Our Managing Director, Rebecca Lawrence, announces our first publication platform on behalf of a public funder – Ireland’s Health Research Board. She reflects on the leadership being shown by the funders we work with and how the growing number of publication platforms is beginning to open up wider discussions.
This in the first post from our new guest blogger Sarah Kearns, a PhD student at University of Michigan, where she gives her views on collaboration. She discusses what’s needed to create a collaborative environment and what barriers currently exist
It’s now been more than five months since Obokata et al. published the two “Stimulus-triggered fate conversion of somatic cells into pluripotency” or ‘STAP cell’ papers in Nature that would cause such soul-searching in the scientific community. We first covered the controversy surrounding the papers, and how it was reflected in the recommendations and dissents…
The John Maddox Prize for standing up for science is an annual award given to individuals who have personally defended sound science for the benefit of the public. Named after the late Sir John Maddox, a former editor of Nature and fiery Welsh bête-noir of pseudo-science, the prize is jointly awarded by Nature, the Kohn…
Advice to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on data release from clinical trials, published last week, should ultimately help to improve healthcare but reveals widely divided opinion on exactly how data sharing should happen. The advice documents cover different aspects of clinical data sharing and reuse. Five advisory groups discussed: protecting patient confidentiality, data formats,…
There are some interesting quotes from the UK’s University and Science Minister David Willetts in an article on science policy from the Times Higher Education (THE). Mr Willetts has been seeking to allay researchers’ ‘common anxieties,’ particularly those relating to the measurement of ‘impact.’ The UK Government hands out money to its higher education funding…
You might have seen that the UK government has released its Select Committee’s report on peer review in science. The chair of the committee, Andrew Miller MP, says that the “general oversight of research integrity in the UK [is] unsatisfactory and complacent.” Note that he doesn’t say that the research is unsatisfactory–simply the oversight. I…
Following on from my post yesterday about the ongoing UK House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology peer review enquiry, the oral session that Faculty of 1000 (F1000) took part in focussed on a long and interesting discussion about splitting up the review process into two constituent parts as the Public Library of…
The UK House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology launched an enquiry on peer review earlier this year, and invited Faculty of 1000 (F1000) to take part. The real rationale for holding this enquiry is still somewhat of a mystery to many of us who were invited to present but it appears to…
Greek scientists accused of stealing funds A group of Greek scientists are under investigation for misuse of government funds — no less than 150-200 million euros, in fact.
