This post looks at the progress that's been made toward open research data -- what's been achieved, what still needs work, and what happens next?

Guidelines released in late March by China's State Council, the country's top governing body, state something that might sound surprising to outsiders: that research ethics should reflect national identity.

In the second year of the Horizon Europe programme, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are not formally associated with the largest research and innovation funding programme in the world.

If the vaunted features of science that are used rhetorically to promote and justify its status as an aid to international affairs are truly valued, it would be precisely in the most trying circumstances that science diplomacy should remain a viable alternative.

Whether it's about COVID or badger culls, the science can be unclear. But the public must hear about it from the researchers, not from government press officers.

Redesigning social media to improve society requires a new platform for research.

Prof Danny Altmann, immunologist at Imperial College London, says UK's approach fails to take the impact of infections seriously

To live with the coronavirus, we cannot be blind to its movements.

Researchers must try to resolve a dispute on the best way to use and care for Earth's resources.

If researchers want to have maximum impact, women must be at the table.

Two years since COVID-19 forced labs to shut down, group leaders describe how academic research has changed, perhaps forever.

This International Women's Day, let's start working towards ending gender discrimination in science for good.

For about 20 years, Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet has maintained a partnership with one of Russia's main cardiology clinics, the Almazov National Medical Research Centre in St. Petersburg. This institutional tie was abruptly suspended on 2 March, as part of Sweden's sanctions for the war in Ukraine.

Stereotypes, biases and lack of recognition by teachers and mentors are destroying the confidence of talented female students and driving them from physical sciences, says Chandralekha Singh.

Although many people of color in STEM have a fervent desire to make their field and workplace more equitable, pressure to perform duties unrelated to their research creates a service burden that many of their white colleagues do not bear. 

Review of a webinar featuring several key players in implementing Plan S, asking what lessons have been learned?

United Nations resolution on greening plastics is a positive step. As negotiations begin, they must be evidence-based.

Successful policy and preparedness require more diverse evidence than researchers often encounter.

The goal is to get Russian scientists to "look at the facts".

Science is key to building resilience and averting future crises - but that is only possible if policy-makers listen to and trust in both the science and the scientists.

"We respect Ukrainian statehood … and we treat the European choice of our neighbours with understanding." So said some 650 Russian scientists and science journalists in an open letter last week criticising Moscow's onslaught against Ukraine.

Innovation challenges offer valuable lessons and resources for researcher-entrepreneurs.

ASAPBio offers set of principles and guidelines for preprint feedback.

"We respect Ukrainian statehood … and we treat the European choice of our neighbours with understanding." So said some 650 Russian scientists and science journalists in an open letter last week criticising Moscow's onslaught against Ukraine.

Richard de Grijs comes to grips with his field's use of potentially offensive language.

Two years into the pandemic, the catchphrase allows elected officials to duck responsibility for setting Covid rules.

Scientific collaboration has become a casualty of Switzerland's and the United Kingdom's tussles with the European Union.

The right to a healthy environment and a safe climate for all should be on the agenda for the proposed Citizens' Assembly.

Small interventions that influence people's behavior can be tested. But the real world requires big, hard-to-measure changes too, scientists say.

The metaphor of the leaky pipeline  describes how the number of women, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and other minoritized groups progressively decreases at every stage of their academic careers. However, the passivity of this approach has often been criticized. Women and BIPOC don’t leak out of the pipeline. Instead, they are forced out of it under pressure behind blockages.