The damaging bureaucracy of academic peer preview
Academic funding agencies should support research in unfashionable fields; a letter to David Cameron.
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New efforts to maximize fairness in NIH peer-review
The NIH is working on multiple fronts to get to the bottom of unexplained racial disparities in R01 grant funding and to maximize fairness in NIH peer review.
Welcome, Scientific Data!
Welcome, Scientific Data!
Nature announced the launch of its new journal: Scientific Data.
Der bekannte Entwicklungsbiologe Walter Gehring ist tot
Mit Walter Gehring ist einer der letzten grossen, umfassend gebildeten Biologen von uns gegangen.
Where's France Córdova?
New NSF director jumps into the frying pan served up by Congress as it reviews agency programs.
Don't let new boundaries cut off UK science
Don't let new boundaries cut off UK science
Many scientists in the UK could soon find themselves isolated from their colleagues in Europe and Scotland. That must not happen.
How to build a bad research center
How to build a bad research center
Eight commandments on how to build a bad research center.
I'm a teenage lobotomy
A large fraction of academic scientists are obsessed with the issue of 'when will I have done enough to complete my PhD?'
Re-Evaluating the College Rankings Game
Although the rating of colleges and universities around the world has been heavily criticized by educators and politicians alike, the academic rankings business is big, and booming.
Want to be a PI? What are the odds?
Algorithm based on publications finds that first-author articles in leading journals matter most.
Internationale Mobilität der WissenschaftlerInnen in Deutschland im europäischen Vergleich
Internationale Mobilität der WissenschaftlerInnen in Deutschland im europäischen Vergleich
Studie zur Mobilität der Wissenschafter.
The number of scholarly documents on the public web
The lower bound number of scholarly documents, published in English, available on the web is roughly 114 million.
Evaluation des Forschungskredits der Universität Zürich
Studie der Sozialforschungsstelle der Universtität Zürich.
When did it stop being worthy?
When did it stop being worthy?
Two themes sound repeatedly among those who would taper the flow of money: social science research isn't as economically valuable or as "high quality" as technological or medical research, and social science research can't be justified in austere times.
Hate the peer-review process? Einstein did too
Most academic papers today are published only after some academic peers have had a chance to review the merits and limitations of the work. This seems like a good idea, but there is a growing movement that wants to retort as Albert Einstein did to such a review process.
Biomedical institute opens its doors to physicists
Launch of the new interdisciplinary Francis Crick Institute in central London.
Studyforrest.org
An open invitation to anyone and everyone to participate in a decentralized effort to explore the opportunities of open science in neuroimaging.
Den Weg zur Forschung ebnen
Neues Förderungsprogramm ermöglicht Nachwuchsforschenden in der Medizin, ihre Arbeit in der Klinik zu reduzieren. Zugunsten ihrer Forschung.
Big Bang finding challenged
Big Bang finding challenged
Signal of gravitational waves was too weak to be significant, studies suggest.
Astrid Epiney erste Rektorin der Universität Fribourg
Astrid Epiney erste Rektorin der Universität Fribourg
Die Universität Fribourg erhält erstmals in ihrer 125-jährigen Geschichte eine Rektorin: Der Senat der Freiburger Hochschule hat am Donnerstag die Juristin Astrid Epiney zur neuen Leiterin der Uni Fribourg gewählt.
Zwielichtige Start-up-Förderung
130 Millionen Franken gibt die staatliche Innovationsförderstelle KTI jedes Jahr für Projekte und Jungunternehmen aus. Eine Untersuchung auf Druck der Finanzkontrolle förderte gravierende Missstände zutage.
Cambridge centre for postdocs opens
Its opening represents a key step in the university’s plans to improve the experience for its 3,500 postdocs, who comprise the largest group of staff at Cambridge.
Labs are told to start including a neglected variable: females
Labs are told to start including a neglected variable: females
Mice or rats, pigs or dogs, they were usually male: researchers avoided using female animals for fear that their reproductive cycles and hormone fluctuations would confound the results of delicately calibrated experiments.
Twitter to release all tweets to scientists
Five hundred million tweets are broadcast worldwide every day on Twitter. With so many details about personal lives, the social media site is a data trove for scientists looking to find patterns in human behaviors, tease out risk factors for health conditions and track the spread of infectious diseases.
Inequalities in science
Little attention has been paid to the large, changing inequalities in the world of scientific research.
Could crowdfunding rejuvenate science?
Ben McNeil, founder of thinkable.org, thinks our science funding mechanism is fundamentally broken. Here's why, and what he thinks we should do about it.
Discussions at London Book Fair
Discussions at London Book Fair
Participants discuss the importance of finding a viable Open Access model for books, and of the funding that would be lost, particularly in the humanities and social sciences.
Why science does not work as it should and what to do about it
Why science does not work as it should and what to do about it
Report based on four workshops organized by the initiators of Science in Transition in the spring of 2013.
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