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Details on science funding scarce in latest UK budget
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • 28 minutes ago
  • 1 min

Details on science funding scarce in latest UK budget

Experts in science and research funding have given a tepid welcome to the budget announced by Rishi Sunak, the UK’s chancellor of the exc...
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UK will have new ‘high-risk, high-reward’ research funding agency in 2022
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Feb 23
  • 1 min

UK will have new ‘high-risk, high-reward’ research funding agency in 2022

The UK government will launch a new grant funding agency in 2022 aimed specifically at funding high-risk science and breakthroughs. The A...
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UK funding agency hack could be ‘legally and intellectually significant’
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Feb 9
  • 1 min

UK funding agency hack could be ‘legally and intellectually significant’

A recent hack of systems of the umbrella grant funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has rattled researchers but details of th...
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Hundreds of ‘predatory’ journals indexed on leading scholarly database
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Feb 8
  • 1 min

Hundreds of ‘predatory’ journals indexed on leading scholarly database

The widely used academic database Scopus hosts papers from more than 300 potentially ‘predatory’ journals that have questionable publishi...
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New bot flags scientific studies that cite retracted papers
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Feb 2
  • 1 min

New bot flags scientific studies that cite retracted papers

An automated tool is targeting an issue that has plagued science for decades: retracted studies cited in newly published papers without a...
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Revoke PhDs for misconduct
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 28
  • 1 min

Revoke PhDs for misconduct

However nerve-wracking it may be, most PhD students pass their final viva exam, in which examiners dissect and challenge their work. Once...
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Prominent Chinese immunologist and research integrity leader cleared of scientific misconduct
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 27
  • 1 min

Prominent Chinese immunologist and research integrity leader cleared of scientific misconduct

A high-profile Chinese immunologist has been cleared of research misconduct following a lengthy investigation into his work after allegat...
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Zoom fatigue saps grant reviewers’ attention
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 20
  • 1 min

Zoom fatigue saps grant reviewers’ attention

Grant reviewers for the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) report shorter attention spans and lower engagement during video grant-rev...
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AI tools measure rigour of COVID-19 preprints
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 12
  • 1 min

AI tools measure rigour of COVID-19 preprints

Six AI tools programmed to automatically measure the rigour and reproducibility of COVID-19 preprints are reporting major gaps when it co...
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Nature journals debut open-access models
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Dec 18, 2020
  • 1 min

Nature journals debut open-access models

Last month publishing giant Springer Nature announced that in January 2021 many of its Nature-branded journals will start offering author...
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Former chemistry student pleads guilty to poisoning roommate
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 30, 2020
  • 1 min

Former chemistry student pleads guilty to poisoning roommate

A former chemistry student has pleaded guilty to poisoning his roommate with highly toxic thallium. Yukai Yang, an international student ...
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Nature journals set to offer all authors open access route in 2021 – for a price
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 27, 2020
  • 1 min

Nature journals set to offer all authors open access route in 2021 – for a price

In a significant policy shift, Nature and its 32 sister journals will give authors the chance to make their work free to read immediately...
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Immunotherapies target multiple myeloma
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 25, 2020
  • 1 min

Immunotherapies target multiple myeloma

Treatments that help the immune system fight multiple myeloma are emerging fast, but the number of people who relapse remains high. One s...
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Do You Have a Conflict of Interest? This Robotic Assistant May Find It First
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 23, 2020
  • 1 min

Do You Have a Conflict of Interest? This Robotic Assistant May Find It First

What should science do about conflicts of interest? When they are identified, they become an obstacle to objectivity — a key tenet and a ...
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Surviving Weed-Out Classes in Science May Be a State of Mind
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 16, 2020
  • 1 min

Surviving Weed-Out Classes in Science May Be a State of Mind

Social ties to classmates and how students feel could be more important than innate ability when it comes to enduring early STEM weed-out...
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P-hacking incident violated integrity, Dutch body finds
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 13, 2020
  • 1 min

P-hacking incident violated integrity, Dutch body finds

The manipulation of statistics to make results more visible—known as p-hacking—should be classed as a violation of scientific integrity, ...
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Improper publishing incentives in science put under microscope around the world
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Oct 27, 2020
  • 1 min

Improper publishing incentives in science put under microscope around the world

Getting the measure of researchers and their work has long been a contentious subject, but the issue is receiving more attention in light...
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Millions of animals may be missing from scientific studies
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Oct 14, 2020
  • 1 min

Millions of animals may be missing from scientific studies

Most animals used in biomedical experiments are not accounted for in published papers, a first-of-its-kind study suggests. The analysis f...
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Institute of Physics implements double-blind peer review
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Sep 23, 2020
  • 1 min

Institute of Physics implements double-blind peer review

The UK’s Institute of Physics is making double-blind peer review the default process by the end of 2021 for authors publishing in Reports...
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Science is getting harder to read
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Sep 11, 2020
  • 1 min

Science is getting harder to read

Science is becoming more difficult to understand due to the sheer number of acronyms, finds a new study that analysed the use of acronyms...
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