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COVID-19 Vaccines Could End Up With Bias Built Right In

COVID-19 Vaccines Could End Up With Bias Built Right In

Some of the leading candidates might work better for the richest people in the world, simply on account of how they're made.

How Mathematical 'Hocus-Pocus' Saved Particle Physics

How Mathematical 'Hocus-Pocus' Saved Particle Physics

Renormalization has become perhaps the single most important advance in theoretical physics in 50 years.

First Report of the INGSA Evidence-to-Policy Tracker

First Report of the INGSA Evidence-to-Policy Tracker

The aim of the study is not to compare and assess the success of countries’ key Covid policy responses, but rather to compare the various ways in which evidence has been marshalled and applied.

Survey: Impact of Parenthood on Career Progression in STEM - Mothers in Science

Survey: Impact of Parenthood on Career Progression in STEM - Mothers in Science

Mother in Science is launching the first global survey to measure the impact of having children on career progression, scientific productivity and career choices of women in STEMM, and to identify the specific motherhood-related factors driving gender imbalance in STEMM employment.

How the Internet Archive is Ensuring Permanent Access to Open Access Journal Articles - Internet Archive Blogs

How the Internet Archive is Ensuring Permanent Access to Open Access Journal Articles - Internet Archive Blogs

Internet Archive has archived and identified 9 million open access journal articles- the next 5 million is getting harder.

Building Equity, Inclusion, Diversity, and Accessibility in Scholarly Communications

Building Equity, Inclusion, Diversity, and Accessibility in Scholarly Communications

The Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) is pleased to announce the formal launch of our organization.

100 Inspiring Hispanic Scientists in America

100 Inspiring Hispanic Scientists in America

In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Christina Termini from UCLA presents a list of 100 Hispanic/Latinx scientists in America that all researchers can look to for inspiration.

Questionable Research Practices May Have Little Effect on Replicability

Questionable Research Practices May Have Little Effect on Replicability

This article examines why many studies fail to replicate statistically significant published results.

Evaluating the Impact of Open Access Policies on Research Institutions

Evaluating the Impact of Open Access Policies on Research Institutions

The proportion of research outputs published in open access journals or made available on other freely-accessible platforms has increased over the past two decades, driven largely by funder mandates, institutional policies, grass-roots advocacy, and changing attitudes in the research community.

Fraud by Numbers: Metrics and the New Academic Misconduct

Fraud by Numbers: Metrics and the New Academic Misconduct

UCLA professor of Law and Communication Mario Biagioli dissects how metric-based evaluations are shaping university agendas.

More Readers in More Places: The Benefits of Open Access for Scholarly Books

More Readers in More Places: The Benefits of Open Access for Scholarly Books

New report published by Springer Nature analyses usage patterns across open access and closed books.The results show higher geographic diversity of usage, higher numbers of downloads and more citations for open access books.

The New Age of Preprints: Enhanced, Reproducible, and Reusable

The New Age of Preprints: Enhanced, Reproducible, and Reusable

Invest in Open Infrastructure receives initial funding to launch and hire a Director.

Dozens of Scientific Journals Have Vanished from the Internet, and No One Preserved Them

Dozens of Scientific Journals Have Vanished from the Internet, and No One Preserved Them

Most open access journals lack the technical means and plans to preserve their articles, despite a mandate from some funders that they do so. Specialists worry about a potential loss to scholarship.

The Contagion Externality of a Superspreading Event:The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and COVID-19

The Contagion Externality of a Superspreading Event:The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and COVID-19

Large in-person gatherings without social distancing and with individuals who have traveled outside the local area are classified as the “highest risk” for COVID-19 spread by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Between August 7 and August 16, 2020, nearly 500,000 motorcycle enthusiasts converged on Sturgis, South Dakota for its annual motorcycle rally.

Facial Masking for Covid-19 — Potential for “Variolation” as We Await a Vaccine

Facial Masking for Covid-19 — Potential for “Variolation” as We Await a Vaccine

Universal facial masking might help reduce the severity of SARS-CoV-2 and ensure that a greater proportion of new infections are asymptomatic.

Understanding Conceptual Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Policy

Understanding Conceptual Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Policy

The Manchester Team within the Oslo Institute for Research on the Impact of Science centre has published this a conceptual paper that underpins the empirical work on framework conditions on the user side combining various political science and sociological theories.

GII 2020: COVID-19 Impact on Global Innovation; Annual Ranking Topped by Switzerland, Sweden, U.S., U.K. and Netherlands

GII 2020: COVID-19 Impact on Global Innovation; Annual Ranking Topped by Switzerland, Sweden, U.S., U.K. and Netherlands

The COVID-19 pandemic is severely pressuring a long-building rise in worldwide innovation, likely hindering some innovative activities while catalyzing ingenuity elsewhere, notably in the health sector, according to the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2020.

The FBI Is Warning Scientists To Watch Out For "Suspicious" Packages

The FBI Is Warning Scientists To Watch Out For "Suspicious" Packages

After COVID-19 researchers on the East Coast received a package containing an "unknown substance," the University of Washington told 500 of its staff to be on alert.

Where Do Scholars Move? Measuring the Mobility of Researchers Across Academic Institutions

Where Do Scholars Move? Measuring the Mobility of Researchers Across Academic Institutions

This blog post demonstrates how scientometrics can help trace mobility patterns at the institutional level, using the Dimensions database.

These Students Figured out Their Tests Were Graded by AI - and the Easy Way to Cheat

These Students Figured out Their Tests Were Graded by AI - and the Easy Way to Cheat

Edgenuity involves short answers graded by an algorithm, and students have already cracked it.

COVID-19 Can Wreck Your Heart, Even if You Haven't Had Any Symptoms

COVID-19 Can Wreck Your Heart, Even if You Haven't Had Any Symptoms

A growing body of research is raising concerns about the cardiac consequences of the coronavirus.