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End the Glaring Inequity in International Science Collaborations

End the Glaring Inequity in International Science Collaborations

The world's natural-science research ecosystem remains focused on the priorities of high-income countries. Funders, publishers and scholarly databases can do more to help to rebalance that.

Has Your Research Influenced Policy? Use This Free Tool to Check

Has Your Research Influenced Policy? Use This Free Tool to Check

Sage Policy Profiles scans a database of 10 million documents to show researchers where their papers have been cited.

How a Bullying Scandal Closed a Historic Astronomy Department

How a Bullying Scandal Closed a Historic Astronomy Department

At Lund University in Sweden this week, astronomers moved out of a building that was custom-built to hold telescopes and other artefacts from their 350 years of history, and they relocated to a physics building down the road. That’s because the astronomy department no longer exists, having been dissolved in the wake of a bullying scandal.

Towards Understanding Policy Design Through Text-as-data Approaches: The Policy Design Annotations (POLIANNA) Dataset - Scientific Data

Towards Understanding Policy Design Through Text-as-data Approaches: The Policy Design Annotations (POLIANNA) Dataset - Scientific Data

Despite the importance of ambitious policy action for addressing climate change, large and systematic assessments of public policies and their design are lacking as analysing text manually is labour-intensive and costly. POLIANNA is a dataset of policy texts from the European Union (EU) that are annotated based on theoretical concepts of policy design, which can be used to develop supervised machine learning approaches for scaling policy analysis.

A Synthesis of Evidence for Policy from Behavioural Science During COVID-19 - Nature

A Synthesis of Evidence for Policy from Behavioural Science During COVID-19 - Nature

Evaluation of evidence generated to test 19 proposed policy recommendations and guidance for the future.

Early-career US National Institutes of Health Researchers Vote Overwhelmingly to Form Union

Early-career US National Institutes of Health Researchers Vote Overwhelmingly to Form Union

The bargaining group will be the first ever to represent graduate students and postdocs in the US government, as they push for better pay and benefits.

US Agency Launches Experiments to Find Innovative Ways to Fund Research

US Agency Launches Experiments to Find Innovative Ways to Fund Research

The National Science Foundation explains how its 'science of science' programme will find efficiencies and support 'high-risk, high-reward' studies.

'My Collaborations Would See Me Jailed': Australian Researchers Fear Proposed New Laws

'My Collaborations Would See Me Jailed': Australian Researchers Fear Proposed New Laws

Scientists have reacted with alarm at a proposal by the Australian Department of Defence to control information sharing under which technology with potential military use would need authorization to be shared with non-Australian colleagues. 

'Disruptive' Science More Likely from Teams Who Work in the Same Place

'Disruptive' Science More Likely from Teams Who Work in the Same Place

Analysis of millions of papers shows that farflung collaborators produce fewer big breakthroughs than groups working together in person.

Global Science is Splintering into Two - and This is Becoming a Problem

Global Science is Splintering into Two - and This is Becoming a Problem

The United States and China are pursuing parallel scientific tracks. To solve crises on multiple fronts, the two roads need to become one.

Code Sharing in the Spotlight

Code Sharing in the Spotlight

The Year of Open Science has highlighted the importance of sharing the code associated with peer-reviewed manuscripts. We at Nature Computational Science provide support - via policies and implementations within our submission system - to facilitate this task.

Why We Swapped PhD Research for Secondary-school Teaching

Why We Swapped PhD Research for Secondary-school Teaching

Students value being taught by real-life scientists with lived experience of life in the lab, say researchers who switched career.

'ChatGPT Detector' Catches AI-generated Papers with Unprecedented Accuracy

'ChatGPT Detector' Catches AI-generated Papers with Unprecedented Accuracy

Tool based on machine learning uses features of writing style to distinguish between human and AI authors.

The Belt and Road Initiative is Boosting Science - the West Must Engage, Not Withdraw

The Belt and Road Initiative is Boosting Science - the West Must Engage, Not Withdraw

China is deepening scientific links with low- and middle-income countries. Europe and the United States would be wise to join this effort, which could help to resolve economic, environmental and political crises.

Podcast - How Will ChatGPT and Generative AI Transform Research?

Podcast - How Will ChatGPT and Generative AI Transform Research?

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.

Japanese Research is No Longer World Class - Here's Why

Japanese Research is No Longer World Class - Here's Why

Japan’s contribution to world-class research continues to decline, despite having one of the world’s largest research communities, according to a report by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.