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Seeking Feedback on a Model Digital Preservation Policy, a Project of the NASIG Digital Preservation Committee
Seeking Feedback on a Model Digital Preservation Policy, a Project of the NASIG Digital Preservation Committee
A look at the NASIG Digital Preservation Policy and a request for comments.
How to Turn Your Ideas into Patents
Researchers and intellectual-property specialists offer their tips for deciding which discoveries are worth patenting, and how to do the homework needed for success.
Moves to Stop EU Researcher Mobility Promoting One Way - East to West - Flow of Skills
Moves to Stop EU Researcher Mobility Promoting One Way - East to West - Flow of Skills
Academic mobility has long been trumpeted as the secret to forming international research networks, but support has led to one-way flows. Now, the EU is considering how to balance out the movement of researchers around the bloc.
Towards Standardizing Plain Language Summaries: The Open Pharma Recommendations
Towards Standardizing Plain Language Summaries: The Open Pharma Recommendations
A look into the value of providing plain language summaries in research papers, and the standards created for doing so.
Stagnating Salaries Present Hurdles to Career Satisfaction
Stagnating Salaries Present Hurdles to Career Satisfaction
Fewer than half of respondents to Nature's 2021 salary and satisfaction survey feel positive about their prospects.
Parliament Gets Council to Agree on Slight Increase to 2022 Horizon Europe Budget
Parliament Gets Council to Agree on Slight Increase to 2022 Horizon Europe Budget
This year's budget waltz is over. After months of haggling, MEPs scored a last-minute deal last night on the 2022 budget, convincing member states to allocate some extra cash to Horizon Europe, though in the end the increase was far lower than the European Parliament was bidding for.
Study Finds Psilocybin Can Relieve Depression, but Raises Warning Flags
The largest psilocybin treatment trial to date suggests that the psychedelic drug can help people with treatment-resistant depression.
Yes, DeepMind Crunches the Numbers - but is It Really a Magic Bullet?
Yes, DeepMind Crunches the Numbers - but is It Really a Magic Bullet?
The machine learning outfit's foray into pharmaceuticals could be very useful, but its grand claims should be taken with a pinch of salt.
My International-student Group Helped Me Through a Hurricane
When Hurricane Elsa hit her home nation, Sheri McDowell turned to her newly formed support committee.
What Did the Past Smell Like?
When people entertain transporting to the past, 19th-century Berlin, say, they don't often imagine a dramatic shift in smellscape.
Translating Digital Humanities Skills From College to Career
Sarah Ketchley and Lindsey Gervais discuss the value offered by programs in the digital humanities.
No Clear Path to Swiss Association in Horizon Europe After Bilateral Meeting in Brussels
No Clear Path to Swiss Association in Horizon Europe After Bilateral Meeting in Brussels
Switzerland should agree to a timeline for ironing out broader political disagreements with the EU, the European Commission announced on Monday, signaling a long road ahead for Swiss association to Horizon Europe.
Russia Accuses US of Hypocrisy over Satellite Destruction
Russia has acknowledged destroying a satellite in a missile test, as the US had reported. But the Kremlin denies creating a risk to others in space - and says the US is being hypocritical on space safety.
New Mission to Scour Our Interstellar Neighbourhood for Planets That Could Sustain Life
Sleeplessness and Anxiety: PhD Supervisors on Toll of COVID Pandemic
Sleeplessness and Anxiety: PhD Supervisors on Toll of COVID Pandemic
Survey of 3,500 supervisors lifts the lid on the demands of overseeing junior researchers - and the impacts of the pandemic.
The COVID Pandemic Has Harmed Researcher Productivity - and Mental Health
The COVID Pandemic Has Harmed Researcher Productivity - and Mental Health
Surveys show that women, parents of young children and people of colour are most affected by pandemic-related disruptions and need more support.
Advancing Transdisciplinary Adaptation Research Practice - Nature Climate Change
Advancing Transdisciplinary Adaptation Research Practice - Nature Climate Change
Transdisciplinary research is increasingly seen as critical for advancing climate change adaptation. Operationalizing transdisciplinary research in the global South, however, confronts ingrained cultural and systemic barriers to participatory research.
Biden's Science Guy is Driving Folks Mad
Is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy off-message?
Viewpoint: We Need to Manage the Political 'Bombs' of Science Policy
Viewpoint: We Need to Manage the Political 'Bombs' of Science Policy
Let's not beat around the bush: science policy is political.
Building Bridges with the Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA)
Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) committee members champion the benefits of standardizing the transfer of papers between journals.
Pandemic Disruptor: Canadian Perspectives on How COVID-19 is Changing Open Access in Canada (Part 2)
Pandemic Disruptor: Canadian Perspectives on How COVID-19 is Changing Open Access in Canada (Part 2)
Part 2 of this series looking at open access developments in Canada examines the changing processes and infrastructure needs for open science.
Pandemic Disruptor: Canadian Perspectives on How COVID-19 is Changing Open Access (Part 1)
Pandemic Disruptor: Canadian Perspectives on How COVID-19 is Changing Open Access (Part 1)
A look at open access policies and developments in Canada, especially in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Part 1 of a 2 part post.
Ron Daniels on the University As a Bulwark for Democracy
In the first of a new 'talking leadership' interview series, Rosa Ellis meets the Johns Hopkins University president to discuss how he is realigning the institution to educate students about democracy and encourage them to contest ideas.
Expect Strikes Before Christmas, Grady Tells UK Vice-chancellors
University and College Union general secretary says sector leaders who focused on turnout were 'not listening to a consistent message that staff have been delivering to them'.
'The Dawn of Everything' Rewrites 40,000 Years of Human History
A new book recasts human social evolution as multiple experiments with freedom and domination that started in the Stone Age.
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