Researchers Can Now Publish Interactive Plotly Figures in F1000
F1000 is reducing the open access publishing charges for all articles containing an interactive Plotly figure by 50%.
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WikiTribune Got Google Funding
WikiTribune has been awarded €385,000 by the Digital News Initiative fund.
Against Linked Open Data
Linked Open Data may sound good and noble, but it’s the wrong way around.
Why I Don't Send Papers to Journals
Journal publishing can no longer keep up with the pace of scientific research.
The Non-Scientist’s Guide to Reading and Understanding a Scientific Paper
The right approach and a little extra effort will help improve your scientific literacy.
How Not to Choose Which Science Is Worth Funding
Or why we should choose what to fund at random.
Do We Still Need Publishers in Academia?
Why do we need middlemen in academia in the era of electronic publishing?
Gender Equality Figures Promising but Not the Full Story
Relying just on numbers to assess gender equality is insufficient because companies and researchers are smart enough to game the system.
Physiognomy’s New Clothes
Rapid developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning have enabled scientific racism to enter a new era, in which machine-learned models embed biases present in the human behavior used for model development.
Our Machines Now Have Knowledge We’ll Never Understand
Knowing the world may require giving up on understanding it.
A World Without Science — Part 1: Infectious Diseases
Advances in science and public health policy have saved over 107 million lives in 25 years.
Is Digital Technology Changing Learning and Teaching?
Is digital technology making fundamental changes to learning and teaching, transforming it in ways that were unimaginable before the advent of the internet?
The Future of the Open Internet — and Our Way of Life — Is in Your Hands
The Future of the Open Internet — and Our Way of Life — Is in Your Hands
Inside the invisible war for the open internet.
A Fallow Year for Science in Canada
Last year’s Federal budget contained a number of significant dollar boosts for Canadian research but, more importantly, the language behind…
How Elsevier Plans to Sabotage Open Access
A recently revealed contract between Elsevier and the Dutch research institutes lays bare the retardant tactics the publishing giant employs to stifle the growth of open access.
10 Free Online Science Courses to Learn a Little of Everything
Free online courses to help you expand your mind in whatever directions you want.
Why Are Citations Important In Research Writing?
It’s not just about distributing credit where it’s due
Why Citation Counts Don’t Matter
Allow me to pull back the curtain. Scientist #1 is writing a paper and wants to add a reference in the introduction.
Open Access Can Never Be Bad News
Several of us responded with enthusiasm to the recent news that The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened up their digitised collections.
Reproducible Science for People Who Don't Code
Stencila, an app for creating and viewing data-driven reproducible publications.
What Is the Role of Science in a Post-Normal World?
Q&A with Daniel Sarewitz, Professor of Science and Society at Arizona State University.
Concerns Regarding the ASAPbio Central Service and Center
Preprints are clearly the future of scientific communication, but currently face multiple obstacles.
Why This Robot Ethicist Trusts Technology More Than Humans
MIT’s Kate Darling, who writes the rules of human-robot interaction, says an AI-enabled apocalypse should be the least of our concerns.
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