Open Data Day is the yearly event where we gather to reach out to new people and build new solutions to issues in our communities using open data. To make sure some of those events have everything they needed to be great for their communities, mini-grants for the people organizing Open Data Day events will be provided.

Publicly funded research brings social and economic benefits for all. It's critical that the global academic community continues to champion this work, says Ian Jacobs

Thousands of school children and university students across Switzerland skipped class on Friday to march in the streets and demand climate action, telling politicians "There is no planet B".

The sudden halt to US government functions leaves me worried about the effects on science for years to come, says Anne Jefferson.

And at NASA, nearly 200 postdocs furloughed

EU research chief Jean-Eric Paquet lays plans to refocus staff on policy goals, efficiency and cooperation with other parts of the Commission.

Harvard Library and the MIT Libraries are in broad support of Plan S and its goals while also recomending certain adjustments to the implementation details.

Lab gloves, fly food and charter planes - UK research institutes are preparing for a possible snap departure from the European Union in just 10 weeks.

Alyson Fox, the Director of Grants at Wellcome, explains why they're changing their policy on transferring grants to ensure research can thrive in the UK, EU and beyond.

Today, the Future Circular Collider (FCC) collaboration submitted its Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for publication.

Proposals to fight malaria by "driving" genes that slow its spread through mosquitoes is a high-risk, high-reward technology that presents a challenge to science journalists, according to a new report aimed at stimulating a fruitful, realistic public discussion of "post-normal" science and technology.

Der Mobbingfall an der ETH Zürich veranlasst den neuen Präsidenten Joël Mesot zu einer Massnahme.

In a recent documentary, the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist doubled down on comments he made a decade ago, then apologized for, regarding race, genetics and intelligence.

Following in the footsteps of linguistics journal Lingua, the editorial board of the Elsevier-owned Journal of Informetrics has resigned and launched a rival journal that will be free for all to read.

Today the entire editorial board of Informetrics, a major publication in the field of Scientometrics and Informetrics, has unanimously resigned their position. In the future they will dedicate their time to a new full open access journal: Quantitative Science Studies.

An analysis concluded that earth's oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a United Nations panel estimated five years ago, a finding with dire implications for climate change.

A second wave of closures looms as the government funding fight barrels towards a record-breaking fourth week.

Printer closures and paper shortages create scheduling headaches for academic authors and staff at university presses.

Agencies including the National Science Foundation are without funding

Data for age profile of academic workforces across the continent show wide variation between countries. 

Walter Ricciardi, the head of Italy's national health research organisation, says the populist government has 'difficulty interacting with science'.

Research community welcomes meteorologist as Trump's new science adviser, after two years without one, but the office he will run is currently closed.

Space missions can continue to collect data, but thousands of federal researchers are forced to stay home without pay.

The integration of AIRA - Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant - into Frontiers' digital peer-review platform enables faster, more efficient quality control and manuscript handling.

BMC Biology's 'portable peer review' policy aims to save editors and researchers time and effort, but academics question whether authors will want to share details of past rejections.

Senate confirms meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier to lead the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Grant checks from NSF and other funders won't go out. Meetings on grant applications won't take place. Impact will grow with length of standoff. Trump threat on border with Mexico alarms some Texas campuses.

But it will likely lack the broad powers favored by supporters of a Green New Deal.