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Eurosceptics could damage British science and innovation

Eurosceptics could damage British science and innovation

The EU's academic output is 20% higher than the US. This shouldn't really be a surprise given the EU's combined population of over 500m versus America's 300m. In fact, Europe produces a third of the world's research outputs and, like China, investment is being ramped up while UK and US investments are treading water.

Knoblich: "Große Forschung findet nicht mehr an Unis statt"

Knoblich: "Große Forschung findet nicht mehr an Unis statt"

„Eine gute Forschungsstätte räumt Hindernisse aus dem Weg," meint Jürgen Knoblich, stellvertretender Direktor des Instituts für Molekulare Biotechnologie (IMBA) des ÖAW.

Female students start to show more interest in science and engineering

Female students start to show more interest in science and engineering

The number of female students considering university courses in STEM subjects has seen a bigger increase over the last seven years than for male students, according to new research.

Universities stand to benefit in recessions

Universities stand to benefit in recessions

New research from the London School of Economics and Political Science shows that universities across the world actually benefit during recessions.

"Ich habe meine Vorbehalte gegen diese ewige Forderung nach Transparenz"

"Ich habe meine Vorbehalte gegen diese ewige Forderung nach Transparenz"

Antonio Loprieno, Rektor der Uni Basel, im Interview

Policymakers' and scientists' ranks of research priorities for resource-management policy

Policymakers' and scientists' ranks of research priorities for resource-management policy

Survey on 40 research questions amongst science policy makers suggests that participatory exercises can establish priorities to guide funders of research.

Scientific diversity interventions

Scientific diversity interventions

Although the representation of women and racial or ethnic minorities within the scientific community has increased in recent decades, the overall pace of diversification remains relatively slow.

Impactstory.org partners with Altmetric.com

Impactstory.org partners with Altmetric.com

Impactstory will be buying a new data stream: Twitter, G+, and Facebook data from Altmetric.com. Altmetric have spent years working on the thorny problem of connecting tweets with articles.

Boycotting academic publishers is a career risk for young scientists

Boycotting academic publishers is a career risk for young scientists

Research careers are built on publishing in high-profile journals, so can postdocs be expected to take a stand against them?

WHO's vision for information sharing

WHO's vision for information sharing

Knowledge generated with public funds should be accessible to everyone, says Dr Al Shorbaji, Director of Knowledge, Ethics and Research at WHO.

Les agents doubles du classement de Shanghai

Les agents doubles du classement de Shanghai

Le sociologue et historien des sciences Yves Gingras vient de publier "Les dérives de l'évaluation de la recherche. Du bon usage de la bibliométrie", chez Raison d'agir.

Why publishing everything is more effective than selective publishing of statistically significant results

Why publishing everything is more effective than selective publishing of statistically significant results

Publishing everything is more effective than only reporting significant outcomes.

Suggestions to increase participation

Suggestions to increase participation

An increasing number of publishers and funding agencies require public data archiving (PDA) in open-access databases. PDA has obvious group benefits for the scientific community, but many researchers are reluctant to share their data publicly because of real or perceived individual costs.

Academic torrents

Academic torrents

The academic torrents network is built for researchers, by researchers. Its distributed peer-to-peer library system automatically replicates your datasets on many servers, so you don't have to worry about managing your own servers or file availability. Everyone who has data becomes a mirror for those data so the system is fault-tolerant.

NIH plans to enhance reproducibility

NIH plans to enhance reproducibility

Francis S. Collins and Lawrence A. Tabak discuss initiatives that the US National Institutes of Health is exploring to restore the self-correcting nature of preclinical research.