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Challenges to Democracy in Europe: Insights Into a Complex and Turbulent Political Climate
Challenges to Democracy in Europe: Insights Into a Complex and Turbulent Political Climate
Results from some of the innovative EU-funded research that help us to better understand the major political issues of the day and provide recommendations for policymakers, citizens and other organisations to better respond to the threats facing European democracy.
Special Topics Issue on Intersectional Science Policy
These articles raise awareness of science policy topics that directly affect marginalized scientists and communities, and provides possible solutions by which to increase diversity, equity and inclusion in science policy as laid out by the next generation of leaders in the field.
Why Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are So Hard to Kill
Behind the struggle to stop governments propping up the coal, oil and gas industries.
The Secret to South Korea's COVID Success? Combining High Technology with the Human Touch
The Secret to South Korea's COVID Success? Combining High Technology with the Human Touch
To combat COVID and future pandemics, governments need to heed the lessons of social interventions and not just the technological ones.
Research That's Not in English Often Goes Unread - Leaving Massive Data Blind Spots
English is the lingua franca of science - but as a result, science published in languages other than English often goes unread.
Citizen Scientists Help Assure Quality of Coastal Biodiversity Monitoring
Citizen Scientists Help Assure Quality of Coastal Biodiversity Monitoring
Study shows collaboration between civil society and academia achieving progress toward the goals of the UN Ocean Decade
Mandates Likely Work to Increase Vaccine Uptake
Rather than causing a backlash, vaccine mandates promote vaccination uptake, according to research from the University of Pennsylvania.
If You Go Down to the Woods: Joining the Dots in EU Forestry Research
If You Go Down to the Woods: Joining the Dots in EU Forestry Research
The EU's forests would benefit from better knowledge translation and closer links between wood production and biodiversity research and innovation.
Transforming the Transformative Agreement
Brigitte Shull from Cambridge University Press looks at the lessons learned so far from transformative agreements and how they continue to evolve.
Revisiting: How Traditional Publishing Works
Revisiting a 2018 primer on the business side of publishing. The defining property of traditional publishing is editorial selection. That is what publishing is about.
Recognition in Peer Review
A look at recognition in peer review, what's offered now and what's on the horizon. How does this affect the process?
Celebrating 25 Years of Preserving the Web
Since 1996, the Internet Archive has been capturing the World Wide Web but also doing so much more to preserve our digital world behind the scenes.
Commission Completes Horizon Negotiations with Israel in Rare Association Success
Commission Completes Horizon Negotiations with Israel in Rare Association Success
The EU has wrapped up Horizon Europe negotiations with Israel and hopes to sign it up as an associated country before the end of the year, despite pressure from pro-Palestinian academics and objections in Brussels to the country's settlement policies. While the association was expected, the breakthrough comes as uncertainty clouds the status of the UK and Switzerland, two other major potential partners of the research framework.
Precarity of Academic Research Careers
The OECD has published a study that makes nine recommendations to improve the situation of academic careers.
Scholar-led.network: New Support for Scientific Publication Projects
The scholar-led.network is an alliance of Open Access stakeholders that was constituted at the beginning of 2021 as a “digital focus group” in the context of the project “open-access.network”.
COP26: 'Hate Tells Scientists Their Work is Important'
Prof Phil Jones says climate scientists must be protected from abuse.
How Extreme Weather and the Pandemic Have Exposed Fatal Flaws in Science Communication
While there is great progress to be proud of, extreme weather and the pandemic have exposed fatal shortcomings in how science is communicated and interpreted.
Earth is Reflecting Less Light. It's Not Clear if That's a Trend
A decrease in Earth's reflectance shows our planet is absorbing more solar radiation, but it's not clear if the trend will last.
5 Cool Things to Know About NASA's Lucy Mission to the Trojan Asteroids
NASA's Lucy is the first spacecraft to head to the two giant clumps of space rocks that tag along in Jupiter's orbit.
People Taking Statins Less Likely to Die from Covid, Study Suggests
Experts warn findings do not prove cholesterol-lowering drugs can reduce death rates.
Georgia's University System Takes On Tenure
The Board of Regents has given its universities the power to fire tenured professors without faculty input. Now some fear that academic freedom is threatened, too.