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This study examines whether similarity between applicants and evaluators influences grant-review outcomes. The findings contribute to ongoing debates about fairness, bias, and the design of competitive research-funding systems.
The authors investigate how funding structures influence university governance and research behaviour. The paper contributes to broader discussions about autonomy, incentives, and the organisation of research systems.
How we write scientific papers does not reflect how we do science, masking the human in the process by design. We should consider the structure of the scientific paper, and the need to celebrate the human in an age when AI threatens to overwhelm us.
This interview with Ambassador Philipp Stalder explains why Switzerland is trying to strengthen science-diplomacy links with African partners. It highlights existing Swiss-African research collaborations, and frames research cooperation as a way to build long-term trust and support foreign-policy objectives.
This article argues that science communication is not just dissemination but part of participatory knowledge production, especially when science is socially contested and policy-relevant.
Do open-data infrastructures actively reshape research agendas? Using GBIF as a case, this study finds that topic choices shifted after using the platform, framing open data platforms as research “catalysts,” not passive repositories.
Publicly available AI models and local infrastructure can reduce AI's environmental footprint while giving researchers greater control over the tools they use.
Professional grant-writing advisers help researchers construct ERC proposals—and thereby influence what institutions present as competitive science, affecting efforst to change research culture.
Voluntary framework aims to improve access for industry and start-ups and to speed up time to market.
If reviewers can't reliably tell the difference between top grant proposals, why should they pretend they can? A new wave of funders is turning to lotteries to break the tie.
Universities and funding agencies should organize research around problems, reward shared achievement, and support ideas that fall between established fields.
The results of this study confirm persistent gender disparities: women are more frequently acknowledged than credited as co-authors, especially in roles involving investigation and analysis.
Scientists and entrepreneurs are developing innovative ways to reduce laboratory plastic waste through reusable equipment, recycling technologies, and greener workflows.
The challenge is not a lack of neurodivergent talent, but systems that fail to support and retain it.
Has quantum advantage been achieved, and what does this mean for scientists?
