How COVID Broke the Evidence Pipeline
The pandemic stress-tested the way the world produces evidence - and revealed all the flaws.
The pandemic stress-tested the way the world produces evidence - and revealed all the flaws.
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.
Too few resources exist to help early-career scientists deal with the stresses encountered in today's 'publish or perish' culture.
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.
Medical researchers are beginning to shift their focus away from COVID-19 - but the pandemic could continue to affect studies focused on other diseases.
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.
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.
AAAS continues its commitment to the subscription model to praise from cOAlition S. Are there lessons for other publishers?
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.
I found job satisfaction and exciting opportunities in supporting other academics - but it's a career path that many don't consider. Try it.
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.
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.
Separate collisions of a neutron star and a black hole are detected in a short space of time.
To help planners adapt to a warming world, find ways to make predictions practical.
Policy makers and lobbyists in Brussels want to explicitly limit access for scientists in countries that flout academic freedom and intellectual property rights.
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.
Lots of things are wrong with paying for peer review.
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.
Studies are skewed towards resilient places and people: improve data, metrics, inclusion and more.
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.
There are many possible pathways towards a carbon-neutral future — and achieving it by 2050 is possible but requires urgent action.
But critics worry the metrics remain prone to misuse.
Conservators seek ways to stop cultural artifacts from oozing and crumbling to dust.