The Boundaries of an Infinite Expanse
For more than a year now, we've spent more time in virtual spaces than ever before. Mostly involuntarily. What does this do to us? And what opportunities do today's digital solutions offer us?
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Just Because Your Early Career Was Hell Doesn't Mean Others' Has to Be
Just Because Your Early Career Was Hell Doesn't Mean Others' Has to Be
The responsibility for better culture lies with the workplace itself. Reporting on burnout and the future of work, this article explores lasting shifts in workplace culture.
SHAPE-ID: Final Event & Toolkit Launch
Pathways to Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research: The SHAPE-ID Toolkit. Join us on 10 June for our final event and the launch of our project toolkit, which offers tools and resources to help researchers, research organisations, funders, policymakers, and societal partners make informed decisions about developing and supporting inter- and transdisciplinary research.
Electrifying Classic Cars
Starting with the classics, this unique shop is converting existing cars into all-electric road warriors.
A Time Capsule for Future Social Researchers
We ask prominent scholars to select a visual artifact of this time that will help future researchers understand the Covid-19 crisis.
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Biomedical Applications with the Appropriate Regulation of Data
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Biomedical Applications with the Appropriate Regulation of Data
The risks associated with poor medical database management are ever heightened in today's global pandemic, as the world struggles with control over COVID-19.
Toward a Sustainable Model of Scientific Publishing
We need a sustainable model of scientific publishing that is beneficial to scientists, universities, and the public.
Open Science in Spain: Towards a Coordinated Strategy
Spain needs to set out a wider and clear OS strategy and take decisive, coordinated actions that build upon and improve existing structures to bring itself back to the forefront of OS.
Towards Inclusive Funding Practices for Early Career Researchers
Towards Inclusive Funding Practices for Early Career Researchers
Implementing changes to promote a fairer distribution of funding is necessary to improve career prospects and to drive excellence in scientific research.
Stories, Statistics, and Authenticity in Health Communications
Stories, Statistics, and Authenticity in Health Communications
As the pandemic worsened in the United Kingdom during spring 2020, political disputes turned in a strange direction. The UK government started to claim that the UK’s Covid-19 statistics could not be compared with any other country.
Helping to Steer Funding to the Frontiers of Research
Prof. Liselotte Højgaard shares her first impressions as a new member of the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC) and explains what makes the ERC so important for long-term frontier research.
Forced Academic Migration
Forced Academic Migration
Virtual Conference: Academia in times of crises.
We Know What You Did During Lockdown
After watching this short film on how much data private companies are able to gather about you (data that we willingly give them in some cases), you might be forgiven for thinking that, never mind some far flung future, we are living in a full-on dystopia right now.
How to structure the discussion part in your journal article
Helping scientists communicate: The CommKit is a collection of guides to successful scientific communication, written by MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering Communication Fellows.
What Do University Applicants Want from Their Higher Education Institutions?
When is the right time to restart on-campus events for prospective students in the UK; and if they were invited, would they want to come and what kind of experience would they want?
ERC Advanced Grant Call Opened
Are you an established, leading principal investigator who wants long-term funding to pursue a ground-breaking, high-risk project? The ERC Advanced Grant could be for you. Who can apply? Applicants for the ERC Advanced Grants - called Principal Investigators (PI) - are expected to be active researchers who have a track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years. The Principal Investigators should be exceptional leaders in terms of originality and significance of their research contributions.
The Modern American University Is a Right-Wing Institution
Just look at who is really in control.
Every Child on Their Own Trampoline
Private affluence is individuals gaining things for themselves – possessions, nice homes and experiences, trampolines. Public affluence is money spent lavishly on things that are shared – libraries, parks, buses, playgrounds.
The Openness Profile of Knowledge Exchange: What Can Infrastructure Providers Do?
The Openness Profile of Knowledge Exchange: What Can Infrastructure Providers Do?
Knowledge Exchange, a cooperative partnership of six national research-supporting organisations in Europe, has explored the development of an Openness Profile during an 18-month research evaluation of Open Science.
Ending the Science-policy Gap
There should be a science-based policymaking process in disaster risk reduction.
Webinar "Biodegradable Plastics: How Do We Engage with Consumers and Society?" (21 May)
Webinar "Biodegradable Plastics: How Do We Engage with Consumers and Society?" (21 May)
This interactive webinar co-organised by SAPEA and the Royal Irish Academy will facilitate discussion between an expert panel and a live international audience, addressing a range of questions.
New Technology Makes Tumor Eliminate Itself
A new technology developed by researchers from the University of Zürich enables the body to produce therapeutic agents on demand at the exact location where they are needed. The innovation could reduce the side effects of cancer therapy and may hold the solution to better delivery of Covid-related therapies directly to the lungs.
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum: A European human rights challenge
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum: A European human rights challenge
In 2020, sexual orientation and gender identity are still a mere afterthought in the asylum granting process. The SOGICA project has been documenting the consequences of this lack of understanding and provides recommendations for future British, German, Italian and European policy.
How Higher Education Needs to Fit into Lifelong Learning
Graeme Atherton, Director of the National Education Opportunities Network (NEON), University of West London and Gordon Marsden, Shadow Minister for Higher and Further Education and Skills from 2015 to 2019. You can find Graeme and Gordon on Twitter @NEONHE @GordonMarsden. Lighter days, brighter COVID statistics and the tremendous NHS achievement of mass vaccination across the […]
University of California System Will No Longer Require SAT and ACT Scores for Admission After Settlement Reached
University of California System Will No Longer Require SAT and ACT Scores for Admission After Settlement Reached
The University of California system will no longer require SAT and ACT scores for admission after reaching a settlement agreement, a statement from the UC system said.
7th World Conference on Research Integrity, 30 May – 2 June
This is a series of webinars on six engaging and relevant topics as a precursor to a live event in 2022. These discussions will form part of the broader RI dialogue, and set a foundation we hope to build on in Cape Town when the RI community gather to – at long last – meet in person.
Dope Science: A Freethink Original Series
Decades of misinformation and bad science has distorted what we think about illicit drugs - but that's changing. We're exploring what this paradigm shift could mean for our health and well-being.
Vaccine Side Effect, or Have You Just Been Alive for 40 Years?
Did you get the COVID-19 vaccine? A) Yes, because I'm ready to get back out there and start partying again! B) Yes, because I am haunted by the prospect of accidentally killing my parents or saddling my children with lifelong health complications.
Thinktank ohne Kontrolle: Kauft sich Milliardär Alfred Schindler ein Uni-Institut?
Thinktank ohne Kontrolle: Kauft sich Milliardär Alfred Schindler ein Uni-Institut?
Mit privaten Mitteln gründen Liberale an der Uni Luzern eine Denkfabrik. Wie viel Geld geflossen ist und was sie vorhaben, verraten die Involvierten nicht.
Explore the Coronavirus Pandemic Creative Responses Archive | Issues in Science and Technology
Explore the Coronavirus Pandemic Creative Responses Archive | Issues in Science and Technology
Creativity often flourishes in stressful times because innovation evolves out of need. During the coronavirus pandemic, we are witnessing a range of creative responses from individuals, communities, organizations, and industries.
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