Ruthless labor exploitation? Generational betrayal? Understanding the job crisis in academia requires a look at recent history.

Dr. Bruce Aylward, of the W.H.O., got a rare glimpse into Beijing's campaign to stop the epidemic. Here's what he saw.

Europe PMC has made changes to make sense of preprint versions. 

COAR and SPARC have published a joint response to the OSTP Request for Public Comment on Draft Desirable Characteristics of Repositories for Managing and Sharing Data Resulting From Federally Funded Research. Good data management is critical for ensuring validation, transparency of research findings, as well as to maximize impact and value of publicly-funded research through data reuse.

The public call for rapid sharing of research data relevant to the COVID-19 outbreak is driving an unprecedented surge in (unrefereed) preprints. To help pinpoint the most important research, Nature launched Outbreak Science Rapid PREreview, an open-source platform for rapid review of preprints related to emerging outbreaks.

Analysis of 75 countries reveals 'shocking' scale of global women's rights backlash.

The initiative to ensure that qualified women have a place at the Academy.

After the success of the first two rounds, Women in Technology is organising the third year of WIT Mentoring.

Swiss scientists fear a number of political obstacles could block their path into the EU's next big research programme.

The university analysts at QS have published their 2020 rankings by subject.

Adult learning is at a 20-year low because mature students can't study flexibly. This must change

WHO calls on industry and governments to increase manufacturing by 40 per cent to meet rising global demand.

Some students do feel political pressure from their professors, but few change their views.

Coronavirus concerns have some businesses urging employees to work from home. If you're telecommuting, for public health reasons or otherwise, remember: Boundaries are your friend.

An example of finding the balance between personal and professional lives during moves overseas and in and out of academia.

A researcher from the Wuhan University of China offers a view of how Chinese researchers are reacting and are likely to alter their behavior in response to new policies governing research evaluation.

This new meeting at the Wellcome Genome Campus will bring together an international audience of researchers motivated to improve the robustness of scientific research.

New OA payment models are needed make open access implementation practical, journal editor says.

For a variety of reasons, researchers want to figure out who's most at risk of being infected and who's most at risk of developing severe illness.

The coronavirus crisis shows how the free sharing of data is crucial in science.

The Swiss National Science Foundation is testing a new CV format for researchers applying for project funding in biology and medicine (submission deadline 01 April 2020).

The 2020 election is off to a complicated start. Maybe we can draw some comparative political lessons from the animal kingdom.

The National Association of Science Writers calls on the Trump Administration to allow government experts to speak freely about the outbreak of the coronavirus disease COVID-19.

New policy tackles perverse incentives that drive 'publish or perish' culture and might be encouraging questionable research practices.

Last-minute move causes chaos for thousands of researchers

Nasa says major decreases in nitrogen dioxide levels are "at least partly" linked to the outbreak.

A faulty reagent in a test kit and bureaucratic hurdles have slowed testing for the virus that causes COVID-19.

The UK will endeavour to continue in an EU science programme after Brexit.

The Roadmap for Open Science is a part of Canada's 2018-2020 National Action Plan on Open Government. It outlines next steps that should be taken to make federal science open to all, while respecting privacy, security, ethical considerations and appropriate intellectual property protection.

Online sleuths have discovered what they suspect is a paper mill that has produced more than 400 scientific papers with potentially fabricated images. Some journals are now investigating the papers.