Several recent blog posts and a session at Scio13 (discussed here) have addressed ethical issues in citizen science. Ethics in research is taken extremely seriously in academia: every single research ...

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Across the nation, computer science jobs sit unfilled due to a lack of highly-qualified applicants–so what’s the computer science education disconnect? Hundreds of thousands of computer science jobs ...

When we talk about the limits of data science, we often revert to issues like scalability, or the lack of talent. But there's another burning question that data science projects overlook at their ...

Valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services is considered essential to formulate policies for sustainable development. But monetary valuation of BES reinforces the prevalent science-policy ...