The introduction of lump sum funding to the EU funding landscape is gathering pace, but research organisations still lack confidence in the new less-strings-attached funding approach, despite its motive of reducing bureaucracy.

In her State of the Union speech of 2023, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen underlined the fact that the European Green Deal is at the centre of the European economy and "unmatched in ambition".

Attempts to quantify academic contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals might miss the mark.

Some scientists want to scale back their research to reduce carbon emissions. Instead of this being equated with a need to scale down research infrastructures and data centres, we need to take action to ensure these facilities are sustainable.

Based on a study of how research is cited in national and local media sources, Andy Tattersall shows how research is often poorly represented in the media and suggests better community standards around linking to original research could improve trust in mainstream media.

The trend for the politically motivated forensic scrutiny of the research records of academics has a chilling effect on academic freedom and distracts from efforts to address more important systemic issues in research integrity.

After another year of conflict and war in 2023, there is a ray of hope for a peaceful New Year: the emergence of the EU's Horizon Europe programme as an extraordinary engine of global scientific cooperation.

An analysis of EU funded research shows how inequalities continue to persist within the funding landscape and how attempts to create representative research projects can still reproduce research framed largely by the interests of elite countries and institutions.

Reforming the rules for the Nobel Prizes would help correct historical injustices and inspire future scientists.

Members of the Society for Scholarly Publishing weigh in with their thoughts on the new "Towards Responsible Publishing" manifesto from cOAlition S.

Opinion: Upholding human rights can ensure that environmental policy is driven by facts and evidence, not denialism, greed and profit.

Women form just 16% of the nominees for next year's award, but Nobel laureate Prof Frances Arnold says gender balance will come through girls working in science from a young age.

Nature editors Nick Petrić Howe, Magdalena Skipper, Richard Van Noorden and Yann Sweeney discuss how generative AIs are impacting science and what the future might hold.

I wasn’t surprised to learn I hadn’t been selected for a prestigious postdoc fellowship. I had applied mostly hoping for feedback that would improve my application the following year. But comments from two reviewers made me rethink my plan to apply again—and even whether to continue in academia. 

Is social media in a period of change? David Beer considers whether trends towards repetition and uniformity are prefiguring a new standard for the way in which social media intersects with academic life.