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Innovation challenges offer valuable lessons and resources for researcher-entrepreneurs.
ASAPBio offers set of principles and guidelines for preprint feedback.
"We respect Ukrainian statehood … and we treat the European choice of our neighbours with understanding." So said some 650 Russian scientists and science journalists in an open letter last week criticising Moscow's onslaught against Ukraine.
Richard de Grijs comes to grips with his field's use of potentially offensive language.
Two years into the pandemic, the catchphrase allows elected officials to duck responsibility for setting Covid rules.
Scientific collaboration has become a casualty of Switzerland's and the United Kingdom's tussles with the European Union.
The right to a healthy environment and a safe climate for all should be on the agenda for the proposed Citizens' Assembly.
Small interventions that influence people's behavior can be tested. But the real world requires big, hard-to-measure changes too, scientists say.
The metaphor of the leaky pipeline describes how the number of women, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and other minoritized groups progressively decreases at every stage of their academic careers. However, the passivity of this approach has often been criticized. Women and BIPOC don’t leak out of the pipeline. Instead, they are forced out of it under pressure behind blockages.
A report on the SSP Publisher-Funder Task Force's meeting of senior researchers, university administrators, funders, publishers, and representatives from other organizations on the topic of Responsible Research Assessment for the 21st Century.
The resignation of the Science Adviser likely won’t doom president’s science initiatives, argue science policy observers
As the first year of Horizon Europe draws to a close, Science|Business gathered feedback from an online survey and meetings with its member organisations resulting in recommendations on how to make the next six years of Horizon Europe even better.
Public money contributes to the publication of around 2.5 million papers in scientific journals each year - yet as taxpayers most of us have access to just a fraction of that output.
Outreach activities helped this postdoc grow and find satisfaction in her work as a scientist
Too many national leaders get good guidance yet make poor decisions.
Science benefits when junior scientists sign up as reviewers. It's also good for their careers.
Little work has yet been done on exploring how more ambitious open science principles might be deployed across both the qualitative and quantitative social science disciplines.
Universities should reward more than research outputs.
Researchers are creating grass-roots collaborative networks to tackle difficult questions in primate studies and more, but they need funding and other support.
Obscure, generations-old theorems have been transformative in tech, and there are still plenty out there to be used, says maths professor David Sumpter
The Doomsday Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive technologies in other domains.
Scientists and funders with close links to local communities outline how Western teams can collaborate fairly and effectively with those groups.
The focus on a narrow set of metrics leads to a lack of diversity in the types of leader and institution that win funding.
How can we make sure that medical trials reported in the scientific literature are real? It is surprisingly hard - but not impossible.
