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Universities Measure Almost Everything - Except Leadership
Universities Measure Almost Everything - Except Leadership
Research leadership is often measured through proxies, could narrative approaches create a clearer picture of what good academic leadership is like in practice?
Academic Freedom Does Not Require Funder Neutrality
Do funding priorities restrict academic freedom? Or can setting clear boundaries between funder problems & the answers academia can provide be productive?
Why Real Intelligence is Something More Than Optimisation
If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more.
What Counts as Scientific Research? The EU’s Digital Omnibus Could Set the Definition
The United States Will Be Worse off for Losing International Scientists
The United States Will Be Worse off for Losing International Scientists
The US has long benefited from the scholarship of international scientists. The Trump administration's policies are forcing many to reconsider their careers here.
Gender Imbalances of Retraction Prevalence Among Highly Cited Authors and Among All Authors
Gender Imbalances of Retraction Prevalence Among Highly Cited Authors and Among All Authors
Scientific retractions remain rare but have become increasingly common. We set out to explore whether gender disparities in the likelihood of having retractions exist, both among highly-cited authors and among all authors with ≥ 5 publications.
This Award-Winning Microscopy Image Used AI - Igniting Controversy In A Prestigious Competition
Seeing Like an Evaluation System - How Governance Limits Research Assessment Reforms
Seeing Like an Evaluation System - How Governance Limits Research Assessment Reforms
As the movement for researcher assessment reform gathers pace, how transferable are reform frameworks developed in the west to other kinds of research systems?
Universities Need to Adapt to a World in Which Knowledge is No Longer Scarce
Universities Need to Adapt to a World in Which Knowledge is No Longer Scarce
If AI is making access to knowledge less scarce, what role to do universities have in delivering it?
Search Data Can Reveal South Africa's Changing Environmental Attitudes
Search Data Can Reveal South Africa's Changing Environmental Attitudes
Looking at what people search for online reveals what South Africans think about environment issues over the last twenty years.
AI Means Fewer Graduate Jobs - How to Make Sure They Still Exist in the Future
Six Principles for Supporting Academic Freedom in Universities
Six Principles for Supporting Academic Freedom in Universities
Many academics are concerned about threats to independent enquiry in higher education. Here's how it can be protected while taking legitimate concerns into account.
Proposal for Horizon Europe Expert Councils Exposes Parliamentary Rift
Proposal for Horizon Europe Expert Councils Exposes Parliamentary Rift
Research committee MEPs are concerned about potential conflicts of interest in councils intended to set priorities
Open Access in the European Research Area - Progress Remains Uneven
New report finds open access is advancing across the ERA, but progress remains uneven, calling for stronger national and EU action.
Canada Looks to Deepen Research and Education Links with the EU
Offer of associate EU membership opens the door to new trans-Atlantic relationships in Horizon Europe, Erasmus+ and beyond
Social Science Studies May Promise Anonymity, But Participant Identities Often Lurk in Public Data
Social Science Studies May Promise Anonymity, But Participant Identities Often Lurk in Public Data
One-fifth of data sets intended to support replication breached privacy standards, study finds
Can Researchers Trust That AI Models Won’t Leak Their Ideas?
Following controversy over a mathematics breakthrough claimed by OpenAI, funders grapple with how to make sure proposals stay confidential.
Chinese Companies Doubled Down on Science After US Tech Restrictions
Affected Chinese companies adjusted their sources of knowledge to stay competitive.
Unlocking Europe’s Wildfire Data
Europe already has much of the data it needs to better predict and fight wildfires. The challenge is making this fragmented data work together.
Who Owns the Time AI Saves? New Politics of Academic Labour
The future academic labour agreement may have to do something no previous faculty contract was asked to do. It may have to specify which forms of cognition belong to machines, which belong to professionals, which may be shared between them and where final authority must remain human.
When Your AI Knows You Too Well: Personalization, Sycophancy, and the Risk of an Intellectual Echo Chamber in AI-assisted Research
When Your AI Knows You Too Well: Personalization, Sycophancy, and the Risk of an Intellectual Echo Chamber in AI-assisted Research
As AI research assistants learn our preferences, they may also become better at mirroring our assumptions. Avoiding that outcome will require more than a better prompt.
Do Data Availability Statements Increase the Sharing of Research Data?
This study assessed trends in data accessibility, compliance with Data availability statements (DAS), and the relationship between data sharing and citation impact in oceanographic research.
Switzerland Has Opted Out of EU Copernicus Scheme - What It Means
Switzerland Has Opted Out of EU Copernicus Scheme - What It Means
Bern has rejected participation in the EU's Copernicus programme, despite growing demand for climate and environmental data.
Does Europe Dare to Invest in the Arctic?
Prioritising long-term strategic investment in the Arctic requires courage, but it is a choice Europe cannot afford to postpone.
Putting Art into Dialogue with Research Can Reframe Approaches to Wealth Inequality
Putting Art into Dialogue with Research Can Reframe Approaches to Wealth Inequality
Can bringing art and social science into dialogue place "research facts" and "artistic values" into new and productive relationships?
What Kind of Discipline is AI?
Universities are creating AI schools alongside disciplines such as logic, economics and communication without addressing their shared foundations. Mouhamdy M. Dahoud argues that this reflects an ontological gap, with current research funding and assessment taxonomies overlooking an entire category of science.
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