As War Escalates, Iran’s Universities Face Increasing Fire
Attacks have destroyed or damaged a wide range of academic and commercial research centers.
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Attacks have destroyed or damaged a wide range of academic and commercial research centers.
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies.
According to data from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the share of US basic and applied research funded by the federal government dropped from nearly 48% in 2009 to just over 34% in 2023. As that decline is likely to continue, some state governments are responding by boosting their research spending.
It’s hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free, researchers say.
Horizon Europe’s push for free inquiry clashes with Egypt’s human rights record, critics say.
Large language models could help reduce backlog of study proposals, but critics are wary of entrusting ethics to machines.
Concentrating funding at high-powered universities can maximize output, paper argues, but may sacrifice broader benefits
Agency will make researchers outside United States seek grants of their own rather than “subawards” from U.S. scientists.
Geoengineering could be crucial in the fight against climate change. But first scientists need to learn how to talk to the public about it
Agency moves to terminate nearly 1000 awards, including programs involving “DEI”.
Research centers move to reduce salaries and lay off staff.
Syrian researchers around the world begin to plan for the nation’s future
Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds
Scientists shocked as “blue-sky” Marsden Fund has half its budget shifted to research focused on helping economy.
Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say.
A contest with $300,000 in prize money aims to improve molecular assays needed to test aging treatments.
Discussions around global equity and justice in science typically emphasize the lack of diversity in the editorial boards of scientific journals, inequities in authorship, “parachute research,” dominance of the English language, or scientific awards garnered predominantly by Global North scientists. These inequities are pervasive and must be redressed. But there is a bigger problem. The legacy of colonialism in scientific research includes an intellectual property system that favors Global North countries and the big corporations they support. This unfairness shows up in who gets access to the fruits of science and raises the question of who science is designed to serve or save.
Authors are increasingly paying to publish their papers open access. But is it fair or sustainable?