What happened when Jeffrey Epstein funded science and tech? Women were excluded.

EU-backed research projects were slashed after Switzerland voted to curb immigration. The UK should take note.

A personal account from climate scientist to climate activist, and motivation to join a climate action on Sept 20, 2019: the Global Climate Strike.

One graduate student explains the importance of the global climate strike.

We face interconnected planetary emergencies threatening our climate and ecosystems. Scientists should join civil disobedience movements to fight these unprecedented crises.

Our profession has been great at raising awareness. But this alone won't succeed against the might of the oil and gas lobbyists.

With Europe facing significant challenges over the next decade, it is vital that the EU's research activities are designed not just by bureaucrats but by a wide range of voices to ensure that they're fit for purpose, according to Jean-Eric Paquet, the European Commission's Director General for Research and Innovation.

Implicit bias - the presence of prejudices and stereotypes in the workplace - has been a topic of discussion both within and outside academia. Does this lead to a focus on the individual that masks embedded structures inhibiting gender equality?

With the climate crisis as backdrop, university employees have demanded a reduction in air travel. Could cutting air travel also lead to greater gender equality?

Sixty percent of 16 to 24 years olds - people raised surrounded by technology - are overwhelmed by data they must read and analyze.

Researchers should be required to pass exams accredited by professional bodies to prove they have the skills to publish.

The collapse of Italy's coalition government has left researchers vulnerable. The president should use his moral authority with party leaders to make sure that promises of increased funding are kept.

Kathryn M. Rudy considers the huge expenses of doing scholarly work in her field of art history.

Many researchers still see the journal impact factor (JIF) as a key metric for promotions and tenure, despite concerns that it’s a flawed measure of a researcher’s value.

A warning of the dangers of politicizing educational attainment.

Journals and editorial boards must accept their responsibility to guide positive reviewer behaviour and constructive feedback.

Researchers have tried for at least 200 years to change academia and they have all failed, claims opinion piece.

While there were significant gains during much of the 20th century, feminist progress in the academy has slowed and may have already come to a halt. Overarching essay provides many references.

Funders and researchers are squandering a huge opportunity to create a more just and effective system, says Jon Tennant

A new research report provides an inventory of some 52 ongoing open source publishing initiatives and a thoughtful analysis of the open source community in publishing.

Open access is often discussed as a process of flipping the existing closed subscription based model of scholarly communication to an open one. However, in Latin America an open access ecosystem for scholarly publishing has been in place for over a decade.

Weighting transparency and confidentiality in scientific misconduct investigations.

Researchers need guidance on how to handle published work whose ethics have been questioned.

Targeting a general audience, this opinion piece argues that with more transparency about the publication process, we might have a more nuanced understanding of how knowledge is built - and fewer people taking “peer-reviewed” to mean settled truth.

Politics intruded on science and intelligence. That's why I quit my job as an analyst for the State Department.

In response to the recent editorial "Open access and academic imperialism", disappointment is expressed at such a narrow and misleading interpretations of the recent attempts to make academic publishing more open.

The next UK prime minister is a controversial character - and his stance on Brexit concerns researchers.

Grant capture is often used as a formal metric for academic evaluation. The author argues that this practice has led to perverse incentives for researchers and institutions and that research funders have both a responsibility and a significant interest in using their influence to halt this practice. 

EMBO's Bernd Pulverer looks at the revised Plan S Implementation Guidelines.

But only because we have had access to health care, emotional support and institutional backing.