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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.
How to produce a first-class paper that will get published, stand out from the crowd and pull in plenty of readers.
From climate to COVID, naivety about how science is hijacked promotes more of the same.
The five general tactics of science denial are: conspiracy, selectivity (cherry-picking), fake experts, impossible expectations (also known as moving goalposts), and general fallacies of logic.
Instead of investing to cheat death, shouldn't we be trying to make old age livable and dignified for all?
Humanistic fields are vital to solving the world's most urgent problems; they also help students shape successful careers and meaningful lives, argue Agustín Rayo and Hashim Sarkis.
Openness and politicization together have enabled public trust in science to erode. And science is insufficiently trustworthy. The scholarly communication sector must not ignore this situation.
Victoria Ficarra and Rob Johnson offer insights into the new UKRI open access policy.
Why aren't libraries providing support for your open access or open science initiative? Be careful what you assume.
The ELN's Sylvia Mishra writes that AI-generated fake videos - deep fakes - threaten to exacerbate chaos in conflict, lower nuclear thresholds and complicate nuclear weapons decision-making. The uncontrolled use and spread of this technology requires urgent attention from the nuclear policy community.
If by 2052 a computer could match the human brain then we need better ways to build it.
Social mobility champions are accused of having ‘lost focus on the role that a socially mobile society should have in matching all members of society into occupations and roles which they are suited for and enjoy, and at which they excel.’ Indeed, they give little attention to ‘the actual aspirations and ambitions of real people’.
To thwart publishing rackets that undermine scholars and scholarly publishing, legitimate journals should show their workings.
In today's post, Alice Meadows interviews Jodi Schneider of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign about the work she's leading to reduce the inadvertent spread of retracted research.
Today's post is looking at the experiences of people with disabilities in scholarly publishing.
The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board is calling for a coherent action plan to counter future health emergencies
The EU's forests would benefit from better knowledge translation and closer links between wood production and biodiversity research and innovation.
Brigitte Shull from Cambridge University Press looks at the lessons learned so far from transformative agreements and how they continue to evolve.
A look at recognition in peer review, what's offered now and what's on the horizon. How does this affect the process?
Tests of natural language processing models show that the bigger they are, the bigger liars they are. Should we be worried?
What motivates scientists to engage with policymaking?
The tactful approach can be effective but it risks obscuring the necessity and urgency of improvements, says Chris Moore.
In Part 1 of this pair of posts, Timon Oefelein interviews Gerald R. Beasley, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell University, about how librarians can support the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
International agencies need the mandate, funds and expertise to connect information - otherwise pandemics, hunger and unsustainability will go unsolved.
