The European Commission launched a campaign to convince high school girls to pursue careers in science. Their strategy generated tremendous attention … but not the kind they wanted.
Open Access
Whaddaya mean plagiarism? I wrote it myself! How open access can eliminate self-plagiarism
Can I steal from myself? Maybe not. But do I actually own everything I’ve published? That’s where it starts to get tricky.
The way we publish will continue changing, radically and disruptively. Some features from Wikipedia could inspire us in our quest for better ways to disseminate scientific results.
When I had to go on strike, as a professor and the sitting VP for research, I struggled to find a way to make sense of it.
Should universities programs with a sex-skewed group of students use affirmative action to get greater balance in the student population? Is it important to have more male nurses or more female engineers? Here’s one strategy that’s being tried.
A prestigious journal refused to publish new knowledge about whale migration because the data came from a registry related to whale hunting. How could we handle this tension between ethics and research?
