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Partisan Politics and Perceptions of Immorality

Partisan Politics and Perceptions of Immorality

Democrats and Republicans overestimate the percentage of people in the opposing party who approve of widely agreed-upon moral wrongs, such as theft or animal abuse, according to a study. According to the authors, correcting the basic morality bias is an effective approach to combat political dehumanization.

Climate Action from a Gender Perspective: A Systematic Review of the Impact of Climate Policies on Inequality

Climate Action from a Gender Perspective: A Systematic Review of the Impact of Climate Policies on Inequality

This systematic review highlights the scarcity of research integrating a gender perspective into climate policy impact assessments and calls for more gender-sensitive analyses and the application of feminist theory to address this gap.

Enhancing the Right to Science

Enhancing the Right to Science

Enhancing the right to science is increasingly recognized as a central piece in the multi-facetted puzzle of solving the triple planetary crisis. Its role as a cross-cutting catalyst in relation to other human rights dimensions of major global challenges from pandemics, biodiversity, toxics to climate change, calls for far more comprehensive attention to the bundle of rights linking science, scientists and scientific practice to contemporary sustainability responses

Why Scientific Integrity Matters Now More Than Ever

Why Scientific Integrity Matters Now More Than Ever

This year, 49% of the world will go to the polls. Political support for science-informed policy is not a given. Maria Caffrey, a whistleblower who defended scientific integrity under the Trump administration, offers advice on media engagement during this time.

How I'm Using AI Tools to Help Universities Maximize Research Impacts

How I'm Using AI Tools to Help Universities Maximize Research Impacts

Artificial-intelligence algorithms could identify scientists who need support with translating their work into real-world applications and more. Leaders must step up.

Liberals and conservatives differ on climate change beliefs, but are relatively united in taking action

Liberals and conservatives differ on climate change beliefs, but are relatively united in taking action

The division between liberals and conservatives on both climate-change beliefs and related policy support is long-standing. However, the results of a newly released global experiment show that despite these differences, the two camps actually align when it comes to taking certain actions to combat climate change.

Landing a Global Report on National Territories: the Reception of AR6 in France and Switzerland - Npj Climate Action

Landing a Global Report on National Territories: the Reception of AR6 in France and Switzerland - Npj Climate Action

his article explores the reception of the IPCC reports on a national scale, focusing on the case of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) in France and Switzerland.

Understanding the science-policy interface in urban climate governance from a co-production perspective: Insights from the cases of Hamburg and São Paulo

Understanding the science-policy interface in urban climate governance from a co-production perspective: Insights from the cases of Hamburg and São Paulo

Urban governance, the interplay of governmental bodies with other actors shaping decision-making and its implementation, plays a key role for mitigation and adaptation measures in cities. While knowledge co-production is advanced as an instrumental approach to support climate action, a gap between knowledge and implementation persists.

Policy Advice in Times of Crisis

Policy Advice in Times of Crisis

In sudden crises, there is a lot of uncertainty, yet decisions need to be made quickly. Alexander Bogner and his team used examples from Austria, Germany and the UK to shed light on what good policy advice should look like in times of crisis.

The Reason Why Africa's Borders Are So Straight is More Complicated Than Most Think

The Reason Why Africa's Borders Are So Straight is More Complicated Than Most Think

Research shows Africa's borders were not entirely arbitrary, shaped instead by negotiations involving precolonial territories and geographical landmarks.

Addressing Climate Change With Behavioral Science: A Global Intervention Tournament in 63 Countries

Addressing Climate Change With Behavioral Science: A Global Intervention Tournament in 63 Countries

A recent study tested expert-crowd-sourced interventions for climate mitigation outcomes.

Practical Guide to Supporting Diversity in Research Environments

Practical Guide to Supporting Diversity in Research Environments

Science Europe’s new ‘Practical Guide to Supporting Diversity in Research Environments’ highlights key findings from a membership survey conducted in 2023, showcases good practices, and provides practical recommendations.

Open Access Research Outputs Receive More Diverse Citations

Open Access Research Outputs Receive More Diverse Citations

The goal of open access is to allow more people to read and use research outputs. An observed association between highly cited research outputs and open access has been claimed as evidence of increased usage of the research, but this remains controversial.

Designing for Diversity - What Makes People Pick Up a Science Magazine?

Designing for Diversity - What Makes People Pick Up a Science Magazine?

Jemima Coleman and Wendy Sadler say that science magazines have a responsibility to ensure that science is accessible and inclusive for all

Towards Understanding Policy Design Through Text-as-data Approaches: The Policy Design Annotations (POLIANNA) Dataset - Scientific Data

Towards Understanding Policy Design Through Text-as-data Approaches: The Policy Design Annotations (POLIANNA) Dataset - Scientific Data

Despite the importance of ambitious policy action for addressing climate change, large and systematic assessments of public policies and their design are lacking as analysing text manually is labour-intensive and costly. POLIANNA is a dataset of policy texts from the European Union (EU) that are annotated based on theoretical concepts of policy design, which can be used to develop supervised machine learning approaches for scaling policy analysis.

A Synthesis of Evidence for Policy from Behavioural Science During COVID-19 - Nature

A Synthesis of Evidence for Policy from Behavioural Science During COVID-19 - Nature

Evaluation of evidence generated to test 19 proposed policy recommendations and guidance for the future.

Female Researchers Are Less Influenced by Journal Prestige - Will It Hold Back Their Careers?

Female Researchers Are Less Influenced by Journal Prestige - Will It Hold Back Their Careers?

Drawing on a natural experiment that occurred when German institutions lost access to journals published by Elsevier, W. Benedikt Schmal shows how female researchers made significantly different publication choices to their male counterparts during this period.

The efficacy of Facebook’s vaccine misinformation policies and architecture during the COVID-19 pandemic

The efficacy of Facebook’s vaccine misinformation policies and architecture during the COVID-19 pandemic

During the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, Facebook began to remove vaccine misinformation as a matter of policy. This study evaluated the efficacy of these policies using a comparative interrupted time-series design.