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Do Data Availability Statements Increase the Sharing of Research Data?
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.
Switzerland Has Opted Out of EU Copernicus Scheme - What It Means
Switzerland Has Opted Out of EU Copernicus Scheme - What It Means
Does Europe Dare to Invest in the Arctic?
Prioritising long-term strategic investment in the Arctic requires courage, but it is a choice Europe cannot afford to postpone.
Putting Art into Dialogue with Research Can Reframe Approaches to Wealth Inequality
Putting Art into Dialogue with Research Can Reframe Approaches to Wealth Inequality
What Kind of Discipline is AI?
Universities are creating AI schools alongside disciplines such as logic, economics and communication without addressing their shared foundations. Mouhamdy M. Dahoud argues that this reflects an ontological gap, with current research funding and assessment taxonomies overlooking an entire category of science.
Frontier-technology Markets Are Too Narrow — Here’s How to Widen Them
Frontier-technology Markets Are Too Narrow — Here’s How to Widen Them
Universities Must Stop Protecting Bullies OR More People Will Leave Science
Letting powerful academics off the hook and punishing the people they bullied sends the message that abuse is acceptable in academia.
NSF Set to Issue Lowest Number of New Grants in Four Decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
Engagement with the scientific community can have a stimulating effect on Swiss diplomacy
Engagement with the scientific community can have a stimulating effect on Swiss diplomacy
This interview with Ambassador Philipp Stalder explains why Switzerland is trying to strengthen science-diplomacy links with African partners. It highlights existing Swiss-African research collaborations, and frames research cooperation as a way to build long-term trust and support foreign-policy objectives.
Guest Post - Do We Need (r)evolution in Peer Review?
Chemistry Advances When Disciplines Connect
Universities and funding agencies should organize research around problems, reward shared achievement, and support ideas that fall between established fields.
White House Plan for a 'Golden Age' of Science Ignores the Structures That Made the US a Scientific Superpower
White House Plan for a 'Golden Age' of Science Ignores the Structures That Made the US a Scientific Superpower
Retaining Neurodivergent Talent Will Strengthen the STEM Pipeline
Retaining Neurodivergent Talent Will Strengthen the STEM Pipeline
The challenge is not a lack of neurodivergent talent, but systems that fail to support and retain it.
The Guardian view on the Lovell telescope: budget cuts to physics are bad science and worse politics
Europe’s AI Problem is Not Merely Competition, but Control
Europe’s AI Problem is Not Merely Competition, but Control
We do not own the leading-edge AI technology we rely on for research and innovation. We rent it, mostly from US companies.
Some Research Culture Work May Be Sustaining the Practices It Seeks to Change
Some Research Culture Work May Be Sustaining the Practices It Seeks to Change
Efforts to improve research culture can make harmful systems easier to endure and harder to reform.
Scientific Merit, Not Political Priorities, Should Guide Research Stewardship
APS Comment on Office of Management and Budget Proposed Rule for Federal Financial Assistance
APS Comment on Office of Management and Budget Proposed Rule for Federal Financial Assistance
The American Physical Society (APS) provides public comments regarding the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) proposed guidance, and expresses its unequivocal opposition to this proposed rule change.
Trust US on Joint Dual-Use Research in Horizon Europe, Türkiye Tells EU
Trust US on Joint Dual-Use Research in Horizon Europe, Türkiye Tells EU
Speaking to Science|Business, an official leading the country’s scientific relations says he is “not happy” with exclusions