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Pension changes spur more than 40,000 university academics to walk out on research activities, conferences and lectures.
Robert-Jan Smits, the European Union’s departing director-general of research, sets out his parting thoughts. After eight years, he hands over his role as director-general of the European Commission’s research directorate to Jean-Eric Paquet, currently a deputy-secretary-general at the commission.
Canada's 2018 budget includes almost Can$4 billion (US$3.1 billion) in new funding for science over the next five years. This is in contrast to the Can$1 billion in new science funding contained in last year's budget - almost none of which went to basic research.
Survey reveals reluctance to take open peer review to the limit.
Publishers would need to join forces to apply image-checking software across the literature.
Researchers hold out little hope that the next government will improve their underfunded research system.
I’ve encountered even more prejudice as a researcher from the Middle East than as a woman working in Saudi Arabia, says Malak Abedalthagafi.
The publishing system builds in resistance to replication. Paul Gertler, Sebastian Galiani and Mauricio Romero surveyed economics journals to find out how to fix it.
Tool that tallies engagement with new biomedical concepts seeks to reward novelty. Switzerland has fallen considerably since the 1990s compared to other countries.
Efforts to increase diversity in research assessment panels don’t cut it.
Societal impact should be rated more highly in scientific publishing and research evaluation. To this end, we suggest that ways to achieve it should be introduced as an important component of curricula at higher-education institutions.
Institutions have made little progress against the misuse of research metrics when hiring and promoting academics.
The National Science Foundation says institutions it supports must disclose when researchers are found to have violated policies or are put on leave pending investigation.
What makes a conflict of interest (COI) in science? Definitions differ, but broadly agree on one thing: an influence that can cloud a researcher’s objectivity. Nature and the other Nature Research journals are taking into account some of these non-financial sources of possible tension and conflict.
The South Korean government is expanding an investigation into researchers who named their children as co-authors on papers.
Ali Kaya says he used science to stay sane during his incarceration.
Scientists often herald the role of chance in research. A project in Britain aims to test the popular idea with evidence.
New tools for building interactive figures and software make scientific data more accessible, and reproducible.
