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Universities are creating AI schools alongside disciplines such as logic, economics and communication without addressing their shared foundations. Mouhamdy M. Dahoud argues that this reflects an ontological gap, with current research funding and assessment taxonomies overlooking an entire category of science.
New tally reveals nearly 19,000 altered images in reagent catalogs.
Government report shows “challenges with academic engagement”.
A rapidly increasing number of published articles rely on analyses produced via the TriNetX platform. However, TriNetX users don’t get full access to the information in the platform, muddying the truthfulness of any analyses of the data and compromising the integrity statements offered by authors and accepted by journals.
In a wide-ranging interview, the EU research commissioner sets out her hopes for speedy negotiations and an expanding role for Europe in global science.
Study involving 100 sitting MPs in the UK reveals gulf between perceptions of the political class and realities of public attitudes on environmental issues such as insulation and green taxes. MPs also think the UK electorate is far more divided than it is over climate policies. Researchers find statistical evidence for a ‘spiral of silence’ effect in the British Parliament.
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
Letting powerful academics off the hook and punishing the people they bullied sends the message that abuse is acceptable in academia.
Policy document citations are increasingly used to evidence the societal impact of research, yet we know little about how such indicators operate in small research systems
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.
