What happens when you pay peer auditors?

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Two data magazines have released their experiments indicating that submitting payments of about $ 250 to researchers reviewing manuscripts accelerate the process, without affecting the quality of reviews. Six months experience in Critical care medicine, Leaded by the clinical scientist David Massov, it was found that the impact of the stimulus on the auditors was small. This may be to “these other values of peer auditors, whether it is a sense of responsibility, loyalty, or because of society,” says Masnouf. in Open BiologyThe payment prompted the acceleration of reviews to the point that the magazine puts it on a larger scale. But some specialists warn that this practice can have unintended consequences for science and publishing.

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reference: Critical care medicine paper & BIORXIV Preprint (The peer has not been reviewed)

Data from more than 200,000 drivers working for Ridesharing Lyft in Florida indicate Racial stereotype plays a role in traffic cards and fines. The researchers have found no differences that could be discovered in speed or traffic violations between white drivers and a group that included Asian, Pacific, Black and Latin drivers. But minority drivers were 33 % more vulnerable to speed and pay 34 % of money in fines.

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Read more: Lyft data helps to overcome the restrictions of standard police data groups, and to write a social world of Din Nox and political scientist Jonathan Momulo In their accompanying article. ((Science 8 minutes read))

reference: sciences paper

Trump’s dismantling of science

Many scientists who do research in American universities derive most of their salaries from grant funds from external sources. With the abolition of federal scholarships or cut by the administration of US President Donald Trump, some researchers face an end to their projects, or even the end of their career. For example, Social Science Researcher Jeremy Sprinmann received five federal scholarships before February; Now the latter went from the US Defense Ministry. Valerie Vinicon, the geoshimia scientist at high temperatures, says she may have to abandon basic research to obtain industry financing. “I see these attempts to dismantle everything I have built my life,” she says.

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Despite its activation during his campaign, US President Donald Trump has been closely disposed of the policy plan known as the 2025 project, which was published by the right -wing research center called the Heritage Foundation. Some recommendations related to science have already implemented include opposition to diversity efforts, smuggling climate science projects, green energy projects and the university of money for universities. The fields mentioned in the document that can come in the foreground include a ban on fetus tissue research and the end of student visas from some countries. Trump’s wider deviation from the 2025 project may be the commitment of the repeated evidence to ensure “American science dominance” – while Trump’s discounts will weaken the country’s science infrastructure.

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Genetic scientist Francis Collins, the former director of the National Institutes of American Health (NIH), is famous for leading the human genome project, and participated in discovering the genetic cause of cystic fibrosis, talking about his Christian faith and extracting the opportunity to avoid his guitar. The latter did In this “stand for science” month To protest the discounts to the National Institutes of Health and the launch of employees of the National Institutes of Health. “I felt I needed to be part of talking about the reason for this, for ordinary Americans, not a good idea,” he says. time. “Taking a hammer to this amazing institution to save life must care.”

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Features and opinion

Lucas Juba and Elizabeth Wilsmut on the same day was the main architects to adhere to Microsoft Carbon, and they affected more than a billion dollars of activities related to carbon reduction and removal. “Although we have a deep conviction that Net Zero can work, we know that she has problems,” they write. “The early desire for perfection, very exact guidelines for implementation, insufficient flexibility in carbon accountability, unhelpful restrictions on cooperation and unpopular focus on the behavior of others, all combine to slow the shift of the chest network only when it needs to accelerate.” They define six road barriers to carbon removal, and how to overcome them.

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Where I work

In a snapshot of the division level, a small vehicle moves remotely with lights with clear blue water, run by GEMMA GALBRAITH, which stands in a visible motor boat on the surface of the water — GEMMA Galbraith is a marine environment scientist at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia.Credit

The marine environment scientist Jima Galbreith says that the coral reefs that flourish in the depths of the surface are relatively isolated. “The measurement will be the plant world that does not study any sections of the plant under the ground.” In this picture, Galbraith wipes coral reefs in Australia using a remote -equipped vehicle with a camera. Her husband and colleague, Ben Chriswell, carry the leader and captain Cassi Castro directs the boat. “It is a challenge when they float in the middle of anywhere in getting sunburn and dryness. Sometimes, sea birds land on the head of Ben,” she says. “Then, you can reset, remove birds and get some electrolytes. We haven’t lost a robot yet.” (Nature | 3 minutes Reading) (Victor Hearetas/Hui Reef Laboratory Environment)

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The genetic scientist Adam Radford does not climb any tears for the demise of the 23andme hereditary test company, who says he “sustains an inevitable look at the genetics that excels and a mistake.” ((The trustee 6 minutes read))

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