Early career researchers face a cruel world these days. Even though they are an increasingly diverse cohort, they are still generally imagined as young, full-time academics without significant outside commitments.

Carlos Moedas, EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, has called for political leaders to speak more about science and innovation to connect people with the life-changing research that is funded by their taxes and has the potential to combat urgent global problems.

High-risk, high-reward ideas in areas such as AI, blockchain and synthetic biology are typical contenders for support from the EU’s new Innovation Council.

The accusations against the Hollywood producer have prompted frank conversations about sexual misconduct. But it will still take a lot to shift how higher education treats such cases, experts say.

On the important role of professional medical writers in improving the quality of reports on clinical trials.

For the cost of cutting corporate income taxes, the U.S. could provide universal pre-K and make tuition free at public colleges for nonaffluent students.

The independent High-Level Group of Innovators recommends bringing all relevant EU funding schemes into a single, fit-for-purpose 'one-stop-shop' for innovation financing.

Professor Aled Edwards asks why we need an Intellectual Property law.

A new system must build cross-sector collaboration, lower barriers to working together, and create excitement and tangible know-how to attract investment.

It’s clearly not open to all if scholars are required to pay to publish their results.

SciComm: Why it is essential, and how we can do it better.

National initiatives that track people, rather than papers, will lead to better science in the United States.

Last week another nonprofit platform called ScholarlyHub announced its plans for a site where researchers can also exchange ideas and work—if they pay a subscription fee.

The importance of addressing researchers’ recognition and reward structures, arguing it is time to move to a system that uses metrics and indicators that incentivise the types of behaviours that are good for research and researchers.

Genius is a male trait, it was widely believed in the 1940s.

Trevor Mundel, President of Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is eager to see Gates Open Research match the performance of Wellcome Open Research.

The interests of the legacy publishers cannot co-exist with the ideals of the Open Access movement.

Information manipulation is not new, yet everything is different. How do governments, preprints, algorithms, and our own responsibilities intersect? Where does peer review come in now?

How do evolving forms of digital scholarship fit into the current landscape and what are the implications for publishers?

Science could benefit from more reporting of null findings, even if the reports were briefer and had less detail than would be needed for peer review.

Recently, I have worked with a number of professional services firms committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. By Iris Bohnet.

Researchers should recognize communities that feel over-researched and under-rewarded.

Ideally, we want science and scholarship to be not only available to the general public, but also comprehensible to them. But the challenges to doing so are real, and may vary both by discipline and by study type.

Researchers who want professorships are sometimes driven to publish suspect findings.

Metrics are notoriously inappropriate for evaluating humanistic scholarship. HumetricsHSS is an initiative to embed metrics with humanistic values.

It sounds almost absurd, but that could be one factor behind the so-called “reproducibility crisis”.

Thomas Insel's biggest lesson from his shift from NIMH director to Silicon Valley entrepreneur: academic and technology company researchers should partner up.

A look at what we have published highlights the variety of editorial judgements in selecting and assessing papers.

Could postdoc unions be the next big thing in collective bargaining among academics? Recent filing at University of Washington could be beginning of a new round of organizing.

Far from being duped, researchers with few resources are turning to "predatory" journals to publish articles and polish resumes.