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What Kind of Discipline is AI?

What Kind of Discipline is AI?

Universities are creating AI schools alongside disciplines such as logic, economics and communication without addressing their shared foundations. Mouhamdy M. Dahoud argues that this reflects an ontological gap, with current research funding and assessment taxonomies overlooking an entire category of science.

Protecting Science from Government Intimidation

Protecting Science from Government Intimidation

This past July, computer scientists across the US were granted temporary relief when a federal court blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its unconstitutional policy of censorship at the border.

Universities Must Stop Protecting Bullies OR More People Will Leave Science

Universities Must Stop Protecting Bullies OR More People Will Leave Science

Letting powerful academics off the hook and punishing the people they bullied sends the message that abuse is acceptable in academia.

NSF Set to Issue Lowest Number of New Grants in Four Decades

NSF Set to Issue Lowest Number of New Grants in Four Decades

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

Engagement with the scientific community can have a stimulating effect on Swiss diplomacy

Engagement with the scientific community can have a stimulating effect on Swiss diplomacy

This interview with Ambassador Philipp Stalder explains why Switzerland is trying to strengthen science-diplomacy links with African partners. It highlights existing Swiss-African research collaborations, and frames research cooperation as a way to build long-term trust and support foreign-policy objectives.

White House Plan for a 'Golden Age' of Science Ignores the Structures That Made the US a Scientific Superpower

White House Plan for a 'Golden Age' of Science Ignores the Structures That Made the US a Scientific Superpower

A new White House science strategy, laid out in a report titled Science: A New Golden Age, challenges an 80-year-old model that made the US the global scientific leader.

The Guardian view on the Lovell telescope: budget cuts to physics are bad science and worse politics

The Guardian view on the Lovell telescope: budget cuts to physics are bad science and worse politics

Funders have picked a damaging fight with scientists and the public. They should reconsider their plans.

APS Comment on Office of Management and Budget Proposed Rule for Federal Financial Assistance

APS Comment on Office of Management and Budget Proposed Rule for Federal Financial Assistance

The American Physical Society (APS) provides public comments regarding the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) proposed guidance, and expresses its unequivocal opposition to this proposed rule change.

The Planned Closure of Research Professional News is a Loss for the Sector

The Planned Closure of Research Professional News is a Loss for the Sector

Research Professional News recently announced its impending closure. Adam Golberg considers what is lost when there is no-one to report the "research" news.

Science as Europe’s Fifth Fundamental Freedom: Joint Statement by the Leopoldina, the ERC and Four European Academies

Science as Europe’s Fifth Fundamental Freedom: Joint Statement by the Leopoldina, the ERC and Four European Academies

Europe can only deliver on its ambitions with research and innovation, proposes, among other things, establishing the free movement of knowledge as a fifth European freedom, alongside the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital.