Can Researchers Trust That AI Models Won’t Leak Their Ideas?
Following controversy over a mathematics breakthrough claimed by OpenAI, funders grapple with how to make sure proposals stay confidential.
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Chinese Companies Doubled Down on Science After US Tech Restrictions
Affected Chinese companies adjusted their sources of knowledge to stay competitive.
Applicants As Reviewers: a Mixed Methods Evaluation of the Risks, Benefits, and Potential of Distributed Peer Review for Grant Funding Allocations
Applicants As Reviewers: a Mixed Methods Evaluation of the Risks, Benefits, and Potential of Distributed Peer Review for Grant Funding Allocations
Background Peer review-based funding evaluation systems are under increasing pressure. To help alleviate this, innovative approaches like Distributed Peer Review (DPR) are being explored.
EU Targets Public Procurement Reform to Boost R&D Spending
Commission proposes Innovation Act and Public Procurement Act to harmonise rules and unlock funding for new technologies.
Successful Early-career Scientists Rely on Network of Mentors
Successful Early-career Scientists Rely on Network of Mentors
Large networks are particularly beneficial to researchers in under-represented groups.
Higher Education Leaders Voice Fears over Far-right State Poll Victory
Higher Education Leaders Voice Fears over Far-right State Poll Victory
Alarmed by the victory of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in an east German state government election, major higher education organisations have made urgent pleas to uphold academic freedom.
Science Agencies Pull 'Political Interference' Protections From Scientific Integrity Policies
Science Agencies Pull 'Political Interference' Protections From Scientific Integrity Policies
NSF and the Department of Commerce have scrubbed references to the dangers of political interference in science from official agency policy documents.
Violent Repression and Government Overreach Fuel Global Decline in Academic Freedom, Free to Think 2026 Report Finds
Violent Repression and Government Overreach Fuel Global Decline in Academic Freedom, Free to Think 2026 Report Finds
Violent state repression and government interference in university autonomy lead the global decline in academic freedom, according to Scholars at Risk’s (SAR) Free to Think 2026 report.
Popular Open-science Platform to Stop Hosting Data and Code Amid Funding Concerns
Popular Open-science Platform to Stop Hosting Data and Code Amid Funding Concerns
Changes to the Open Science Framework’s policies will come into effect in November, forcing researchers to reconsider their workflows.
Unlocking Europe’s Wildfire Data
Europe already has much of the data it needs to better predict and fight wildfires. The challenge is making this fragmented data work together.
How Geopolitical Rifts Cut Scientific Collaboration
A new study finally puts a number on the extent to which spats hurt research ties. But the bigger story may be the resilience of global science.
Parliament Haggle over EU-wide Spending Rules Delays Vote on Horizon Europe
Parliament Haggle over EU-wide Spending Rules Delays Vote on Horizon Europe
Votes on all EU programmes are postponed until MEPs in the budgets committee agree the Performance Framework Regulation.
A Data Leak Shut a Top Research Biobank: Lessons from the Recovery
A Data Leak Shut a Top Research Biobank: Lessons from the Recovery
The UK Biobank is imposing new safety measures after a security incident, but safeguarding biomedical data while enabling researcher access remains a challenge.
The World Bank is Right to Prioritize Reproducibility
The development bank and others are starting to publish and verify the raw data and code accompanying their research-based reports and papers. Other agencies should do the same.
China’s Fast-Track Clinical Trials are in the Spotlight after Child Deaths
China’s Fast-Track Clinical Trials are in the Spotlight after Child Deaths
A new government policy seeks to balance innovation and safety.
Open Economics Guide: More Than 160 Open Science Tools - Now Much Easier to Explore
Open Economics Guide: More Than 160 Open Science Tools - Now Much Easier to Explore
The ZBW Open Economics Guide now features more than 160 useful Open Science tools for everyday research. The catalogue has recently undergone a major overhaul, with new filtering and sorting options making it much easier to navigate and find the right tools.
What Role for Science in Swiss Democracy and Worldwide?
In Switzerland, science enjoys greater public trust than the police, government or parliament. But what exactly is the role of science in a democracy, and how does it differ in dictatorships?
Treat Education as Infrastructure During Wartime, Say Researchers in Ukraine
Treat Education as Infrastructure During Wartime, Say Researchers in Ukraine
Protecting science under the systemic stress of wartime means treating education and training itself as infrastructure, rather than as a series of one-off events.
Structural Reforms Urged to Enable Young Researchers to Take Risks
Structural Reforms Urged to Enable Young Researchers to Take Risks
Paper calls for stable careers and creativity-focused assessment, but authors pessimistic about seeing meaningful change,
Who Owns the Time AI Saves? New Politics of Academic Labour
The future academic labour agreement may have to do something no previous faculty contract was asked to do. It may have to specify which forms of cognition belong to machines, which belong to professionals, which may be shared between them and where final authority must remain human.
When Your AI Knows You Too Well: Personalization, Sycophancy, and the Risk of an Intellectual Echo Chamber in AI-assisted Research
When Your AI Knows You Too Well: Personalization, Sycophancy, and the Risk of an Intellectual Echo Chamber in AI-assisted Research
As AI research assistants learn our preferences, they may also become better at mirroring our assumptions. Avoiding that outcome will require more than a better prompt.
From Access to Impact: How Open Access Shapes Research Reach, Citations, and Global Visibility
From Access to Impact: How Open Access Shapes Research Reach, Citations, and Global Visibility
Springer Nature's new white paper shows the gold open access advantage is stronger than ever - across downloads, citations, global reach, and speed of dissemination.
Science and the Common Good: Reconceptualising the Relationship
Science is often judged by measurable outcomes, which can undermine collaboration and the common good. A view is proposed in which science helps create and sustain flourishing communities through shared practices and values.
EU Must Support Research Managers in Central and Eastern Europe, Says Visegrad Fund Head
EU Must Support Research Managers in Central and Eastern Europe, Says Visegrad Fund Head
Grant support is still a developing practice in the region, a hangover from the Soviet style of funding research.
Russia Widens Targeting of European Research Centres
Moscow’s academic repression is expanding into the EU, scholars say, with researchers in Europe facing cyber-attacks and designation as “extremists”.
Nations Expanding Their Research Programmes Impose Sweeping Penalties for Malpractice
Standing Together for Academic Freedom: Leopoldina Signs Position Paper of the Berlin Research Network
Standing Together for Academic Freedom: Leopoldina Signs Position Paper of the Berlin Research Network
The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has signed the position paper Free Science – Successful Economy – Strong Germany, published today by the Berlin Research Network.
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