Academe’s Prestige Problem
Professors and aspiring professors are complicit in perpetuating a rigged system.
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(Re)usable Data Project
Looking at some of the issues around the reuse of scientific data and open a conversation about how to deal with them.
An Introduction to Rocker: Docker Containers for R
Increasing portability, scaling, reproducibility, and convenience of R users and developers.
Sharing Grant Proposals Openly
Opening up science so that all stages of the process can benefit from better interaction and communication and to provide examples for early career scientists writing grants.
Retracting Bad Science Doesn’t Make It Disappear
When a scientific paper is retracted, it can produce long-term aftershocks.
Practical Computational Reproducibility in the Life Sciences
Practical Computational Reproducibility in the Life Sciences
Emerging technologies making computational reproducibility practical in both time and effort.
Science Is Imperfect. We Should Admit That.
One prominent research journal just updated its description to explain why it won’t be perfect—and that’s great.
The Preprint Dilemma
Biologists are posting unreviewed papers in record numbers. Here's a survival guide.
Bruno Latour, a Veteran of the ‘Science Wars,’ Has a New Mission
He has long been a thorn in scientists’ sides. Today, Latour wants to help rebuild trust in science.
Publons New Index Reveals Who is Doing Lion's Share of Peer Review
Publons new Review Distribution Index reveals that a small proportion of reviewers do the lion's share of the peer review.
Open-Source, Commercial, Non-Profit, For-Profit: What Power Have You Got?
Open-Source, Commercial, Non-Profit, For-Profit: What Power Have You Got?
Non-profit is not synonymous with good, and for-profit is not synonymous with exploitation.
The Rise and Fall and Rise again of 23andMe
How Anne Wojcicki led her company from the brink of failure to scientific pre-eminence.
Publishers Threaten to Remove Millions of Papers from ResearchGate
Take-down notices “imminent” as lawsuit is filed alleging widespread copyright infringement.
How the CIA Secretly Recruits Academics
In order to tempt nuclear scientists from countries such as Iran or North Korea to defect, US spy agencies routinely send agents to academic conferences – or even host their own fake ones.
Are the Papers Behind This Year's Nobel Prizes in the Public Domain?
Many of the important papers penned by the chemistry laureates are not freely accessible.
Championing the Success of Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths, and Medicine
Championing the Success of Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths, and Medicine
This report explores the role of women in STEM and the challenges they face, looking at areas of gender inequality, exploring potential causes of this inequality and offering solutions.
Jussieu Call for Open Science and Bibliodiversity
A call on research organizations and their libraries to secure and earmark a share of their acquisition budgets to support the development of scientific publishing activities.
Women in the Workplace 2017
Get the latest stats on women in leadership and learn how companies can create more inclusive workplaces in the 2017 Women in the Workplace study.
ResearchGate and Springer Nature Plan Cooperation
ResearchGate and Springer Nature have been in serious discussions for some time about finding solutions to sharing scientific journal articles online, while at the same time protecting intellectual property rights.
G7 Science Ministers Endorse Open Science
Recommendations by G7 to rewarding and incentivize Open Science practices and infrastructures for optimal use of research data.
The Appropriation of GitHub for Curation
We describe curation projects as a new category of GitHub project that collects, evaluates, and preserves resources for software developers.
Publish and Be Praised: Impact Factor a Good Gauge of Quality
In some subjects, the impact factor of journal articles is as good a reflection of research quality as judgements by a panel of experts.
'Transformative' Research Unrealistic to Predict, Scientists Tell Granting Agencies
The Role of Ego in Academic Profile Services
Comparing Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Mendeley, and ResearcherID.
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