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Alarmed by the victory of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in an east German state government election, major higher education organisations have made urgent pleas to uphold academic freedom, open-mindedness and other essential elements of the country’s higher education system.
Violent state repression and government interference in university autonomy lead the global decline in academic freedom, according to Scholars at Risk’s (SAR) Free to Think 2026 report.
Changes to the Open Science Framework’s policies will come into effect in November, forcing researchers to reconsider their workflows.
Europe already has much of the data it needs to better predict and fight wildfires. The challenge is making this fragmented data work together.
A new study finally puts a number on the extent to which spats hurt research ties. But the bigger story may be the resilience of global science.
Votes on all EU programmes are postponed until MEPs in the budgets committee agree the Performance Framework Regulation.
The ZBW Open Economics Guide now features more than 160 useful Open Science tools for everyday research. The catalogue has recently undergone a major overhaul, with new filtering and sorting options making it much easier to navigate and find the right tools.
In Switzerland, science enjoys greater public trust than the police, government or parliament. But what exactly is the role of science in a democracy, and how does it differ in dictatorships?
Protecting science under the systemic stress of wartime means treating education and training itself as infrastructure, rather than as a series of one-off events.
Paper calls for stable careers and creativity-focused assessment, but authors pessimistic about seeing meaningful change,
The future academic labour agreement may have to do something no previous faculty contract was asked to do. It may have to specify which forms of cognition belong to machines, which belong to professionals, which may be shared between them and where final authority must remain human.
Science is often judged by measurable outcomes, which can undermine collaboration and the common good. A view is proposed in which science helps create and sustain flourishing communities through shared practices and values.
Grant support is still a developing practice in the region, a hangover from the Soviet style of funding research.
Moscow’s academic repression is expanding into the EU, scholars say, with researchers in Europe facing cyber-attacks and designation as “extremists”.
The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has signed the position paper Free Science – Successful Economy – Strong Germany, published today by the Berlin Research Network.
This study assessed trends in data accessibility, compliance with Data availability statements (DAS), and the relationship between data sharing and citation impact in oceanographic research.
Whether mathematics thrives or perishes in the age of AI depends on what it is that society values in the human intellect.
