The science you can come across today can often appear to be full of contradictory claims.

The ERC Scientific Council adopted the Gender Equality Plan for the duration of the Horizon Europe programme. This is what Barbara Romanowicz, member of the Scientific Council and Chair of its Gender Issues Working Group, said.

The ERC has now funded more than 10,000 grant recipients who are making a real impact on people's lives, achieving scientific breakthroughs that drive innovation.

For more than a year now, we've spent more time in virtual spaces than ever before. Mostly involuntarily. What does this do to us? And what opportunities do today's digital solutions offer us?

Starting with the classics, this unique shop is converting existing cars into all-electric road warriors.

Despite policies that endorse more inclusiveness, incentives work against including female subjects in experiments.

Helping scientists communicate: The CommKit is a collection of guides to successful scientific communication, written by MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering Communication Fellows.

When is the right time to restart on-campus events for prospective students in the UK; and if they were invited, would they want to come and what kind of experience would they want?

What should inform a career in science?

Academics suspect that papers with grabby conclusions are waved through more easily by reviewers.

Knowledge Exchange, a cooperative partnership of six national research-supporting organisations in Europe, has explored the development of an Openness Profile during an 18-month research evaluation of Open Science.

Today's guest post is a recap of the recent SSP webinar, Ask the Experts: Trust in Science, with Tracey Brown (Sense About Science), Richard Sever (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press), and Eefke Smith (STM) by the moderator, Anita de Waard (Elsevier).

This interactive webinar co-organised by SAPEA and the Royal Irish Academy will facilitate discussion between an expert panel and a live international audience, addressing a range of questions.

It is good that the authors of HEPI’s report ‘Regional Policy and R&D’ note that the UK, by most agreed measures, is significantly unbalanced economically (in terms of income, productivity and economic growth).

Resist seamless dataism and de-automate your life with Miriam Rasch's recommended reading.

In 2020, sexual orientation and gender identity are still a mere afterthought in the asylum granting process. The SOGICA project has been documenting the consequences of this lack of understanding and provides recommendations for future British, German, Italian and European policy.

eLife and Coko will continue working together on new systems and approaches to research communication.

When it comes to mistaken judgments, there is more than one kind of error.

Pockets of people have railed against vaccines as long as the preventives have existed.

Did you get the COVID-19 vaccine? A) Yes, because I'm ready to get back out there and start partying again! B) Yes, because I am haunted by the prospect of accidentally killing my parents or saddling my children with lifelong health complications.

Mit privaten Mitteln gründen Liberale an der Uni Luzern eine Denkfabrik. Wie viel Geld geflossen ist und was sie vorhaben, verraten die Involvierten nicht.

Unless actions by governments and corporations cut emissions here and now, a dose of scepticism is in order, says Guardian environment editor Damian Carrington

Creativity often flourishes in stressful times because innovation evolves out of need. During the coronavirus pandemic, we are witnessing a range of creative responses from individuals, communities, organizations, and industries.

There is no real evidence that the public has lost trust in science. So why are science-based recommendations often ignored?

The urgency of the climate crisis demands individual ethics as much as a willingness to cooperate with power. But reconnecting humans with the natural world also forces us to revisit the promises of ever-growing efficiency and a culture of exploitation.

Companies like Facebook aren’t building technology for you, they’re building technology for your data. They collect everything they can from FB, Instagram, and WhatsApp in order to sell visibility into people and their lives.

The Senate is considering Eric S. Lander's nomination after months of delay. Some experts ask if an adviser can actually have an impact.

Researchers have spoken out against policies that have exacerbated the country's coronavirus crisis. Policymakers must listen.

Big data bibliometrics must take into account qualitative analyses of research as a social institution, rooted in history, economics and politics.

A very serious typology of scientific papers.