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The benefits and challenges of three approaches to scientific meetings.
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DARPA Has an Ambitious USD1.5 Billion Plan to Reinvent Electronics
DARPA Has an Ambitious USD1.5 Billion Plan to Reinvent Electronics
The US military agency is worried the country could lose its edge in semiconductor chips with the end of Moore’s Law.
Boycott the Journal Rankings
Journal rankings are a rigged game. The blacklist of history of economic thought journals isn’t a fluke nor a conspiracy - it exposes how citation rankings really work.
Peer Review of Health Research Funding Proposals: A Systematic Map and Systematic Review of Innovations for Effectiveness and Efficiency
Peer Review of Health Research Funding Proposals: A Systematic Map and Systematic Review of Innovations for Effectiveness and Efficiency
Virtual peer review using videoconferencing or teleconferencing appears promising for reducing costs by avoiding the need for reviewers to travel, but again any consequences for quality have not been adequately assessed.
The Important Thing is Not to Win, It is to Take Part
What if scientists benefit from participating in research grant competitions?
Girls Who Code Encourages STEM, One Coding Class at a Time
The nonprofit's Summer Immersion Program aims to catch girls before their interest in computer science plummets.
Affordable Open Access: There's a Way, Now We Need a Will
What will it take to make the majority of scholarship open access so anyone can read it without a paywall?
Preprints Promote Transparency and Communication
The potential of preprints to drive scientific understanding and innovation, and even support good journalism.
Science Alone Won’t Save the Earth. People Have to Do That.
We need to start talking about what kind of planet we want to live on.
DOAJ Under Attack from an Unknown Third Party
After much investigation and active measures, we can state that the DOAJ is effectively under attack from an unknown third party.
How Freely Should Scientists Share Their Data?
How Freely Should Scientists Share Their Data?
The Open Science movement champions transparency, but how much and how quickly is a matter of dispute.
Tokyo Medical School Admits Changing Results to Exclude Women
Tokyo Medical School Admits Changing Results to Exclude Women
University manipulated test scores for more than a decade to ensure more men became doctors.
How Accessible is Psychology Data?
In a slightly depressing new paper, researchers describe how they tried to get access to the data behind 111 of the most cited psychology and psychiatry papers published in the past decade. Only 14% of the datasets were made available with no restrictions on who could access them.
Saudi-Canada Dispute: Students Forced to Return Home
Students from Saudi Arabia studying Canada are have been ordered by their government to leave the country in the middle of their courses.
Saudi Arabia to Withdraw Students from Canada
Withdrawal is ordered as part of larger diplomatic spat over Canadian criticism of Saudi arrests of human rights activists.
Who Would You Share Your Funding With?
I want to see whether the wisdom of crowds does a better job than conventional grant review at supporting research, says Johan Bollen.
Europe Pulls Together in Scientific Union
Smaller countries rely more on regional collaborations than on domestic interaction.
Rosalind Franklin and the Damage of Gender Harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed - and what hasn’t.
Citizen Science Can Make Systematic Reviews Faster and More Efficient
Citizen Science Can Make Systematic Reviews Faster and More Efficient
Citizen science: crowdsourcing for systematic reviews looks at how people can contribute their expertise to scientific studies using new online platforms - even if they don’t think of themselves as researchers or scientists.
Quantity Does Matter as Citation Impact Increases with Productivity
Designing Inclusion into Engineering Education
A fresh, practical look at how diversity impacts on engineering and strategies for change.
Publons' ECR Reviewers' Choice Awards
Publons’ ECR Reviewer Choice Award celebrates early-career researchers' exceptional contribution to peer review, recognizing an individual who has been influential in the realm of peer review or has significantly contributed to improving the system.
The Dark Sides of Open Science
In this controversial opinion piece, German science expert Stefan Hornbostel argues that some transparency is good for science - but too much can backfire, reducing the efficiency and quality of research and eroding public trust.
It Just Got a Lot Harder to Ignore Predatory Publishing
Thanks to a major new international research study, it's no longer possible to pretend that predatory journals are not a serious problem that needs serious attention.
How to Pick an Electronic Laboratory Notebook
Choosing wisely from a burgeoning array of digital tools can help researchers to record experiments with ease.
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