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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
BNN| February 28, 2024
An analysis of millions of papers shows that far-flung collaborators produce fewer foundational discoveries than groups working together in person.
Nature From ACM Careers | December 7, 2023
Colleges are starting the process of educating future engineers in topics such as how quantum computing hardware components work and how to write quantum computing...Nature From ACM TechNews | November 15, 2023
Postdoctoral researchers still feel as though they are academia's drudge laborers, but have more confidence about job prospects in a post-pandemic world, Nature's...Nature From ACM Careers | October 10, 2023
The most privileged castes dominated white-collar professions in India, including roles in science and technology. The situation highlights how the caste system...Nature From ACM Careers | January 12, 2023
The proportion of science and technology publications that break with the past in ways that send a field in a new direction has plummeted over the past half-century...Nature From ACM Careers | January 10, 2023
OpenAI's ChatGPT and DeepMind's AlphaCode can now produce meaningful lines of code, but software engineers shouldn't switch careers quite yet.
Nature From ACM Careers | December 9, 2022
Several groups founded to help under-represented computer scientists have developed robust online communities through which they aim to engage and support their...Nature From ACM Careers | November 22, 2022
There are diversity gaps in computer science and in STEM subjects and it's growing at U.S. universities. That's a problem, says Juan Gilbert at the University of...Nature From ACM Careers | October 25, 2022
A complex mix of politics, economics, and shifting career priorities has made it hard for principal investigators and high-profile scientists to recruit new lab...Nature From ACM Careers | September 1, 2022
The desire to shut down after a day spent toiling at the computer could be a physiological response to mentally demanding work, according to a study that links...Nature From ACM Careers | August 16, 2022
Researchers Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan at Princeton University have sounded an alarm about what they call a "brewing reproducibility crisis" in machine-learning...Nature From ACM Careers | July 27, 2022
Ph.D. student Maya Gosztyla decided to rethink her approach to research papers after she had trouble keeping track of the published literature.
Nature From ACM Careers | July 11, 2022
There's a growing call to revamp the academic CV used to support applications for scientific jobs, funding, promotions, and awards.
Nature From ACM Careers | April 15, 2022
Chief science officers in industry used to fit a predictable profile, but the old template is changing: scientific startups are now creating opportunities for a...Nature From ACM Careers | March 16, 2022
Scientific institutions worldwide need to do more to improve workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion, according to Nature's 2021 salary and job satisfaction...Nature From ACM Careers | November 30, 2021
Utrecht University is formally abandoning the impact factor — a standard measure of scientific success — in all hiring and promotion decisions.
Nature From ACM Careers | June 30, 2021
The Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge asked scientists to find and re-execute old code written for computationally driven papers published ten or more years ago...Nature From ACM Careers | August 26, 2020
The United States is no longer the "uncontested leader" in science globally, the U.S. National Science Foundation says.
Nature From ACM Careers | January 17, 2020
The Russian government will spend around 50 billion roubles (US$790 million) over the next five years on basic and applied quantum research at leading Russian laboratories...Nature From ACM Careers | January 9, 2020