Chief Coca-Cola scientist leaves amid criticism over obesity research
Research shifted focus away from harms of sugary drinks to exercise benefits.
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How to build a better PhD
There are too many PhD students for too few academic jobs - but with imagination, the problem could be solved.
The postdoc's dilemma: when to give up on romance and file for divorce?
For most young researchers, academic research is the love of their life. But how much can and should be sacrificed for this love?
How science can be put to common good use?
Drivers of research may need to be tweaked to ensure better contribution to society.
Tradition and innovation in scientists' research strategies
An analysis of the essential tension identifies institutional forces that sustain tradition and suggestions of policy interventions to foster innovation.
The distribution of probability values in medical abstracts
The distribution of p-values in reported medical abstracts provides evidence for systematic error in the reporting of p-values..
The data sharing advantage in astrophysics
Study presenting evidence for the existence of a citation advantage within astrophysics for papers that link to data.
100 Women 2015: How can we stop unconscious bias?
We can't avoid making snap decisions about other people. Or can we?
A social networking site is not an open access repository
What's the difference between ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and the institutional repository?
7 facts about a revolutionary technology
7 facts about a revolutionary technology
What everyone should know about cut-and-paste genetics.
Got just a single observation?
A new journal is encouraging scientists to publish single observations, no matter how small.
FWF commits to 5 years of funding for OLH
The Austrian Science Fund has agreed to support the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system at a rate equivalent to 15 institutions from 2016-2020.
Sci-Hub, BookFi and LibGen resurface after being shut down
Though several large online repositories of free books and academic articles were pulled offline, they are not planning to cease their activities and are continuing their operations through alternative domains and on the dark web.
Built on trust
Written agreements between parties in research collaborations are not a sign of a lack of faith.
The weaker sex
At first glance the patriarchy appears to be thriving. Yet there is plenty of cause for concern. Men cluster at the bottom as well as the top.
Elsevier leads the business the internet could not kill
The web had been created to bring academics together; now it offered them a way of sharing their research online for free.
Reinventing science's social contract in the 21st century
Public funding made available for research after the WWII were expected to lead to industrial development, economic growth, and a general improvement of living standards. Yet, this model has been questioned for a few year.
A short (personal) future history of revolution 2.0
It is not an insult when others try to replicate our research—it is standard science
How peer-review constrains cognition
Peer-review is neither reliable, fair, nor a valid basis for predicting 'impact': as quality control, peer-review is not fit for purpose.
A citation-based, author- and age-normalized, logarithmic index for evaluation of individual researchers independently of publication counts
A citation-based, author- and age-normalized, logarithmic index for evaluation of individual researchers independently of publication counts
A paper proposing an index (namely, the L-index) that does not depend on the number of publications, accounts for different co-author contributions and age of publications, and scales from 0.0 to 9.9.
OpenCon2015 presentations
OpenCon2015 posters and talks on innovations in science communication and open science.
METRICS Con 2015 presentations
Meta Research Innovation Center at Stanford conference 2015 presentations on data transparency, open science, and reproducibility.
Cambridge Elements
Introducing a brand new concept in academic publishing and scholarly communication, combining the best features of journals and books.
'Good' settlement for science may come with strings
Science budget will rise with inflation amid cuts elsewhere, following government spending review.
Albert Einstein and relativity in the pages of The Times
One hundred years after Albert Einstein made public his theory of general relativity, many of us struggle to understand it.
The establishment of an Open Science policy platform
The Directorate-General for Research and Innovation intends to set-up an Open Science Policy Platform to develop open science policy through a structured discussion with the main stakeholders.
rOpenSci announces $2.9M award from the Helmsley Charitable Trust
rOpenSci, whose mission is to develop and maintain sustainable software tools that allow researchers to access, visualize, document, and publish open data on the Web, has been awarded a grant of nearly $2.9 million over 3 years from The Helmsley Charitable Trust.
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