Kaggle also hosts a jobs board for its nearly 800,000 data science members that also contributes revenue.
The site lets scientists submit unpublished manuscripts for anonymous review by Peerage of Science members, or "Peers".
Through former National Science Foundation director and environmental microbiologist Rita Colwell, the scientists have found about a dozen National Academies of Science members to co-sign the letter.
Science, members of Congress and the American public are on on the side of reform.
A 2013 PIPSC survey of around 4,000 of its science members found 90percentt of them felt they weren't allowed to speak with media about their work, while nearly half reported instances where their department "suppressed information, leading to incomplete, inaccurate, or misleading impressions by the public".
But, she pointedly adds, these "objective" cutoffs disproportionately exclude from the sciences members of underrepresented groups, including women and non-Asian racial minorities, who, on average, do less well than white and Asian men on the GRE, especially on the all-important math section. .
Education Portsmouth High School City Universityy, BSc(Hons) optometry and visual science; MCOptom (member of the College of Optometrists); Warwick University, certificate in diabetes care; UCL, hon research associate, medical anthropology.
"Large expanses of Pluto don't show exposed water ice," said science team member Jason Cook, of SwRI, "because it's apparently masked by other, more volatile ices across most of the planet.
The data shows that by 2009, Dean Freeman had recruited at least one basic science faculty member to every department.
"The InSight lander acts like a giant ear," explained InSight science team member Tom Pike in a NASA news release.
