This week in science, academia and publishing:
- In an interview Philippa Sunders, Dean of Postgraduate Research at Edinburgh University’s College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, summarizes a recent report by the Academy of Medical Sciences about the need to improve the ways researchers are recognized when working on a team.
- In his recent essay in PLOS Medicine, John Ioannidis outlines features of useful clinical research, explains why most clinical research is not useful and suggests joint efforts from multiple stakeholders to improve the situation.
- Based on their recent paper in Science Translational Medicine, the METRICS folks at Stanford proposed new terms on research reproducibility at a recent meeting.
- In a recent PLOScast we spoke with Alex Wade, Director of Scholarly Communications for Microsoft Research on new tools for academics. Now, a small study from Middlesex University finds that Microsoft Academic may be an alternative to the four main citation databases for citation analysis.
- ASAPBio continues to gain traction, securing funding from four private foundations.
- Nancy Sims, Copyright Program Librarian at University of Minnesota, explains how copyright doesn’t protect researchers against scooping.
- In her essay, science writer, artist and curator Margaret Wertheim writes about why sexism in science is hard to reform.
- SPARC announced its semi-annual Innovator Award for 2016. This year’s winner is RIO Journal – a journal where you can publish grant proposals.
- The Center for Scientific Review (CSR) developed an Early Career Reviewer Program. This program helps emerging scientists learn how grants are evaluated by having them attend NIH study sections.
- Andy Tay, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, shares his story about the funding crisis he experienced as a PhD student working in the lab, and explains how he navigated his way through it.
- In her Op-Ed in LiveScience, Chair of the AAAS Board of Directors Geraldine Richmond, writes that it’s time for scientists to tackle the problem of unconscious bias.
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