A new seminar at Michigan helped doctoral students explore nonfaculty jobs and helped a professor learn how to teach about them.

Interactive monadic exploration of the world of open science.

A strategic kick-off workshop on Reproducibility and Replication with the goal to define the optimal set-up of the activities of the newly opened Center for Reproducible Science (CRS) at the University of Zurich.

Genetic analysis uncovers a direct descendant of two different groups of early humans.

Speakers inadvertently prepare presentations for themselves rather than their audiences. A few mental exercises can help presenters to avoid this pitfall.

Dimensions by Digital Science (owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing) is a new database that includes not only data about publications and their natural associated citation graph, but also awarded grant data, patent data and clinical data and altmetric attention data.

Announcing R4R to connect authors to peers

The campaign may have increased misperceptions that the science on the safety of vaccines isn’t settled - as is the case - but rather subject to debate.

Are you in the process of starting an open access journal, or are you planning to transition an existing journal to an OA publishing model? In this post we break out all the steps to get an OA publication up and running.

A look at the journey psychology has made toward becoming a robust and mature science.

The Global State of Young Scientists Africa project investigates the challenges that shape the career trajectories of young African scientists.

The Global State of Young Scientists Africa project investigates the challenges that shape the career trajectories of young African scientists.

Just like judges and politicians, researchers may overstate their confidence in a claim. To truly assess their confidence, something needs to be on the line.

Find out how scholarly articles are cited on Wikipedia with WikiCiteVis.

Chan Zuckerberg Science Initiative's approach to accelerating science and curing disease.

Mind the Gap is a role-playing game designed as a structure for dialogues which examine the gender gap.

Information about Blockchain for Science, Research and Knoweldge creation. The decentralized future of science. Blockchain bears the potential to make science more effective, make research continous, free data and fix the reproducibility crisis in science.

The benefits and challenges of three approaches to scientific meetings.

Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, and Jim Smith, Director of Science, discuss the steps Wellcome is taking to fulfil the principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).

Approaches that have been shown to work and those which need more evidence before they can be recommended as widespread approaches.

Publons’ ECR Reviewer Choice Award celebrates early-career researchers' exceptional contribution to peer review, recognizing an individual who has been influential in the realm of peer review or has significantly contributed to improving the system.

The first OpenCon satellite event in Switzerland will take place on September 21-22 at the SNSF in Bern. Registrations are open until the end of August.

Smaller countries rely more on regional collaborations than on domestic interaction.  

After much investigation and active measures, we can state that the DOAJ is effectively under attack from an unknown third party.

Choosing wisely from a burgeoning array of digital tools can help researchers to record experiments with ease.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell's skills on the radio telescope were on point. Following the discovery of pulsars, Bell Burnell faced casual sexism from the media and public as well.

A fresh, practical look at how diversity impacts on engineering and strategies for change.

Briefing looking at what it means to provide inclusive careers advice and guidance, as well as some practical challenges of delivering this in higher education institutions.

The nonprofit's Summer Immersion Program aims to catch girls before their interest in computer science plummets.

Of the 60 Fields Medal winners since it’s launch in 1936 only one is female.