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The Global Challenge of Antibiotic Resistance

The Global Challenge of Antibiotic Resistance

Roxane Feller, AnimalhealthEurope Secretary-General provides a fascinating insight into the global challenge of antibiotic resistance.

Philip Morris Funded Anti-Smoking Foundation Targeting Public Health Leaders With Grants

Philip Morris Funded Anti-Smoking Foundation Targeting Public Health Leaders With Grants

Leaked emails reveal that the foundation is actively making offers of grants to officials at the WHO as well as people in India and abroad without explicitly revealing its single source of funding – Philip Morris International.

No Hack Needed: Anonymisation Beaten With a Dash of SQL

No Hack Needed: Anonymisation Beaten With a Dash of SQL

Melbourne researchers warn government: don't publish data down to the individual, ever.

10 Human Rights Priorities for the Information and Communications Technology Sector

10 Human Rights Priorities for the Information and Communications Technology Sector

A primer on the most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for the ICT sector and opportunities for positive impact.

World's First AI-Citizen Sophia is Calling for Women's Rights

World's First AI-Citizen Sophia is Calling for Women's Rights

The Hanson Robotics headline maker is now pushing for women's rights in a country that granted her more rights than it grants most human females.

NIH Tweaks Plan to Award More Grants to Younger Researchers

NIH Tweaks Plan to Award More Grants to Younger Researchers

Agency will no longer set a 10-year cutoff for eligibility.

AAAS, APS Seek to Free Iranian Physician Facing Death Penalty

AAAS, APS Seek to Free Iranian Physician Facing Death Penalty

AAAS and APS presidents seek justice for physician and scientist Ahmadreza Djalali, who faces death sentence, in letter to Iran President Rouhani.

Teaching Gender Equality Can Help Tackle Sexual Harassment

Teaching Gender Equality Can Help Tackle Sexual Harassment

Schools must encourage young people to question gender norms and behaviours, and ensure that sex education goes beyond biology

Engaging Researchers with Good Data Management: Perspectives from Engaged Individuals

Engaging Researchers with Good Data Management: Perspectives from Engaged Individuals

On the need to recognise good practice, engage researchers early in their career with research data management and use peers to talk to those who are not ‘onboard’.

Grad Tuition Waiver Tax Dead, Student Loan Interest Deduction Saved in Final GOP Bill

Grad Tuition Waiver Tax Dead, Student Loan Interest Deduction Saved in Final GOP Bill

Senate and House Republican leaders have agreed to abandon many of the controversial proposals that higher education leaders and students had rallied to thwart.

A Nobel Prize Winner Is Freeing Women Scientists from Household Chores

A Nobel Prize Winner Is Freeing Women Scientists from Household Chores

Science is a brutally competitive field. Long days in the lab are a given. Every hour of available time is an advantage, especially in the crucial early years of a postdoctoral career.

Google's True Origin Partly Lies in CIA and NSA Research Grants for Mass Surveillance

Google's True Origin Partly Lies in CIA and NSA Research Grants for Mass Surveillance

The story of the deliberate creation of the modern mass-surveillance state includes elements of Google’s surprising, and largely unknown, origin. It is a somewhat different creation story than the one the public has heard, and explains what Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page set out to build, and why.