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COP26 Special Report on Climate Change and Health

COP26 Special Report on Climate Change and Health

The Health Argument for Climate Action. The 10 recommendations in the COP26 Special Report on Climate Change and Health propose a set of priority actions from the global health community to governments and policy makers, calling on them to act with urgency on the current climate and health crises. The recommendations were developed in consultation with over 150 organisations and 400 experts and health professionals. They are intended to inform governments and other stakeholders ahead of the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and to highlight various opportunities for governments to prioritise health and equity in the international climate movement and sustainable development agenda. Each recommendation comes with a selection of resources and case studies to help inspire and guide policymakers and practitioners in implementing the suggested solutions.

Science Is Rising: STEM Students Rocked the Vote in 2020 Election

Science Is Rising: STEM Students Rocked the Vote in 2020 Election

Science Network community and partnerships manager Melissa Varga shares her rundown of recent student voter data-it's good news for democracy.

Human Species Who Lived 500,000 Years Ago Named As Homo Bodoensis

Human Species Who Lived 500,000 Years Ago Named As Homo Bodoensis

Species was direct ancestor of early humans in Africa and discovery has led to reassessment of epoch

Gender Monitoring: How Women Fare in SNSF Project Funding

Gender Monitoring: How Women Fare in SNSF Project Funding

The Swiss research landscape suffers from a chronic underrepresentation of women. This can also be seen in the share of women applying for funding at the SNSF. But how did this share evolve over time? And have women been less successful to raise funds?

Academia's Ableist Mindset Needs to Change

Academia's Ableist Mindset Needs to Change

Four junior researchers with disabilities describe their career experiences to date, and how colleagues can act as allies.

Why Hundreds of Scientists Are Weighing in on a High-Stakes US Abortion Case

Why Hundreds of Scientists Are Weighing in on a High-Stakes US Abortion Case

Studies suggest that a reversal of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision would be detrimental for many.

Mapping the Impact of Papers on Various Status Groups in Excellencemapping.net: a New Release of the Excellence Mapping Tool

Mapping the Impact of Papers on Various Status Groups in Excellencemapping.net: a New Release of the Excellence Mapping Tool

In over five years, Bornmann, Stefaner, de Moya Anegon, and Mutz (2014b) and Bornmann, Stefaner, de Moya Anegón, and Mutz (2014c, 2015) have published several releases of the www.excellencemapping.net tool revealing (clusters of) excellent institutions worldwide based on citation data. With the new release, a completely revised tool has been published. It is not only based on citation data (bibliometrics), but also Mendeley data (altmetrics). Thus, the institutional impact measurement of the tool has been expanded by focusing on additional status groups besides researchers such as students and librarians. Furthermore, the visualization of the data has been completely updated by improving the operability for the user and including new features such as institutional profile pages. In this paper, we describe the datasets for the current excellencemapping.net tool and the indicators applied. Furthermore, the underlying statistics for the tool and the use of the web application are explained.

World's Chief Scientists Urge Cop26 Attendees to Step Up Low-Carbon Policies

World's Chief Scientists Urge Cop26 Attendees to Step Up Low-Carbon Policies

Signatories include scientists from US, EU, India and African and South American countries.

Maria Leptin Takes Up Post As Head of ERC

Maria Leptin Takes Up Post As Head of ERC

The new president of the European Research Council (ERC) wants to see the budget doubled to increase its ability to fund excellent science and says the agency must remain independent.

COVID Vaccines for Kids Are Coming

COVID Vaccines for Kids Are Coming

Kids under 12 years generally can't get a COVID vaccine. US authorities will rule on emergency approval for the BioNTech-Pfizer jab for 5- to 11-year-olds.

Challenges to Democracy in Europe: Insights Into a Complex and Turbulent Political Climate

Challenges to Democracy in Europe: Insights Into a Complex and Turbulent Political Climate

Results from some of the innovative EU-funded research that help us to better understand the major political issues of the day and provide recommendations for policymakers, citizens and other organisations to better respond to the threats facing European democracy.

British Scientists Being 'frozen Out' of EU Research Due to NI Row, Claims MP

British Scientists Being 'frozen Out' of EU Research Due to NI Row, Claims MP

Bill Cash says UK still not being made full member of Horizon Europe science programme linked to dispute over NI protocol

The Secret to South Korea's COVID Success? Combining High Technology with the Human Touch

The Secret to South Korea's COVID Success? Combining High Technology with the Human Touch

To combat COVID and future pandemics, governments need to heed the lessons of social interventions and not just the technological ones.

Mandates Likely Work to Increase Vaccine Uptake

Mandates Likely Work to Increase Vaccine Uptake

Rather than causing a backlash, vaccine mandates promote vaccination uptake, according to research from the University of Pennsylvania.

COVID, Racism, China: Three Tests for the Next NIH Leader

COVID, Racism, China: Three Tests for the Next NIH Leader

The successor to Francis Collins will need to be steadfast, nimble and creative in how they run the world's largest biomedical research agency at a pivotal time.

Commission Completes Horizon Negotiations with Israel in Rare Association Success

Commission Completes Horizon Negotiations with Israel in Rare Association Success

The EU has wrapped up Horizon Europe negotiations with Israel and hopes to sign it up as an associated country before the end of the year, despite pressure from pro-Palestinian academics and objections in Brussels to the country's settlement policies. While the association was expected, the breakthrough comes as uncertainty clouds the status of the UK and Switzerland, two other major potential partners of the research framework.

Breast Cancer in Africa: A Growing Dilemma

Breast Cancer in Africa: A Growing Dilemma

As the world marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month, DW examines the rising rates of breast cancer in Nigeria, Uganda and Malawi. Lifesaving information is often scarce, and many patients lack access to adequate treatment.

Scholar-led.network: New Support for Scientific Publication Projects

Scholar-led.network: New Support for Scientific Publication Projects

The scholar-led.network is an alliance of Open Access stakeholders that was constituted at the beginning of 2021 as a “digital focus group” in the context of the project “open-access.network”.