Science is communicated through language. The media of language in science is
multimodal, ranging from lecturing in classrooms, to informal daily discussions among …

Scientific editors shape the content of academic journals and set standards for their fields.
Yet, the degree to which the gender makeup of editors reflects that of scientists, and the rate …

The field of plant science has grown dramatically in the past two decades, but global
disparities and systemic inequalities persist. Here, we analyzed~ 300,000 papers published …

Given a large enough volume of data and precise, meaningful categories, training a
statistical model to solve a classification problem is straightforward and has become a …

With the increasing focus on issues of race/ethnicity and sex/gender 1 across the spectrum
of human activity, it is past time to consider how instruction in research integrity should …

A vociferous group of scientists is presently articulating the idea that academic freedom is
under attack from within academia. Examples of supposed suppression of free expression …

Dear Editor, Despite concerted efforts in recent years to achieve equity in science and
academia, both implicit and explicit biases persist and remain a concern (Llorens et al …

Do women face a disadvantage in terms of citation rates, and if so, in what ways? This article
provides a comprehensive overview of existing research on the relationship between …

Introduction: Most global biodiversity is in develo** economies. Decades of capacity
building should have built sufficient in-country capacity to develop biodiversity baselines; yet …

Gender imbalance in academia has been confirmed in terms of a variety of indicators, and
its magnitude often varies from country to country. Europe and North America, which cover a …