Why We Are Marching for Science
The vision for what is hoped to be the largest science advocacy event in history.
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Funding Furore Shows the Need to Experiment with Peer Review
Funding Furore Shows the Need to Experiment with Peer Review
Canada’s experience with virtual panels shows that the status quo should be challenged, not accepted unthinkingly.
Important, Widely Used and Well-Reported Datasets
Because sharing underlying data is essential for accelerating scientific advances and maximizing the value of research.
Learning to Think Like a Computer
It’s obvious that computers have become indispensable problem-solving partners. But it’s suddenly not enough to be a fluent user of software interfaces. Understanding what lies behind the computer’s seeming magic now seems crucial.
A Scientists' View of Scientometrics: Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted
A Scientists' View of Scientometrics: Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted
A review showing that some metrics in widespread use cannot be used as reliable indicators research quality.
A New Gold Standard of Peer Review is Needed
A New Gold Standard of Peer Review is Needed
How can something exclusive, secretive, and irreproducible be considered to be objective? How can something exclusive, secretive, and irreproducible be considered as a ‘gold standard’ of any sort?
As Marches Approach, Science Advocates Warn Universities to Prepare for Backlash
As a young professor 25 years ago, Lisa J. Graumlich awoke to a career success: Her work studying tree-ring patterns to reconstruct 1,000 years of global climate history had just become headline news...
EU Research ‘Still Failing to Include Social Sciences’
Without input from other disciplines, new technologies will fail to improve lives, report warns
Anarchy and Exploitation in Scientific Communication
Technology, greed, a lack of clear rules and norms, hyper-competitiveness and a certain amount of corruption have resulted in confusion and anarchy in the world of scientific communication.
A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof—And Nobody Notices
When a German retiree proved a famous long-standing mathematical conjecture, the response was underwhelming.
The Price of Publishing With GitHub, Figshare, G+, Etc
Discovering that there is a way to get out from the situation which keeps us locked into the legacy publishing system.
Academic Freedom, Under Threat in Europe
The latest threat to academic freedom is occurring in the heart of Europe, in Hungary.
The Most Beautiful Bacteria You'll Ever See
Tal Danino manipulates microorganisms in his lab to create eye-catching, colorful patterns.
Using Blockchain to Keep Public Data Public
How a public blockchain would fundamentally change the way we govern and do business.
Darwin Was a Slacker and You Should Be Too
Many famous scientists have something in common—they didn’t work long hours.
Following the Success of the Learning Technologist, Is It Time for a Research Equivalent?
Following the Success of the Learning Technologist, Is It Time for a Research Equivalent?
With so many scholarly communications tools and technologies now available, how do academics decide which are most appropriate for their research?
ALLEA Publishes Revised Edition of the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity
ALLEA Publishes Revised Edition of the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity
The revised Code addresses recent and emerging challenges emanating from technological developments, open science, citizen science and social media, among other areas.
Tool for Detecting Publication Bias Goes Under Spotlight
Funnel plots are a popular tool in spotting when scientists in a field leave out negative study results, but one researcher says the method is flawed.
NIH Research Grants Yield Economic Windfall
More than 30% of biomedical studies funded by the US government are later cited in commercial patents.
Dear Anonymous Peer-Reviewer, Your Criticism Made Me a Better Researcher
Dear Anonymous Peer-Reviewer, Your Criticism Made Me a Better Researcher
When I first received one of your reports, I lay on the couch hugging a cushion. Then rage set in and I wanted to prove you wrong.
Gender in the Global Research Landscape
Analysis of research performance through a gender lens across 20 years, 12 geographies, and 27 subject areas.
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