Britain’s scientists must not be gagged
A ban on state-funded academics using their work to question government policy is to begin on 1 May. It’s either a cock-up or a conspiracy
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How grad students get paid affects where they work
Surprising results add to fierce debate over how NIH funds graduate students
NSF test finds eliminating deadlines halves number of grant proposals
NSF geosciences advisory committee reveales the preliminary results from a pilot program that got rid of grant proposal deadlines in favor of an anytime submission.
The complex role of gender in faculty hiring
In computer science faculty hiring decisions, gender is indirectly considered through its correlation with measures like productivity, study finds
Why A Culture of Preprints Developed in Physics, But Not Biology
Scientific journal policies, physics' head start with arXiv, and differences in the culture of the two disciplines may all play a role.
E.U. urged to free all scientific papers by 2020
Dutch push for a quantum leap in open access
Harsh grades for ‘Europe’s MIT’
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) gets poor grades from the European Union’s financial watchdog.
Why so much science research is flawed – and what to do about it
Dodgy results are fuelling flawed policy decisions and undermining medical advances. They could even make us lose faith in science. New Scientist investigates
Revolutionizing research communication through a new academic publishing platform
The way that researchers communicate their work has not changed significantly in the last few centuries; academic publishing still relies on journal articles an…
Science fairs are as flawed as my solar-powered hot dog cooker
As the White House prepares for its annual science fair, it's worth remembering that these events leave some children behind.
How can we keep science honest in a world of open data?
The advantages of making scientific data available for further analysis are clear, but it could also enable the trawling of data to find significant, or preferred, results.
Fundable, but not funded
How can research funders ensure ‘unlucky’ applications are handled more appropriately?
Tech expert and cancer survivor to lead U.S. 1-million-person health study
A technology guru and cancer survivor has been tapped to head President Obama’s ambitious 1-million-person personalized medicine study.
On Moose and Medians
If Thomson Reuters can calculate Impact Factors and Eigenfactors, why can’t they deliver a simple median score?
Opening the Black Box of Scholarly Communication Funding
Obtaining a more joined up picture of financial flows is vital as a means for researchers, institutions and others to understand and shape changes to the sociotechnical systems that underpin scholarly communication.
Biases in grant proposals
Biases in grant proposal success rates, funding rates and award sizes affect the geographical distribution of funding for biomedical research
The evolving relationship between business and science
The interface between science and business is where innovation is brought to life, but do the two fields always get along?
Brandon Stell Is the Vigilante of Scientific Publishing
The rationale is simple: More anonymity means more scrutiny for published papers, and more scrutiny means more errors are caught.
How one lab challenged a grant rejection and won €5 million
A British scientist successfully appealed against an unfavourable grant review — but the road to victory can be paved with challenges.
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