Face Masks Make People Look More Attractive, Study Finds
Images of men wearing a blue medical face mask perceived as being the most attractive.
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A Remote Lecture Series Roadmap to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in STEM
Within a year of the shutdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual meetings transformed from an auxiliary service to an essential work platform for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Universities rapidly accelerated adoption of virtual platforms for remote conferences, classes, and seminars amidst a second crisis testing institutional commitment to the principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion. To address these concerns, we began the Diversity and Science Lecture series (DASL), a cross-institutional national platform where junior life scientists present personal stories, professional progress, and advice for their peers.
Virtually the Same? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Remote Undergraduate Research Experiences
Virtually the Same? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Remote Undergraduate Research Experiences
In-person undergraduate research experiences (UREs) promote students' integration into careers in life science research. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted institutions hosting summer URE programs to offer them remotely, raising questions about whether undergraduates who participate in remote research can experience scientific integration.
Study Examines Diversity in Research Publishing
Science is often seen as a meritocracy, where the best work rises to the top along with the researchers who shepherd those advances. A new study tests that premise at the intersection of race and gender and finds cracks in that façade.
The Role of Collegiality in Academic Review, Promotion, and Tenure
Review, promotion, and tenure (RPT) processes at universities typically assess candidates along three dimensions: research, teaching, and service. In recent years, some have argued for the inclusion of a controversial fourth criterion: collegiality.
Capabilities for Transdisciplinary Research
Current programme evaluations do not adequately measure the skills and characteristics of individuals and collectives doing transdisciplinary research.
Weaving Indigenous Knowledge into the Scientific Method
Scientists and funders with close links to local communities outline how Western teams can collaborate fairly and effectively with those groups.
Back in Person, Back to the Races
Young scientists provide advice to a researcher, who feels left behind after a difficult pandemic experience.
Research Evaluation Needs to Change with the Times
The focus on a narrow set of metrics leads to a lack of diversity in the types of leader and institution that win funding.
European Innovation Council Fund is Yet to Start Giving out Money
Start-ups and SMEs promised equity funding by the European Innovation Council (EIC) will have to wait "a number of months into 2022" for the financing, as the European Commission struggles with setting up the fund under Horizon Europe.
Stamp out Fake Clinical Data by Working Together
How can we make sure that medical trials reported in the scientific literature are real? It is surprisingly hard - but not impossible.
ERC President Maria Leptin Shares Her Top Advice for Researchers
ERC president Maria Leptin discusses what she hopes to achieve in her new role and what researchers need to know when applying for grants.
ERC Grant Winners Based in Switzerland Are Told to Find Host Institution in Another Country
ERC Grant Winners Based in Switzerland Are Told to Find Host Institution in Another Country
Switzerland-based early career scientists awarded funding by European Research Council (ERC) grants may have to move to another country to do their research.
Tracking Science: How Libraries Can Protect Data and Scientific Freedom
Tracking Science: How Libraries Can Protect Data and Scientific Freedom
How can libraries help to prevent tracking in science, thereby protecting the data of the researchers and, in an idealistic sense, scientific freedom?
What a Professor Considers when Reading Recommendation Letters
What a Professor Considers when Reading Recommendation Letters
The role they play in evaluations for graduate school admissions, fellowships and jobs can be baffling.
Mentorship and Creativity: Effects of Mentor Creativity and Mentoring Style
Mentorship and Creativity: Effects of Mentor Creativity and Mentoring Style
This paper examines mentorship as a mechanism for individuals to acquire and develop creativity. More specifically, we study the effect of mentor crea…
How Fake Science is Infiltrating Scientific Journals
Perverse incentives in academia and scientific publishing have led to a surge in research fraud.
A Data 'black Hole': Europol Ordered to Delete Vast Store of Personal Data
EU police body accused of unlawfully holding information and aspiring to become an NSA-style mass surveillance agency
Six Hot Topics for Climate Change and Nature Policy in 2022
From making green shifts fairer for workers to slashing fossil fuel subsidies, action on climate change needs to ramp up in 2022, analysts say.
Understanding Air Pollution from Space
MIT Professor Arlene Fiore uses satellite data paired with ground observations to refine our understanding of ozone smog and interactions with meteorology and climate.
Promoting Open Science: A Holistic Approach to Changing Behaviour
In this article, we provide a toolbox of recommendations and resources for those aspiring to promote the uptake of open scientific practices.
For Whom is Open Science?
Who can participate in Open Science and whose interests are served? Open Science in principle holds the potential to reduce inequality, but this is not going to happen unless it operates within a consistent framework and environment that supports this goal.
The Archaeologist Who Discovered Troy: Heinrich Schliemann
Born 200 years ago in Germany, the adventurer-archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann was obsessed with finding the kingdom of Troy described in Homer's "Iliad."
UK 'missing out on Talent' As Eastern European Enrolment Plummets
Figures suggest just a tenth of previous entrant numbers from some countries got a study visa.
Europe Needs to Understand Chinese Research - or Risks Being Exploited
The EU urgently needs better intelligence about China's science and technology system to avoid being taken advantage of, warns a new report.
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