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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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In-Person Teams Make More Breakthroughs Than Remote Groups
An analysis of millions of papers shows that far-flung collaborators produce fewer foundational discoveries than groups working together in person.
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Scientific Discovery In the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is being increasingly integrated into scientific discovery to augment and accelerate research, helping scientists to generate hypotheses...
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How India's Caste System Limits Diversity in Science
The most privileged castes dominated white-collar professions in India, including roles in science and technology. The situation highlights how the caste system...
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Are ChatGPT and AlphaCode Going to Replace Programmers?
OpenAI's ChatGPT and DeepMind's AlphaCode can now produce meaningful lines of code, but software engineers shouldn't switch careers quite yet.
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Safe Space: Online Groups Lift Up Women in Tech
Several groups founded to help under-represented computer scientists have developed robust online communities through which they aim to engage and support their...
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Computer Science Has a Racism Problem: These Researchers Want to Fix It
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...
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Lab Leaders Wrestle With Paucity of Postdocs
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...
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Why Thinking Hard Makes You Feel Tired
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...
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How to Find, Read, and Organize Papers
Ph.D. student Maya Gosztyla decided to rethink her approach to research papers after she had trouble keeping track of the published literature.
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Time to Rethink the Scientific CV
There's a growing call to revamp the academic CV used to support applications for scientific jobs, funding, promotions, and awards.
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Startups Create Career Opportunities for Scientists
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...
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Discrimination Still Plagues Science
Scientific institutions worldwide need to do more to improve workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion, according to Nature's 2021 salary and job satisfaction...
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University Abandons Impact Factor in Hiring and Promotion Decisions
Utrecht University is formally abandoning the impact factor — a standard measure of scientific success — in all hiring and promotion decisions.
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Challenge to Scientists: Does Your Ten-Year-Old Code Still Run?
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...
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Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database
Some highly cited academics seem to be heavy self-promoters — but researchers warn against policing self-citation.
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Scientists' Salary Data Highlight $18,000 Gender Pay Gap
The U.S. National Science Foundation's annual census has determined that male scientists who obtained doctorates in 2017 and have jobs in the wings expect to earn...
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Film and Television Tell Children Who Can Be Scientists
The portrayal of STEM jobs in U.S. film and television largely reinforces the narrative that scientists are white men, according to a study by the Geena Davis Institute...
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Chief of Europe's €1-Billion Brain Project Steps Down
The executive director of the European Union's ambitious—but contentious—Human Brain Project (HBP) has left his post after a disagreement with the institution that...
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Technology and Satellite Companies Open p a World of Data
Samapriya Roy remembers when it would take him up to an hour to download a single 1-gigabyte image taken by the Landsat Earth-imaging satellites.
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Some Hard Numbers on Science's Leadership Problems
Scientists pride themselves on being keen observers, but many seem to have trouble spotting the problems right under their noses.
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