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ELife Latest: Taking Steps to Increase the Diversity of Our Editorial Board
ELife Latest: Taking Steps to Increase the Diversity of Our Editorial Board
As the Board of Reviewing Editors reaches 500, we reflect on recent recruitment efforts.
Coronavirus Crisis Hits Ice-locked Arctic Research Expedition
A team member on the huge project has tested positive for the virus, delaying the air mission.
Hundreds of Scientists Have Peer-Reviewed for Predatory Journals
Many of these titles have some editorial oversight - but the quality of reviews is in question.
Who Reviews for Predatory Journals? A Study on Reviewer Characteristics
Who Reviews for Predatory Journals? A Study on Reviewer Characteristics
While the characteristics of scholars who publish in predatory journals are relatively well-understood, nothing is known about the scholars who review for these journals. This article aims to shed light on the reviewers for predatory journals.
Making a Plan When Planning Is Impossible
Travel bans, office closures, and conference cancellations have publishers and societies thinking about how best to ensure that scholarly content continues to be reviewed and distributed. This post by Angela Cochran looks at some of the impacts and questions whether.
A Disease Tracker Backed by Gates and Zuckerberg Tackles Covid-19 in Cambodia
A Disease Tracker Backed by Gates and Zuckerberg Tackles Covid-19 in Cambodia
The two tech titans funded an effort to bring metagenomic sequencing and software to poor countries. Now, it's helping trace the spread of the new coronavirus.
Cancel Everything
Social distancing is the only way to stop the coronavirus. We must start immediately.
Does Closing Schools Slow the Spread of Coronavirus? Past Outbreaks Provide Clues
A researcher who forecasts epidemic spread argues that proactive closures, though disruptive, could help.
Why Do People Migrate In Europe? A New Online Tool Explains
Universities and research organisations have joined forces to develop a new interactive tool that explores how free movement has affected EU economies and societies.
COVID-19: Funding Bodies Around the World Pledge New Money for Virus Research
COVID-19: Funding Bodies Around the World Pledge New Money for Virus Research
Research charities Wellcome Trust and the Gates Foundation announced they are joining forces with the credit card company MasterCard in a $125 million push to speed up development of drugs for treating COVID-19 infections, in the latest example of the rush to fund research into the novel coronavirus.
Why It Took Me Eight Years and Three Postdoc Jobs to Describe Myself As a Scientist
Why It Took Me Eight Years and Three Postdoc Jobs to Describe Myself As a Scientist
Research and reading helped Shipra Jain to gain confidence in her abilities.
How Canceled Events and Self-quarantines Save Lives, in One Chart
This is how we all help slow the spread of coronavirus.
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) is a new global problem. This is our overview of the early research and data on the outbreak. We will extend this page in the days ahead.
'Flattening the Curve' May Be the World's Best Bet to Slow the Coronavirus
Experts say by taking aggresive measures, governments have a shot at stamping out new chains of transmission of the coronavirus.
Savants Ou Militants ? Le Dilemme Des Chercheurs Face à La Crise écologique
Ils signent pétitions et tribunes pour alerter sur le réchauffement climatique et la dégradation de la biodiversité, pourtant, leur incursion dans le débat public n'a rien d'évident. A l'heure des " fake news ", la communauté scientifique questionne le bien-fondé de son engagement.
Want to Do Better Science? Admit You're Not Objective
When science is viewed in isolation from the past and politics, it's easier for those with bad intentions to revive dangerous and discredited ideas.
Publishers Roll out Alternative Routes to Open Access
But can they overcome free riders and concerns about higher prices?
Mutations Can Reveal How the Coronavirus Moves-but They're Easy to Overinterpret
Reimbursement Policies Make Academia Less Inclusive
Paying conference expenses up front from personal accounts is a significant burden, this grad student writes
Preventing Spread of SARS Coronavirus-2 in Humans
Göttingen infection researchers identify a potential drug.
Why does soap work so well on the coronavirus? A Twitter thread
A two-part thread about soap, viruses and supramolecular chemistry.
Airlines Are Burning Thousands of Gallons of Fuel Flying Empty 'ghost' Planes So They Can Keep Their Flight Slots During the Coronavirus Outbreak
Airlines Are Burning Thousands of Gallons of Fuel Flying Empty 'ghost' Planes So They Can Keep Their Flight Slots During the Coronavirus Outbreak
Airlines are running empty "ghost" flights because of European rules forcing operators to run their allocated flights or risk losing their slots.
The [R]evolution of Open Science Book Now Available for Free
Jonathan Tennant's latest book, The [R]evolution of Open Science, is now available online for free.
Get Political Reporters off the Coronavirus Story Because They Don't Distinguish Between Right and Wrong
Get Political Reporters off the Coronavirus Story Because They Don't Distinguish Between Right and Wrong
News organizations should take political reporters – and perhaps even more importantly, political editors – entirely out of the loop on this story. It’s too important to be covered as a two-sided battle over who’s winning the narrative.
#COLA4ALL Shuts Down UC Santa Cruz
Graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shut down campus Thursday as part of their ongoing strike for a cost of living adjustment, and all other system campuses saw their own one-day protests. Santa Cruz graduate assistants went on a grade strike in December, then a full labor strike this month. Tensions mounted last week when the university fired or disqualified 80-some grads from spring assistantships for continuing to withhold undergraduate grades. Graduate assistants blocked all entrances to the Santa Cruz campus before dawn, forcing the university to cancel classes, except those offered online. Many faculty and undergraduate supporters joined the picket lines on that campus and across the UC system starting midmorning. As of last week, graduate assistants at the Santa Barbara campus are also on a labor strike for a COLA, and assistants at the Davis campus are on a grade strike. Systemwide, graduate instructors make about $2,400 pre-tax, per month, for nine months out of the year. Strikers say that they need between $1,400 and $1,800 extra per month to be able to secure housing in California's expensive rental markets and have anything left over for utilities and food. The United Auto Workers, with which UC's graduate workers are affiliated, has urged the university to reopen their contract to bargain for a COLA. This week it authorized a systemwide strike vote for April on the grounds that the university has committed unfair labor practices. The university has filed a similar claim against graduate workers. The system said in a statement that it "values all our graduate students, including academic student employees (ASEs) who are essential to UC's teaching mission, supporting the university as teaching assistants, readers and tutors. However, that mission is in jeopardy when ASEs refuse to fulfill their teaching obligations." The system noted that these assistants are striking in violation of their union contract, negotiated in 2018, and said it's "unfortunate that the UAW has resorted to announcing a strike authorization vote as the university continues pursuing opportunities to engage productively with graduate students on housing affordability and other issues."
Research Data Management As a National Service
The volume of data stored in research institutions is growing, and the rate at which it is growing is accelerating. Spending and effort and resources are being duplicated needlessly, and so this opinion piece argues for the establishment of a national infrastructure for research data management.