Six steps to fairer funding for female scientists
Although approximately 50% of PhD students and postdoctoral scientists are female, males run the majority of research laboratories. Despite some reform over the past three decades, there is still an exodus of female scientists from academic research at the transitional stage between a postdoctoral researcher and laboratory head.
Blind Application Process Helps Swiss Spark Grants Back Unconventional Research
Blind Application Process Helps Swiss Spark Grants Back Unconventional Research
The Spark grants scheme, run by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), anonymises applications. This has meant a more diverse range of winners, particularly younger scientists and those new to SNSF funding.
U-shaped Learning: a New Model for Transdisciplinary Education
U-shaped Learning: a New Model for Transdisciplinary Education
Over the past two decades, transdisciplinarity has been cited increasingly by policymakers and university actors as a means to reshape learning and research processes to improve society’s potential to tackle grand societal challenges.
How Populist Leaders Like Trump Use 'Common Sense' As an Ideological Weapon to Undermine Facts
How Populist Leaders Like Trump Use 'Common Sense' As an Ideological Weapon to Undermine Facts
Germany Slowly Rethinks Defence and Security Research
Germany Slowly Rethinks Defence and Security Research
Three years after the attack on Ukraine, positions are changing, but there is no more money in Germany for military research.
Can Science and Diplomacy Have Mutual Impact in the Trump & Musk Era?
President Trump sees himself as a dealmaker and Elon Musk sees himself as a science-based innovator. Might this fabled partnership lead to a confluence towards what is termed “science diplomacy?”
Science Diplomacy Framework Launched for ‘Era of Disruption’
The American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Society have launched a new framework for science diplomacy.
How can non-scientists influence the course of scientific research?
Science communication should be more than the dissemination of results to the public; it should also flow in the other direction, with members of the public able to communicate their priorities to scientists and those who fund them. But how?
The double-glazed ceiling: new PIs face continuing precarity
Early career researchers’ path to independence is unnecessarily bumpy
Competitiveness Compass Must Find a Place for Basic Research
Commission’s silence on the next EU R&I programme is becoming alarmingly loud, says the author
Cutting Funding for Science Can Have Consequences for the Economy, US Technological Competitiveness
National Science Foundation Fires 168 Probationary Employees on Trump Administration's Orders
Democracy in crisis: Trust in democratic institutions declining around the world
Democracy in crisis: Trust in democratic institutions declining around the world
New research from the University of Southampton has found that trust in representative institutions, such as parliaments, governments and political parties, has been declining in democratic countries around the world.
Zaharieva Urges More EU-US Science Collaboration
Points of view
Points of view
Relate your data to the world around them using the age-old custom of telling a story.
Supporting Science in the Global South
Africa's 'bold Generation' See Bright Future at Home
Trump Administration Seeks Input from Public on National Artificial Intelligence Action Plan
Leptin Calls for a Doubling of the ERC Budget
Supporting Science and Innovation in Central America and the Caribbean
Supporting Science and Innovation in Central America and the Caribbean
Commission Plans 'Step-Change' in Simplicity for Climate Research
Commission Plans 'Step-Change' in Simplicity for Climate Research
Leaked plans for climate research show EU will strive for more impact in final years of Horizon Europe.
German Research Groups Set out Wishlist for Incoming Government
Centre-right leader Friedrich Merz is expected to become chancellor in a new coalition following election.