Academic Freedom, Under Threat in Europe
The latest threat to academic freedom is occurring in the heart of Europe, in Hungary.
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The latest threat to academic freedom is occurring in the heart of Europe, in Hungary.
Technology, greed, a lack of clear rules and norms, hyper-competitiveness and a certain amount of corruption have resulted in confusion and anarchy in the world of scientific communication.
Advances in automation technology mean that robots and artificial intelligence programs are capable of performing an ever-greater share of our work,
Automation has the potential to replace or alter 35 million jobs worldwide, which means universities must adapt to survive.
Popular-audience science writing are more concerned with what we don't know than what we do.
Is digital technology making fundamental changes to learning and teaching, transforming it in ways that were unimaginable before the advent of the internet?
Academic publishing is becoming more about establishing a pecking order and less about pursuing knowledge.
Trump's first budget blueprint is a cramped document that sacrifices American innovation to small-bore politics, shortchanging basic scientific research across the government.
Steps to reduce waste of funds in research.
And more than a little quixotic.
Without more conservative perspectives in the academy, lawmakers will increasingly ignore and potentially defund social science.
Silicon Valley is coming for death. But it’s looking in the wrong place.
Would it be better to do away with the search for excellence, and to fund science by lottery?
The region's scientists lament that their research is too often disconnected from the larger scientific world. In the age of Zika, that needs to change.
Last year, NIH implemented a policy to push scientists to consider how sex affects biological systems. Critics worry it goes too far.
Last month I found myself sitting on a leather couch, my black dress smoothed over my knees, in a hushed wood-paneled room in Washington, D.C.
Broader forms of activism are needed to protect evidence-based policy.
Carlos Moedas sees a bold future for the European Research Council and more projects that copy its approach.