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Scientists Are Standing Up to Trump Because They've Always Stood Up to Bullshit

Scientists Are Standing Up to Trump Because They've Always Stood Up to Bullshit

There’s this pervasive idea that science is somehow exempt from the ugly political world in which the rest of us wallow. But even a perfunctory look at the history of American science shows that this hasn’t always been the case.

Cutting Science Funding Means Sacrificing the US's Future

Cutting Science Funding Means Sacrificing the US's Future

President Donald Trump plans to change to slash spending on basic science by 10.5 percent in 2018.

Let’s Stand Together to Promote It Worldwide

Let’s Stand Together to Promote It Worldwide

Diego Gomez, a Colombian graduate student, currently faces up to eight years in prison for doing something thousands of researchers do every day: posting research results online for those who would not otherwise have a way to access them.

How The Fallout From Trump's Travel Ban Is Reshaping Science

How The Fallout From Trump's Travel Ban Is Reshaping Science

Researchers are cutting short travel, ending collaborations and rethinking their US ties.

Communications Expert Advises How Science Should Respond to Fake News

Communications Expert Advises How Science Should Respond to Fake News

The rise of fake news has dominated the world of politics recently, but fake news is not at all new in the world of science.

The Rogue Neuroscientist on a Mission to Hack Peer Review

The Rogue Neuroscientist on a Mission to Hack Peer Review

The Edward Snowden of peer review.

Activists Push Psychology Journals Towards Open Data

Activists Push Psychology Journals Towards Open Data

Editor asked to resign from journal for saying he’ll review only papers whose data he can see.

A Post-Publication Peer Review Success Story

A Post-Publication Peer Review Success Story

  In 2016, Joel Pitt and Prof. Helene Hill published an intriguing paper with us looking at the prevalence of scientific fraud in preclinical research...

How Bidding for Publishing Services Could Lower Academic Journal Costs

How Bidding for Publishing Services Could Lower Academic Journal Costs

Why journal publishing should be upended from the current model, in which institutions pay publishers for access to content, to one in which the academic community pays for services to publish content and retains ownership of research.

ResearchGate Raises $52.6M for Its Social Research Network for Scientists

ResearchGate Raises $52.6M for Its Social Research Network for Scientists

As LinkedIn continues to reign as the world’s largest social network for the wider working world, we are seeing the rise of alternatives that are besting and beating it in specific verticals.

UK Scientists Welcome Changes to Controversial Research Reforms

UK Scientists Welcome Changes to Controversial Research Reforms

Amendments aim to protect autonomy and the independence of research funders from political interference.

Open Science Prize Goes to Software Tool for Tracking Viral Outbreaks

Open Science Prize Goes to Software Tool for Tracking Viral Outbreaks

A tool developed by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Basel to track Zika, Ebola and other viral disease outbreaks in real time.

Don’t Let Useful Data Go to Waste

Don’t Let Useful Data Go to Waste

Researchers must seek out others’ deposited biological sequences in community databases, urges Franziska Denk.

Goldman Sachs and Bill Gates Quietly Invested $52 Million in a Social Network for Scientists

Goldman Sachs and Bill Gates Quietly Invested $52 Million in a Social Network for Scientists

Goldman Sachs, the Wellcome Trust, and Bill Gates all put money into the Berlin company, which has over 12 million scientists on its platform.