Changing winds in science funding
Bias can taint scientific research, as conclusions are sensitive to the conscious and unconscious choices scientists make in study design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
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We can fix peer review now
Scientists are asked to comment on static, final, published versions of papers, with virtually no potential to improve the articles. This is the state of post-publication peer review today.
Investing in partnerships in research and innovation
The EU Parliament has adopted a package of public-private and public-public research partnerships worth up to €22bn.
A change in the resubmission policy
The NIH is to allow researchers to base new grant applications on ideas that have previously been rejected for funding.
Foreign aid turns to research
Foreign aid turns to research
The UK has launched a five-year US$630 million fund to support science and innovation partnerships with researchers in developing countries that will focus on economic development.
The cost of academic publishing
What could the UK academic community do with £14.5 million? That is what just 19 Universities in the UK are spending in total during a single year on journal subscriptions to a single publisher.
Is UK humanities research reaching the widest possible audience?
Report points to 'serious dangers for the international standing of UK research' in humanities and social sciences.
Forschung und Wohlfahrt
"Die Schweizer Forschung wird künftig international sein oder gar nicht mehr sein."
Fehlende Forschung von heute sind Arbeitslose von übermorgen
Wirtschaftsforscher warnen vor Unterfinanzierung der Grundlagenforschung
The new frontier for academic-industry collaboration?
Academic-industry research collaborations have long been a source of controversy in medicine.
Tobacco industry-funded research, peer review, and nannying
Aside from the occasional cigar (once every five years or so), I'm one of those smug "never smoked" gits. You then might think that I'm all for plain packaging, not publishing tobacco industry-funded research, and completely against the " normalization" of smoking via the evidently evil medium of e-cigarettes.
Credit where credit is due
Liz Allen, Amy Brand, Jo Scott, Micah Altman and Marjorie Hlava are trialling digital taxonomies to help researchers to identify their contributions to collaborative projects. Research today is rarely a one-person job.
Ein Fünftel der Schweizer Stiftungen unterstützt Wissenschaft
Ein Fünftel der Schweizer Stiftungen unterstützt Wissenschaft
Ein Studie zeigt, dass immer mehr Stiftungen in der Schweiz die Wissenschaft fördern.
A picture of the UK scientific workforce
A lack of diversity in terms of gender, disability, ethnicity, socio-economic status and background across the scientific community represents a large loss of talent to the UK.
The problems with calling comments "post-publication peer-review"
Comment on a recent Nature blog entry by Richard Van Noorden
How long does it take to publish a paper?
The answer is - in our experience, at least - about 9 months. That's right, it takes about the same amount of time to have a baby as it does to publish a scientific paper.
How to create a successful science blog
Setting up your own science blog is a great way to publicise a field that is close to your heart, hone your writing skills and make a name for yourself
The post-doctoral situation: interview with Gregory Petsko
Gregory Petsko discusses some of his own findings about the post-doctoral situation: "We asked institutions to tell us how many post-docs they had. Almost without exception, they couldn't do it."
Nations chasing Harvard merge colleges to ascend rankings
Countries from Finland to Portugal are shaping their higher education policies based on outside rankings, eager for the validation and attention the annual lists bestow, even while they are criticized as flawed or misleading.
Member states told to welcome researchers
Researchers and students are struggling with obstructive rules on immigration to the EU that urgently need updating: scientists from countries outside the EU are not being made welcome and often face problems in moving freely between member states.
EU snub leaves Swiss research community in limbo
The financing of the flagship Human Brain Project is secured through 2016. But what about its future?
Trial to see how treatment can fight cancer set to begin this year
Cancer Research UK, AstraZeneca and Pfizer to create a pioneering clinical trial for patients with advanced lung cancer
Eight (no, nine!) problems with big data
There is no doubt that big data is a valuable tool that has already had a critical impact in certain areas. But because of its popularity, we need to be levelheaded about what big data can and can’t do.
The sexiest job of the 21st century
The sudden appearance of data scientists on the business scene reflects the fact that companies are now wrestling with information that comes in varieties and volumes never encountered before.
Untie the mavericks
Felipe Fernández-Armesto bristles at the stifling effect of peer review.
Science is running out of things to discover
The age at which Nobel prize winners receive their prizes has increased dramatically, especially in physics.
Science funding and short-term economic activity
New data show the short-term economic activity generated by science funding, by Julia Lane.
Internet publicity of data problems in the bioscience literature correlates with enhanced corrective action
Internet publicity of data problems in the bioscience literature correlates with enhanced corrective action
Publicity spurs science study retractions 7 times more often.
On the time spent preparing grant proposals
On the time spent preparing grant proposals
Academic research can be hugely stressful. This study shows that the demands of applying for a research grant also carry an emotional toll.
The annual report on the economic status of the profession
The proportion of non-tenure-track and non-tenured faculty posts continues to rise across all US institutions. Overall proportion of assistant professors in non-tenure-track posts was 23.4% for 2013–14, compared with 20.8% in 2010–11.
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