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Digital transformation in submission and peer review offers improvements for publications and a better experience for researchers and journal staff.
For young immigrant women like me, the pressures of early career research are even greater than for most. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Readers discuss experimentation on lab animals.
Surpassing 1.5 degrees of warming was never going to be the end of the world.
A study suggesting papers and patents that change the course of science are becoming less dominant is prompting soul-searching - and lively debate about why, and what to do about it.
As researchers dive into the brave new world of advanced AI chatbots, publishers need to acknowledge their legitimate uses and lay down clear guidelines to avoid abuse.
Ideally, policy makers are relying on the best available science to inform their decisions. Unfortunately, that is not always the case, because often “politics” gets in the way. And that is why it is crucial that scientists recognize their power.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set its Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest to midnight the clock has been since it was established in 1947 to illustrate global existential threats at the dawn of the nuclear weapons age.
Learning how to deliver a polite refusal, alongside management training, will help young scholars with leadership ambitions.
Institutions owe it to young researchers to prepare them for careers outside academia. Preprint review is a perfect opportunity.
This post highlights four different approaches to evidence in policymaking and suggest how researchers and policy organisations might use these findings to engage differently with policy
The fight for science is far from over, so what does it take to bring science advocacy into the classroom and beyond?
Many people in the bureaucratic machinery have little interest in research
The European Commission's acknowledgement that research and innovation have the potential to generate environmental harms can be viewed as a landmark in the history of research policy.
To fully desegregate science, institutions should bolster mentorship, safe spaces and a culture of belonging.
Five pointers to help researchers get policymakers interested in their work, based on a guide co-created by government and academics from the University of Leeds
Increasing investments, transforming research culture and boosting talent attraction - these are the recommendations for a more equal European R&I landscape outlined in a new paper by Science Europe.
The current scholarly publishing system is detrimental to the pursuit of knowledge and needs a radical shift. There have already been many attempts and partial successes to drive a new shift in scholarly publishing. Many of them should be further developed and generalised.
All data should get checked, but not every article needs an expert.
It’s on course to guzzle half the world’s carbon budget, so why are governments so afraid to discuss it?
In this article, the Oppenheimer Generations Research and Conservation team's Dr Duncan MacFadyen and Rendani Nenguda write about the technical reports developed through the African Group of Negotiators Expert Support, which provides an armful of scientific evidence to underpin Africa's case at COP27.
Oliver Müller's brief tenure at the technology giant taught him that many skills acquired in academia are highly valued.
The European Innovation Council's (EIC) future will involve more horizon scanning, intelligence and strategy, according to a programme manager responsible for scoping the potential for technological and innovation breakthroughs and for directing EIC health-related projects, to ensure there is a coherent plan that will support development of a competitive sector.
Is there an entrenched stasis in scholarly communication in which the core elements of the system have not been much moved by the revolutions happening around us?
