Call the cops
The long arm of the law has reached into an investigation of alleged scientific misconduct in Italy.
Cutting Science Out: Trump Administration Fires National Science Board Members
China Surpasses US in Research Spending - the Consequences Extend Far Beyond Scientific Ranking and Clout
China Surpasses US in Research Spending - the Consequences Extend Far Beyond Scientific Ranking and Clout
Scientific innovation has been driving US economic growth for decades. Losing that edge means losing access to the technologies and brainpower that come with it.
Can ChatGPT Evaluate Research Environments?
Can Large Language Models (LLMs) support the process or validate expert evaluations? ChatGPT-4o mini scores correlated positively with expert scores in almost all 34 (field-based) Units of Assessment (UoAs).
Nothing is "100% Human Authored" - LSE Impact
Generative AI is unsettling longstanding conventions of authorship, ownership and credit in academia and across cultural production. This has prompted responses that seek to reassert the role of the intelligent, creative human individual.
How Much Should Politics Influence Science, and Vice Versa? National Science Board's Ousting Resurrects an Existential Debate
How Much Should Politics Influence Science, and Vice Versa? National Science Board's Ousting Resurrects an Existential Debate
The Trump administration fired the entire board that oversees the National Science Foundation, raising an age-old question about the separation of science and state.
Trump Fires Independent Board Overseeing National Science Foundation
Positions ‘terminated, effective immediately’, says email to scientists sent on president’s behalf, in move labelled ‘dangerous attack’ on US innovation
Could Agentic AI Topple Grant-Funding Systems?
Funders must take action before an increase in submission of high-quality proposals written using AI models makes it impossible to sort the wheat from the chaff.
Global gender disparities in science
Cassidy R. Sugimoto and colleagues present a bibliometric analysis confirming that gender imbalances persist in research output worldwide.
EU Governments Hatch Plan to Secure Key Role in Next Horizon Europe
EU Governments Hatch Plan to Secure Key Role in Next Horizon Europe
Leaked documents contain measures calculated to strengthen role of EU member states in strategic priority setting.
What is Ethical Knowledge Brokering?
Knowledge brokers have to navigate competing interests often without guidance. The authors set out system of practical ethics for knowledge brokers.
Keeping Clinical Trials on an Inclusive Track
Keeping Clinical Trials on an Inclusive Track
Trial disruptions threaten efforts to improve the lack of diversity in clinical research.
Funding Radar: €160,000 for Open Science Policy Research
The Global Research Initiative on Open Science has opened its first call for projects that synthesise evidence for policy.
How Much of the Scientific Literature is Generated by AI?
Tools for reliably estimating what artificial intelligence is being used for are still lacking.
EU Research Funding Should Do More to Support Scholars at Risk, Advocates Say
EU Research Funding Should Do More to Support Scholars at Risk, Advocates Say
Afghanistan is the latest test case for how Europe helps researchers threatened at home or fleeing abroad.
Prestigious European Science Funder Scraps Stricter Rules After Researcher Backlash
Prestigious European Science Funder Scraps Stricter Rules After Researcher Backlash
The tough new policy was introduced to curb submissions, but drew criticism from researchers.
Manipulating Google Scholar metrics: simple, easy and tempting
Paper showing how to manipulate the Google Citations profiles of a research group through the creation of false documents that cite their documents, and consequently, the journals in which they have published modifying their H index.
Responses to the AI Grant Flood Must Prioritize Fairness As Part of Excellence
Research funding agencies are battling a wave of AI-assisted applications. Countermeasures should not entrench existing power structures.
Comparing LLM and Expert Assessments of Journal Quality - Scientometrics
Some research funding systems rely on expert-assigned journal rankings to allocate resources. LLMs can approximate expert-assigned rankings with high overall accuracy, with most errors occurring between adjacent levels.
The superior performance of migrant scientists
Scientists who move countries tend to publish in higher-impact journals than those who remain at home, a study finds
The Final Frontier
How do we support basic curiosity-driven research and maintain our position as the global leader in innovation and technology at a time of rapidly dwindling government funds?
New President looks abroad
The new ERC President turns his eyes towards cooperation with China, Japan and South-Korea. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon: “The key is to show eagerness to attract scientists from outside Europe.”
US$21 million awarded to delighted scientists in glitzy ceremony
Founders of Google and Facebook award ‘Breakthrough prize’ of $3 million to Michael Hall of the University of Basel in a ceremony hosted by actor Kevin Spacey and featuring a live performance from singer Lana Del Ray.
Glaxo says it will stop paying doctors to promote drugs
The British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline will no longer pay doctors to promote its products and will stop tying compensation of sales representatives to the number of prescriptions doctors write.
Argentina makes publicly funded research available
The Congress of Argentina recently passed a landmark law making publicly funded science and technology research publications free and open access.
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