Did an AI or a Human Write That Paper? New Detector Decides by Examining Its Ideas
Did an AI or a Human Write That Paper? New Detector Decides by Examining Its Ideas
Algorithm looks for clues about a paper's origin that text-based detectors miss.
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Viewpoint: The Grant System Funds the Ability to Apply for Grants
A start-up founder calls out inherent flaws in grant evaluation systems, which stifle innovation.
Robot Pen Pals: a Systematic Analysis of Recent Trends in Scientific Correspondence
Robot Pen Pals: a Systematic Analysis of Recent Trends in Scientific Correspondence
This study identifies unusual growth in scientific correspondence after the widespread adoption of generative AI and suggests that AI may be contributing to publication inflation in a format that is citable, lightly regulated and often not peer reviewed.
How to Mobilize the Agile Science Needed in a Crisis
Two reports highlight the changes needed in academia to facilitate the fast, collaborative, responsive and inclusive research that aids global decision makers.
Will AI Scoop Your Science? Some Researchers See a Gloomy Future
Will AI Scoop Your Science? Some Researchers See a Gloomy Future
Scientists worry that increasingly capable large language models will beat them to discoveries.
Universities Measure Almost Everything - Except Leadership
Universities Measure Almost Everything - Except Leadership
Research leadership is often measured through proxies, could narrative approaches create a clearer picture of what good academic leadership is like in practice?
Academic Freedom Does Not Require Funder Neutrality
Do funding priorities restrict academic freedom? Or can setting clear boundaries between funder problems & the answers academia can provide be productive?
Research Integrity in Scholarly Communications - SSP Pulse Check Report
Research Integrity in Scholarly Communications - SSP Pulse Check Report
The latest Pulse Check Poll explored how organizations across the scholarly publishing ecosystem are responding to today’s research integrity challenges.
Why sound, strong science alone isn’t enough in pandemic preparedness
Why sound, strong science alone isn’t enough in pandemic preparedness
Comparable data are key to protecting the world from the next epidemic, says bioengineer Polina Brangel.
Open Science is Compatible with Research Security, Says Canada’s Chief Science Advisor
Open Science is Compatible with Research Security, Says Canada’s Chief Science Advisor
Open science is “not incompatible” with research security and science leaders and policymakers should “demystify” the false dichotomy between the two, according to Mona Nemer, Canada’s chief science advisor.
EU Governments to Debate a 19-Partnership Horizon Europe Portfolio
EU Governments to Debate a 19-Partnership Horizon Europe Portfolio
EU governments are set to have a strategic discussion on the next set of Horizon Europe partnerships with new initiatives on railways, space technologies, and climate and water resilience.
MSCA research career scheme gets €210M funding boost
The additional funding for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions comes amid record-low success rates.
If Research Security Feels Like Bureaucracy, We Are Making the Wrong Case
If Research Security Feels Like Bureaucracy, We Are Making the Wrong Case
For research security to be relevant it must connect to the everyday issues researchers face, rather than be another exercise in institutional compliance.
Science on the Political Stage: Analysing Representations of Science in Austrian Parliamentary Debates
Universities, Science, and Politics
The crisis of universities is not primarily due to politicization but to issues about whom universities serve and how they can serve them better against a backdrop of inequality, political polarization, and public mistrust.
Rising Numbers of Asian and African PhD Students Choose to Study in China
Rising Numbers of Asian and African PhD Students Choose to Study in China
International students explain the advantages and challenges that come with pursuing a doctoral degree in China.
Optogenetics Wins the Nobel - One Neuroscience Breakthrough in a Line of Technological Innovations Helping Scientists Map and Control the Brain
Optogenetics Wins the Nobel - One Neuroscience Breakthrough in a Line of Technological Innovations Helping Scientists Map and Control the Brain
Neuroscientific advances follow a pattern of visualizing the brain, measuring its function and then controlling it. Optogenetics may lead to a new era of medical treatment.
Open Science and Equity: Does Openness Alone Lead to Fairness?
Open Science and Equity: Does Openness Alone Lead to Fairness?
New report finds openness alone cannot ensure fairness, calling for equitable infrastructure, inclusive peer review and sustainable investment.
Why Real Intelligence is Something More Than Optimisation
If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more.
Horizon Europe 2027 Plans Updated With €507M in New Calls
Additional funding will cover biodiversity and “bridging” grants to next EU research programme amid plummeting success rates
Dual-use Restrictions Risk Holding Back Research, Nordic Universities Say
PLOS and Chinese Academy of Sciences join forces on open science programme
The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSL, CAS) and PLOS have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on the Open for Science 10 (OS10) programme.
What Counts as Scientific Research? The EU’s Digital Omnibus Could Set the Definition
The United States Will Be Worse off for Losing International Scientists
The United States Will Be Worse off for Losing International Scientists
The US has long benefited from the scholarship of international scientists. The Trump administration's policies are forcing many to reconsider their careers here.
Gender Imbalances of Retraction Prevalence Among Highly Cited Authors and Among All Authors
Gender Imbalances of Retraction Prevalence Among Highly Cited Authors and Among All Authors
Scientific retractions remain rare but have become increasingly common. We set out to explore whether gender disparities in the likelihood of having retractions exist, both among highly-cited authors and among all authors with ≥ 5 publications.
This Award-Winning Microscopy Image Used AI - Igniting Controversy In A Prestigious Competition
Research Quality Metrics As a Complement to Bibliometrics: an Opinion Paper
Research Quality Metrics As a Complement to Bibliometrics: an Opinion Paper
Current assessment systems rely heavily on bibliometric indicators such as publication counts, co-authorship, and citation metrics, which do not reliably reflect research quality or scientific rigor.
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