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Stop Congratulating Colleagues for Publishing in High-Impact Factor Journals

Stop Congratulating Colleagues for Publishing in High-Impact Factor Journals

The current scholarly publishing system is detrimental to the pursuit of knowledge and needs a radical shift. There have already been many attempts and partial successes to drive a new shift in scholarly publishing. Many of them should be further developed and generalised.

Ecologists Should Create Space for a Wide Range of Expertise

Ecologists Should Create Space for a Wide Range of Expertise

Indigenous communities' knowledge and approaches enrich studies.

Ukraine's Research and Innovation Community Eyes a Better Future

Ukraine's Research and Innovation Community Eyes a Better Future

Ukrainian researchers are planning for a brighter future for their country, despite ongoing bombing and electricity shortages. A delegation from Ukraine's research community, led by first deputy minister for education and science, Andrii Vitrenko, came to Brussels last week for the first joint meeting on research and innovation with the European Commission. 

Are We Entering The Golden Age Of Climate Modeling?

Are We Entering The Golden Age Of Climate Modeling?

Thanks to the advent of exascale computing, local climate forecasts may soon be a reality. And they're not just for scientists anymore.

Arctic Researchers Forced to Modify Projects Amid Geopolitical Tensions with Russia

Arctic Researchers Forced to Modify Projects Amid Geopolitical Tensions with Russia

Arctic scientists are scrambling to modify projects that had involved Russian researchers as the war in Ukraine wears on, leaving questions about whether a data gap from such a key partner might be harmful to the ongoing body of scientific knowledge in the region.

Science Spared from UK Budget Cuts Amid Economic Turmoil

Science Spared from UK Budget Cuts Amid Economic Turmoil

Researchers relieved by decision to reaffirm previous spending commitments.

A CERN Model for Studying the Information Environment

A CERN Model for Studying the Information Environment

CERN has been a model for how to support large-scale research collaboration. Given the challenges facing democracy today related to the information environment, a similar level of effort is required for research on the information environment.

Vaccine Shown to Prolong Life of Patients with Aggressive Brain Cancer

Vaccine Shown to Prolong Life of Patients with Aggressive Brain Cancer

Trial results suggest people with newly diagnosed glioblastoma could potentially be given extra years of life

Large-scale Behavioural Data Are Key to Climate Policy

Large-scale Behavioural Data Are Key to Climate Policy

Applying behavioural science can support system-level change for climate protection. Behavioural scientists should provide reliable large-scale data and governments should secure infrastructure for data collection and the implementation of evidence.

Enriching Research Quality: A Proposition for Stakeholder Heterogeneity

Enriching Research Quality: A Proposition for Stakeholder Heterogeneity

Dominant approaches to research quality rest on the assumption that academic peers are the only relevant stakeholders in its assessment. In contrast, impact assessment frameworks recognize a large and heterogeneous set of actors as stakeholders.

From Anti-Government to Anti-Science: Why Conservatives Have Turned Against Science

From Anti-Government to Anti-Science: Why Conservatives Have Turned Against Science

Empirical data do not support the conclusion of a crisis of public trust in science. They do support the conclusion of a crisis of conservative trust in science: polls show that American attitudes toward science are highly polarized along political lines. In this essay, we argue that conservative hostility toward science is rooted in conservative hostility toward government regulation of the marketplace, which has morphed in recent decades into conservative hostility to government, tout court. This distrust was cultivated by conservative business leaders for nearly a century, but took strong hold during the Reagan administration, largely in response to scientific evidence of environmental crises that invited governmental response. Thus, science-particularly environmental and public health science-became the target of conservative anti-regulatory attitudes. We argue that contemporary distrust of science is mostly collateral damage, a spillover from carefully orchestrated conservative distrust of government.

The UK Faces Exclusion from High-level Horizon Calls in Quantum

The UK Faces Exclusion from High-level Horizon Calls in Quantum

The EU moved to exclude the UK from Horizon Europe calls on sensitive quantum projects in October due to doubts over the country's willingness to provide EU researchers with reciprocal access to UK programmes and to comply with intellectual property rules. The move reverses the EU's previous decision to accept UK participation in more mature quantum projects with high 'technology readiness levels'.

Who Owns the Moon?

Who Owns the Moon?

Nations agree that no one should own territories in space, but legal debates about owning and selling materials extracted from the moon, planets and asteroids are quickly becoming points of tension

Research Spending Could Be Lone Bright Spot for U.S. Science After Election Sets Up Divided Government

Research Spending Could Be Lone Bright Spot for U.S. Science After Election Sets Up Divided Government

Likely Republican control of the House presages fiery hearings attacking Biden, but also gridlock

There’s one big subject our leaders at Cop27 won’t touch: livestock farming

There’s one big subject our leaders at Cop27 won’t touch: livestock farming

It’s on course to guzzle half the world’s carbon budget, so why are governments so afraid to discuss it?