The Black Hole

While the advantages of preprint servers are numerous, researchers need to be very clear about the fact that these findings have not been formally assessed by the scientific community.

Branding is the exercise of summarizing an organization’s culture to attract a particular type of employee, collaborator or funder.

There is an opportunity to learn from dramatic changes in behaviour that have been imposed on us.

David Kent looks at whether it is ethical (and legal) for an academic to share a paper they are reviewing with their lab group.

Among the most interesting implications is the recognition that universities are not exempt from patent infringement for basic research.

I can happily report that something has indeed changed at NSERC and the number of postdoctoral fellowships being awarded is definitely recovering.

This U.S. act allows biotech startups to use patented technology for the purposes of generating data for FDA approval without needing to take out costly licenses.

David Kent looks at some of the new ways scientific journals are trying to fix the current peer review system.

Kevin Leland created Halo, a curated fundraising platform for medical research, so that promising discoveries had a fighting chance to make it across the valley.

These committees review and provide input into scientific endeavors, but perhaps the merit of a project should also be assessed by how difficult it is to assemble this panel of experts.

As with scientific research in the time of “big data”, the critical thing for a researcher to identify is what sorts of questions the data might answer.

Clearly, our readers respond to posts on “career resources”, based on our own experiences.

Why should universities continue to own and profit from publicly funded work? If the public pays for it, why shouldn’t the public own it?