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A Reboot of the Legendary Physics Site ArXiv Could Shape Open Science
A Reboot of the Legendary Physics Site ArXiv Could Shape Open Science
The open source physics site arXiv is turning 25, and it's going to get a makeover. But what does that mean for its principles of data transparency?
Putting Open Science into Practice at the Barcamp Science 2.0
Notes on Open Science from the Barcamp Science 2.0 and the Science 2.0 Conference.
Last Week Tonight: Scientific Studies
John Oliver discusses how and why media outlets so often report untrue or incomplete information as science.
Time for sharing data to become routine
Time for sharing data to become routine
The seven excuses for not doing so are all invalid.
Would paying by results improve reproducibility?
An opinon on the article "Merck Wants Its Money Back if University Research Is Wrong"
DOAJ to remove approximately 3300 journals
Today the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) will remove approximately 3300 journals for failure to submit a valid reapplication before the communicated deadline.
Open Science Prize announces six finalists
Team finalists receive $80,000 each to develop products to overcome hurdles in big data access and usage.
John Oliver exposes how the media turns scientific studies into 'morning show gossip'
John Oliver exposes how the media turns scientific studies into 'morning show gossip'
Science "deserves better than to be twisted out of proportion and turned into morning show gossip."
Top Medical Journals Give Women Researchers Short Shrift
Women only got top billing in 37 percent of medical studies published in leading journals over the past two decades.
What constitutes appropriate peer review for interdisciplinary research?
What constitutes appropriate peer review for interdisciplinary research?
How can interdisciplinary research proposals be more effectively assessed through peer review?
Royal Society statement on changes to the research, higher education and innovation landscapes
Royal Society statement on changes to the research, higher education and innovation landscapes
Royal Society's President, Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, on the key principles to guide the future of UK's research.
How good management leads to better science
Interview with Daniel Lakens, Assistant Professor in Applied Cognitive Psychology at the Eindhoven University of Technology
Tracking Career Outcomes for Postdoctoral Scholars: A Call to Action
For science to improve, let’s put the right incentives on offer
The current incentives structure — mostly based on publishing in prestigious journals — discourages sharing, replication, and, some argue, careful science.
Where Can a Ph.D. Take You? Back to School, Usually
A study released on Thursday found that many Ph.D. students pursue post-docs as a “default” option after graduate school, or as part of a “holding pattern” until the job they want is available.
Why pursue the postdoc path?
Complex, diverse rationales require nuanced policies: evidence suggests a need for increased attention to career planning among students, their mentors, graduate schools, and funders
In survey, most give thumbs-up to pirated papers
Survey responses reveal that beyond lack of journal access, convenience and antipathy toward publishers are key motivations for turning to paper repository
Crossref to accept preprints in change to long-standing policy
Crossref will enable members to register preprints in order to clarify the scholarly citation record and better support the changing publishing models of its members.
Personalized health in the digital age
The symposium “Personalized Health in the Digitial Age” brings together some of the world's thought leaders in the ongoing revolution in personalized and digital health.
Nine years of censorship
Canadian scientists are now allowed to speak out about their work — and the government policy that had restricted communications.
Set up a public registry of competing interests
The problem of bias in published research must be tackled in a consistent and comprehensive fashion, says Adam G. Dunn.
Gravitational wave scientists win $3m Special Breakthrough Prize
Following their February breakthrough, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, Ronald Drever and nearly 1,000 LIGO scientists will share the Silicon Valley-backed prize.
Q&A: Helga Nowotny
Austrian social scientist Helga Nowotny was president of the European Research Council between 2010 and 2013. Now a professor emerita of ETH Zurich and author of The Cunning of Uncertainty (Polity, 2015), Nowotny discusses the growing pressure to capitalize on academic research, and how countries can get it right in the absence of a universal recipe.
Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name
Sci-Hub is facing millions of dollars in damages in a lawsuit filed by Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers. As a result of the legal battle the site just lost one of its latest domain names. However, the site has no intentions of backing down, and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open.