Troubled from the start
Pivotal moments in the history of academic refereeing have occurred at times when the public status of science was being renegotiated.
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Why do women choose or reject careers in academic medicine?
A narrative review of empirical evidence
Innovative Companies Get Their Best Ideas from Academic Research
Government-funded research is behind any significant new product
European Cloud Initiative to give Europe a global lead in the data-driven economy
The Commission today presented its blueprint for cloud-based services and world-class data infrastructure to ensure science, business and public services reap benefits of big data revolution.
UK government pulls back from rule ‘gagging’ researchers
Research council grants will escape anti-lobbying crackdown, government confirms.
Cancer Research Is Broken
There’s a replication crisis in biomedicine—and no one even knows how deep it runs.
Data sharing pilot to report and reflect on data policy challenges
This week, FORCE2016 is taking place in Portland, USA. The FORCE11 yearly conference is devoted to the utilisation of technological and open science advancements towards a new-age scholarship founded on easily accessible, organised and reproducible research data.
Editorial control is a critical part of open peer review
Editorial control is a critical part of open peer review
I get the feeling that some researchers regard public, post-publication peer review as a non-rigorous, non-structured and poor alternative to traditional peer review...
The Unintended Consequences of the New Focus on Replicating Scientific Research
The Unintended Consequences of the New Focus on Replicating Scientific Research
And how to fix them. By Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus.
It's time to stand up to greedy academic publishers
The UK’s higher education institutions spend more than £180m on journal subscriptions every year. We need to come together and create a better system
You Pay to Read Research You Fund
Saying that Sci-Hub is about copyright infringement is like saying the Boston Tea Party was about late-night vandalism.
Merging Career And Motherhood, In Simultaneous Practice
Psychologist Tania Lombrozo and a colleague, both moms, built an academic conference keeping in mind parents who are trying to juggle the competing demands of caregiving and professional advancement.
Britain’s scientists must not be gagged
A ban on state-funded academics using their work to question government policy is to begin on 1 May. It’s either a cock-up or a conspiracy
Why A Culture of Preprints Developed in Physics, But Not Biology
Scientific journal policies, physics' head start with arXiv, and differences in the culture of the two disciplines may all play a role.
How grad students get paid affects where they work
Surprising results add to fierce debate over how NIH funds graduate students
NSF test finds eliminating deadlines halves number of grant proposals
NSF geosciences advisory committee reveales the preliminary results from a pilot program that got rid of grant proposal deadlines in favor of an anytime submission.
The complex role of gender in faculty hiring
In computer science faculty hiring decisions, gender is indirectly considered through its correlation with measures like productivity, study finds
E.U. urged to free all scientific papers by 2020
Dutch push for a quantum leap in open access
Harsh grades for ‘Europe’s MIT’
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) gets poor grades from the European Union’s financial watchdog.
Why so much science research is flawed – and what to do about it
Dodgy results are fuelling flawed policy decisions and undermining medical advances. They could even make us lose faith in science. New Scientist investigates
Revolutionizing research communication through a new academic publishing platform
The way that researchers communicate their work has not changed significantly in the last few centuries; academic publishing still relies on journal articles an…
Science fairs are as flawed as my solar-powered hot dog cooker
As the White House prepares for its annual science fair, it's worth remembering that these events leave some children behind.
Tech expert and cancer survivor to lead U.S. 1-million-person health study
A technology guru and cancer survivor has been tapped to head President Obama’s ambitious 1-million-person personalized medicine study.
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