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Study of biologists quitting academia reveals hidden gender gaps

Publishing records provide information about the lengths of scientists’ careers in academia. Credit: Nickbeer/Getty Female scientists are quitting academic publishing earlier than their male counterparts, even in biological-science disciplines that have roughly equal representation. A study tracked the scholarly publications of more than 86,000 scientists in 38 countries working in neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, […]

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‘WithdrarXiv’ database of 14,000 retracted preprints launches

Thousands of preprints have been withdrawn from the arXiv preprint server because of factual or methodological errors.Credit: Ralf Geithe/Getty Researchers have launched a database of more than 14,000 studies that have been withdrawn from the preprint server arXiv since its launch in 1991. As well as shedding light on why those preprints were pulled from […]

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Business & Finance

Washington Post cartoonist quits after drawing of Bezos, other billionaires with Trump rejected

Editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes Courtesy of Ann Telnaes A Washington Post cartoonist has quit her role at the paper, saying that her bosses blocked publication of a satirical cartoon that depicted billionaires, including one resembling Post owner Jeff Bezos, kneeling before President-elect Donald Trump. Ann Telnaesa Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, said in a blog post Friday […]

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Politics

How Co-Writing A Book Threatened The Carters’ Marriage

NEW YORK (AP) — No ex-president had a more prolific and diverse publishing career than Jimmy Carter. His more than two dozen books included nonfiction, poetry, fiction, religious meditations and a children’s story. His memoir “An Hour Before Daylight” was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2002, while his 2006 best-seller “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” stirred […]

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Science

Can novelty scores on papers shift the power dynamics in scientific publishing?

Novelty scores can help journals to predict whether a manuscript will be impactful.Credit: PRUDENCIOALVAREZ/iStock via Getty A publication platform called DeSci Publish aims to predict the impact of manuscripts by giving them a ‘novelty score’. The developers say that this score could assist journal editors in deciding which studies to publish, and could be an […]

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How a silly science prize changed my career

Download the 27 December long read podcast Marc Abrahams created the Ig Nobel prizes in 1991, after years of collecting examples of weird research that he included in the Journal of Irreproducible Results. The aim of these satirical awards is to honour achievements that “make people laugh, then think”. While the initial response from the […]

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