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Society deserves academic discourse that is civil, cool, unbiased, and objective - but the Covid-19 pandemic has accentuated an erosion in civility in academic discourse, leading to deep divisions being played out in social, mass, and professional media.
Major research projects will be cancelled, including those designed to head off future disease threats, warn scientists.
The government promised to increase funding for vital scientific R&D to 2.4% of GDP - but its target is already slipping.
Philip Ball: It was meant to bring rigour to the tricky question of who deserves a grant or a post, but is the h-index's numerical score simplistic?
Sci-Hub has been described as "the Pirate Bay of science", but often receives praise for opening access to research.
A while ago I was invited to speak at the Westminster Forum in a panel session entitled “Research environments in the REF – stimulating positive cultures and wellbeing, academic independence and interdisciplinary research“...
The hybrid model increasingly favoured by managers will change our cities for good.
COVID-19 has inflicted devastating losses. It has also delivered certain blessings.
Even with vaccination efforts in full force, the theoretical threshold for vanquishing COVID-19 looks to be out of reach.
EPFL introduced its new joint Master's in Sustainable Management and Technology, a degree that will prepare the next generation to spearhead the transition towards a more resilient, sustainable and inclusive economy and which is hosted by the multi-institutional initiative Enterprise for Society Center (E4S).
Excluding researchers based in the UK, Israel and Switzerland from major EU quantum and space research projects would see the bloc "shoot itself in the foot", according to German MEP Niklas Nienass, spokesman on space for the Parliament's green group.
Dariah is launching an annual OA monograph bursary for early career researchers in digital humanities.
As COVID-19 forced professors to embrace digital texts, they were likelier to know about free, openly licensed materials - but not to use them.
NASA's newest rover recorded audio of itself crunching over the surface of the Red Planet, adding a whole new dimension to Mars exploration.
PLOS generally refutes the assertion that OA via the UKRI policy is economically damaging, regarding the FTI Consulting report: "Economic assessment of the impact of the new Open Access policy developed by UK Research and Innovation".
A short overview of the different color scales (diverging, sequential, categorical) that you can use to visualize your data.
Doctors are applying a torrent of COVID-19 research to patient care, from first symptoms to recovery
We asked doctors, scientists, public health experts and health advocates to take a look back - what would they redo, if they could?
The Big Four all lean on the encyclopedia at no cost. With the launch of Wikimedia Enterprise, the volunteer project will change that-and possibly itself too.
A group of mathematicians invents a fictional researcher as a form of protest, but ethicists argue that the campaign is misguided.
The newly announced California/Elsevier transformative agreement will test the financial sustainability and the financial desirability of the multi-payer model.
A group of volunteers is preparing to live in complete isolation deep in a cave in southwest France for 40 days as part of a wide-ranging study into human behaviour.
Although women now make up a narrow majority of students, few make it to the academic upper echelons in Switzerland. Change is coming about... slowly.
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