Trump's Latest Order Spreads Fear Among Government Scientists
The directive could make it easier to fire some agency researchers and hire others for political reasons.
The directive could make it easier to fire some agency researchers and hire others for political reasons.
With the COVID-19 crisis still underway and a climate crisis looming, an international group of senior researchers is pushing the world's biggest economies to reform the way they manage collaboration on emerging technologies. In coming years, argues a group participant, David Delpy, professor of medical photonics at University College London, the world risks conflict over who controls and benefits from a range of emerging technologies from climate control to 6G wireless networks.
Researchers are increasingly relying on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and its crowdsourced labor.
In a time when facts don’t matter, and science is being muzzled, American democracy is the real victim
Male scientists in the United Kingdom received an extra 40 pence for every pound awarded to women, reveals an analysis of cancer research funding over more than a decade.
It has never been so easy to obtain grants for open access publications from the SNSF. Researchers can now apply for them on the mySNF online platform – even after the project has ended.
As part of a misconduct crackdown, Chinese funders are penalizing researchers who commission sham journal articles from 'paper mills', but some say the measures still don't go far enough.
Can science papers be more transparent with respect to who thought of each idea, who ran each experiment, and who analysed the data?
A lot of talent is wasted in a world where more than half of laureates come from households in the richest 5%.
There has been an upsurge in philanthropy for scientific research by America's billionaires. Still, in size and scope, philanthropy pales in comparison to public financing for science.
Using analytics to improve hiring decisions has transformed industries from baseball to investment banking. So why are tenure decisions for professors still made the old-fashioned way?, asks Erik Brynjolfsson from MIT.
Leading experts in regulation and ethics at the Oxford Internet Institute, have identified a new type of harm created by LLMs which they believe poses long-term risks to democratic societies and needs to be addressed by creating a new legal duty for LLM providers.
An empirical analysis of researchers’ publications reveals that females have fewer distinct coauthors yet have a lower chance of repeating previous coauthors than their male counterparts.
With algorithms in hand, scientists are looking to make elections in the United States more representative.
Critical scientific assessment of humanity's impact on nature to be released after Paris negotiations.
Uncertainty in British politics is a headache for UK researchers
The Lasker Awards, among the most respected prizes in medicine, will go to six researchers who made major discoveries in physiology and virology, and to a scientist who has tirelessly promoted science education.
The National Institutes of Health will again fund research that makes viruses more dangerous.
Project Deal, a consortium of libraries, universities, and research institutes in Germany, has unveiled an unprecedented deal with a major journal publisher, Wiley, that is drawing close scrutiny from advocates of open access to scientific papers.
Scientists are rapidly posting findings about the new coronavirus outbreak online, accelerating the speed of scientific discoveries - and of misinformation.
An interview that offers a discussion on the role of peer review in uncovering scientific fraud from the perspective of a historian of science.
Why only 2 of 43 young scientists receiving the prestigious University Research Fellowships in the UK were women.
ALLEA welcomes the ambition of the coalition of European research funders to move the scientific publishing system towards open access; however, broader consultation with all parties is required during the implementation phase.