Being frozen out of Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ for over three years has taken its toll on the country’s academics.
 

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.

As Brussels debates how to extract more economic value out of its investments in science and technology, this news tracker brings together the latest developments in EU and national R&I policies

Afghanistan is the latest test case for how Europe helps researchers threatened at home or fleeing abroad.

The Global Research Initiative on Open Science has opened its first call for projects that synthesise evidence for policy.

Leaked documents contain measures calculated to strengthen role of EU member states in strategic priority setting.

European Research Council reversal follows a backlash against new measures to control proposal numbers

Positions ‘terminated, effective immediately’, says email to scientists sent on president’s behalf, in move labelled ‘dangerous attack’ on US innovation

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.

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).

National policies alone will not be enough for the EU’s newer member states to catch up to top performers

Largest illegal database of scientific papers has gaps in recently published literature, but its chatbot can still prove useful—especially for less-timely questions

Country’s wars against Iran and Lebanon have renewed debate over whether Europe should sever research ties.

New technologies are needed to help break the EU’s dependence on foreign energy supplies.

UNU-CPR and partners launch new report translating breakthrough science into actionable policy for planetary health.

The European Parliament’s budget committee has adopted an interim report and compromise amendments calling for a stronger, predictable EU budget from 2028.

The US has seen a particular drop in university autonomy, which has fallen by 50% in the past decade, faster than several countries moving toward autocracy

More U.S. scientists are running for state and federal office in the U.S. midterm elections than ever before.