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The SNSF and the Dutch Research Council have agreed to finance joint projects. This will make it much easier for Swiss researchers to collaborate with their Dutch counterparts.

MIT Press is launching a journal that will review Covid-19 preprints, in an effort to quickly call out misinformation and highlight credible research.

Are impact factors manipulated by a large-scale practice of self-citation?

There is wide agreement with the principles of Open Science in economics. This is shown by a ZBW study. However, there is still room for development regarding the implementation of Open Science on a b

The UK government is announcing today a package to support universities to continue research and innovation activities.

The UK government has announced some significant new measures for universities and research impacted by Covid-19 this year.

Two support packages will give greater job protection to thousands of researchers, scientists and technicians working at UK universities during coronavirus (COVID-19).

Science Advances article on diabetes drug co-authored by Mauro Ferrari retracted after readers spot irregularities

The agency has outlined actions it may take to deal with bullies and harassers, but it still relies on universities to report bad behaviour.

The world's premier health agency pushed a flawed coronavirus containment strategy - until it disappeared from public view one day before the outbreak was declared a pandemic.

Along with healthcare providers around the world, the Wellcome Trust PhD fellow Karin Purshouse is seeing the need for fast-tracked guidance on the virus and patient treatment.

Political parties demand Sweden's strategy be reviewed before next election in 2022.

The U.S. has seen more cases in the past week than in any week since the pandemic began.

Code for Science & Society aim to improve access to open data science practices and tools and support communities in open data science to grow sustainably and inclusively.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency's headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA.

But auditing such efforts will be difficult, while unintended consequences are always a risk, warns Athene Donald.

Unequal childcare burden blamed for fall in share of published research by women since schools shut, but funding bodies look to alleviate career impact.

Following an intense period of consultation and co-design, we are excited to unveil our first wave of projects, which will run for the remainder of RoRI's pilot phase (until autumn 2021). We are also delighted to announce our partners, who will be collaborating in the design and delivery of these projects. 

The research was the target of a conspiracy theory about the origin of the new coronavirus.

Latest action sows anxiety and confusion across the US scientific workforce.

European Union officials are racing to agree on who can visit the bloc as of July 1 based on how countries of origin are faring with new coronavirus cases. Americans, so far, are excluded, according to draft lists seen by The New York Times.

Covid-19 has slashed donations to medical research funding, charities warn Boris Johnson

ALLEA has launched a task force dedicated to open science and chaired by Luke Drury (Royal Irish Academy).

More than 1,400 researchers have signed a letter calling on the discipline to stop working on predictive-policing algorithms and other models.

A report on masks relied on unfounded assumptions, researchers charged, and the authors were permitted to choose their own reviewers.

As budgets tighten and the need for open resources swells, efforts to fund essential Open Science services remains critical, as claims the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS).

The president of Switzerland's top-ranked university says his institution is tentatively getting back to speed after the coronavirus lockdown - but that this is harder than anticipated.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) partners with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Yale University, and BMJ to help scientists share health and clinical research faster.

Key decisions on the revised submission deadline and impact assessment period have been confirmed, following a recent survey gathering views from the higher education sector.

We hoped that Covid-19 would be a seasonal infection. We hoped wrong.