The academic job market is structured in many respects like a drug gang, with an expanding mass of outsiders and a shrinking core of insiders.

How do we support basic curiosity-driven research and maintain our position as the global leader in innovation and technology at a time of rapidly dwindling government funds?

An individual tool to help you explore career possibilities and set goals to follow the career path that fits you best.

A set of facts and figures on Open Access.

Neuroscientist Stuart Firestein rejects any metaphor that likens the goal of science to completing a puzzle, peeling an onion, or peeking beneath the surface to view an iceberg in its entirety. Such comparisons suggest a future in which all of our questions will be answered.

People are denied access to research hidden behind paywalls every day. This problem is invisible, but it slows innovation, kills curiosity and harms patients. This is an indictment of the current system.

Today we're launching Scholar Library, your personal collection of articles in Scholar. You can save articles right from the search page, organize them by topic, and use the power of Scholar's full-text search & ranking to quickly find just the one you want - at any time and from anywhere.

Sciencescape is a tool for discovering and organizing research you care about.

A video showing the age distribution of NIH Principal Investigators and Medical School faculty.

Ich bin ein Wissenschaftler, holt mich hier raus: Die Website howtoleaveacademia.com hilft beim Ausstieg.

EPSRC Engineering fellowships were under-subscribed and so we should all be preparing our applications. But just because a theme is under-subcribed doesn't mean that you've got a better chance of getting funded.

Ca. 50 organisations involved with life science in the UK agreed to develop a Concordat that sets out how they will be more open about the ways in which they use animals in scientific, medical or veterinary research in the UK.

By the Rectors’ Conference of the Swiss Universities (CRUS), in cooperation with the Switzerland’s higher education institutions.

Sharing data is critical to scientific progress, but has been hampered by traditional research practices-our approach is to invite willing participants to publicly share their personal data for the greater good.

A collection of talks given last week at the London SpotOn conference 2013 on science communication and peer review.

A presentation given at North Carolina State University regarding how scientists, early in their careers, can take advantage of the online tools available today.

A variety of international, national, and private granting organizations require sex and gender analysis.

A brief history of science funding.

Les raisons d'une exception française analyse l'insertion professionnelle des docteurs en France. Le nombre de doctorats délivrés est faible au regard des sortants chaque année du système éducatif et des effectifs de l'enseignement supérieur.

One year after launching the ORCID Registry, we are excited to be releasing our first Public Data File. This file contains a snapshot of all public data in the ORCID Registry associated with an ORCID record that was created or claimed by an individual.

NIH launches commenting system integrated within PubMed - huge moment for post publication peer review.

Neben dem SNF sind EU-Fördergelder die wichtigste Finanzierungsquelle für Schweizer Forscher. Das neue EU-Rahmenprogramm für Forschung und Innovation, "Horizon 2020", wird auch die Schweizer Forschungslandschaft beeinflussen. Michael Hengartner geht davon aus, dass die EU in Zukunft verstärkt in die angewandte Forschung investiert.

As the dominant all-comers crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter's fundraising stats are leading indicators of where charitable online crowdfunding is headed. Just yesterday Kickstarter proclaimed that over 50,000 projects have been successfully funded to the tune of $836 million. They could barely contain their glee: For over a year, I've been observing a sliver of the rapidly expanding crowdfunding pie: science projects.

Labs at Yale are researching mosquito sterilization and the abilities of rubber-decomposing fungus, all without grants. As grants from federal organizations like the National Institutes of Health become increasingly difficult to secure, researchers at Yale and across the nation are turning to a new source of support.

Scientific Research Centers dropped sharply in their representation on this year’s list, the majority of which were lost from S. Korea. Absent from this year’s list are Government Agencies. This is not an indication that such organizations are not innovating, but rather that other sectors are innovating at a faster rate for the period covered.

List of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers.

A portrait from UNESCO shows where women are well represented among employed scientists, and where they are rare.

Here's an extraordinary recording of Albert Einstein from the fall of 1941, reading a full-length essay in English.

The Golden Goose Award officially recognizes scientists in the U.S., whose federally funded basic research has led to innovations or inventions which have a significant impact on humanity or society.

Discussion about open-access publishing and the future of scientific communication and peer-review at the Open Science Summit 2012.