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As proponents of AI claim it will soon replace software engineers, what does this mean for qualitative researchers and research software development?
An open access book mandate is one Research Excellence Framework (REF) cycle away. If implemented, research funders should focus on enabling infrastructure rather than compliance.
New guidelines for predicting a patient's risk for heart disease are rooted in science and health equity.
Some research funding systems rely on expert-assigned journal rankings to allocate resources. LLMs can approximate expert-assigned rankings with high overall accuracy, with most errors occurring between adjacent levels.
The Global Research Initiative on Open Science has opened its first call for projects that synthesise evidence for policy.
Afghanistan is the latest test case for how Europe helps researchers threatened at home or fleeing abroad.
Trial disruptions threaten efforts to improve the lack of diversity in clinical research.
Leaked documents contain measures calculated to strengthen role of EU member states in strategic priority setting.
Positions ‘terminated, effective immediately’, says email to scientists sent on president’s behalf, in move labelled ‘dangerous attack’ on US innovation
Generative AI is unsettling longstanding conventions of authorship, ownership and credit in academia and across cultural production. This has prompted responses that seek to reassert the role of the intelligent, creative human individual.
Can Large Language Models (LLMs) support the process or validate expert evaluations? ChatGPT-4o mini scores correlated positively with expert scores in almost all 34 (field-based) Units of Assessment (UoAs).
This article describes a course module that introduces MSc students at Utrecht University in the Netherlands to this part of the publication process.
Largest illegal database of scientific papers has gaps in recently published literature, but its chatbot can still prove useful—especially for less-timely questions
