The future academic labour agreement may have to do something no previous faculty contract was asked to do. It may have to specify which forms of cognition belong to machines, which belong to professionals, which may be shared between them and where final authority must remain human.
Paper calls for stable careers and creativity-focused assessment, but authors pessimistic about seeing meaningful change,
Protecting science under the systemic stress of wartime means treating education and training itself as infrastructure, rather than as a series of one-off events.
In Switzerland, science enjoys greater public trust than the police, government or parliament. But what exactly is the role of science in a democracy, and how does it differ in dictatorships?
The ZBW Open Economics Guide now features more than 160 useful Open Science tools for everyday research. The catalogue has recently undergone a major overhaul, with new filtering and sorting options making it much easier to navigate and find the right tools.
50 years ago, the European Molecular Biology Organization was founded by leading scientists who wished to create a network of cooperation in molecular biology.
Votes on all EU programmes are postponed until MEPs in the budgets committee agree the Performance Framework Regulation.
A new study finally puts a number on the extent to which spats hurt research ties. But the bigger story may be the resilience of global science.
Europe already has much of the data it needs to better predict and fight wildfires. The challenge is making this fragmented data work together.
Changes to the Open Science Framework’s policies will come into effect in November, forcing researchers to reconsider their workflows.
Violent state repression and government interference in university autonomy lead the global decline in academic freedom, according to Scholars at Risk’s (SAR) Free to Think 2026 report.
NSF and the Department of Commerce have scrubbed references to the dangers of political interference in science from official agency policy documents.
What scientist hasn’t dreamed of spending less time getting funding and more time doing research?
Alarmed by the victory of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in an east German state government election, major higher education organisations have made urgent pleas to uphold academic freedom.
Background Peer review-based funding evaluation systems are under increasing pressure. To help alleviate this, innovative approaches like Distributed Peer Review (DPR) are being explored.
Commission proposes Innovation Act and Public Procurement Act to harmonise rules and unlock funding for new technologies.
Affected Chinese companies adjusted their sources of knowledge to stay competitive.
Following controversy over a mathematics breakthrough claimed by OpenAI, funders grapple with how to make sure proposals stay confidential.
One-fifth of data sets intended to support replication breached privacy standards, study finds
A bibliometric analysis in Nature purports to confirm that women scientists are discriminated against. But the full picture might be much more interesting.
Offer of associate EU membership opens the door to new trans-Atlantic relationships in Horizon Europe, Erasmus+ and beyond
