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The Spanish National Research Council will not issue a call for new PhD, postdoctoral and technical staff in the next two years, according to its latest action plan for 2014-2017.
Core science gets budget boost in a bid to change research culture and increase innovation.
In March 1989 Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist working at CERN, submitted a proposal to develop a radical new way of linking and sharing information over the internet. The document was entitled Information Management: A Proposal . And so the web was born.
Science is now able to self-correct instantly. Post-publication peer review is here to stay.
Is 2014 the year that Europe gets drug companies to publish all their data on the safety and effectiveness of medicines?
Peter Gluckman, New Zealand's chief science adviser, offers his ten principles for building trust, influence, engagement and independence.
As I am writing this article, I should be writing something else: an email to an editor, an email to an author, a letter of recommendation, notes for tomorrow’s classes, comments on students’ papers, comments on manuscripts, an abstract for an upcoming conference, notes for one of the books I’m working on.
Research Councils UK, the Wellcome Trust, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics worried about high open access fees charged by “hybrid” journals could refuse to pay fees above a set threshold, a report suggests.
EU more innovative but the differences between Member States are still high and diminish only slowly. The EU has closed half of the innovation gap towards the US.
Financial conflicts of interest may bias conclusions from systematic reviews on sugar-sweetened beverages consumption and weight gain or obesity.
Without provision of information about candidates other than their appearance, men are twice more likely to be hired for a mathematical task than women. If ability is self-reported, women still are discriminated against, because employers do not fully account for men’s tendency to boast about performance.
Nobelpreisträger Edmund Phelps spricht Europa Innovationskraft ab. Die Menschen seien zu behütet. Der Kontinent lebe von der Substanz.
As someone looking back from a high point in his career, what advice would Martin Hairer give to a young mathematician who was just starting out?
It can seem like a magic word is needed to get published in the top academic journals. Is open access a genuine alternative?
Introduction to the topics being discussed at the Auckland conference on ‘Science Advice to Governments’.
Annual figures: offers of admission from U.S. graduate schools to prospective international students.
Science crowdfunding platform reaches $1 million after two years.
People seeking non-academic jobs may need to try something unexpected to be noticed, says Peter Fiske.
Instrumentenkasten mit Beispiele aus der Praxis für die Praxis zu den Forschungsorientierten Gleichstellungsstandards der DFG.
Scientists who use government money to conduct genomic research will be required to quickly share the data they gather under a policy announced on Wednesday by the NIH.
Analysis suggests that male physicists and mathematicians author nearly 50% more papers than female colleagues.
NIH will assess whether grant reviewers are biased against minority applicants.
As scientists and policymakers gather in Auckland for a global summit on scientific advice, what lessons can we identify that apply across diverse national systems?
"The future of science (& humanity) isn't about funding, it's about supporting scientists to take risks once again."
Maybe the researchers deeply believed that their findings were true. But that is the problem. The more passionate scientists are about their work, the more susceptible they are to bias.
Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don't matter in today's great debates.
Scientists are not as secular as people think.
Universities are drowning in digital information. It's time senior leaders made openness – and its consequences – their concern.
Higher education needs to break down the barriers that block pathways to cross-subject study.
