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​​​​​​University professors and researchers depend on getting published. So it was considered a bold move when the editors of two prestigious brain journals resigned en masse this month after the publisher refused to lower the fees it charges academics to publish their work.

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The 2023 annual general meeting of the Association of American Publishers: Issues in politics, history, copyright, and the industry.

A total of 2,832 people were given Royal honors on Wednesday, slightly less than last year, when the total was 3,026 people. The largest number of people given a decoration on a single day in the Netherlands is traditionally the last working day before King's Day. This year, King Willem-Alexander's birthday falls on Thursday. Among the 2,832 recipients, 1,032 are women, which amounts to 36.4 percent. That is the highest percentage in recent years.

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In once case, a prominent cybersecurity researcher was unaware he was a co-author on a journal article found to have a “compromised... peer review process”.

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Christine Burdick-Bell, FairWild Foundation, and Sabinsa were among the recipients at this year’s ABC Botanical Excellence Awards.

The “Great Awokening”—the Maoist Cultural Revolu...

Today I am traveling to Banff, a pleasant mountain resort in western Canada, to attend a workshop on systematic uncertainties. Yes, you heard that right - a bunch of physicists and statisticians will be gathering in a secluded location for a whole week, with the sole purpose of debating on that exotic topic. How weird is that?