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03/05/2017
The future of peer review!
The Future of Peer Review - The Scholarly Kitchen What will peer review look like in 10-15 years? Can increased transparency help address some of the problems? The recent SpotOn report provides some answers
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Effective Science Communication - Books - IOPscience Effective Science Communication: A practical guide to surviving as a scientist is devoted to the variety of ways that scientists are expected to communicate in their day-to-day professional lives. It includes practical advice on how to publish your work in scientific journals, apply for grants, and…
22/03/2017
Gender imbalance.
Gender balance in research: new analytical report reveals uneven progress Elsevier examines research performance through a gender lens in global, cross-disciplinary study
31/01/2017
Towards open review.
‘You never said my peer review was confidential’ — scientist challenges publisher Open-science advocate says journals should be clearer to peer-reviewers about terms and conditions.
20/10/2016
"A non-native English-speaking scientist must force his/her natural words into a rigidly structured alternate lexicon, and this process inherently changes the way science is recorded. "
Does English Have to Be the Dominant Language of Science? There are big advantages to having scientists communicate in a common tongue, but there are drawbacks as well
16/10/2016
Academic kindness?
Cruelty and Kindness in Academia Why we value the former and underrate the latter.
01/10/2016
Catching up.
80% of Data in Chinese Clinical Trials Have Been Fabricated A Chinese government investigation has revealed that more than 80 percent of the data used in clinical trials of new pharmaceutical drugs have been
29/09/2016
“Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them? Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to children in the Global South? It’s outrageous and unacceptable.”
Aaron Swartz, Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, 2008.
MoneyLab: Economies of Dissent | Liberating Academic Papers from Behind their Paywalls Blog: Liberating Academic Papers from Behind their Paywalls By Leila Ueberschlag, September 22, 2016 at 12:27 pm. “Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them? Providing scientific articles to those...
22/09/2016
"Science, I had come to learn, is as political, competitive, and fierce a career as you can find, full of the temptation to find easy paths."
— Paul Kalanithi, Neurosurgeon and Writer (1977–2015)
The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists These are dark times for science so we asked hundreds of researchers how to fix it.
11/09/2016
"Academic systems rely on the existence of a supply of 'outsiders' ready to forgo wages and employment security in exchange for the prospect of uncertain security, prestige, freedom and reasonably high salaries that tenured positions entail."
How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang Academic systems rely on the existence of a supply of “outsiders” ready to forgo wages and employment security in exchange for the prospect of uncertain security, prestige, freedom and reasonably h…
11/09/2016
There is a growing movement of public communication of academia and tying it to tenure is one way to go!
Sociologists discuss how departments should consider social media activity and other public communications in tenure and promotion decisions American Sociological Association report suggests standards by which departments may consider social media activity and other public communications in tenure and promotion decisions.