More than 120 researchers and medical professionals from around the world have written an open letter to the editor of the Lancet raising serious concerns about a large and widely publicised global study that prompted the World Health Organisation to halt several Covid-19 clinical trials.

How can repositories contribute to their FAIR share? A Virtual workshop on June 1st about Equity and democratization of knowledge.

Postdoctoral researchers play a crucial role in many research groups, serving as mentors, teachers, and leaders as they develop their skills and prepare for scientific careers. However, the coronavirus disease crisis has put funding and support for postdoc positions at risk, threatening to upend the career paths available to these junior scientists.

The testing project is proving to be a national model, because of the challenges the organizers overcame and what it showed about the spread of Covid-19.

If President Trump sidelines the World Health Organization, experts foresee incoherence, inefficiency and resurgence of deadly diseases.

The Opendata.ch 2020 Forum will explore New Data Narratives, diving in deep collaborative work, and aiming high!

23 New Grants Support Essential Open Source Tools in Biomedicine. 

Analysts are tracking false rumours about COVID-19 in hopes of curbing their spread.

Join this month's webinar to hear what could be done to reform the conference experience for both organisers and participants.

Agency would get a huge infusion of cash, and responsibility for maintaining U.S. global leadership in innovation, under bipartisan bills that have just been introduced in both houses of Congress.

Swissuniversities has adopted a new transformative pilot agreement with Elsevier for research access and Open Access publishing in Switzerland.

Researchers looking to make tests widely available worry as regulators freeze the team that first identified US community spread.

The authors of a preprint on use of hydroxychloroquine, the controversial drug heavily promoted by President Trump, have withdrawn the paper.

Nearly half of the Twitter accounts spreading messages on the social media platform about the coronavirus pandemic are likely bots, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University said.

Sweden has now overtaken the UK, Italy and Belgium to have the highest coronavirus per capita death rate in the world, throwing its decision to avoid a strict lockdown into further doubt.

There will be no face-to-face lectures in the next academic year due to coronavirus, the university says.

VSNU, NFU, NWO and Elsevier have agreed publishing, reading and open science services to support Dutch research and innovation ambitions.

While Moderna blitzed the media, it revealed very little information - and most of what it did disclose were words, not data.

The immune response is similar to the response seen in people who have been infected by the virus, known as SARS-CoV-2, and recovered.

Science journals will have to disclose the costs of publishing articles by July 2022 in order for them to be paid for by a coalition of research funders pushing for open access.

From July 2022 only publishers who adhere to the newly approved Plan S price transparency frameworks will be eligible to access funds from cOAlition S members.

Researchers hope llama antibodies could help protect humans who have not been infected.

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Inequality made historical pandemics 'worse than they had to be'.

Julia Gillard, the former Prime Minister of Australia, has been appointed as the next Chair of Wellcome. She will will succeed Eliza Manningham-Buller, who is stepping down from the role in April 2021.

Studies of social networks show that opposition to vaccines is small but far-reaching - and growing.

Business Secretary Alok Sharma has announced that Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser DBE FRS will join UK Research and Innovation as its new Chief Executive. She will succeed Sir Mark Walport who announced in September last year that he would retire in 2020. Professor Leyser will start her new role on Monday June 29.

In collaboration with SPARC Europe, a survey to map Open Access (OA) and Open Science (OS) infrastructure across Europe was launched. The aim is to establish a core understanding of Europe's current field of Open resources and gain insight into their usage, durability, and adherence to core open principles and standards.

New initiative couples rapid release of new results with expert review.

In a secret experiment, researchers replaced the dysfunctional brain cells of a Parkinson's patient with the progeny of an extraordinary type of stem cell.