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Research Data

How COVID Broke the Evidence Pipeline

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How COVID Broke the Evidence Pipeline

The pandemic stress-tested the way the world produces evidence - and revealed all the flaws.

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Emma - on Her Way to a Professorship?

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Emma - on Her Way to a Professorship?

Using Emma as an example, the career path of an early career researcher whose PhD was financed by an SNSF project is profiled. To this end, data from the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) and the SNSF was combined and analysed.

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Mental Health of Graduate Students Sorely Overlooked

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Mental Health of Graduate Students Sorely Overlooked

Too few resources exist to help early-career scientists deal with the stresses encountered in today's 'publish or perish' culture.

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COVID-19
Academia

Pandemic Pressures Made Parents Consider Quitting Academia

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Pandemic Pressures Made Parents Consider Quitting Academia

A survey of US medical scientists also found that more women than men have thought about leaving since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Portugal Approaches Gender Parity in Research

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Portugal Approaches Gender Parity in Research

Women represent nearly 50% of active scientific authors in Portugal. Over the past two decades, the country achieved the largest percentage increase in the EU in women's representation - an impressive nine percentage points, putting Portugal at the leading edge of closing the gender gap in research.

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The COVID Pandemic's Lingering Impact on Clinical Trials

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Clinical Trials

The COVID Pandemic's Lingering Impact on Clinical Trials

Medical researchers are beginning to shift their focus away from COVID-19 - but the pandemic could continue to affect studies focused on other diseases.

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Innovation

Good Practices in Mission-oriented Innovation Strategies and Their Implementation

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Innovation

Good Practices in Mission-oriented Innovation Strategies and Their Implementation

Modern innovation policies should target in equal measure both economic competitiveness and societal progress. They should be informed by ambitious, overarching principles-based strategies that enable us to formulate specific political goals, or missions. We also need governance structures that allow for the agile, participatory and inclusive implementation of innovation policy measures. Presenting good examples of such strategies and structures, this study examines what these examples have to offer in terms of lessons learned.

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Short-term Contracts and Working for Free: Scientists in Germany Speak out

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Germany

Short-term Contracts and Working for Free: Scientists in Germany Speak out

Scientists at German universities are speaking out against precarious working conditions. Job insecurity and a lack of support are also problems at universities in other countries.

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Flying Race Car Zips Across the Sky for the First Time

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Flying Race Car Zips Across the Sky for the First Time

The world's first flying race car, the Airspeeder Mk3, has completed its maiden flight and is on track to compete in a first-of-its-kind racing series later in 2021.

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AAAS Plan S Compliance Policy: Staying Committed to Subscriptions

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AAAS Plan S Compliance Policy: Staying Committed to Subscriptions

AAAS continues its commitment to the subscription model to praise from cOAlition S. Are there lessons for other publishers?

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Meaningful Collaborations Can End 'helicopter Research'

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Meaningful Collaborations Can End 'helicopter Research'

Instead of flying in, collecting samples and leaving, scientists should treat local people as partners, and think fair instead of charitable when it comes to authorship.

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Why Academic Administration Was the Right Choice for Me

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Why Academic Administration Was the Right Choice for Me

I found job satisfaction and exciting opportunities in supporting other academics - but it's a career path that many don't consider. Try it.

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Not What You Know, but Whom You Know? Study of ERC Stirs Old Scientific Controversy

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Funding
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Peer Review

Not What You Know, but Whom You Know? Study of ERC Stirs Old Scientific Controversy

A new study of grants awarded to early-career researchers by Europe's premier science agency is reviving an old controversy over the way governments decide which scientists get research money, and which do not.

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5,000-year-old Hunter-gatherer is Earliest Person to Die with the Plague

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5,000-year-old Hunter-gatherer is Earliest Person to Die with the Plague

Remains of man found in Latvia had DNA fragments and proteins of bacterium that causes plague

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When a Good Scientist Is the Wrong Source

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When a Good Scientist Is the Wrong Source

Six weeks ago, a reporter published what seemed to be a blockbuster story, one that, if true, would expose the greatest scandal in recent history.

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Rare Black Hole and Neutron Star Collisions Sighted Twice in 10 Days

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Rare Black Hole and Neutron Star Collisions Sighted Twice in 10 Days

Separate collisions of a neutron star and a black hole are detected in a short space of time.

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COVID's Lesson for Climate Research: Go Local

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COVID's Lesson for Climate Research: Go Local

To help planners adapt to a warming world, find ways to make predictions practical.

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Horizon Europe

EU Rewrites Rulebook on Science and Technology Cooperation with the Rest of the World

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Horizon Europe

EU Rewrites Rulebook on Science and Technology Cooperation with the Rest of the World

Policy makers and lobbyists in Brussels want to explicitly limit access for scientists in countries that flout academic freedom and intellectual property rights.

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Black Scientists Find Community-and Plan for the Road Ahead

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Black Scientists Find Community-and Plan for the Road Ahead

The Black in X network mobilized last summer to bring attention to racism in STEM. This week, they're holding their first conference to talk about what's next.

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Being Fluent in a Second Language Can Boost Your Research

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Diversity

Being Fluent in a Second Language Can Boost Your Research

Scientists who speak different languages can bring science to a whole new audience - and use it to their advantage.

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Frivolities

Jargon

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Frivolities

Jargon

How much jargon is too much jargon?

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Publishing

What's Wrong with Paying for Peer Review?

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Publishing

What's Wrong with Paying for Peer Review?

Lots of things are wrong with paying for peer review. 

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German Biologist Maria Leptin Appointed New ERC President

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German Biologist Maria Leptin Appointed New ERC President

The long wait for a new ERC president is finally over, with the head of the European Molecular Biology Organisation, Maria Leptin appointed as president.

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Swissuniversities Adopts the Open Research Data Strategy

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Open Data
Open Science

Swissuniversities Adopts the Open Research Data Strategy

By adopting the Open Research Data (ORD) Strategy, swissuniversities has taken a further step towards Open Science and follows on the existing Open Access strategy.

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Medicine

Scientists Identify Long-sought Marker for COVID Vaccine Success

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Medicine

Scientists Identify Long-sought Marker for COVID Vaccine Success

Knowing which signatures in the blood predict protection against COVID-19 could speed the development of new vaccines.

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Sustainability

Five Ways to Ensure Flood-risk Research Helps the Most Vulnerable

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Five Ways to Ensure Flood-risk Research Helps the Most Vulnerable

Studies are skewed towards resilient places and people: improve data, metrics, inclusion and more.

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Social Sciences
Humanities
Science Policy

David Budtz Pedersen on Measuring the Impact of Science Advice

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David Budtz Pedersen on Measuring the Impact of Science Advice

Science, and especially social sciences and humanities, have always had a broad range of impacts on society — impacts which are not easily measured using traditional academic indicators.

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Europe

Energy Transition Needs to Accelerate Urgently, Says EU's Scientific Advice Mechanism

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Europe

Energy Transition Needs to Accelerate Urgently, Says EU's Scientific Advice Mechanism

There are many possible pathways towards a carbon-neutral future — and achieving it by 2050 is possible but requires urgent action.

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Publishing
Metrics

Journal Impact Factor Gets a Sibling That Adjusts for Scientific Field

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Metrics

Journal Impact Factor Gets a Sibling That Adjusts for Scientific Field

But critics worry the metrics remain prone to misuse.

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Museums Are in a Race Against Time to Keep Plastic Art from Falling Apart

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Museums Are in a Race Against Time to Keep Plastic Art from Falling Apart

Conservators seek ways to stop cultural artifacts from oozing and crumbling to dust.

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