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COVID-19 Forces German Funder to Award Fellowships by Lottery
COVID-19 Forces German Funder to Award Fellowships by Lottery
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has adopted a randomised process for whittling down the applications which were already deemed strong enough to be considered for funding.
Senior U.S. Lawmaker Wants National Academies to Scrutinize Racism in Science
Senior U.S. Lawmaker Wants National Academies to Scrutinize Racism in Science
Study would seek to identify effects of bias and how to promote equity.
'A Smoking Gun': Infectious Coronavirus Retrieved From Hospital Air
Airborne viruses play a significant role in community transmission, many experts believe. A new study fills in the missing piece: The floating virus can infect cells.
Scientists Rename Human Genes to Stop Microsoft Excel from Misreading Them As Dates
Scientists Rename Human Genes to Stop Microsoft Excel from Misreading Them As Dates
Microsoft Excel: 1 - Human Genetics: 0.
NSF Grant Changes Raise Alarm About Commitment to Basic Research
The US National Science Foundation's new focus on computer science could also put already-under-represented groups at a disadvantage, critics say.
Study of China's Ethnic Minorities Retracted As Dozens of Papers Come Under Scrutiny for Ethical Violations
Study of China's Ethnic Minorities Retracted As Dozens of Papers Come Under Scrutiny for Ethical Violations
A legal journal has retracted a 2019 article on the facial genetics of ethnic minorities in China for ethics violations. Springer Nature is investigating more than two dozen other articles for similar concerns.
Toolkits for Equity
While a growing awareness of racial disparities has resulted in a groundswell of support for inclusivity in scholarly publishing, the resulting initiatives would be more effective if professional associations were able to provide training materials to help transform organizational cultures.
Library Support for OA Books Workshop: the German Perspective
COPIM, OPERAS-P and open-access.network aim at gaining a better understanding of the national-specific issues surrounding collective funding for OA books from a library perspective.
#BlackBirdersWeek, #BlackInNeuro: Black scientists, physicians are using hashtags to uplift
#BlackBirdersWeek, #BlackInNeuro: Black scientists, physicians are using hashtags to uplift
Black scientists are embracing the hashtag movement that forced the nation to take a hard look at systemic racism.
Leveraging Machine Learning to Fuel New Discoveries with the ArXiv Dataset
To help make the arXiv more accessible, a free, open pipeline on Kaggle to the machine-readable arXiv dataset: a repository of 1.7 million articles, with relevant features such as article titles, authors, categories, abstracts, full text PDFs, and more is made available.
How the COVID-19 Crisis Has Prompted a Revolution in Scientific Publishing
How the COVID-19 Crisis Has Prompted a Revolution in Scientific Publishing
Preprint servers have existed for decades, but the fight against the coronavirus has seen their use soar. They're changing how science is done-but need important guardrails.
Career Funding: the Researcher's Overall Performance Counts
Career Funding: the Researcher's Overall Performance Counts
The SNSF has adopted the DORA recommendations in its career funding schemes and adapted some other criteria. This will make the selection process even fairer and more inclusive of re-searchers with diverse career paths.
Rising Temperatures Will Cause More Deaths Than All Infectious Diseases - Study
Poorer, hotter parts of the world will struggle to adapt to unbearable conditions, research finds
From 'Brain Fog' to Heart Damage, COVID-19's Lingering Problems Alarm Scientists
Some COVID-19 survivors are still sick months later. Doctors want to learn why and what they can do
'The Biggest Monster' Is Spreading. And It's Not the Coronavirus.
Tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people each year. Lockdowns and supply-chain disruptions threaten progress against the disease as well as H.I.V. and malaria.
Covid-19 Data in the US Is an 'Information Catastrophe'
The order to reroute CDC hospitalization figures raised accuracy concerns. But that's just one of the problems with how the country collects health data.
Cite Yourself Excessively, Apologize, then Republish the Papers with Fewer Self-citations. Journal says: Fine.
Cite Yourself Excessively, Apologize, then Republish the Papers with Fewer Self-citations. Journal says: Fine.
Via Wikimedia A journal has allowed a geophysicist who cited his own work hundreds of times across 10 papers to retract the articles and republish them with a fraction of the self-citations.
Europe PMC: Unlocking the Potential of COVID-19 Preprints
Europe PMC, the literature archive of EMBL-EBI, has started indexing full-text COVID-19 preprints and the associated data.
Libraries Lend Books, and Must Continue to Lend Books: Internet Archive Responds to Lawsuit
Libraries Lend Books, and Must Continue to Lend Books: Internet Archive Responds to Lawsuit
According to the Internet Archive every digital learner’s access to library books is at stake due to a lawsuit brought by four commercial publishers. That is why they are standing up to defend the rights of hundreds of libraries that are using Controlled Digital Lending.
Fifteen to One: How Many Applications It Can Take to Land a Single Academic Job Offer
Survey finds that standard metrics of success can't completely explain why some candidates get offers and others don't.
Open Consultation for the EOSC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda
Open Consultation for the EOSC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is the envisioned federation of research (data) infrastructures that will enable the Web of FAIR Data and Services, help researchers to perform Open Science, and open up and exploit their data, publications and code.
'Amazing, Isn't It?' Long Sought Blood Test for Alzheimer's in Reach
Scientists say such tests could be available in a few years, speeding research for treatments and providing a diagnosis for dementia patients who want to know if they have Alzheimer's disease.
World's Largest Nuclear Fusion Project Under Assembly in France
Project aims to show that clean fusion power can be generated at commercial scale
Journal Will Retract Homeopathy-COVID-19 Paper
A public health journal will be retracting a paper that argued for the adoption of homeopathy in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, according to the editor in chief.
Your Coronavirus Antibodies Are Disappearing. Should You Care?
Declining antibody levels do not mean less immunity, experts say. Besides, two widely used tests may detect the wrong antibodies.
There Are Wasps in the Yard. You'd Better Get to Know Them.
They buzz. They hover. Sometimes they sting. But how much do you really know about these insects that can menace our summers?