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Publisher Day 2025: Key Insights on Integrity, Disruption, and Innovation in Scholarly Publishing

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This year’s Publisher Day offered valuable insights into the evolving world of scholarly publishing, with experts from the industry exploring themes of research integrity, AI disruption, Open Access, and social media strategies. Centered around the theme ‘Insight to Impact,’ the event featured a series of keynotes, panels, and lightning talks that addressed the current challenges and opportunities in scholarly communication. Jon Treadway , Director at Great North Wood Consulting, delivered the opening keynote, outlining the challenges facing scholarly communication. He highlighted the shift towards isolationism in the geopolitical landscape, impacting scientific collaboration. Treadway emphasized that scholarly communication remains inefficient and fragmented, with AI advancements posing both opportunities and risks. He cautioned that AI’s rapid progress demands vigilance and noted that Open Access has yet to reach its full potential due to siloed discussions rather than collaborative...
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Tracking the FemTech Research Boom: What Data Tells Us About Innovation & Gaps

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FemTech has emerged in recent years as a catch-all term to describe technology-driven innovation in women’s health. It is a rapidly growing sector in health technology, yet where research funding flows and what actually gets commercialized often don’t align. While fertility solutions dominate across research grants, patents, and clinical trials, areas like menopause, sexual health, and non-hormonal contraception remain severely underfunded and underdeveloped. This analysis is intended as a starting point for understanding where FemTech is growing and where major gaps remain. Using Dimensions AI data, I analyzed grant funding, patent filings, and clinical trials from the past 10 years. I assigned results to broad women’s health categories using keyword matching in titles and abstracts.  Some grants, patents, and trials may appear under multiple categories if they are relevant to more than one area (e.g., a menstruation tracking app could be tagged as relevant to fertility and PCO...
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Become an Intellectual property Researcher | #Sciencefather #researchawards #phd

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RWS prides itself on the depth and breadth of the Researchers who power our business and deliver value to our clients. We are always accepting new talent, reflecting diversity in education/work experience, language and technical or research skills. Join a global community of Researchers who enjoy the challenge and reward of using their investigatory and analytical skills. How it works Become a member of the RWS research community.  Compete and get paid for success.  Experienced Researchers who demonstrate consistent, quality performance in their research can earn the “Study Expert” designation and may qualify for other projects with fixed fee, fixed fee + reward and hourly fee arrangements.  Rewards Public studies (open to everyone):  Public studies typically have one large reward (>$1000) for the winning response and several smaller rewards are given to Researchers who provided non-winning, but still valuable, research. For every study, you can view the “Reward S...
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Scientists Are A New Force In The Freelance Revolution: Meet Kolabtree

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These are challenging times for young people pursuing scientific careers. According to the U.S. Census, the growth of advanced degrees here in the U.S. continues. Approximately 13% of adults now have graduate degrees. Four million hold Ph.D.’s , more than twice the number of twenty years ago. On a global scale, OECD notes that Ph.D. scientists in every field have increased significantly, and particularly in STEM areas. In China, for example, 49,000 Ph.D.'s graduated in 2010, a four-fold increase in just a decade. What’s the career impact of this increase for young scientists? According to the OECD research referenced above, a “dual labor market” has formed, that consists of “well-paid established researchers who often have permanent civil servant or public employee contracts, and on the other hand a growing number of cheaper temporary staff recruited with soft money.” For example, in a survey of 38 EU and EU-partner countries, a significant proportion of early career researchers h...
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Scientists Press AI Researchers for Transparency #Sciencefather #professors #researchawards

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An international group of scientists is demanding scientific journals demand more transparency from researchers in computer-related areas when accepting their reports for publication. They also want computational researchers to include information about their code, models, and computational environments in published reports. Their call, published in Nature Magazine in October, was in response to the results of research conducted by Google Health that was published in Nature last January. The research claimed an artificial intelligence system was faster and more accurate at screening for breast cancer than human radiologists. Google funded the study, which was led by Google Scholar Scott McKinney and other Google employees.     Criticisms of the Google Study “In their study, McKinney et al. showed the high potential of artificial intelligence for breast cancer screening,” the international group of scientists, led by Benjamin Haibe-Kains, of the University of Toronto, stated. “...
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The Role of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Robotics #Sciencefather #researchers #robotics

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  “ Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior,” said J. J. Abrams.  Fundamentally created in the early 1950s, robotics, today, is well-known as a self-operating machine with precisely trained and learned inputs, and its prevalence is omnipresent. The evolution of robotic intelligence shows a wide range of hierarchies since the time it was first created. Introduced to be deployed in factories for industrial use, it isn’t easy to find a sector where robotics is not used today. In the initial days of its advent, robots were merely designed to perform a trained set of repetitive tasks. However, with the role of artificial intelligence in robots, the scope of robotics has expanded.  Now, robotics operates exclusively on artificial intelligence and machine learning. The 2000s trace the utilization of artificial intelligence in digitally programmed industrial robots. The global scenario has widel...
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Information Technology for Open Science: Innovation for Research | #Sciencefather #researcher #professors

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What does innovation mean for higher education? I've asked many college/university and association presidents this question. The typical response points to successful startups, economic development programs, and entrepreneurship training. Yes, these are important ways that we serve society through innovation . But how do higher education institutions themselves innovate? Colleges and universities are much more facile at  outside  innovation than  inside  innovation. By that, I mean that they have created cultures and rewards for moving ideas and inventions outside of the institution through technology transfer or student education but are not as adept at achieving change within. For fifteen years, while serving as vice president of research at the University of Southern California (USC), I witnessed—and encouraged—a transformation in research practices. Under the umbrella of the "Creativity and Collaboration in the Academy" initiative, USC explored and experimented w...
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