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Machine-Learning Maestro on the Delusions of Big Data
Big-data boondoggles and brain-inspired chips are just two of the things we’re really getting wrong
Rich Citations
We’ve developed an enriched format for citations, called, appropriately enough, rich citations.
Aging Researchers and Funding Trends
The proportion of federal research funding going to investigators older than 65 was greater than that going to researchers younger than 35, even if most Nobel recipients made their discoveries before they were 40 years old.
Low-Quality Scholarly Publishers Don't Understand Copyright
Low-Quality Scholarly Publishers Don't Understand Copyright
I am increasingly seeing contradictory licensing statements on the websites of low-quality, questionable, and predatory publishers.
Author Insights 2014
Raw data from Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan's annual Author Insights survey.
More than half of 2007-2012 research articles now free to read
More than half of all peer-reviewed research articles published from 2007 to 2012 are now free to download somewhere on the Internet, according to a report produced for the European Commission.
Nobelpreisträger bilden Komitee gegen die Abschottung
Vor der Abstimmung zur SVP-Initiative war von den Schweizer Wissenschaftlern nicht viel zu hören gewesen. Nun schalten sie sich offiziell in die Politik ein.
Engagement für mehr Öffnung
Er gründet eine Online-Zeitschrift ohne jegliche Schranke, twittert die Mitteilungen des Bundesgerichts und bemüht sich hartnäckig darum, dass alle Gerichte ihre Urteile zugänglich machen: Daniel Hürlimann rüttelt am Justizapparat.
Why women leave academia and why universities should be worried
A recent report reveals that only 12% of third year female PhD students want a career in academia.
New CSIRO chief focuses on innovation
Newly appointed chief executive of the CSIRO Larry Marshall says he is comfortable with crises, which can become a ‘catalyst for change and redirection’
Foreign scientists call on Stephen Harper to restore science funding and freedom
Hundreds of scientists around the world are asking Prime Minister Stephen Harper to end "burdensome restrictions on scientific communication and collaboration faced by Canadian government scientists."
As spending cuts loom, embattled Italian scientists plea for mercy
Steep budget cuts could push Italian universities and research centers beyond the point of no return, an academic body warned yesterday.
How to make a decrease look like an increase
How to make a decrease look like an increase
Accounting and working with budget numbers isn't always that boring as it appears to be, especially if it's spiced up with marketing. A good example is the debate on the budget of Horizon 2020.
Big brother in the academy
As monitoring of scholars' performance, time and output increases, so do reservations about its value and effectiveness
How to make more published research true
Research Practices that May Help Increase the Proportion of True Research Findings
What configurations of fields of science are found in grant proposals today?
What configurations of fields of science are found in grant proposals today?
Cross-disciplinarity is found particularly in research project proposals of fields of science with clearly overlapping content and mainly in research proposals submitted by fields of science within the humanities and social sciences.
The Open Science peer review oath
With the increasing complexities of new technologies and techniques, coupled with the specialisation of experiments, reproducing research findings has become a growing challenge.
Open, single-blind, double-blind: which process do you prefer?
We discuss the views and experiences of our Editorial Board Members towards open peer review on this biomedical journal.
Who's afraid of open peer review?
Celebrating Open Access Week 2014 affords an opportunity to study and promote all aspects of ‘Open.’
What it's like to carry your Nobel Prize through airport security
“When I won this, my grandma, who lives in Fargo, North Dakota, wanted to see it..."
Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices
University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls.
Some Nobel winners fail ERC cut
A number of Nobel prize holders have failed to win a ERC grant because their project proposals were not good enough.
Venture capitalists return to backing science start-ups
After years of shying away from science, engineering and clean-technology start-ups, investors are beginning to take an interest in them again.
Research data must be shared
The Research Council of Norway has adopted its first policy on OA to research data from publicly funded projects.
Losing ground' to rivals
The UK will lose its leading position in science and engineering unless cutbacks are reversed, campaigners say.
Review rewards
Welcome efforts are being made to recognize academics who give up their time to peer review.