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The Swiss Federal Council has renewed Martin Vetterli's term as president of Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), upon the recommendation of the ETH Board. The professor of communication systems will therefore lead EPFL for a second four-year term that will begin on 1 January 2021.
Nearly a third of universities have used non-disclosure contracts for student grievances since 2016.
Academics are warning that universities restrict their freedom by surveilling social media posts.
Medical sources in the city confirm rate of infection, but say they have been told not to release the full picture to the public.
An automated e-mail response posted by an academic researcher on Twitter unleashed a social-media debate about the importance of work-life balance.
New outbreak comes as Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus struggles to raise more money, thwart Ebola, and fight health misinformation.
The president's new budget would cut more than $3 billion in global health programs.
Women have made significant contributions to the field of science, but often their invaluable advances have been minimized or ignored.
Long-running controversy had drawn extensive attention.
The conference will debate the role of the editor in supporting and promoting sustainable science, and ensuring diversity through stimulating plenary speakers, panel discussions and interactive sessions.
Academic systems rely on the existence of a supply of "outsiders" ready to forgo wages and employment security in exchange for the prospect of uncertain security, prestige, freedom and reasonably high salaries that tenured positions entail.
Students should actively consider and prepare for the work they are personally most suited to, whether within or beyond the academy.
The present outbreak of lower respiratory tract infections, including respiratory distress syndrome, is the third spillover, in only two decades, of an animal coronavirus to humans resulting in a major epidemic.
Swiss government orders inquiry after revelations Crypto AG was owned and operated by US and German intelligence.
White House proposes big cuts to NIH, DOE, NASA and other programs
The purpose of the day is to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls.
On 11 February, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the SNSF's social media channels will be reserved for stories about women researchers. The aim is to enhance the visibility of their research projects.
Scientific research can be a daunting career choice for women of colour, according to a recent survey which found they face a "barrage of brief, everyday racial slights" at work.
Altmetrics have been an important topic in the context of open science for some time.
For 17 months, the Bibsam Consortium did not have an agreement with the world's largest scholarly publisher, Elsevier. There is now a summary of the consequences for the consortium, the concerned organizations and their researchers.
Large investments are needed to make research data open and accessible but tackling global problems depends on it, says Paul Ayris
His original submission was rejected as being "too narrow" - but later authors who presented the same idea as a new technology rather than as a scientific finding have been hailed as inventors of optogenetics.
In this special issue, the original conception of the FAIR data principles and what they are intended to cover is explained in detail.
This work aims to solve accessibility problems related to the protection of personal data in the digital era and to achieve a responsible access to and responsible use of health data. We strongly suggest associating each data set with FAIR metadata describing both the type of data collected and the accessibility conditions by considering data protection obligations and ethical and regulatory requirements.
