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Americans Maintain High Levels of Trust in Science

Americans Maintain High Levels of Trust in Science

A new report analyzing decades of public opinion surveys reveals that the public's trust in scientists has remained stable and high over decades.

Highly Cited Researchers in Web of Science

Highly Cited Researchers in Web of Science

Recognizing the world's most influential researchers  of the past decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.

Quality over Quantity: How the Dutch Research Council is Giving Researchers the Opportunity to Showcase Diverse Types of Talent

Quality over Quantity: How the Dutch Research Council is Giving Researchers the Opportunity to Showcase Diverse Types of Talent

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) is piloting a narrative CV format in the Veni scheme, its major funding instrument for early career researchers. The format advances showcasing diverse types of talent and encourages assessment of quality rather than quantity.

Horizon 2020 Final Report on Research Integrity

Horizon 2020 Final Report on Research Integrity

The Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) on Research Integrity, which forms the basis of this report, was carried out between July 2018 and June 2019 by a dedicated Policy Support Facility (PSF) panel consisting of four independent experts and twelve countries.

Graduate Students Protest Trump Labor Board's Proposal to Exempt Them from Definition of "Employee"

Graduate Students Protest Trump Labor Board's Proposal to Exempt Them from Definition of "Employee"

Graduate students said their schools would have no reason to bargain with them over wages, health care and other compensation items if they aren't considered employees under the National Labor Relations Act.

Academia in Uproar over 'planned €12bn Cut' to EU R&D

Academia in Uproar over 'planned €12bn Cut' to EU R&D

Member states' reported plans for Horizon Europe branded 'completely unacceptable' and potentially 'disastrous'.

Why NIH is Beefing Up Its Data Sharing Rules After 16 Years

Why NIH is Beefing Up Its Data Sharing Rules After 16 Years

Draft update to 2003 policy of the National Institute of Health will require that all grantees make data sets freely available.

History As a Giant Data Set: How Analysing the Past Could Help Save the Future

History As a Giant Data Set: How Analysing the Past Could Help Save the Future

Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis?

UK Academics Face Furious Backlash for Encouraging Students to Vote

UK Academics Face Furious Backlash for Encouraging Students to Vote

Universities have a legal obligation to encourage voter registration. This has prompted an angry reaction in some areas.

Huge Study Documents Gender Gap in Chemistry Publishing

Huge Study Documents Gender Gap in Chemistry Publishing

Analysis finds female-led papers are more likely to be rejected, and less likely to be cited, than those with male corresponding authors.

As SpaceX Launches 60 Starlink Satellites, Scientists See Threat to 'Astronomy Itself'

As SpaceX Launches 60 Starlink Satellites, Scientists See Threat to 'Astronomy Itself'

Various companies are pressing ahead with plans for internet service from space, which has prompted astronomers to voice concerns about the impact on research from telescopes on Earth.

E.P.A. to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health Rules

E.P.A. to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health Rules

A new agency rule would restrict the science that can be used in drafting health regulations by requiring researchers to turn over confidential health data.

Science Funds for Minority Colleges Become Political Football in the Senate

Science Funds for Minority Colleges Become Political Football in the Senate

Minority-serving colleges and universities are looking on helplessly as vital funding for their science, engineering and math programs are bogged down in the Senate morass.

Who Owns H.I.V.-Prevention Drugs? The Taxpayers, U.S. Says

Who Owns H.I.V.-Prevention Drugs? The Taxpayers, U.S. Says

In an unexpected lawsuit, US federal officials claim that Gilead Sciences willfully disregarded government patents on medicines necessary to end the AIDS epidemic.

A Turning Point is a Time for Reflection - Crossref

A Turning Point is a Time for Reflection - Crossref

Crossref strives for balance. Different people have always wanted different things from us and, since our founding, we have brought together diverse organizations to have discussions-sometimes contentious-to agree on how to help make scholarly communications better. Being inclusive can mean slow progress, but we've been able to advance by being flexible, fair, and forward-thinking. We have been helped by the fact that Crossref's founding organizations defined a clear purpose in our original certificate of incorporation, which reads:

Academics Protest As Cambridge Fellow Told to Leave Britain

Academics Protest As Cambridge Fellow Told to Leave Britain

Letter warns immigration rules may damage UK universities' ability to attract global talent

The Beijing Declaration on Research Data

The Beijing Declaration on Research Data

The Beijing Declaration is intended as a timely statement of core principles to encourage global cooperation, especially for public research data.

Increasing Gender Diversity in the STEM Research Workforce

Increasing Gender Diversity in the STEM Research Workforce

In this article, potentially high-impact policy changesare outlined that build upon existing mechanisms for research funding and governance and that can be rapidly implemented to counteract barriers facing women in science. These approaches must be coupled to vigorous and continuous outcomes-based monitoring, so that the most successful strategies can be disseminated and widely implemented.

Physics Worth More to EU Economy Than Retail and Financial Services

Physics Worth More to EU Economy Than Retail and Financial Services

Industries that rely on physics expertise contribute more to the EU economy than financial services or retail, according to a new study.