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Climate Change: Don't Let Doom Win, Project Tells Worriers
The BBC gets an exclusive look at a new project to help students deal with rising climate anxiety.
US Plans Campaign to Attract Russian Scientists, Engineers to America
The Biden Administration is planning a campaign to attract Russian scientists and engineers to the US, in an effort to further weaken Russia's science and technology base. It also plans to help Russian physicists at the CERN nuclear lab continue working there, rather than return home when their normal visas expire, if they wish.
Eight Ways Universities Can Make Career Assessment More Equitable
New measures to reward scholars in the Netherlands could widen gender inequality if they are not designed and implemented correctly, warn four academics.
Mainstream Economic Policy Must Factor Climate Change into Its Growth Calculus
Dismantling the Ivory Tower's Knowledge Boundaries
How has the pandemic changed public access to journal articles?
On Staging Work: How Research Funding Bodies Create Adaptive Coherence in Times of Projectification
We Don't Necessarily Need a Scientist at the Head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
We Don't Necessarily Need a Scientist at the Head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
The OSTP is without a leader in the wake of a scandal. It's time for the White House to think about getting a new kind of director.
Refereed Preprints Recognized As Eligibility Criterion for EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships - Features - EMBO
Refereed Preprints Recognized As Eligibility Criterion for EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships - Features - EMBO
EMBO will accept first author refereed preprints in applications for postdoctoral fellowships in a four-month trial.
Crossref: Come and Get Your Grant Metadata!
Crossref: Come and Get Your Grant Metadata!
Metadata for the (currently 26,000) grants that have been registered by our funder members is now available via the REST API. This is quite a milestone in our program to include funding in Crossref infrastructure and a step forward in our mission to connect all.the.things. This post gives you all the queries you might need to satisfy your curiosity and start to see what's possible with deeper analysis. So have the look and see what useful things you can discover.
We Think This Cool Study We Found is Flawed. Help Us Reproduce It.
Are 25 year olds really more random than 60 year olds?
Canada Announces New Innovation Agency - and It's Not Modelled on DARPA
The unit will instead mimic Finnish and Israeli agencies. But some researchers worry Canada might be too big and regionalized for the scheme to succeed.
EU Charges Too Much for Too Little IP Protection, Auditors Say
The European Court of Auditors criticised the EU for "shortcomings" in its system to protect industrial designs, trademarks, and unique agricultural products - and, the auditors added, appears to charge too much for the service.
Open Access and the Direction Moving Forward
This post offers recommendations for how funding agencies and research institutions can better lead the change toward open access.
UK-Based Researchers Win Big in Latest ERC Awards - but May Have to Relocate to Keep Their Grants
UK-Based Researchers Win Big in Latest ERC Awards - but May Have to Relocate to Keep Their Grants
UK-based researchers have been awarded 45 grants in the European Research Council's (ERC) latest funding round for experienced researchers, but in the absence of UK association to Horizon Europe, it is on the condition they move to institutions in the EU.
Open Access in 2020: Up by 8 Percentage Points
SNSF-funded research produced a total of 13,938 publications in 2020, 63% of which are freely accessible. Upgrades in monitoring capabilities make the positive trend towards more Open Access (OA) more readily visible.
In a city full of adjunct faculty members, many struggle to get by
Adjuncts across the region are protesting what they say are unfair working conditions
Do Nature Reserves Work? It Depends on the Management
Protected areas help waterbirds thrive if they're actively conserved.
Who Will Be the Commission's New Research Chief?
The departure of Jean-Eric Paquet, the head of the European Commission's directorate general for research and innovation, has not been officially confirmed as yet, but the Brussels rumour mill is already churning out potential replacements.
Researchers Sense Apathy Towards Science in French Presidential Election Campaign
The Pandemic Revolutionized Disease Surveillance. Now What?
The Pandemic Revolutionized Disease Surveillance. Now What?
Covid forced the world to develop some of the best epidemiological surveys ever done. Now they're being cut back, even as the threat of the virus lingers.
Measuring the Health Outcomes of Social, Economic, and Environmental Policies
Measuring the Health Outcomes of Social, Economic, and Environmental Policies
A variety of analytic tools can clarify public health priorities and predict the health impact of policy solutions.