A short list of common issues that can delay a submission. Check your manuscript for these issues, and and then read our advice for how to fix them.

Following the shutdown of Beall’s list, blacklists that warn against questionable publishers are in demand.

After Jeffrey Beall took down his list of predatory journals in January 2017 in order to avoid continued harassment and threats, a small group of scholars and information professionals decided to anonymously rebuild and resurrect that list.

Researchers can submit their work directly from bioRxiv to F1000Research offering more choice and flexibility to authors in deciding when to set preprints to under invited peer review.

A series of talks on robust research practices in psychology and the biomedical sciences, held in Oxford in 2017. Organized by Dorothy Bishop, Ana Todorovic, Caroline Nettekoven and Verena Heise.

Women shouldn't have to shoulder the burden of solving gender inequality on social media: by visibly contradicting stereotypes about female scientists, it is clear that they hope to inspire girls to pursue science and to encourage female scientists to showcase their femininity in our male-dominated workspaces.

A free and open way to track the online buzz around scholarly articles, by Jason Priem.

A flawed article claiming that manuscripts don't change much between being preprints and published articles somehow makes it through peer review unchanged.

Customers question whether paid articles in digital magazines are worth the money.

Public regard for scientists is as strong as ever, but you wouldn't know it. Public trust in scientists has risen over the past three decades in the United Kingdom, even in the post-Brexit era.

New head of Science Europe says he hopes for experiments with grant lottery system and even a basic income for researchers.

Keeping your research data freely available is crucial for open science — and your funding could depend on it.

Women get paid less at every education level and in nearly every major.

To attract more girls to study Stem subjects at university, we need to tackle the stereotypes they are exposed to early on.

China produces the most scientific articles, but lags on other measures. 

Some thoughts on how to approach writing manuscripts based on original biomedical research.

Information about research metrics across disciplines, including how each metric is calculated, where you can find it, and how each should (and should not) be applied.

Editors and peer reviewers impose tougher standards on women. This is evident from the fact that female-authored economics papers take around six months more to go through the review process than male-authored papers. As a result, female academics come to experience peer review as a much tougher process and those who progress on the career ladder adjust their expectations about what is required. Female researchers publish less than their male peers do but what they publish is much more readable and better written.

27 Twitter accounts bringing out the silly, quirky, and fun side of academia, introducing you to a space on Twitter where academics can be casual, friendly, and humorous.

House races feature unusual upsurge in entrants with technical backgrounds.

Six experts offer advice on producing a manuscript that will get published and pull in readers.

Canada's Budget 2018 has been released by Finance Minister Bill Morneau. In this post, Brooke Struck examines the budget's implications for Canada's three research granting councils.

As late as 1999 there were only four blacks teaching mathematics among the more than 900 faculty members of the mathematics departments of the nation’s 25 highest-ranked universities.

The journal Archives of Iranian Medicine just published a set of 33 papers about one study.

Science is not a belief system. It is rather a defined process we can use to accurately answer questions and come to a better understanding of our natural world.

A set of criteria behind PLOS recommended data repositories.

FAIRsharing.org: a series of open data resources and tools, and an outlet for the developers and maintainers of these resources to emphasize the approach they take to ensure the data they host and serve are increasingly FAIR.

New Stanford research shows how companies alienate women before they start working.

An inquiry into why research on the nature of dogs gets so much attention raises the question of whether there are actually more studies of dogs.

The Open Philanthropy Project’s mission is to give as effectively as we can and share our findings openly so that anyone can build on our work. Through research and grantmaking, we hope to learn how to make philanthropy go especially far in terms of improving lives.