As Tech Companies Get Richer, Is it 'Game Over' for Startups?
Young firms struggle to compete as deep-pocketed companies like Facebook and Amazon clone products and consolidate their power.
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How A Data Visualization Of Sperm Led To A Scientific Breakthrough
Two scientists set out to animate how sperm moves. They ended up making a major discovery.
Federal Funding: Stifled by Budgets, Not Irrelevance
The threat to US science does not come from scientists' assumptions, their commitment to investigator-initiated research or the research community's failure to tackle problems of public concern. It comes from an unrealistic system of draconian budget caps that stifle investment in the future.
Mapping the Adjacent Possible
Imagine a connected online web of scientific knowledge… tightly integrated with a scientific social web that directs scientists’ attention where it is most valuable, releasing enormous collaborative potential.
Is The Academic Publishing Industry Ripe For Disruption?
Taxpayers sometimes have to pay three times for any scientific article.
Open Science MOOC
100+ volunteers sharing their knowledge about Open Science and contributing to what they see as an extremely important issue in nowadays and future science.
Peer Review: Rooting out Bias
Tackling unconscious bias is a major challenge for journals and the rest of the scientific community.
Dearly Departed Languages
Why Greek and Latin medical terminology is better off dead.
Who's the Most Influential Biomedical Scientist? Computer Program Guided by Artificial Intelligence Says It Knows
Lessons from History for the Future of Work
Global comparisons of previous social and economic upheavals suggest that what is to come depends on where you are now, argues Robert C. Allen.
Making Your Code Citable
If you’re a researcher writing software, this guide will show you how to make the work you share on GitHub citable.
Top Chinese University to Consider Social-Media Posts in Researcher Evaluations
Put Gender Experts on Evaluation Panels, Commission Told
A European Commission working group recommends Horizon 2020 evaluation process to account for gender issues.
Give Researchers a Lifetime Word Limit
Brian C. Martinson imagines how rationing the number of publications a scientist could put out might improve the scientific literature.
Transforming Research, in the Face of Uncertainty, Scarcity, and Bias
Last week's Transforming Research conference in Baltimore, MD, gathered a range of speakers across the academic and professional spectrum.
Self-Taught AI Is Best Yet at Strategy Game Go
Artificial-intelligence program AlphaGo Zero trained in just days, without any human input.
Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia
Increased provision of information in accessible repositories appears to be a cost-effective way to advance science. Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial.
Popularity of ArXiv.Org Within Computer Science
In theoretical computer science and machine learning, over 60% of published papers are on arXiv.
Nature Publisher Prepares 2018 Stock Market Listing
SpringerNature, the publisher of science magazines Nature and Scientific American, is preparing a 2018 stock market listing valuing the company at up to 4 billion euros.
Foundations for Open Science Strategy Development
An open document that tries to provide a concise analysis of where the global Open Science movement currently stands.
Faculty Careers Can Progress in Many Directions
A new study highlights the variety of productivity trajectories among faculty members in computer science.
Efforts to Save Leading Hungarian University Hit Hurdle
US-registered Central European University faces another year of uncertainty over whether it can continue to operate in Hungary.
The Misleading Narrative of the Canonical Faculty Productivity Trajectory
80% of faculty exhibit a rich diversity of productivity patterns.
Men Ask More Questions Than Women at a Scientific Conference
Accounting for audience gender ratio, men asked 1.8 questions for each question asked by a woman.
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