America's Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms
Inside the U.S. and Panama's long-running collaboration to rid an entire continent of a deadly disease.
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#ECRWednesday Webinar: Reforming Academic Conferences
Join this month's webinar to hear what could be done to reform the conference experience for both organisers and participants.
Science Superpowers After COVID-19 Lockdowns Lift: a Letter of Hope from China to the United States
Publishers Invest in Preprints
Major scholarly publishers have invested substantially in preprints in recent years, integrating preprint deposit into manuscript submission workflows.
The Epic Battle Against Coronavirus Misinformation and Conspiracy Theories
Analysts are tracking false rumours about COVID-19 in hopes of curbing their spread.
Study Tells 'Remarkable Story' About COVID-19's Deadly Rampage Through a South African Hospital
Study Tells 'Remarkable Story' About COVID-19's Deadly Rampage Through a South African Hospital
On 9 March, a patient who had recently traveled to Europe and had symptoms of COVID-19 visited the emergency department of St Augustine’s in Durban, South Africa. Eight weeks later, 39 patients and 80 staff linked to the hospital had been infected, and 15 patients had died.
Reasons to Worry Less About the Explosion of Preprints - Absolutely Maybe
Swissuniversities and Elsevier Adopt a Pilot Agreement Combining Reading and Publishing
Swissuniversities and Elsevier Adopt a Pilot Agreement Combining Reading and Publishing
Swissuniversities has adopted a new transformative pilot agreement with Elsevier for research access and Open Access publishing in Switzerland.
Promoting Equity and Inclusion for Mothers in Academe
What academic workplaces can do.
Preprinting a Pandemic: the Role of Preprints in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Six Tips for Data Sharing in the Age of the Coronavirus
Researchers are rushing to pool resources and data sets to tackle the pandemic, but the new era of openness comes with concerns around privacy, ownership and ethics.
These Are The Fake Experts Pushing Pseudoscience And Conspiracy Theories About The Coronavirus Pandemic
Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots
Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots
Nearly half of the Twitter accounts spreading messages on the social media platform about the coronavirus pandemic are likely bots, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University said.
French Hydroxychloroquine-COVID-19 Study Withdrawn
The authors of a preprint on use of hydroxychloroquine, the controversial drug heavily promoted by President Trump, have withdrawn the paper.
Scientists Baffled by Decision to Stop a Pioneering Coronavirus Testing Project
Sweden Becomes Country with Highest Coronavirus Death Rate Per Capita
Sweden has now overtaken the UK, Italy and Belgium to have the highest coronavirus per capita death rate in the world, throwing its decision to avoid a strict lockdown into further doubt.
Why America's Students, Colleges and Universities Deserve More Financial Relief
Vaccine Experts Say Moderna's Covid-19 Data Leave Big Questions
While Moderna blitzed the media, it revealed very little information - and most of what it did disclose were words, not data.
Dutch Research Institutions and Elsevier Initiate World's First National Open Science Partnership
Dutch Research Institutions and Elsevier Initiate World's First National Open Science Partnership
VSNU, NFU, NWO and Elsevier have agreed publishing, reading and open science services to support Dutch research and innovation ambitions.
Cambridge Lectures to Be Online-only in 2020-21
There will be no face-to-face lectures in the next academic year due to coronavirus, the university says.
The First Footprints on Mars Could Belong to This Geologist
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins is at the forefront of a new crop of space explorers destined for the Moon, and maybe one day, Mars.
The Rogue Experimenters
Community labs want to make everything from insulin to prostheses. Will traditional scientists accept their efforts?
How to Address the Coronavirus's Outsized Toll on People of Colour
US scientists say that better data, testing and hospital preparedness are key to erasing inequalities - and to defeating the pandemic overall.
Data Sharing in the Current Crisis
Data sharing and COVID-19- the pandemic is changing the way scientists work and talk to each other. The Early Career Researchers advisory board at Wellcome Open Research discuss how COVID-19 is changing science.
How to Talk About Freedom During a Pandemic
Anti-stay-at-home protesters aren't the only ones with an argument based on individual rights on their side.
SNSF Data Portal - SNSF Key Figures and COVID-19 Project Registry
The Swiss National Science Foundation's new Data Portal presents interactive key figures about research grant funding activity. In addition, its COVID-19 project registry provides information about Swiss research projects seeking answers to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Decline of Women's Research Production During the Coronavirus Pandemic
The Decline of Women's Research Production During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Preprints analysis suggests a disproportionate impact on early career researchers.
Reaching out: science communication in times of pandemic
Reaching out: science communication in times of pandemic
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, science is crucial to inform public policy. At the same time, mistrust of scientists and misinformation about scientific facts are rampant. Six scientists, actively involved in outreach, reflect on how to build a better understanding and trust of science.
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