Radical Ideas Required to Cut Research Grant Waste, Funders Told
New head of Science Europe says he hopes for experiments with grant lottery system and even a basic income for researchers.
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Bridging the Gender Gap: Why Do so Few Girls Study Stem Subjects?
To attract more girls to study Stem subjects at university, we need to tackle the stereotypes they are exposed to early on.
The Enemy Within - Why the Narrative About Universities and Students Went So Wrong
The Enemy Within - Why the Narrative About Universities and Students Went So Wrong
From Margaret Thatcher to Generation Snowflake, Keith Joseph to Sam Gyimah, why and how have universities and students found themselves so firmly on the wrong side of public opinion? And what are we going to do about it?
UZH Researchers Embrace Open Access
Around half of researchers already publish their work with open access, according to a comprehensive survey carried out by the Main Library of the University of Zurich. Besides a number of positive results, the survey also revealed a need for more information.
Edge Factors: Scientific Frontier Positions of Nations
The United States and South Korea have the highest tendencies for novel science. China has become a leader in favoring newer ideas when working with basic science ideas and research tools, but is still slow to adopt new clinical ideas. Many locations remain far behind the leaders in terms of their tendency to work with novel ideas.
The Preregistration Revolution
Widespread adoption of preregistration will increase distinctiveness between hypothesis generation and hypothesis testing and will improve the credibility of research findings.
Institutional Research Misconduct Reports Need More Credibility
On the inadequacy and lack of transparency of most research institutions’ responses to allegations of research misconduct.
Why Do Female Academics Publish Less Than Their Male Peers?
Editors and peer reviewers impose tougher standards on women. This is evident from the fact that female-authored economics papers take around six months more to go through the review process than male-authored papers. As a result, female academics come to experience peer review as a much tougher process and those who progress on the career ladder adjust their expectations about what is required. Female researchers publish less than their male peers do but what they publish is much more readable and better written.
The Balance Between Bibliometric and Societal Impact
An interview with Kai Chan and his strategies to seek the combination of both kinds of impacts.
A Brief Guide To Writing Your First Scientific Manuscript
Some thoughts on how to approach writing manuscripts based on original biomedical research.
Lies Travel Faster Than Truth on Twitter—and Now We Know Who to Blame
A major new study published in the journal Science finds that false rumors on Twitter spread much more rapidly, on average, than those that turn out to be true. Interestingly, the study also finds that bots aren’t to blame for that discrepancy. People are.
MIT Launches Multimillion-Dollar Collaboration to Develop Fusion Energy
MIT Launches Multimillion-Dollar Collaboration to Develop Fusion Energy
The MIT will work with a private firm to develop technology for producing energy from nuclear fusion within the next 15 years.
The Science of Fake News
Fake news has a long history, but there are new unanswered scientific questions raised by the proliferation of its most recent, politically oriented incarnation.
Does Your Code Stand up to Scrutiny?
Nature journals encourage researchers who submit papers that rely on custom software to provide the programs for peer review.
The Spread of True and False News Online
To understand how false news spreads, Vosoughi et al. used a data set of rumor cascades on Twitter from 2006 to 2017. About 126,000 rumors were spread by ∼3 million people. False news reached more people than the truth; the top 1% of false news cascades diffused to between 1000 and 100,000 people, whereas the truth rarely diffused to more than 1000 people. Falsehood also diffused faster than the truth.
Writing Women in Mathematics into Wikipedia
Reflections upon the problems encountered when writing women in mathematics into Wikipedia.
Perish Not Publish? New Study Quantifies the Lack of Female Authors in Scientific Journals
Artificial Intelligence Could Identify Gang Crimes—and Ignite an Ethical Firestorm
Artificial Intelligence Could Identify Gang Crimes—and Ignite an Ethical Firestorm
A new algorithm is trying to automate the process of identifying gang crimes. But some scientists warn that far from reducing gang violence, the program could do the opposite by eroding trust in communities, or it could brand innocent people as gang members.
Navigating the Unfolding Open Data Landscape in Ecology and Evolution
Navigating the Unfolding Open Data Landscape in Ecology and Evolution
An overview of the landscape of online data infrastructures, and highlight the key points to consider when using open data.
Hilarious Academics on Twitter
27 Twitter accounts bringing out the silly, quirky, and fun side of academia, introducing you to a space on Twitter where academics can be casual, friendly, and humorous.
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