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EU

EU Will Be 'Shooting Itself in Foot' if It Bars UK, Switzerland, Israel from Quantum and Space Projects

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EU Will Be 'Shooting Itself in Foot' if It Bars UK, Switzerland, Israel from Quantum and Space Projects

Excluding researchers based in the UK, Israel and Switzerland from major EU quantum and space research projects would see the bloc "shoot itself in the foot", according to German MEP Niklas Nienass, spokesman on space for the Parliament's green group.

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A New Master's in Sustainable Management and Technology

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A New Master's in Sustainable Management and Technology

EPFL introduced its new joint Master's in Sustainable Management and Technology, a degree that will prepare the next generation to spearhead the transition towards a more resilient, sustainable and inclusive economy and which is hosted by the multi-institutional initiative Enterprise for Society Center (E4S).

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Five Reasons Why COVID Herd Immunity is Probably Impossible

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Five Reasons Why COVID Herd Immunity is Probably Impossible

Even with vaccination efforts in full force, the theoretical threshold for vanquishing COVID-19 looks to be out of reach.

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How Do You Run the REF in a Pandemic? We Still Don't Know

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How Do You Run the REF in a Pandemic? We Still Don't Know

Worldwide, the academic community is wondering how to compensate for a lost year of productivity and focus. This will require a suite of measures aimed at redressing the inequalities left in the wake of Covid-19. 

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COVID-19

3 Ways the Pandemic Has Made the World Better

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3 Ways the Pandemic Has Made the World Better

COVID-19 has inflicted devastating losses. It has also delivered certain blessings.

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Work Place

Our Research Shows Working from Home Works, in Moderation

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Our Research Shows Working from Home Works, in Moderation

The hybrid model increasingly favoured by managers will change our cities for good.

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Funding

Next Steps for REF? We Need to Repair the Sector's Health First

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Next Steps for REF? We Need to Repair the Sector's Health First

A while ago I was invited to speak at the Westminster Forum in a panel session entitled “Research environments in the REF – stimulating positive cultures and wellbeing, academic independence and interdisciplinary research“...

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Sci-Hub: Police Warn Students and Universities Against Using 'the Pirate Bay of Science'

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Sci-Hub: Police Warn Students and Universities Against Using 'the Pirate Bay of Science'

Sci-Hub has been described as "the Pirate Bay of science", but often receives praise for opening access to research.

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The H-index, or the Academic Equivalent of the Stag's Antlers

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The H-index, or the Academic Equivalent of the Stag's Antlers

Philip Ball: It was meant to bring rigour to the tricky question of who deserves a grant or a post, but is the h-index's numerical score simplistic?

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UK

The UK Will Never Become a 'Science Superpower' if it's Cutting Research Budgets

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The UK Will Never Become a 'Science Superpower' if it's Cutting Research Budgets

The government promised to increase funding for vital scientific R&D to 2.4% of GDP - but its target is already slipping.

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UK's Drastic Cut to Overseas Aid Risks Future Pandemics, Say Sage Experts

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UK's Drastic Cut to Overseas Aid Risks Future Pandemics, Say Sage Experts

Major research projects will be cancelled, including those designed to head off future disease threats, warn scientists.

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Europe's Vaccine Ethics Call: Do No Harm and Let More Die?

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Europe's Vaccine Ethics Call: Do No Harm and Let More Die?

Ethicists are worried about the gamble Germany took to halt AstraZeneca doses over seven cases of blood clots. It will not be the last time hard decisions are made in this pandemic.

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Open Editors: A Dataset of Scholarly Journals’ Editorial Board Positions

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Open Editors: A Dataset of Scholarly Journals’ Editorial Board Positions

Editormetrics analyse the role of editors of academic journals and their impact on the scientific publication system. However, such analyses would best rely on open, structured and machine-readable data on editors and editorial boards, whose availability still remains rare.

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Police Warn Students to Avoid Science Website

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Police Warn Students to Avoid Science Website

Universities are urged to block a science research website, which police say could put data at risk.

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Scholarly Communications Harmed by Covid-19

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Scholarly Communications Harmed by Covid-19

Society deserves academic discourse that is civil, cool, unbiased, and objective - but the Covid-19 pandemic has accentuated an erosion in civility in academic discourse, leading to deep divisions being played out in social, mass, and professional media.

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Publishing

The Fight Against Fake-Paper Factories That Churn out Sham Science

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The Fight Against Fake-Paper Factories That Churn out Sham Science

Some publishers say they are battling industrialized cheating. A Nature analysis examines the 'paper mill' problem - and how editors are trying to cope.

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COVID-19 Recovery: STEM Isn't Enough to Save Us

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COVID-19 Recovery: STEM Isn't Enough to Save Us

Policymakers need insight from humanities and social sciences to tackle the pandemic.

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They Had Mild COVID-19. Then Their Serious Symptoms Kicked In.

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They Had Mild COVID-19. Then Their Serious Symptoms Kicked In.

A new study illuminates the complex array of neurological issues experienced by people months after their coronavirus infections.

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Early Career Researchers

Why Industry Internships Can Be Your 'golden Ticket' to a Prosperous Career

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Early Career Researchers

Why Industry Internships Can Be Your 'golden Ticket' to a Prosperous Career

The three of us took a break from our PhD programmes for a stint that enriched our CVs and improved our chances of career success.

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Imposters and Impersonators in Preprints: How Do We Trust Authors in Open Science?

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Imposters and Impersonators in Preprints: How Do We Trust Authors in Open Science?

Preprints play a crucial role in open science but offer an opportunity to be gamed. Fictitious authorship in preprints show that open science needs checks and we need to collaborate to govern Open Science.

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Cern Experiment Hints at New Force of Nature

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Cern Experiment Hints at New Force of Nature

Experts reveal 'cautious excitement' over unstable particles that fail to decay as standard model suggests

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Facebook Leak Underscores Strategy to Operate in Repressive Regimes

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Facebook Leak Underscores Strategy to Operate in Repressive Regimes

Exclusive: users are allowed to praise mass killers and 'violent non-state actors' in certain situations

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Funding

Track and Manage Your Public Access Mandates

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Track and Manage Your Public Access Mandates

Today, we are adding a Public access section to Scholar profiles to help you track and manage public access mandates for your articles.

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Open Science

Mellon Foundation Grant to Support Investigation into Hidden Costs of Open Infrastructure

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Mellon Foundation Grant to Support Investigation into Hidden Costs of Open Infrastructure

New funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will support research and analysis into the hidden costs of open infrastructure. Hiring is now open for IOI's first Research Data Analyst.

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Open Data

Wikidata and Open Science: a Model for Open Data Work

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Wikidata and Open Science: a Model for Open Data Work

Wikidata is a language-independent factual database belonging to the Wikimedia family which includes the particularly well-known Wikipedia. In an interview, Timo Borst explains the dimensions and particular significance of this database, especially in the context of Open Science.

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What Scientists Do and Don't Know About the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine

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What Scientists Do and Don't Know About the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine

Results confirming the vaccine's strong protection against COVID-19 were welcomed following last week's pause in roll-outs - but fresh questions have now emerged about the data.

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Open Research

Gates Open Research - A Summary of Year Four

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Gates Open Research - A Summary of Year Four

2021 marks four years of publishing on Gates Open Research, now the 2nd most popular publication venue for Gates-funded researchers. In this blog post, Ashley Farley, Program Officer of Knowledge and Research Services at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, explores the publishing activity for the last year and the platform's growth in popularity and size.

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Opinion: Preprints in the Public Eye

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Opinion: Preprints in the Public Eye

ASAPbio has developed resources for preprint servers, institutions, scientists, and journalists to promote the responsible reporting of research in the media.

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COVID-19

Leveraging Open Science to Accelerate Research

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Leveraging Open Science to Accelerate Research

The advancement of science — an intrinsically iterative process — is contingent on reporting practices that enable data to be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable to permit independent scrutiny, replication, and follow-on investigations. The urgency associated with the pandemic has created an imperative to accelerate the adoption of open science.

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COVID-19

How Has COVID-19 Affected Research Funding, Publishing and Library Budgets?

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COVID-19

How Has COVID-19 Affected Research Funding, Publishing and Library Budgets?

Global study of the effects of COVID-19 on research funding, publishing, and library budgets - the truth we found in the gap between perception and reality

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