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Balancing the books at the end of the programme will not stop immediate damage to Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, observers say
Explaining and defending knowledge is as essential to the scientific enterprise as publishing research.
As Australia agrees to associate, questions remain over whether the programme will be genuinely international, or EU-first.
Observers suggest the delay could be due to disagreements between the Commission directorates handling research and innovation policy.
If we were designing peer review from scratch for a world where powerful LLMs exist, what would we actually need humans for, and what could we comfortably automate?
Why do studies on whether religion is disappearing totally contradict each other? Valeria Rainero, Jörg Stolz and Ruud Luijkx discuss their recent research on how faith (or lack of it) shaped interventions in the secularisation debate and suggest how the social sciences could benefit from less adversarial claims to objectivity in research.
Jim Dickinson presents findings from new research on students' use of AI – and argues the sector is punishing precisely the disposition it should be cultivating.
While the cuts hit all demographics, younger biomedical researchers may have suffered the most from the Trump administration’s actions, a new study says
With funding cuts hampering academic science budgets, industrial science can play a pivotal role in supporting research.
Institutional definitions of research impact align poorly with the practices and values of staff. Could a focus on research value lead to better outcomes?
The rush to expand policy engagement without understanding the goals for each side risks creating structures and processes that work for no one. Here's how to understand each other better.
Writing for public audiences in a variety of media has become a common feature of PhD research. This blog discusses what pubic writing adds to the PhD journey.
Advances in agentic AI combined with increasingly large reserves of openly accessibly and machine-readable data are creating a perfect storm for the mass-production of AI authored research papers.
Brussels and New Delhi ramp up cooperation on digital public infrastructure, but differences remain, such as on AI regulation.
Branding scientific research with a simplified label risks misleading the public and harming scientific literacy.
Governments should strengthen institutional science communication, not just rely on individual researchers, to provide clear, coordinated, evidence-based information and counter misinformation, especially during crises.
