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1 week agoWhy preprint servers are increasing moderation - and what that means for researchers
Preprint moderators have to strike 'a really, really difficult balance' between rapidly sharing new research and protecting the community from flawed or harmful material, says Natascha Chtena, who studies scholarly communication and open science at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
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2 months agoHow bioRxiv changed the way biologists share ideas - in numbers
bioRxiv has grown to over 310,000 preprints since 2013, with neuroscientists as top users and monthly submissions reaching 4,000 by 2025, demonstrating widespread acceptance of preprint publishing in scientific research.
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4 months agoThe first privately funded space-based telescope is in the works
Lazuli's design features a 3.1-meter mirror, which would make it larger than NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (but smaller than the James Webb Space Telescope). It will also be equipped with a wide-field camera, a broadband integral-field spectrograph, and a coronagraph. Those instruments will be used to study everything from exoplanets to supernovae, but Schmidt Sciences also envisions Lazuli being used for "rapid response" purposes, such as quickly swiveling to gather data on objects spotted by other telescopes.
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10 months agoMetascience can improve science - but it must be useful to society, too
The Metascience Alliance is a coalition of more than 25 funders, academic groups, companies and other institutions that pursue metascience: the use of scientific methods to understand and improve science itself.
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11 months agoTrump's new gold standard' rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla
The executive order threatens scientific independence by allowing political interference in research evaluations.
It disguises potential harm to scientific integrity under the guise of promoting rigorous and transparent research.
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