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High-quality research requires appropriate employment and working conditions for researchers. However, many academic systems rely on short-term employment contracts, biased selection procedures and misaligned incentives, which hinder research quality and progress. We discuss ways to redesign academic systems, emphasizing the role of permanent employment.
Former universities minister Michelle Donelan is appointed head of newly-created Department for Science, Innovation and Technology in mini-reshuffle.
Data sharing has been a success for large collaborations like CERN and LIGO. But what about small research groups with bespoke experimental setups?
Conversational AI is a game-changer for science. Here's how to respond.
Mothers in academic research and those who support them say in a report that the funding system can and should remedy gender bias in the sciences.
For young immigrant women like me, the pressures of early career research are even greater than for most. But it doesn't have to be that way.
New technologies might provide more potent or broader immunity - but will have to fight for market share.
This meta-analysis of 42 studies finds that learning progress has slowed during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, particularly among children from low socio-economic backgrounds and in poorer countries. Reported learning deficits were larger in maths than in reading.
Heavy workloads, bullying and a lack of support add to falling job satisfaction for postdocs, junior faculty members and other young scientists.
A study suggesting papers and patents that change the course of science are becoming less dominant is prompting soul-searching - and lively debate about why, and what to do about it.
As researchers dive into the brave new world of advanced AI chatbots, publishers need to acknowledge their legitimate uses and lay down clear guidelines to avoid abuse.
Emerging software helps funding agencies and scientists to ensure that research follows the rules.
Learning how to deliver a polite refusal, alongside management training, will help young scholars with leadership ambitions.
At least four articles credit the AI tool as a co-author, as publishers scramble to regulate its use.
Institutions owe it to young researchers to prepare them for careers outside academia. Preprint review is a perfect opportunity.
If researchers are to meet society's expectations, their training and mentoring must escape the nineteenth century.
Here's how NASA is incentivizing open science, and how you can too.
Research-integrity survey also suggests that there is a split in US- and Europe-based researchers' perceptions of 'questionable research practices'.
The proportion of publications that send a field in a new direction has plummeted over the last half-century.
Wallace, who independently discovered the theory of evolution, relied on local knowledge to craft his seminal work on species ranges in the Amazon. Now, the region's Indigenous scientists have taken charge of their research using this and other cross-cultural tools.
A small but growing number of scientific faculty positions are focusing on the science of teaching.
Andrew Wood plans for a career-defining 12 months ahead, and what he needs to focus on.
The microblogging platform has transformed research communication, but its future is in doubt.
Science is being used as leverage in international politics. That must not become a barrier to countries working together on climate change, biodiversity loss, pandemic prevention and other pressing goals.
