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Ukraine: Holding Lectures While the Bombs Fall
With the Russian army marching on his home city, a Ukrainian scholar must decide how to respond.
Career Change: When Dreams Don't Come True
As she closes the door on her time in academia, a neuroscientist faces unexpected grief.
Why I Teach My Students About Scientific Failure
"It's a lesson I wish I'd learned before starting grad school."
Japan's Path to Becoming a Leader in Western Science: an Asian Perspective on Science and Other Forms of Knowledge
Science Is Redefining Motherhood. If Only Society Would Let It
It's time to decouple maternity from womanhood. Recent advances in fertility science are helping pave the way toward inclusivity.
How Remote Collaboration Impacts Innovation
This article explores how the rise of remote collaboration has shaped disruptive discoveries in science between 1961 and 2020.
Making Science More Open Is Good for Research-but Bad for Security
The open science movement pushes for making scientific knowledge quickly accessible to all. But a new paper warns that speed can come at a cost.
Scientific Collaborations Are Precarious Territory for Women
Closed networks and ingrained biases can make women's collaborations a balancing act.
You Don't Have to Quit Meat to Save the Planet-Just Eat Less
If everyone ate just 20 percent less beef, deforestation rates by 2050 could be half as bad.
Federal Council Adopts Measures on Horizon Europe and Strengthens International Space Cooperation
Federal Council Adopts Measures on Horizon Europe and Strengthens International Space Cooperation
Switzerland is currently considered a non-associated third country in Horizon Europe, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. On 4 May 2022, the Federal Council adopted extensive measures to bridge the gap arising from this situation.
To Make AI Fair, Here's What We Must Learn to Do
Developers of artificial intelligence must learn to collaborate with social scientists and the people affected by its applications.
Gender Differences in the Determinants of Becoming a Professor in Germany
Climate Change: Don't Let Doom Win, Project Tells Worriers
The BBC gets an exclusive look at a new project to help students deal with rising climate anxiety.
US Plans Campaign to Attract Russian Scientists, Engineers to America
The Biden Administration is planning a campaign to attract Russian scientists and engineers to the US, in an effort to further weaken Russia's science and technology base. It also plans to help Russian physicists at the CERN nuclear lab continue working there, rather than return home when their normal visas expire, if they wish.
Eight Ways Universities Can Make Career Assessment More Equitable
New measures to reward scholars in the Netherlands could widen gender inequality if they are not designed and implemented correctly, warn four academics.
Mainstream Economic Policy Must Factor Climate Change into Its Growth Calculus
Dismantling the Ivory Tower's Knowledge Boundaries
How has the pandemic changed public access to journal articles?
On Staging Work: How Research Funding Bodies Create Adaptive Coherence in Times of Projectification
We Don't Necessarily Need a Scientist at the Head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
We Don't Necessarily Need a Scientist at the Head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
The OSTP is without a leader in the wake of a scandal. It's time for the White House to think about getting a new kind of director.
Refereed Preprints Recognized As Eligibility Criterion for EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships - Features - EMBO
Refereed Preprints Recognized As Eligibility Criterion for EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships - Features - EMBO
EMBO will accept first author refereed preprints in applications for postdoctoral fellowships in a four-month trial.
Crossref: Come and Get Your Grant Metadata!
Crossref: Come and Get Your Grant Metadata!
Metadata for the (currently 26,000) grants that have been registered by our funder members is now available via the REST API. This is quite a milestone in our program to include funding in Crossref infrastructure and a step forward in our mission to connect all.the.things. This post gives you all the queries you might need to satisfy your curiosity and start to see what's possible with deeper analysis. So have the look and see what useful things you can discover.
We Think This Cool Study We Found is Flawed. Help Us Reproduce It.
Are 25 year olds really more random than 60 year olds?
Canada Announces New Innovation Agency - and It's Not Modelled on DARPA
The unit will instead mimic Finnish and Israeli agencies. But some researchers worry Canada might be too big and regionalized for the scheme to succeed.
EU Charges Too Much for Too Little IP Protection, Auditors Say
The European Court of Auditors criticised the EU for "shortcomings" in its system to protect industrial designs, trademarks, and unique agricultural products - and, the auditors added, appears to charge too much for the service.
Open Access and the Direction Moving Forward
This post offers recommendations for how funding agencies and research institutions can better lead the change toward open access.