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The OSTP is without a leader in the wake of a scandal. It's time for the White House to think about getting a new kind of director.
EMBO will accept first author refereed preprints in applications for postdoctoral fellowships in a four-month trial.
Metadata for the (currently 26,000) grants that have been registered by our funder members is now available via the REST API. This is quite a milestone in our program to include funding in Crossref infrastructure and a step forward in our mission to connect all.the.things. This post gives you all the queries you might need to satisfy your curiosity and start to see what's possible with deeper analysis. So have the look and see what useful things you can discover.
Are 25 year olds really more random than 60 year olds?
The unit will instead mimic Finnish and Israeli agencies. But some researchers worry Canada might be too big and regionalized for the scheme to succeed.
The European Court of Auditors criticised the EU for "shortcomings" in its system to protect industrial designs, trademarks, and unique agricultural products - and, the auditors added, appears to charge too much for the service.
This post offers recommendations for how funding agencies and research institutions can better lead the change toward open access.
UK-based researchers have been awarded 45 grants in the European Research Council's (ERC) latest funding round for experienced researchers, but in the absence of UK association to Horizon Europe, it is on the condition they move to institutions in the EU.
SNSF-funded research produced a total of 13,938 publications in 2020, 63% of which are freely accessible. Upgrades in monitoring capabilities make the positive trend towards more Open Access (OA) more readily visible.
Adjuncts across the region are protesting what they say are unfair working conditions
Protected areas help waterbirds thrive if they're actively conserved.
The departure of Jean-Eric Paquet, the head of the European Commission's directorate general for research and innovation, has not been officially confirmed as yet, but the Brussels rumour mill is already churning out potential replacements.
Covid forced the world to develop some of the best epidemiological surveys ever done. Now they're being cut back, even as the threat of the virus lingers.
A variety of analytic tools can clarify public health priorities and predict the health impact of policy solutions.
Pithy bumper sticker memes can't do justice to the need for understanding and judging scientific studies … especially when, as often, public policy is at play.
Good intentions are not enough to bring about change; nor are simple tallies, training programmes or unwarranted rosy views. Change requires sustained investment, appropriate incentives and evidence-backed interventions.
Academics too often use intellectual attainment to excuse abusive behavior. That needs to stop.
The open data revolution won't happen unless the research system values the sharing of data as much as authorship on papers.
But goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C will fail without immediate action, scientists warn.
NATO has launched a new research programme called DIANA to bring industry, start-up companies and academia together to research new dual-use technologies that address both societal problems and national security issues. The Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) is focusing on technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data processing, quantum-enabled technologies, autonomy, biotechnology, novel materials and space.
