Back to the Classroom After 11 Years in Administration
A former dean chronicles the challenges of returning to full-time teaching.
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A former dean chronicles the challenges of returning to full-time teaching.
An interview with Robert-Jan Smits, with preface Robert-Jan Smits.
A worksheet compiled from the advice of a number of journalsand publications. The aim of the worksheet is to give less-experiencedpeer reviewers a concrete workflow of questions and tasks to follow whenthey first peer-review.
A statement by the High Energy Physics Community about a talk given at CERN by Alessandro Strumia, a well-known particle theorist who is a Professor of Physics at the University of Pisa and a current associate of the theory department at CERN. He argued that the primary explanation for the discrepancies between men and women in theoretical physics is that women are inherently less capable.
Australia's parliament has a problem retaining experienced women. As a workplace, it's not alone.
A list of the practical challenges and concrete steps that could help or hinder Plan S.
Maria Goeppert Mayer was relegated to unpaid and "volunteer" positions for most of her academic career.
This essay, although hopefully accessible to everyone, is the most thorough breakdown of the study and written for those who are already somewhat familiar with the problems of ideologically-motivated scholarship, radical skepticism and cultural constructivism.
A study released last week revealed that while women account for 13% of startup founders, they hold only 6% of founder equity.
A paper that examines the relationship between placement of publications in Top Five journals and receipt of tenure in academic economics departments.
The claim that Plan S is unethical derives from an understanding of academic freedom that appears to rest on foundations that, if not shaky, are at least highly questionable.
CERN considers the presentation delivered by an invited scientist during a workshop on High Energy Theory and Gender as highly offensive. It has therefore decided to remove the slides from the online repository, in line with a Code of Conduct that does not tolerate personal attacks and insults.
Peter Kraker on Google Dataset Discovery, the open science movement, and his #DontLeaveItToGoogle campaign.
Manuscript showing how Augmented Reality, which is the projection of virtual information onto a real-world object, can be applied in the classroom and in the laboratory.
A large-scale analysis of the state of open access pulising across various countries from 1990 to 2016.
Code Ocean is a cloud-based computational reproducibility platform that provides researchers and developers an easy way to share, discover and run code published in academic journals and conferences.
The SCNAT is organizing this one day event in Bern, with the aim to give the research community the chance to raise their concern and also the SNF and the European Commission to present their view and to inform about recent trends. The workshop should provide recommendations on how to implement the open data requirements.
Swiss Academy of Sciences conference on metrics and assessment.
The Swiss Science Council reports that according to recent statistics, the gender gap in the technical sciences and engineering fields is still disproportionately high in Europe and North America. European countries with high-income have a surprisingly low proportion of female engineers in research and industry, in comparison to developing countries like Eastern Europe, Central and South Asia and Latin America.
Last month, I participated virtually in the Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools (JROST) workshop as 86 individuals from 58 different organizations gathered in Berkeley on August 27-28 to explore the growing category of open source scholarly workflow tools, to…
The implications of a simultaneous redirection of the big publishers' business strategy towards open access business models and the acquisition of scholarly infrastructure utilizing the conceptual framework of rent-seeking theory.
The measles outbreak in the United States and Europe keeps spreading despite the availability of a safe and effective vaccine. The cause? Science-denial.
One of the medical world’s most respected expert bodies is in turmoil as its annual meeting gets underway after its governing board voted to expel a member.
Rates of sexual abuse and harassment in academic science are second only to the military. It's estimated that at least half of women faculty and staff face.