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The importance of early career researchers for promoting open research Note: This blog was originally published on the Official PLOS Blog Author: Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, PLOS’ Director of Open Research Solutions Early career researchers again appear to be at the vanguard of open research, with them reporting more positive attitudes towards sharing of code compared to more experienced researchers – as found in PLOS research released as a preprint this week. At the end of March 2021 PLOS Computational Biologyintroduced a more stringent policy on sharing code associated with articles published...

‘Chrono Trigger’ and Coping with Pandemic Trauma through Video Games Coping with the COVID-19 shutdown via a video game, where I have control over the apocalyptic outcome, was what I needed. Chrono Trigger delivered. Chrono Trigger Square 1995 Video games have become a way to both escape and confront the traumatic experience created by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Studies have shown that video games can help players cope with traumatic events. By playing the 1995 video game Chrono Trigger during lockdown, I meditated on life and vied for agency while facing circumstances byond my control.  C...

When Google fired Timnit Gebru, technical co-lead of its ethical artificial intelligence team last year, amid controversy over a paper she was co-authoring with academics and other Google researchers, the company unleashed a firestorm of criticism of the bias apparently shown by its own management, its apparent defensiveness about potential flaws in the AI underpinning its core search service and even the role of corporate research in the field of artificial intelligence as a whole. Can Google get comfortable with the necessary but uncomfortable questions research has to raise? Gebru’s pap...

How NZ's Covid 19 response led to dramatic drop in deaths last year 24 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 5 minutes to read Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Hon. Chris Hipkins update on the latest about a probably COVID-19 case in the community in Northland. Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Hon. Chris Hipkins update on the latest about a probably COVID-19 case in the community in Northland. Covid-19 initially threatened to kill thousands of Kiwis last year - instead, New Zealand's death rate finished up among its lowest in recent times. A new study has also shown how a marked drop in deaths which came with...

Infill Thinking and Coras Research Announce Business Combination and Formation of Lium Two influential energy market research firms are combining and launching a new platform to expand and enhance their industry intelligence offering. News provided by Share this article Share this article AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Coras Research LLC and Infill Thinking LLC, independent energy market research firms led by energy finance veterans, announced today the closing of a business combination and the formation of a new entity, Lium LLC. Coras Research and Infill Thinking continue to ...