Freezing out young scientists
Share of research funding going to young scientists is declining.
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Adventures with R
A guide to the popular, free statistics and visualization software that gives scientists control of their own data analysis.
Criteria for Nature Index questioned
How using absolute numbers and journal reputation can yield misleading results.
India's major science funders join open-access push
Two of India's science funding agencies are joining the push to make the results of the research they fund freely available to the public.
$60 million deal between Genentech and 23andMe
A deal being announced today with Genentech points the way for 23andMe to become a sustainable business.
Economic divide taking toll on European science
The Horizon 2020 programme threatens to siphon away the best scientists from southern Europe.
Damaging effects of the current patent system in the US
A patent system that is so broken that almost no patented discoveries ever get used.
Academic journals: the most profitable obsolete technology in history
A large research university will pay between $3-3.5 million a year in academic subscription fees...
Pure, stupid luck
A light-hearted opinion piece about the arbitrariness of academic success.
Bad luck, bad journalism and cancer rates
How a recent "bad luck" cancer study illustrates failure of science journalism.
A generation at risk: young investigators and the future of the biomedical workforce
A generation at risk: young investigators and the future of the biomedical workforce
On the delay in young scientists obtaining NIH grants.
The transformative nature of transparency in research funding
On transparency in the process of grant review.
Measuring the effectiveness of scientific gatekeeping
Evaluative strategies that increase the mean quality of published science may also increase the risk of rejecting unconventional or outstanding work.
Patterns of text reuse in a scientific corpus
First comprehensive study of patterns of text reuse within the full texts of an important large scientific corpus, covering a 20-y timeframe.
The hottest, emerging fields in scientific research
100 top ranked specialties in the sciences and social sciences
Dragging scientific publishing into the 21st century
Scientific publishers must shake off three centuries of publishing on paper and embrace 21st century technology to make scientific communication more intelligible, reproducible, engaging and rapidly available.
328 top early-career researchers selected by the ERC
The ERC has selected 328 first class scientists to receive its prestigious Starting Grants, worth up to €2 million each.
Ministers unveil science strategy 2016-2021
£6 billion (ca. 9 billion CHF) package for science and innovation in the years 2016 to 2021 announced. A review of research councils will ensure 'maximum impact' from investment.
Rivalries for research infrastructures
First call for "Shared Research Facilities" shall organize and give access to bigger research infrastructures in Austria
Obstacles and incentives to researcher mobility
In northern countries the most important incentives for individual researcher mobility and ERC success is early independence.
Study of massive preprint archive hints at plagiarism
A study based on arXiv shows that copying text from other papers is more common in some nations than others.
Comprehensive database of retractions
The former blog "Retraction Watch" will become an online, public, and freely accessible database of all retractions in every field of science.
Nature 's 10
Nature 's 10
Ten people who mattered this year.
The “Wild West” of academic publishing
The troubled present and promising future of scholarly communication.
Altmetric's top 100: what does it all mean?
The top 100 list of Altmetrics is fascinating for what it tells us about communication between scientists, the attention paid to science by the general public, and also for what it tells us about altmetrics themselves.
The NIPS Experiment
Half of the papers appearing at the NIPS conference would be rejected if the review process were rerun.
Why evaluating scientists by grant income is stupid
“In the modern British university, it is not that funding is sought in order to carry out research, but that research projects are formulated in order to get funding.”
Uber for experiments
A startup enables researchers to tap labs worldwide to conduct experiments on their behalf
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