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How a Long-distance Job Move Can Leave Early-career Researchers Short of Cash
How a Long-distance Job Move Can Leave Early-career Researchers Short of Cash
Without reimbursement for relocation costs, PhD students and postdocs are often forced to empty savings accounts, seek financial help or even rack up debt.
Cambridge Teaching Staff to Protest on Open Days over Insecure Work
Casual contracts causing extreme levels of personal and financial hardship, union claims.
Black Academics Bear the Brunt of University Work on Race Equality
From mentoring to focus groups ethnic minority academics and students are under pressure to close the 13% attainment gap.
California Bills Targeting For-Profits and Bundled Services Exception Advance
California moves toward creating the strictest regulatory landscape for for-profit colleges in the U.S., but proposed legislation has already been weakened.
NASA Changes How It Divvies Up Telescope Time to Reduce Gender Bias
The switch to double-blind peer review will affect roughly 650 scientists working on projects worth an estimated US$55 million.
Moving Mountains in the Knowledge Sphere: Is There a Way?
Especially in education and research, electronic resources, digital tools and novel technologies have profoundly altered the way and the speed at which we acquire and share our knowledge. However, this infrastructure goes vastly unnoticed by most of us.
Universities and Knowledge Sharing
The authors explore the extent to which universities are functioning as effective open knowledge institutions; as well as the types of information that universities, funders, and communities might need to understand an institution's open knowledge performance and how it might be improved. The challenges of data collection on open knowledge practices at scale, and across national, cultural and linguistic boundaries are also discussed.
Eurodoc for Open Science
Eurodoc for Open Science
The collection of content related to the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers' (Eurodoc) commitment to Open Science.
Ten Simple Rules for Researchers Collaborating on Massively Open Online Papers (MOOPs)
Ten Simple Rules for Researchers Collaborating on Massively Open Online Papers (MOOPs)
The authors provide recommendations for a highly open and participatory interactive process of collaboration using digital tools and environments, discuss potential issues that come with working with large and diverse authoring communities, and provide possible solutions should these arise.
The Status Quo Bias and the Uptake of Open Access
In this paper the authors argue that the linguistic framing of open access by a variety of stakeholders may inhibit the uptake of open access publishing.
Meta-Research: Centralized Scientific Communities Are Less Likely to Generate Replicable Results
Meta-Research: Centralized Scientific Communities Are Less Likely to Generate Replicable Results
Analysis of data on drug-gene interactions suggests that decentralized collaboration will increase the robustness of scientific findings in biomedical research.
'Psychological Fear': MIT Scientists of Chinese Origin Protest Toxic US Climate
'Psychological Fear': MIT Scientists of Chinese Origin Protest Toxic US Climate
Researchers describe how a government crackdown on foreign influence is affecting them following a statement of support from their university.
10 Medical Myths We Should Stop Believing. Doctors, Too.
Researchers identified nearly 400 common medical practices and theories that were contradicted by rigorous studies. Here are some of the most notable findings.
Work Plan for Plan S
Coalition S has identified the following priorities for the next few months.
Ten Hot Topics Around Scholarly Publishing
The changing world of scholarly communication and the emerging new wave of ‘Open Science’ or ‘Open Research’ has brought to light a number of controversial and hotly debated topics.
EU Science Chief Wants to Work ERC Magic on Innovation
The European Union’s research commissioner Carlos Moedas has proposed setting up a European Innovation Council (EIC) to fund applied research and innovation. Inspired by the well-loved European Research Council (ERC), this idea is one of several measures announced here yesterday to boost innovation across the union.
Tracking the Growth of the PID Graph
The connections between scholarly resources generated by persistent identifiers (PIDs) and associated metadata form a graph: the PID Graph. Today we are announcing another important milestone: we added the required functionality to the DataCite GraphQL API that allows us to keep track of the growth of the PID Graph in terms of nodes (resources) and edges (connections).
Machine Learning Has Been Used to Automatically Translate Long-lost Languages
Machine Learning Has Been Used to Automatically Translate Long-lost Languages
Some languages that have never been deciphered could be the next ones to get the machine translation treatment.
Scientists Took an M.R.I. Scan of an Atom
The hospital technology, typically used to identify human ailments, captured perhaps the world's smallest magnetic resonance image.
Universities Show Their True Colours in Court
Institutions cannot boast of a respectful environment for researchers and trainees if they flout those values to cut legal liability, says Steven Piantadosi.
It's OK to Quit Your Ph.D.
Former students recount their experiences dropping out.
Plan S and Humanities Publishing
A path forward for open access in the humanities and social sciences.
Does Psychology Have a Conflict-of-Interest Problem?
Some star psychologists don't disclose in research papers the large sums they earn for talking about their work. Is that a concern?
Tree Planting 'has Mind-blowing Potential' to Tackle Climate Crisis
Research shows a trillion trees could be planted to capture huge amount of carbon dioxide.
Singapore Joins the Rise of Research Integrity Networks
Global effort to combat research misconduct gathers pace.
Access Agreement Between Elsevier and Dutch Universities Extended
Agreement will allow for continued explorations between Elsevier, VSNU, NFU and NWO on how to work together toward future Dutch open science infrastructure services.
Why Plants Don't Die from Cancer
Most plant life survived the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl - and they have a lack of legs to thank for it.
Migrating to Open-source Technologies
The Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt) started a year ago to mitigate anticipated software license fee increases.
Universities Are Economic And Knowledge Engines - A Proposed 41% Cut In Alaska Is Scary
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