Bridging the Gender Gap: Why Do so Few Girls Study Stem Subjects?
To attract more girls to study Stem subjects at university, we need to tackle the stereotypes they are exposed to early on.
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The Balance Between Bibliometric and Societal Impact
An interview with Kai Chan and his strategies to seek the combination of both kinds of impacts.
Why Do Female Academics Publish Less Than Their Male Peers?
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.
Hilarious Academics on Twitter
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.
Writing Women in Mathematics into Wikipedia
Reflections upon the problems encountered when writing women in mathematics into Wikipedia.
When Splashy Headlines Become the Goal of Science, the Process Suffers
Internal and external pressure drive a rush toward prestige.
Budget 2018: The Fundamental Question of Research Funding
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.
Scientific Salami Slicing: 33 Papers from 1 Study
The journal Archives of Iranian Medicine just published a set of 33 papers about one study.
Citations as First-Class Data Entities: The OpenCitations Corpus
Requirements for citations to be treated as First-Class Data Entities In my introductory blog post, I listed five requirements for the treatment of citations as first-class data entities. The thir…
The Scientific Method - An Overview
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.
Who May Swim in the Ocean of Knowledge?
Decolonising knowledge and democratising information is the great promise of our times. With universal access to knowledge, we can begin to achieve the potential of the Internet and provide a better world for future generations.
HRB Open Research
HRB Open Research is a platform for rapid, open access publication and open peer review of any research funded by the Health Research Board.
How a Partnership Over Annotation Software Fits Into Bigger Changes in Research Workflow
How a Partnership Over Annotation Software Fits Into Bigger Changes in Research Workflow
Elsevier announced a partnership with a nonprofit named Hypothesis, which makes annotation software that lets readers make margin notes on online articles.
Open Philanthropy Project
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.
DMTPTool.org: An Online Data Management Plan Tool
A free, open-source, online application that helps researchers create data management plans complying with funder requirements.
How Scihub Is at the Forefront of the Quest to Frame Scientific Knowledge as Public Good
How Scihub Is at the Forefront of the Quest to Frame Scientific Knowledge as Public Good
There has been no precedent for this kind of access in the history of scientific enterprise.
The Man Who Bottled Evolution
Thirty years ago, MSU researcher Richard Lenski added his now-famous bacteria to 12 inaugural flasks, a process he and his team of lab technicians and students have been repeating daily ever since.
Comments Please! Open Science Training Handbook
Everyone who is interested in Open Science is invited to comment the first draft of an online handbook for Open Science trainers. The deadline for comments is 4 March 2018.
Celebrating 30 Years: The Man Who Bottled Evolution
MSU researcher Richard Lenski's Long-Term Evolution Experiment celebrates 30 years.
Decentralizing Science
The case for decentralized, trusted platforms for the dissemination of scientific information and attribution.
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