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Vaughan Turekian, the director of the Policy and Global Affairs Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the US, discusses efforts to support Ukrainian scientists and why such efforts are important for the future of Ukraine.
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.
China's president unveils a vision for the infrastructure strategy that could help other countries overcome Western restrictions. The Action plan includes harnessing markets and talent of participating countries to power scientific and technological advancement.
Align commitments with the assumptions and criteria of the science based 1.5°C scenarios
Governments need to understand science. This is obvious when thinking about defense and security, health, or the challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, but it is true for all areas of government activity.
The toolkit walks through six steps to achieve more effective and inclusive climate policymaking, based on learnings from citizen engagement and science research pilots worldwide.
The 2023 Global Sustainable Development report sets the stage for transformative action in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Can world leaders translate these insights into concrete actions?
It is vital that scientists engage in discussions about open access because publishing is rapidly changing, and at the moment, there are no certain outcomes in the long run.
A decade ago, University of Virginia psychology professor Brian Nosek cofounded an unusual nonprofit, the Center for Open Science. It’s been a cheerleader, enabler, and nagger to convince scientists that making their methods, data, and papers available to others makes for better science.
Forward-looking, democratically oriented governance is needed to ensure that human genome editing serves rather than undercuts public values.
For decades, communities have had little access to scientific information despite paying for it with their tax dollars. To bring open science into the mainstream, we need creative policy solutions - and your help to create them.
During the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, Facebook began to remove vaccine misinformation as a matter of policy. This study evaluated the efficacy of these policies using a comparative interrupted time-series design.
A UN report prepared by a group of independent experts calls for governments to tackle the climate and sustainable development crises together, to maximize the impact of policies and actions.
A joint statement summarizes insights from the first-ever Science Day held to accelerate progress on the SDGs.
There are important differences in how countries treat and value data. This report compares key data policies in China, India, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the European Union.
Five years after launching, the Plan S open-access initiative must retain its founding principles.
Austria's Martin Polaschek pushes for move to combat public scepticism.
Rising tensions between the United States and China could derail the renewal of a 44-year-old agreement on scientific cooperation between the two countries. Last week, U.S. President Joe Biden invited China to spend the next 6 months discussing changes to the broad agreement, first signed in 1979, that enables joint research.
