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Million-dollar babies
Million-dollar babies
As Silicon Valley fights for talent, universities struggle to hold on to their stars
Favourite Reads of 2016 as Chosen by Scientists
Writers from the Guardian’s science blog network pick out the books from across the cultural spectrum that delighted them most this year
I Made My Grant Application Public
If funding applications were made under open access, science would benefit from more universal scrutiny.
Open Science Must Be Promoted by All Means Necessary
Finland aiming to have open access to all scientific publications by 2020.
Comparing Impact Factor and Scopus CiteScore
A preliminary analysis of the new Elsevier's CiteScore journal metric.
What Do We Know?
A look at the literature reveals shortcomings in the way OA and subscription models are being compared and suggests how future studies could build on existing research to provide a more accurate picture
CRISPR Heavyweights Battle in US Patent Court
The University of California, Berkeley, and the Broad Institute are vying for lucrative rights to the gene-editing system.
The Economy’s Hidden Problem: We’re Out of Big Ideas
Dwindling gains in science, medicine and technology hold back growth; is America too risk-averse?
NIH Director Francis Collins Says he Would Remain in Post Under Trump
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins said Friday that it would be a "privilege" to remain in that post if asked to stay by President-elect Donald Trump.
Peer Review Post-mortem: How a Flawed Aging Study was Published in Nature
How could an article with numerous shortcomings be published in top-tier journal Nature? Hester van Santen reveals how the gate-keepers of science knowingly let flawed research slip through.
Take the Time and Effort to Correct Misinformation
Scientists should challenge online falsehoods and inaccuracies — and harness the collective power of the Internet to fight back, argues Phil Williamson.
The Rise of Open Access Mega-Journals
A graph shows the dramatic rise of open access mega-journals such as Plos One, which offer to publish papers based on their scientific soundness rather than the significance or novelty of the results, and which accept research across a broad range of disciplines.
Higher Education Funding Council
A document that sets out the proposals of the four UK higher education funding bodies for the second Research Excellence Framework (REF) for the assessment of research in UK higher education institutions. The proposals seek to build on the first REF conducted in 2014, and to incorporate the principles identified in Lord Stern’s Independent Review of the REF.
Why Researchers Should Get the Same Client Confidentiality As Doctors
Promises made by researchers to participants to elicit the truth may not be worth the paper their written on if the courts can bulldoze though them.
Find Your Voice
Technology and practice can help shy and introverted researchers to succeed when reticence is risky.
PubPub
A free and open tool for collaborative editing, instant publishing, continuous review, and grassroots journals. PubPub is supported and advised by many MIT Media Lab professors, students, and friends.
A Summary of OpenCon Berlin 2016
OpenCon Berlin was one of numorous satellite events that took place after the main OpenCon 2016 conference that happened earlier this November in Washington, DC. It was organzied by OpenAIRE, ScienceOpen and Digital Science in cooperation with the Computer and Media Service of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Before the Abstract
Stories about science, research, and being a scientist.
Medicine at a Turning Point
The digital transformation of healthcare is creating major opportunities to better understand disease and effective therapies. But it also poses ethical and legal challenges. A conference organized by the Health Ethics and Policy Lab at UZH addressed some of the current issues.
To My Fellow Lawmakers: Let’s Read Real Science News, Not Breitbart
Fellow Congress members should rely on peer-reviewed science, not fake news.
Are Early Career Researchers the Harbingers of Change?
Part one of a longitudinal study over three years about the behaviour of researchers under 35 who have yet to achieve established or tenured positions.