C omputational scientists across a multitude of disciplines write software, and software engineers have expounded upon soft­ ware best practices for more than 40 years. In general, however, compu­ tational scientists don’t read software engineering literature and software engineers don’t concern themselves with the software that scientists write. This is the gap that was ex­ plored by participa...

Welcome to the course page for Business Finance for Life Scientists This content is designed provide an overview of financial statements, and basic finance principles used in financial planning and decision making. The goal of this workshop is to help prepare scientists who want to start their own labs, and inform scientists who want to go into industry. This page includes the lecture videos, c...

Scholars partly attribute the low number of women in academic science to the impact of the science career on family life. Yet, the picture of how men and women in science--at different points in the career trajectory--compare in their perceptions of this impact is incomplete. In particular, we know little about the perceptions and experiences of junior and senior scientists at top universities,...

n an era of rapid technological change and an increasingly global economy, investments in research and development are crucial for spurring economic growth and sustaining competitiveness. Yet, across the U.S. federal government, scientists are playing a decreasing role in the policymaking that supports this investment, often being pushed out by a political agenda that is stridently antiscience....

Scientists must communicate about science with public audiences to promote an understanding of complex issues that we face in our technologically advanced society. Some scientists may be concerned about a social stigma or "Sagan effect" associated with participating in public communication. Recent research in the social sciences indicates that public communication by scientists is not a niche a...

Welcome to the course page for Business Finance for Life Scientists This content is designed provide an overview of financial statements, and basic finance principles used in financial planning and decision making. The goal of this workshop is to help prepare scientists who want to start their own labs, and inform scientists who want to go into industry. This page includes the lecture videos, c...

More and more scientists are becoming active on Twitter and other social media platforms. Let's meet some of the top scientist twitterers.

The problem of creativity is common to the arts and sciences. What distinguishes geniuses from ordinary mortals? In the arts, from Mozart to van Gogh, creativity has frequently been associated with the artist’s opposition to the society of their time. A good artist is a rebel. Paradoxically, whereas science might appear as a progressive rational construction of new knowledge, the same relation ...

Affiliations: Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA. †These authors contributed equally to this work. *To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: [email protected] Abstract: We use about 2 million papers published by 221...