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Red-hot Planet: All-time Heat Records Have Been Set All Over the World During the Past Week

Red-hot Planet: All-time Heat Records Have Been Set All Over the World During the Past Week

From the normally mild summer climes of Ireland, Scotland and Canada to the scorching Middle East, numerous locations in the Northern Hemisphere have witnessed their hottest weather ever recorded over the past week.

What Is a Predatory Journal?

What Is a Predatory Journal?

The objective of this scoping review is to summarize the literature on predatory journals, describe its epidemiological characteristics, and to extract empirical descriptions of potential characteristics of predatory journals.

Making Research Evaluation Processes in Europe More Transparent

Making Research Evaluation Processes in Europe More Transparent

What models or practices could be developed to help incentivize and reward innovation and diverse forms of scholarly communication and public engagement while reducing the risk to those who are seen to be diverging from traditional modes of professional practices and advancement?

Call for Action: Horizon Europe Needs a Specific Programme for Funding Science, Society and Citizens' Initiatives

Call for Action: Horizon Europe Needs a Specific Programme for Funding Science, Society and Citizens' Initiatives

There is an urgent need to strengthen funding for the interaction between science and society, but the EU's proposal for Horizon Europe does not foresee a programme dedicated to Science with and for Society. 

Psychiatrists Call for Rollback of Policy Banning Discussion of Public Figures’ Mental Health

Psychiatrists Call for Rollback of Policy Banning Discussion of Public Figures’ Mental Health

Some of the field’s most notable thinkers call on the American Psychiatric Association to permit discussion of public figures' mental health in some cases. 

The Latest in Search: Do New Discovery Solutions Improve Search as Well as Retrieval?

The Latest in Search: Do New Discovery Solutions Improve Search as Well as Retrieval?

A heuristic (exploratory) comparison of several new, free / mainstream academic search tools, concluding that their effectivness improves if an institution's library licenses them for off-campus authentication.

 

Philip Zimbardo Defends the Stanford Prison Experiment, his Most Famous Work

Philip Zimbardo Defends the Stanford Prison Experiment, his Most Famous Work

What’s the scientific value of the Stanford Prison Experiment? Zimbardo responds to the new allegations against his work.

Retracted Papers Keep Being Cited as if they Weren’t Retracted. Two Researchers Suggest how Elsevier Could Help Fix that.

Retracted Papers Keep Being Cited as if they Weren’t Retracted. Two Researchers Suggest how Elsevier Could Help Fix that.

Even after a paper’s retracted, it will continue to be cited - often by researchers who don’t realize the findings are problematic.

How Performance Evaluations Hurt Gender Equality

How Performance Evaluations Hurt Gender Equality

Performance evaluations are designed to be meritocratic. Unfortunately, they can exacerbate the very gender inequities they are striving to reduce.

Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis

Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis

A digital scholarship librarian and a historian assembled a team of professors, graduate students, researchers, and fellows to create "Torn Apart / Separados", an interactive web site that visualizes the vast apparatus of immigration enforcement in the US, and broadly maps the shelters where children can be housed.

Male Scientists Are Far More Likely to Be Referred to by Their Last Names, Impacting Status and Awards

Male Scientists Are Far More Likely to Be Referred to by Their Last Names, Impacting Status and Awards

The same gender disparity goes for politicians, athletes, and other high-profile figures

Opendata Conference Switzerland 2018

Opendata Conference Switzerland 2018

Opendata.ch/2018 ist die führende Konferenz der Schweiz rund um das Thema offene Daten. Jährlich prägen wir die nationale Open-Data-Diskussion, mit VertreterInnen aus Verwaltung, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Politik, Journalismus, IT und weiteren Interessengebieten.

African Scientists Launch their own Preprint

African Scientists Launch their own Preprint

A group of open science advocates have launched the first preprint aimed exclusively at African scientists. The free, online outlet is one of a growing number for academics on the continent to share their work.

Will Europe Lead a Global Flip to Open Access?

Will Europe Lead a Global Flip to Open Access?

There appears to be no realistic path forward that achieves Europe's 2020 open access targets without resulting in substantial revenue reductions for existing publishers. Will Europe miss its OA target? Or will publishers miss their revenue targets?

Hiring Policy at the LMU Psychology Department: Better Have some Open Science Track Record

Hiring Policy at the LMU Psychology Department: Better Have some Open Science Track Record

Candidates to the psychology department at LMU Munich are asked to describe in what way they already pursued and plan to pursue various Open Science goals.

How Universities Deal With Sexual Harassment Needs Sweeping Change, Panel Says

How Universities Deal With Sexual Harassment Needs Sweeping Change, Panel Says

Current policies and programs have failed overwhelmingly to address and prevent the problem, said a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

All Ye Need to Know

All Ye Need to Know

Daniel Sarewitz on the impossibility - and the necessity - of distinguishing science from nonscience.

Want to Find Investors for Your Research Idea? Change the Way You Pitch

Want to Find Investors for Your Research Idea? Change the Way You Pitch

A fundraising pitch involves vastly different style and substance than a scientific talk. Entrepreneurial scientists and engineers need to understand and manage the differences.