amendments aim to protect autonomy and the independence of research funders from political interference.
The Hi-Tech War on Science Fraud
The problem of fake data may go far deeper than scientists admit. Now a team of researchers has a controversial plan to root out the perpetrators
WHO Publishes List of Bacteria for which New Antibiotics Are Urgently Needed
WHO Publishes List of Bacteria for which New Antibiotics Are Urgently Needed
WHO today published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant "priority pathogens"—a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health.
Does Engagement in Advocacy Hurt the Credibility of Scientists?
It is often assumed that issue advocacy will compromise the credibility of scientists.
What Is the Role of Science in a Post-Normal World?
Q&A with Daniel Sarewitz, Professor of Science and Society at Arizona State University.
Concerns Regarding the ASAPbio Central Service and Center
Preprints are clearly the future of scientific communication, but currently face multiple obstacles.
Should Scientists Be Taught How to Work in a Team?
Soft skills like teamwork and communication could boost undergraduates' career prospects.
What, You Can’t Tell Two Lemurs Apart? Computers Can
New software that sees spots and stripes are helping biologists track animals in the wild without the tranquilizer guns and radio collars.
AI Learns to Write Its Own Code by Stealing From Other Programs
Software called DeepCoder has solved simple programming challenges by piecing together bits of borrowed code.
New Algorithm Hopes to Counter Potential Bias on Panels
Mathematical model works by trying to remove skewing of results in group funding decisions
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
Publication Ban Affects Former Collaborators
When firing Allen Braun, the NIDCD also barred his colleagues from publishing data collected over a 25-year period.
Why Scientists Shouldn’t Replicate Their Own Work
For a career-minded scientist, to fail to replicate your own work is worse than never doing the replication at all.
Open Access to Scientific Peer Reviewed Publications in Horizon 2020
The first data on the uptake of open access to publications in Horizon 2020.
Collaboration and Competition Can Both Stimulate Innovation
Diverse approaches suit different goals.
Robots and AI could soon have feelings, hopes and rights
We have long believed ourselves to be the only intelligent beings on Earth – that may soon change and the consequences will be dramatic for law, politics and society in general.
In Finland, Kids Learn Computer Science Without Computers
Students can learn the basics with a set of knitting needles.
×