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Xi-Biden Summit Resumes Research and Technology Collaboration on Climate

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Xi-Biden Summit Resumes Research and Technology Collaboration on Climate

Washington and Beijing have resumed a raft of environment-related collaboration measures, including promises of new support for Chinese and American universities to work together on recycling and resource efficiency.
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How to Navigate the Challenges of Corporate-academia Research Partnerships

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How to Navigate the Challenges of Corporate-academia Research Partnerships

Many research projects draw on sources of funding from the corporate world. Fola Adeleke discusses the challenges inherent to this kind of research and outlines three key considerations for researchers engaging with corporate partners.  

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The Israel-Hamas Conflict: Voices from Scientists on the Front Lines

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The Israel-Hamas Conflict: Voices from Scientists on the Front Lines

The deadly 7 October Hamas attacks on Israel, and Israel's bombardment of Gaza, have upended lives - including those of researchers throughout the region.
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Yes to Global Standards for Research - As Long As They Are Truly Global

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Yes to Global Standards for Research - As Long As They Are Truly Global

Guidelines for research can level the playing field for scientists in low-resource settings - but diverse voices are needed to ensure that people worldwide can actually follow them.
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Open Research
Open Science

Ask The Chefs: COAlition S's "Towards Responsible Publishing"

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Ask The Chefs: COAlition S's "Towards Responsible Publishing"

Members of the Society for Scholarly Publishing weigh in with their thoughts on the new "Towards Responsible Publishing" manifesto from cOAlition S.

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Equality

How To Bring Fair Play to the Science Nobels

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How To Bring Fair Play to the Science Nobels

Reforming the rules for the Nobel Prizes would help correct historical injustices and inspire future scientists.

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Horizon Europe and Erasmus+: "Switzerland Must Come on Board in 2024"

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Horizon Europe and Erasmus+: "Switzerland Must Come on Board in 2024"

An end to Switzerland's exclusion from key European research and education schemes may be discussed next year, says the head of swissuniversities.

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Why We Swapped PhD Research for Secondary-school Teaching

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Why We Swapped PhD Research for Secondary-school Teaching

Students value being taught by real-life scientists with lived experience of life in the lab, say researchers who switched career.
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Code Sharing in the Spotlight

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Code Sharing in the Spotlight

The Year of Open Science has highlighted the importance of sharing the code associated with peer-reviewed manuscripts. We at Nature Computational Science provide support - via policies and implementations within our submission system - to facilitate this task.
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Viewpoint: The European Research Area Needs a Reboot

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Viewpoint: The European Research Area Needs a Reboot

"Way too many!" This was the reaction of many in the European Research Area (ERA) Forum when over 40 new actions were pitched for the 2025 - 2027 policy agenda - adding to the 20 actions previously agreed for the 2022 - 2024 agenda.
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Using People's Feelings of Happiness to Make Better Policy Decisions?

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Using People's Feelings of Happiness to Make Better Policy Decisions?

How we spend our time directly impacts how satisfied we are with our lives, and understanding the activities that bolster our wellbeing can help policymakers make better decisions when allocating resources. Research is helping them do just that.

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Switzerland

Swiss Cross Fingers for Fast Association to Horizon Europe After Commission Opens Talks

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Switzerland

Swiss Cross Fingers for Fast Association to Horizon Europe After Commission Opens Talks

Swiss university leaders have welcomed the European Commission's announcement that it will finally open exploratory talks on Horizon Europe association, with hopes this could lead to an agreement as early as next year.

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EU Budget Negotiations Could Spell Cuts for Horizon Europe

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EU Budget Negotiations Could Spell Cuts for Horizon Europe

Alarm bells for the future research budget are ringing as Germany looks set to say no to the Commission's proposal to put an extra €100 billion into the EU's seven-year budget.
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Female Researchers Are Less Influenced by Journal Prestige - Will It Hold Back Their Careers?

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Female Researchers Are Less Influenced by Journal Prestige - Will It Hold Back Their Careers?

Drawing on a natural experiment that occurred when German institutions lost access to journals published by Elsevier, W. Benedikt Schmal shows how female researchers made significantly different publication choices to their male counterparts during this period.

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The Persistence of Eugenics in Mainstream Journals Highlights Major Gaps in Research Integrity

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The Persistence of Eugenics in Mainstream Journals Highlights Major Gaps in Research Integrity

When published, bad data can have long lasting negative impacts on research and the wider world. In this post, Rebecca Sear, traces the impact of the national IQ dataset and reflects how its continued use in research highlights the lack of priority given to research integrity.

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Canada

Canada to Sign Horizon Europe Association Deal Next Year

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Canada to Sign Horizon Europe Association Deal Next Year

After lengthy negotiations, the EU and Canada reached agreement for Canadian researchers to join Horizon Europe research programme from next year. 

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Half of Surveyed Infrastructures Helping Ukrainian Researchers

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Half of Surveyed Infrastructures Helping Ukrainian Researchers

European research infrastructures say they have hosted researchers and worked on joint projects
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'Politicians Don't Understand Science': Advisers Give Evidence at UK COVID Inquiry

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Public Policy
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'Politicians Don't Understand Science': Advisers Give Evidence at UK COVID Inquiry

Patrick Vallance, Chris Witty and others reflect on advising the UK government during the ongoing investigation into the country's pandemic response.
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Indigenous Studies Researcher Advises the United Nations on Inequalities in Food Security and Nutrition

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Indigenous Studies Researcher Advises the United Nations on Inequalities in Food Security and Nutrition

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How the 'Right to Science' Can Help Us Overcome the Many Crises We Face Today

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How the 'Right to Science' Can Help Us Overcome the Many Crises We Face Today

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - proclaimed 75 years ago - describes science as fundamental to humanity. Upholding this right has never been more relevant than it is now.
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Canada

Canada Association Raises Questions over Who Controls Horizon Europe

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Canada

Canada Association Raises Questions over Who Controls Horizon Europe

Last week, Canada became the latest non-European country to announce it will join Horizon Europe, the EU's €95 billion research and innovation programme.
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ChatGPT Replicates Gender Bias in Recommendation Letters

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ChatGPT Replicates Gender Bias in Recommendation Letters

A new study has found that the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT in the workplace entrenches biased language based on gender.

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Biomedicine
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Proposed changes to rules for policing fraud in U.S.-funded biomedical research draw a mixed response

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Proposed changes to rules for policing fraud in U.S.-funded biomedical research draw a mixed response

Academics like keeping definition narrow but worry about tighter deadlines and more record-keeping.

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International
US
China

Global Science is Splintering into Two - and This is Becoming a Problem

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China

Global Science is Splintering into Two - and This is Becoming a Problem

The United States and China are pursuing parallel scientific tracks. To solve crises on multiple fronts, the two roads need to become one.
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'Disruptive' Science More Likely from Teams Who Work in the Same Place

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'Disruptive' Science More Likely from Teams Who Work in the Same Place

Analysis of millions of papers shows that farflung collaborators produce fewer big breakthroughs than groups working together in person.
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Horizon Europe

Spanish Presidency Proposes Cuts to Horizon Europe

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Spanish Presidency Proposes Cuts to Horizon Europe

Documents leaked to Science|Business show the EU research programme could lose as much as €5.3B, as member states scramble to find money to pay back recovery fund loans.

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EU

As Investment Falls, EU Innovation Policy Needs a 'Massive Overhaul', Says Start-up Association

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As Investment Falls, EU Innovation Policy Needs a 'Massive Overhaul', Says Start-up Association

Start-ups need more help in accessing EU funding and support in expanding across the bloc if Europe is to compete with other global superpowers, the EU's largest start-up association said as it launched its manifesto for the 2024 European elections.
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Equality
Research

Inequality Beyond Representation in European Research Funding

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Equality
Research

Inequality Beyond Representation in European Research Funding

An analysis of EU funded research shows how inequalities continue to persist within the funding landscape and how attempts to create representative research projects can still reproduce research framed largely by the interests of elite countries and institutions.

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Australia

'My Collaborations Would See Me Jailed': Australian Researchers Fear Proposed New Laws

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Australia

'My Collaborations Would See Me Jailed': Australian Researchers Fear Proposed New Laws

Scientists have reacted with alarm at a proposal by the Australian Department of Defence to control information sharing under which technology with potential military use would need authorization to be shared with non-Australian colleagues. 

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Shock Election Win by the Far Right Worries Academics in the Netherlands

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Shock Election Win by the Far Right Worries Academics in the Netherlands

If Geert Wilder’s party can form government, it could restrict international students and scrap key climate policies.

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