Leaving research doesn’t mean that the skills you developed will be wasted.

Founder of the Institute for Scientific Information passes away suddenly.

Financing massive-scale copyright infringement.

If you are a futurist or make predictions, send them to us, and the whole world will see them.

The Edward Snowden of peer review.

A clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions.

Researchers must seek out others’ deposited biological sequences in community databases, urges Franziska Denk.

  In 2016, Joel Pitt and Prof. Helene Hill published an intriguing paper with us looking at the prevalence of scientific fraud in preclinical research...

A free, open-access journal designed to publish brief papers about research software.

For a career-minded scientist, to fail to replicate your own work is worse than never doing the replication at all.

The first data on the uptake of open access to publications in Horizon 2020.

Recommended is a personalised service that suggests relevant papers to you, based on what you’ve previously read, from all publishers.

This list keeps being updated with more online educational resources.

Reclaiming the intellectual life of the university.

Although scientists often are urged to share their expertise with policymakers, the idea that evidence should drive policy is not always accepted.

The soul of academic science is being destroyed, one patent at a time.

Chronicle of a two-day workshop curriculum to teach reproducible research using an interactive computational environment.

The motto being "as open as possible, as closed as necessary".

The glass-ceiling index.

Trying to find a way to explain to a six-year-old how natural selection works is valuable practise for trying to write a lay summary in a grant proposal.

As top-down governance gives signs of obsolescence, it is time to adopt greater bottom-up input from scientists into policies influencing our lives.

A number of NIH policies became effective in January. Here’s a brief recap.

In my scientific work I strive to be as open as possible. Unfortunately I work with data that I cannot de-identify well enough to share (aka weird sex diaries) and data that simply isn’t mine to share (aka the reproductive histories of all Swedish people since 1950)...

Slides from my AAAS '17 talk, part of the panel: "Mind the Gaps: Wikipedia as a Tool to Connect Scientists and the Public"

A man hunched over a microscope in Spain at the turn of the 20th century was making prescient hypotheses about how the brain works. Meet Santiago Ramón y Cajal, an artist, photographer, doctor, bodybuilder, scientist, chess player and publisher.

The JRC at the world's biggest annual science gathering

A community guide for open source creators.

The human brain?

Humanity is going through unprecedented global change. The systems that arose to organize societies in the last 400 years are breaking down — and now is the time to envision what will come next.

GitHub just released a massive guide to contributing to open source.