Momentum for European innovation and competitiveness
Carlos Moedas' speech, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, in Berlin last week in favor of open science, disruptive innovation and digital technologies.
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How to write them more humane
How to write them more humane
Writing rejection letters is never easy. Below we outline some tips for writing a more humane rejection letter.
Researcher perspectives on publication and peer review of data
A survey of ~ 250 researchers across the sciences and social sciences asks what expectations “data publication” raises and what features would be useful to evaluate the trustworthiness, evaluate the impact, and enhance the prestige of a data publication.
What drives academic data sharing?
A systematic review of 98 scholarly papers and an empirical survey among 603 secondary data users develops a conceptual framework that explains the process of data sharing from the primary researcher’s point of view.
Top 10 emerging technologies according to the WEF
The World Economic Forum’s Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies, a panel of 18 experts, draws on the collective expertise of the Forum’s communities to identify the most important recent technological trends.
openSNP
openSNP allows customers of direct-to-customer genetic tests to publish their test results, find others with similar genetic variations, learn more about their results, get the latest primary literature on their variations and help scientists find new associations.
Science on the map
Science on the map
Easy-to-use mapping tools give researchers the power to create beautiful visualizations of geographic data.
Congrats young scientists, you face the worst research funding in 50 years
In an appearance before the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Dr. Francis Collins, head of NIH, offered a familiar warning to lawmakers considering future appropriations for scientific research.
4th World Conference on research integrity
The 4th World Conference on Research Integrity will take place in Brazil in June 2015 sponsored by the Wellcome Trust, AAAS, NPG, EMBO and others.
An analysis of Wellcome Trust OA spend
To help make the costs around open access more transparent, the Wellcome Trust has published details on how much it spent on article processing charges in the year 2013-14.
rOpenSci Unconference 2015
For a second year running, rOpenSci is excited to announce another R unconference in March 2015 at GitHub's headquarters in San Francisco.
Harold Varmus to resign as head of US cancer institute
The NCI call it the end of an era. Harold Varmus, director of the US NCI and former director of the NIH, announced on 4 March that he will be stepping down from his post at the end of the month.
Psychology journal bans P values
A controversial statistical test has finally met its end, at least in one journal.
Workshop held by the NRC last week
A workshop held by the National Research Council in the US addressed statistical challenges in assessing and fostering the reproducibility of scientific results by examining the extent of reproducibility, the causes of reproducibility failures, and potential remedies. Here's the program.
Switzerland still heads the ranking in 2014
Switzerland still heads the ranking in 2014
While the Netherlands, France and the UK showed significant growth, other countries such as Finland, Switzerland and Spain declined. However, Switzerland still heads the ranking with 848 applications per million inhabitants.
The Thrill of Defeat
What Francis Crick and Sydney Brenner taught me about being scooped, by Bob Goldstein
University Research Fellowships
Why only 2 of 43 young scientists receiving the prestigious University Research Fellowships in the UK were women.
Addressing systemic problems in the biomedical research enterprise: An Update
Last spring, the four of us published an essay in PNAS in which we described the severe problems now faced by scientists working in the US biomedical research system, recommending several steps that might be taken to improve the situation...
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Scholarly articles are distributed almost exclusively in digital form. While there is an increasing number of journal articles freely available via green or gold open access, the majority of them still can only be read if the reader works at an institution with a subscription to the journal..
Authoring scientific papers: a perspective from the trenches
It has taken a while, but the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences (SAAS) have come out with a valuable booklet on authorships of scientific manuscripts. This recommendations, published now also as a special article in the Swiss Medical Weekly, aspire to serve as a practical guide for principal investigators confronted with the task of assigning authorships to the individuals contributing to scientific manuscripts.
Politics, science, and public attitudes
Politics, science, and public attitudes
What we're learning, and why it matters.
To tweet or not to tweet?
Not only are scientific articles that have strong coverage in social media likely to be cited more in the future, social media is also the tool that allows us to communicate directly with the general public.
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Breaking the Silence
The Unionization of Postdoctoral Workers at the University of California.
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A Survey of Researchers Submitting to Data Repositories
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This article investigates the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) as a tool to carry out case studies about national innovation capacities in the case of given countries..
When right beats might
When right beats might
The final act in a long-running saga should bring tighter controls on unproven therapies, both at home and abroad.
New PLOS ONE Collection focuses on Negative, Null and Inconclusive Results
New PLOS ONE Collection focuses on Negative, Null and Inconclusive Results
"I never quit until I get what I'm after. Negative results are just what I'm after. They are just as valuable to me as positive results." - Thomas A. Edison.
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In April 2014, four leaders of the scientific establishment issued
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We propose steps to help increase the transparency of the scientific method and the reproducibility of research results.
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