How The Fallout From Trump's Travel Ban Is Reshaping Science
Researchers are cutting short travel, ending collaborations and rethinking their US ties.
DataCite Commons at Your Service
DataCite and the FREYA project partners are proud to announce the official launch of DataCite Commons. DataCite Commons is the web interface to explore the PID Graph, formed by the publications, datasets, research software, and other research outputs generated by researchers working at research institutions and supported by grant funding.
A Hundred Days of Harm: How the Trump Administration Is Eviscerating Science and What We Can Do About It
A Hundred Days of Harm: How the Trump Administration Is Eviscerating Science and What We Can Do About It
The new Trump administration has been more reckless and destructive than the first time around. The Union of Concerned Scientists is working to monitor, contain, and reverse this administration’s abuses of science.
Is Biblioleaks inevitable?
We explore the feasibility and consequences of a Biblioleaks event for researchers, journals, publishers, and the broader communities of doctors and the patients they serve.
Rethinking Academia in a Time of Climate Crisis
Universities must change so that the scientific enterprise can respond to the climate crisis.
The Guardian view on the Lovell telescope: budget cuts to physics are bad science and worse politics
The Science People See on Social Media
Science-related Facebook pages draw millions of followers but 'news you can use' posts or ads outnumber ones about scientific discoveries.
When a Female C.E.O. Leaves, the Glass Ceiling Is Restored
Even at companies run by prominent women — where it seems that gender diversity has made great strides — why is a female leader hardly ever replaced by another woman?
How I Lost My Identity - and Embraced a New One
It was tough for Lia Paola Zambetti to leave the bench after dreaming for more than a decade of becoming a scientist, and reaching her goal. But now she enjoys her work's broader impact.
Science, Peer Review, Open Access and Controversy
Following Nature's Future of Publishing special issue this spring, Science has just published a similar series of articles. Needless to say, there is a definite ideological bent to the articles included in both and more misleading information about open access.
A century of physics
An analysis of WoS data spanning more than 100 years reveals the rapid growth and increasing multidisciplinarity of physics, as well its internal map of subdisciplines.
Funders and Publishers as Agents of Change
Funders and publishers have something in common: for better or worse, we have the ability to influence the behavior of researchers.
5 Million Euros to Fund Blockchain Surveillance Research
5 Million Euros to Fund Blockchain Surveillance Research
A group of EU government agencies, law enforcement groups and academic researchers are partnering on a new digital currency surveillance project.
New Technology Makes Tumor Eliminate Itself
A new technology developed by researchers from the University of Zürich enables the body to produce therapeutic agents on demand at the exact location where they are needed. The innovation could reduce the side effects of cancer therapy and may hold the solution to better delivery of Covid-related therapies directly to the lungs.
Big Tech builds AI with bad data
BigScience is a global effort to build a more transparent, accountable AI, with less of the bias that infects so many Big Tech initiatives
A human right to citizen science
The flourishing of citizen science is an exciting phenomenon with the potential to contribute significantly to scientific progress. However, we lack a framework for addressing in a principled and effective manner the pressing ethical questions it raises. We argue that at the core of any such framework must be the human right to science.
How has publishing changed in the last 20 years?
It is useful to consider the trajectory of both scientific and literary publishing on the grid-group plane defined by Mary Douglas which arranges attitudes along two axes: one ranging from the hierarchical to the egalitarian, and the other spanning individualistic to communitarian. I would contend that, in both cases, there has been a move from the hierarchical/communitarian quadrant towards the egalitarian/individualistic zone.
7 Years Before Russia Hacked the Election, someone Did the Same Thing to These Scientists
7 Years Before Russia Hacked the Election, someone Did the Same Thing to These Scientists
"Why does this story sound so darned familiar?"
What You Want Nature to Do Next
Nature asked readers what it should focus on in the next decade. Here is what the respondents said.
Atlantic Ocean Circulation at Weakest in a Millennium, Say Scientists
Decline in system underpinning Gulf Stream could lead to more extreme weather in Europe and higher sea levels on US east coast
Commission Launches Support Platform for Ukrainian Scientists
The European Commission today launched a portal that pulls together information and support services for researchers in Ukraine and those fleeing the Russian invasion of the country, amid calls for coordinated EU action. The portal offers help with finding housing, job opportunities and recognition of education qualifications.
AI-based Fake Papers Are a New Threat to Academic Publishing
Research into the sex life of the screwworm turned out to be very, very important
A scientific study into the “sex life of the screwworm” – once ridiculed as a waste of money – is to be given a US award designed to recognise research that might sound silly or odd but is actually important. Its findings led to the development of “the only truly original innovation in insect control” of the 20th century, credited with the eradication of the screwworm fly from North and Central America.
Scoping the Open Science Infrastructure Landscape in Europe
Scoping the Open Science Infrastructure Landscape in Europe
"We see a diverse, interconnected, open, professional and viable, developing OS ecosystem in Europe on solid ground; one that is worth investing in. At the same time, this developing ecosystem faces a range of issues that challenge its path to a more open and sustainable future." This is a core conclusion of this new SPARC Europe report.