Peer review serves as the cornerstone of scientific quality control. Yet, the current journal-centric system is hindered by long timelines, high publication costs, inconsistent review quality, systemi...

Peer review is widely viewed as a critical aspect of biomedical communication. Ideally, it provides authors with feedback so they can improve manuscripts and gives readers, particularly nonspecialists...

In light of recent science, it has never seemed more urgent to make cultural adjustments to prevent climate change—and science itself is not exempt from this task.  Labs tend to go through large quant...

Leaked footage of rape of a Palestinian detainee last year leads to legal repercussions - but not for those accused.

Journalist Guy Peleg's only 'crime' was airing leaked footage that proved the investigation into IDF soldiers' abuse of a Palestinian detainee was real - not a 'blood libel.' In a democracy, that woul...

Democratic socialists have an historic opportunity and responsibility to play a central role in continuing the political revolution for the long term. As a democratic, grassroots organization, DSA is ...

It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politica...

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Nasser Abu Srour says prisons became like ‘another front’ in Gaza war and tells of struggle to adjust to life outside A celebrated Palestinian author who was freed last month after more than 32 years in Israeli prisons has said the use of torture increased dramatically during his last two years of captivity as Israel came to treat its jails as another front in the Gaza war. Nasser Abu Srour, whose prison memoir has been translated into seven languages and is tipped to win a major international literary prize this month, was among more than 150 Palestinians serving life sentences who were freed as part of the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire and then immediately exiled to Egypt, where most remain in limbo. Continue reading...

Alto Comissariado de Direitos Humanos pede investigação imediata e entidades denunciam política de confronto

Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab says satellite images seem to show mass killings in Sudan's western city of el-Fasher.

Former Colonel Steve Gabavics says evidence Israeli soldier intentionally shot journalist shrugged off by US government.

Transparency, reproducibility, and acknowledging uncertainty are meritorious attributes of science that differentiate it from other human endeavors, such as politics. But they can also be subverted. I...