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In a great example of collaborative journalism, The Indian Express partners with several other big names in the news business to shine a br...

FY Fluid Dynamics on Dead salmon swimming . Editorial in Nature : China sets a strong example on how to address scientific fraud . "N...

I am not thrilled to see the word "merit" being used so casually, but Rema Nagarajan's ToI news story captures the essence in...

Meredith Wadman in Science [following up on her explosive report from six weeks ago]: 11 June 2018: Leading Salk scientist resigns [his p...

From this week's must-read article: Ben Blum's The Lifespan of a Lie -- The most famous psychology study of all time was a sham. Wh...

Two links [hat tip to M. Madhan]: Ben Guarino, Emily Rauhala and William Wan in The Washington Post : Health & Science China increasin...

After many people pointed out that the University Grants Commission's "White List" of "approved" journals had many, ...

Way back in March 2014, OLPC News , which used to track all the OLPC-related news and developments, bid farewell to this pipe dream riding ...

... [B]ad papers take a lot of time too, so let us just write a good one. Attributed to the Princeton economist Dilip José Abreu by his ju...

NSF has a handy 24-page report [ pdf ] tons of interesting info on PhD recipients from US universities; published in March 2018, the report...

Apparently, a serial murderer and rapist was identified by the police when they used a DNA database (called GEDmatch, which appears to be a ...

Riffing off on recent cases of plagiarism by Indian academics, he poses a deeper question : "Is ... our thinking itself ... plagiarised...

From this explosive, deeply reported story in Science [which should be applauded, I think, for not paywalling the story]: In reports stre...

There are several updates, which appear at the end of the post. * * * Read this post (on FB) by Jayita Barua from a week ago. After read...

I first learned about it -- the economics job market which happens during the annual meeting of AEA, the American Economic Association -- fr...