ScienceGeist

A meta-analysis combining the most popular university rankings to find out which ones are best, and showing which university offers the best value for the money. Spoiler: Switzerland, for once, is a good deal.

The AAAS Federal R&D Budget Dashboard is an interactive tool for exploring long-term federal funding trends within the context of the broader budget.

Even when the field of academic study is removed from the equation, women’s earnings still trail those of men by 11 percent. The reason? Family. Married women with children are paid less than those who don’t have similarly structured families. Meanwhile, men earn the same amount, regardless of their marital or parental status. 

Results of the Peer Review in the Life Sciences survey conducted by ASAPbio.

Topic modelling of grant applications, unveiling an innovative and richer understanding of the  research activity in these disciplines.

Number of patent applications per million residents versus the number of scientific or technical article publications per million residents.

Why you should use them, and how to do it well.

Two scientists set out to animate how sperm moves. They ended up making a major discovery.

Organization and presentation of visual information in the scientific literature.

An overview of the type of research that has been published since launch of Wellcome Open Research.

Mapping research funding in Switzerland

F1000 is reducing the open access publishing charges for all articles containing an interactive Plotly figure by 50%.

Constructive criticism of the graphics of climate science.

Dance your Ph.D. for prizes and nerd fame -- entries due September 29

Open Knowledge Maps is a visualization tool for researchers that allows them to view groupings of manuscripts that share common words when searching for a new research topic