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Dr. Mandy Cohen has been on a national tour. The new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she aims to rebuild trust in that troubled agency at a moment when Covid-19 cases are rising again and the Biden administration has begun a new vaccine campaign.
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.
Peer review is, at heart, a process of validation - but how do you learn to peer review?
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.
The UK has just rejoined the EU’s flagship research funding programmes, Horizon Europe and Copernicus. This is great news for science, the EU and the UK.
This week, New York City is buzzing with scientists. A Science Summit is being held at the United Nations, to coincide with the UN General Assembly. The summit’s overall theme revolves around the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aim to end poverty and protect the environment. Research in poorer countries maps closely with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - wealthy nations must follow if the goals are to be met.
The EU Commission held its second High-level Digital Dialogue with China.
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.
The importance of science in helping the UN to make progress on key issues is as clear and critical as ever. Yet participation of the scientific community is not what it could and needs to be.
Podcast: Research managers, citizen scientists, librarians and technicians rarely make it onto author lists. But an initiative to assess their hidden contributions to team science moved some judging panel members to tears.
Between honoring her immigrant family and making her children proud, a first-generation PhD student fights for her place in academia.
