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UK

UK Government Vow to End ‘Woke’ Science Draws Rebuke from Researchers

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UK Government Vow to End ‘Woke’ Science Draws Rebuke from Researchers

Top science official launches review of use of sex and gender in research and statistics.

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Science is Under Threat in Argentina - We Must Call out the Danger

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Science is Under Threat in Argentina - We Must Call out the Danger

Extreme-right presidential front runner Javier Milei plans to disband ministries and privatize research. That would be disastrous for Argentina's science and for the nation.
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ChatGPT Use Shows That the Grant-Application System is Broken

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ChatGPT Use Shows That the Grant-Application System is Broken

The fact that artificial intelligence can do much of the work makes a mockery of the process. It's time to make it easier for scientists to ask for research funding.
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Request for Delay to Horizon Europe Calls As War in Israel Stalls Science

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Request for Delay to Horizon Europe Calls As War in Israel Stalls Science

Israeli scientists have described how Hamas's attack on the country has all but brought research to a standstill, with researchers now called up for a military assault on Gaza.
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Collaboration
China

An Age of Disentangled Research?

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China

An Age of Disentangled Research?

Understanding the nuances of international scientific collaboration between China and the rest of the world offers insights into the future of global science.
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Open Research

We Need to Talk About Research Security on Campus

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We Need to Talk About Research Security on Campus

Governments are strengthening security safeguards – sometimes with unintended consequences. It is time for an open dialogue where these are brought to the table.

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China
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Education

Why Chinese Minds Still Bear the Long Shadow of Keju

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Education

Why Chinese Minds Still Bear the Long Shadow of Keju

Keju, China's incredibly difficult civil service test, strengthened the state at the cost of freedom and creativity.

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Society

Long COVID Research Risks Losing Momentum - We Need a Moonshot

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Research
Society

Long COVID Research Risks Losing Momentum - We Need a Moonshot

Investing US$1 billion every year for the next ten years into long COVID research could improve the lives of millions and save trillions in economic costs.
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China

Why China is Turning to Sci-tech in New Action Plan to Boost Belt and Road

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China

Why China is Turning to Sci-tech in New Action Plan to Boost Belt and Road

China's president unveils a vision for the infrastructure strategy that could help other countries overcome Western restrictions. The Action plan includes harnessing markets and talent of participating countries to power scientific and technological advancement.

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Horizon Europe
EU

Horizon Europe Faces a Cut As Negotiations on 2024 EU Budget Get Underway

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Horizon Europe Faces a Cut As Negotiations on 2024 EU Budget Get Underway

The European Parliament is ready for tough negotiations with EU member states over the EU's budget for 2024, including a proposed €12.8 billion for the Horizon Europe research programme.
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Living Guidelines for Generative AI - Why Scientists Must Oversee Its Use

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Living Guidelines for Generative AI - Why Scientists Must Oversee Its Use

Establish an independent scientific body to test and certify generative artificial intelligence, before the technology damages science and public trust.
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Academia

Toxic Workplaces Are the Main Reason Women Leave Academic Jobs

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Academia

Toxic Workplaces Are the Main Reason Women Leave Academic Jobs

Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work-life balance.
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Middle East
Israel

Israel-Hamas War Sends Shock Waves through Scientific Community

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Israel-Hamas War Sends Shock Waves through Scientific Community

Conflict has left many labs empty or in ruins

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Horizon Europe

Horizon Europe Extends Call Deadlines After Hamas Attack Rocks Israeli Science

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Horizon Europe

Horizon Europe Extends Call Deadlines After Hamas Attack Rocks Israeli Science

The European Research Council (ERC) and European Innovation Council (EIC) have pushed back four call application deadlines after warnings from Israeli applicants that they need more time, given the impact of Hamas's attack on the country.
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"For Me, It's About Excellence in Research"

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"For Me, It's About Excellence in Research"

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Environment

Bringing the Environment to the Forefront of Engineering

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Bringing the Environment to the Forefront of Engineering

MIT Associate Professor Desiree Plata has a lifelong mission of making sustainability a bigger factor in design decisions.
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Africa

I Advocate an African Research Agenda for African Development

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I Advocate an African Research Agenda for African Development

As Uganda's science minister, Monica Musenero pushes to connect scientific research to economic development in her country and her continent.
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Early Career Researchers

Falling Behind: Postdocs in Their Thirties Tire of Putting Life on Hold

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Early Career Researchers

Falling Behind: Postdocs in Their Thirties Tire of Putting Life on Hold

Temporary contracts, low salaries and cost-of-living hikes force many researchers to put off parenthood and other big decisions.
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Diversity

To Make Science and Engineering More Diverse, Make Research Socially Relevant

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To Make Science and Engineering More Diverse, Make Research Socially Relevant

STEM disciplines sometimes struggle to connect research with social benefits and to retain diverse students. Solving one problem can solve the other.
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Research Assessment

Removing Numerical Scoring When Evaluating Grant Proposals Found to Have No Effect on Outcomes

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Removing Numerical Scoring When Evaluating Grant Proposals Found to Have No Effect on Outcomes

Not using a numerical scoring system to review research grant proposals has little impact on the way that evaluators carry out their written assessment and the final outcome of the review, a new study has found.
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EU
Horizon Europe

Here's What the EU Member States Have in Mind for FP10 - the follow-up programme to Horizon Europe

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Horizon Europe

Here's What the EU Member States Have in Mind for FP10 - the follow-up programme to Horizon Europe

A special member state task force set up to help shape framework programme 10 (FP10), has compiled the first draft. The documents set out in broad strokes the ideas for FP10, including a call for the EU to be a global research and innovation powerhouse by 2034.

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Open Science
Open Data

How Can Open Data Sharing Policies Be More Attentive to Qualitative Researchers?

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Open Data

How Can Open Data Sharing Policies Be More Attentive to Qualitative Researchers?

Open data practices are largely conceived and managed in ways that support quantitative, rather than qualitative data. Susie Weller outlines how an ethics of care is essential to making open qualitative data practical and ethical.

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Switzerland

Government Boosts Funding for Swiss Research Amid EU Horizon Exclusion

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Switzerland

Government Boosts Funding for Swiss Research Amid EU Horizon Exclusion

The Swiss government has earmarked CHF84 million for 2024 for individual projects by researchers in Switzerland as a transitional measure.
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Asia
Research
Japan

Japanese Research is No Longer World Class - Here's Why

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Asia
Research
Japan

Japanese Research is No Longer World Class - Here's Why

Japan’s contribution to world-class research continues to decline, despite having one of the world’s largest research communities, according to a report by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

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Equality
Gender
Women in Science

Podcast: Gendergap - Was Sind Gründe, Warum Frauen die Wissenschaft Verlassen

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Equality
Gender
Women in Science

Podcast: Gendergap - Was Sind Gründe, Warum Frauen die Wissenschaft Verlassen

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History
AI

Race to AI: The Origins of Artificial Intelligence, From Turing to ChatGPT

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History
AI

Race to AI: The Origins of Artificial Intelligence, From Turing to ChatGPT

Today's poem-writing AI has ancestry in punch-card machines, trundling robots and godlike gaming engines
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Science Communication

Social Media Ennui - The End of Academic Social Media?

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Social Media Ennui - The End of Academic Social Media?

Is social media in a period of change? David Beer considers whether trends towards repetition and uniformity are prefiguring a new standard for the way in which social media intersects with academic life.

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Life Science
Genetics

Is CRISPR Safe? Genome Editing Gets Its First FDA Scrutiny

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Life Science
Genetics

Is CRISPR Safe? Genome Editing Gets Its First FDA Scrutiny

Advisors to the US regulatory agency will examine the safety profile of a CRISPR-based treatment for sickle-cell disease.
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Space

'It Only Makes the News when the Toilets Stop Working': Has the 25-year-old International Space Station Been a Waste of Space?

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'It Only Makes the News when the Toilets Stop Working': Has the 25-year-old International Space Station Been a Waste of Space?

The ISS is destined to be sent spiralling into the Pacific Ocean in 2031, yet the controversy over the £120bn behemoth continues

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Open Access

New Plan Proposed for Open Access Publishing

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New Plan Proposed for Open Access Publishing

Europe’s open access advocates set out a vision for system-level reform to make scientific publishing faster, more open and scholar-led. 

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