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In the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, many researchers are exploring their options with the open-source platform Mastodon.

Researchfish is a platform commonly used to track the status of grants and the impacts of research. When academics were critical of the company online, Researchfish shared these comments with the largest funding agency in the UK, and the scientists’ comments were sometimes shared with their employers.

A Hawaii hospital worker who reported the controversial scientist to the Maryland Board of Physicians was subjected to harassment and a retaliatory complaint after Malone made his name and location public.

COVID-19 has thrown science and scientists into the spotlight. Some have accepted the challenge, amassing hundreds of thousands of followers and using the ongoing pandemic as a “teachable moment.”

Can requiring users of Facebook and other platforms to pass critical thinking tests stem the tide of widely disseminated misinformation?

A complaint lodged by researchers in France prompts two petitions supporting Bik’s whistleblowing work.

Effectively relating science to the public is a science in itself, and expertise on a topic doesn’t guarantee expertise in explaining it.

In a year of racial tumult, Black scientists are uniting for visibility and action. 

The study, published in a peer-reviewed journal, has attracted widespread derision from researchers.

BethAnn McLaughlin will step away from the organization after confirming allegations that she posed as @Sciencing_Bi, a fabricated queer indigenous researcher and victim of sexual harassment.

The use of underperforming computational tools is a major offender in science’s reproducibility crisis—and there’s growing momentum to avoid it.

The former chief of Eli Lilly USA is picked to replace Tom Price, who stepped down in September amid a controversy over the abuse of taxpayer-funded travel.

Sparked by a tweet from a Philadelphia scientist, the March for Science–Houston has launched a database of facilities offering to host reagents and researchers. 

How researchers are taking advantage of Twitter and other forums to do, share, and discuss research

Brexit's effect on science, melding disciplines, and more

Scenes from illustrator Jim Jourdane’s Fieldwork Fail: The Messy Side of Science

An artist aims to publish a collection of stories of science gone awry.

Scientists share their 2016 resolutions across Twitter.

Scientists air their most embarrassing fieldwork flubs on Twitter.