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Science is often seen as a meritocracy, where the best work rises to the top along with the researchers who shepherd those advances. A new study tests that premise at the intersection of race and gender and finds cracks in that façade.
Review, promotion, and tenure (RPT) processes at universities typically assess candidates along three dimensions: research, teaching, and service. In recent years, some have argued for the inclusion of a controversial fourth criterion: collegiality.
Current programme evaluations do not adequately measure the skills and characteristics of individuals and collectives doing transdisciplinary research.
Scientists and funders with close links to local communities outline how Western teams can collaborate fairly and effectively with those groups.
Young scientists provide advice to a researcher, who feels left behind after a difficult pandemic experience.
The focus on a narrow set of metrics leads to a lack of diversity in the types of leader and institution that win funding.
Start-ups and SMEs promised equity funding by the European Innovation Council (EIC) will have to wait "a number of months into 2022" for the financing, as the European Commission struggles with setting up the fund under Horizon Europe.
How can we make sure that medical trials reported in the scientific literature are real? It is surprisingly hard - but not impossible.
ERC president Maria Leptin discusses what she hopes to achieve in her new role and what researchers need to know when applying for grants.
Switzerland-based early career scientists awarded funding by European Research Council (ERC) grants may have to move to another country to do their research.
How can libraries help to prevent tracking in science, thereby protecting the data of the researchers and, in an idealistic sense, scientific freedom?
The role they play in evaluations for graduate school admissions, fellowships and jobs can be baffling.
This paper examines mentorship as a mechanism for individuals to acquire and develop creativity. More specifically, we study the effect of mentor crea…
Perverse incentives in academia and scientific publishing have led to a surge in research fraud.
EU police body accused of unlawfully holding information and aspiring to become an NSA-style mass surveillance agency
From making green shifts fairer for workers to slashing fossil fuel subsidies, action on climate change needs to ramp up in 2022, analysts say.
MIT Professor Arlene Fiore uses satellite data paired with ground observations to refine our understanding of ozone smog and interactions with meteorology and climate.
In this article, we provide a toolbox of recommendations and resources for those aspiring to promote the uptake of open scientific practices.
Who can participate in Open Science and whose interests are served? Open Science in principle holds the potential to reduce inequality, but this is not going to happen unless it operates within a consistent framework and environment that supports this goal.
Born 200 years ago in Germany, the adventurer-archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann was obsessed with finding the kingdom of Troy described in Homer's "Iliad."
Figures suggest just a tenth of previous entrant numbers from some countries got a study visa.
The EU urgently needs better intelligence about China's science and technology system to avoid being taken advantage of, warns a new report.
Members of the OCLC Research Team discuss their project examining changes to library work, collections, and engagement experiences and how they will lead to the future of libraries.
Tulsa massacre analysis and a genetically modified mosquito release are two important updates to 2021 stories.
Adopting behaviors of people who buck trends could boost public health and sustainability. In any large dataset involving the choices people make, a handful of people will succeed when most others like them fail. Zooming in on those outliers and mapping out how they made their choices could give those failing in similar circumstances a leg up.
