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African Research Administrators Push for More Collaboration
Sarima 2025: Calls grow for unified African voice in research management and innovation
New to Advocacy? 3 Tips for Early Career Scientists
Beyond Lab Animals
With a boost from the Trump administration, organ chips, AI, and other technologies bid to replace animals for drug and chemical testing.
Why Science Must Embrace Co-Creation with Generative AI to Break Current Research Barriers
Travel Bans Punish Africa for Its Scientific Leadership
Rewiring science diplomacy
For science diplomacy to remain relevant in this era, it must develop a new mode of engagement—transactional science diplomacy.
With New Guidance, Trump Administration Deceptively Targets Scientific Integrity
With New Guidance, Trump Administration Deceptively Targets Scientific Integrity
Stop the University Ranking Circus
In June 2024, a study called for an end to use of ranking to validate research. The researchers gave their reasons. Others have followed even while the ranking industry seems to be coming off more and more popular with students, parents and recruiters.
Fake Science, Faulty Methods, Misleading Testimony
How Africa-led Clinical Trials Are Shaping Vaccine Science
The Dangerous Precedent of Political Interference in Medical Research in Canada
To Restore Trust in Science, Scientists Should Focus on Storytelling
To Restore Trust in Science, Scientists Should Focus on Storytelling
Scientists’ role in defending democracy
We know from other countries and contexts that aspiring authoritarians often target scientists, elevate loyalists, and suppress or sideline any who might have the knowledge, expertise, or power to challenge government transgression and failures to make science-based policy decisions. In response to such threats, the US scientific community can work to rebuild critical elements of the federal science enterprise now being dismantled or compromised, including science advisory committees and scientific assessments, which for decades have helped ensure that the best available science informs policy decisions.
As Science Faces External Attacks, It Needs to Look Within to Defend and Reform
Ask a Scientist: How Does Documenting Attacks on Science Stop Authoritarians?
Male Researchers Retract More Papers Than Their Female Peers
What's Driving UK Universities to Set Up Campuses in India in a Changing Global Education Order?
A Massive Fraud Ring Is Publishing Thousands of Fake Studies and the Problem is Exploding.
A Massive Fraud Ring Is Publishing Thousands of Fake Studies and the Problem is Exploding.
PLOS Responds to PNAS Study Detailing the Growth of Peer Review Integrity Issues
PLOS Responds to PNAS Study Detailing the Growth of Peer Review Integrity Issues
A new PNAS study uses openly available articles to map the scale of paper mill and peer review ring activity across scholarly publishing.