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Thirteen of the 17 members of Poland's Medical Council advising the prime minister on COVID-19 resigned on Friday, condemning what they said was a lack of scientific influence on policy.
Astronomer Johannes Kepler was born 450 years ago, on December 27. His discoveries have shaped our understanding of the planets and the way satellites orbit Earth.
Images of men wearing a blue medical face mask perceived as being the most attractive.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Current programme evaluations do not adequately measure the skills and characteristics of individuals and collectives doing transdisciplinary research.
Scientists and funders with close links to local communities outline how Western teams can collaborate fairly and effectively with those groups.
Young scientists provide advice to a researcher, who feels left behind after a difficult pandemic experience.
The focus on a narrow set of metrics leads to a lack of diversity in the types of leader and institution that win funding.
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.
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 discusses what she hopes to achieve in her new role and what researchers need to know when applying for grants.
Switzerland-based early career scientists awarded funding by European Research Council (ERC) grants may have to move to another country to do their research.
How can libraries help to prevent tracking in science, thereby protecting the data of the researchers and, in an idealistic sense, scientific freedom?
The role they play in evaluations for graduate school admissions, fellowships and jobs can be baffling.
This paper examines mentorship as a mechanism for individuals to acquire and develop creativity. More specifically, we study the effect of mentor crea…
Perverse incentives in academia and scientific publishing have led to a surge in research fraud.
EU police body accused of unlawfully holding information and aspiring to become an NSA-style mass surveillance agency
From making green shifts fairer for workers to slashing fossil fuel subsidies, action on climate change needs to ramp up in 2022, analysts say.
MIT Professor Arlene Fiore uses satellite data paired with ground observations to refine our understanding of ozone smog and interactions with meteorology and climate.
In this article, we provide a toolbox of recommendations and resources for those aspiring to promote the uptake of open scientific practices.
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.
