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Last week my friend Andy Kern (a population geneticist at Rutgers) went on a bit of a bender on Twitter prompted by his discovery of PLOS’s IRS Form 990 – the annual required financial filing of non-profit corporations in the United States.
Once again, reproducibility is in the news. Most recently we hear that irreproducibility is irreproducible and thus everything is actually fine...
Old-fashioned ways of reporting new discoveries are holding back medical research. Some scientists are pushing for change
A collection of 150 personal stories from scientists who are combining a career in research with their roles as parents and carers, each in their own way.
Female first authorship has increased since 1994 but plateaued from 2009 to 2014
Johns Hopkins and MedImmune team up to train scientists
Benefits and costs to the authors of posting preprints as a function of the time of posting.
This week’s budget contained the usual announcements about new research facilities. But behind the welcome news, concerns continue to mount
At ScienceOpen, there’s nothing more we like than good news for open science! That’s why we’re happy this week to see ORCID announcing a new partnership with the DFG, the German R…
The problem with p-values.
Many in the scientific community praise preprints as a means of overcoming the high costs and lengthy peer review process of elite journals, which some argue thwart progress.
Women’s median annual earnings stubbornly remain about 20 percent below men’s. Why is progress stalling?
Survey finds that 24% of research projects get new titles, up from 10% in 2012
An essay by the Pulitzer-prizewinning science journalist Deborah Blum.
There are three vectors of failure that can be addressed by better technology: time, cost, and the quality of the output itself.
Scientists are designing cells that can manufacture drugs, food and materials and even act as diagnostic biosensors.
John Ioannidis is perhaps best known for a 2005 paper “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.” One of the most highly cited researchers in the world, Ioannidis, a professor at Stanford, has built a career in the field of meta-research.
It is now easier to obtain a clear and transparent overview of the thousands of scientific research projects funded by the SNSF. Its P3 database has been redesigned to display information interactively.
Crises of infectious diseases are becoming more common. The world should be better prepared
Computers are getting better and better at the jobs that previously made sense for researchers to outsource to citizen scientists. But don't worry: there's still a role for people in these projects.
Inspiration from influential European academics on Open Access & what still needs to be done
Countries with weak national research systems were always going to struggle to win ERC grants.
As the number of papers needing review increases, journals are thinking of replacing a voluntary system with cash rewards
Peter Maloca from University of Basel is one of the winners of the Wellcome Image Awards 2016.
A review of approaches and experiences on how to convert subscription-based scholarly journals to open access.
In the race to apply for research funding, writing statements about future impact can feel like a charade.
