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Stephen Curry critically examines proposals for a new “golden age” of science and questions approaches that promise to improve science through strongly directed reform. He argues for the importance of academic freedom, pluralism and constructive disagreement in determining how science develops.
Opposition win for movement led by students and academics also changes prospects for EU accession
Institutions need to take responsibility for colleagues doing politicised research.
Many academics are concerned about threats to independent enquiry in higher education. Here's how it can be protected while taking legitimate concerns into account.
The latest Scholars at Risk Free to Think report shows academic freedom continues to be under increasing attack in many countries. But erosion of academic freedom could be reversed by new governments.
Alarmed by the victory of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in an east German state government election, major higher education organisations have made urgent pleas to uphold academic freedom.
NSF and the Department of Commerce have scrubbed references to the dangers of political interference in science from official agency policy documents.
Violent state repression and government interference in university autonomy lead the global decline in academic freedom, according to Scholars at Risk’s (SAR) Free to Think 2026 report.
The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has signed the position paper Free Science – Successful Economy – Strong Germany, published today by the Berlin Research Network.
Is it a good faith attempt to fix problems in academia, or a smokescreen for cuts to universities and political control over science?
External influences - such as politics, funding and the media - are increasingly putting the autonomy of research under pressure.
Europe can only deliver on its ambitions with research and innovation, proposes, among other things, establishing the free movement of knowledge as a fifth European freedom, alongside the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital.
If not for money, disgruntled researchers from around the world might still come to Europe for a taste of academic freedom
Competitive funding is breaking down just a few years after it was set up using EU and World Bank money.
Being frozen out of Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ for over three years has taken its toll on the country’s academics.
Afghanistan is the latest test case for how Europe helps researchers threatened at home or fleeing abroad.
The US has seen a particular drop in university autonomy, which has fallen by 50% in the past decade, faster than several countries moving toward autocracy
Hungarian academics are hopeful that an EU ruling banning 30 institutions, including 21 universities, from Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ will finally be lifted with the election of a new government.
European universities celebrate opportunity for Hungarian institutions to restore academic freedom.
This post is an urgent call to push back against global trends in academic censorship and threats to free speech in scholarly communications.
Seit Donald Trump wieder Präsident ist, hat sich die Lage an US-Universitäten drastisch verändert: Studierende fürchten Abschiebungen, Wissenschaftler verlieren ihre Stellen und wichtige Forschungsprojekte werden gestrichen.
For decades, research universities have relied on federal funding, with no guarantee that it will last. Now their survival may depend on compliance with the government.
