Co-hosted EEB and Dept. of Biology Seminar Presented by Molly Schumer, (Fall 2019) Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, Stanford University  

Presented by Ivan Oransky, Co-founder, Retraction Watch Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus founded Retraction Watch in 2010. Unbeknownst to them, retractions had grown ten-fold in the previous decade. Oransky will discuss the reasons for that increase, whether fraud is on the rise, the growth of post-publication peer review, and other trends he and Marcus have seen as […]

Dept. of Biology Seminar Presented by Molly Schumer, (Fall 2019) Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, Stanford University Abstract: In the past decade, it has become increasingly clear that hybridization is pervasive across a range of species, with cases reported for species across the tree of life. As a result, the genomes of many contemporary species harbor […]

Movie Screening as part of International Open Access Week A documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher Elsevier and looks at how that […]

Presented by David Carlson, Dean of Libraries, Texas A&M University Over the course of my career, my professional interests have long been in the issues of scholarly communication and open science. I have always wanted to develop a talk that focuses on the flow of money in the publications process because I believe it is fundamentally […]