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Princeton University and 15 other leading research institutions and academic associations have filed a lawsuit against the National Science Foundation (NSF).
In the early days of NSF, its leaders dreamed of large-scale federal investment in basic science but had to carve out a place for the new foundation in the complicated landscape of US science funding.
World’s largest public funder of biomedical research cites national security concerns for move.
EU’s R&I programme should aid society, alliance says, including through collaborative and multidisciplinary funding.
In this interview with Peter Suber, the Senior Advisor on Open Access at Harvard Library and Director of the Harvard Open Access Project at the Berkman Klein Center discusses the current alarming developments taking place in the US research landscape – and offers valuable advice to colleagues from abroad.
Academy highlights “urgent and unparalleled opportunity to attract the smartest minds leaving the United States”.
“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020
Implementing the Competitiveness Compass needs a partnership between policymakers and higher education, says Thomas Jørgensen
One major consequence of the assault on research by president Donald Trump’s administration has been to put data in jeopardy, through changes in funding and access to data repositories and other data collections.
Global picture makes European leadership and a pragmatic approach even more important.
The new Trump administration has been more reckless and destructive than the first time around. The Union of Concerned Scientists is working to monitor, contain, and reverse this administration’s abuses of science.
This blog explores why citizen science matters and how governments can support its growth through inclusive strategies, robust infrastructure, and international collaboration.
Research is facing major integrity challenges, with some of the prevailing incentives in the sector presenting “a global systemic problem that requires a global systemic solution”.
Many complex problems and emerging phenomena require joint research efforts across academic disciplines. Interdisciplinary research (IDR) is therefore widely considered a promising approach to knowledge production. This paper reviews the literature on IDR from the perspective of individual researchers engaging in or considering this type of research.
