Sharing research data: researcher behaviour and attitudes
Federal funders of research are increasing the stringency of their expectations that researchers make data collected in federally funded projects publicly available.
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With New Guidance, Trump Administration Deceptively Targets Scientific Integrity
With New Guidance, Trump Administration Deceptively Targets Scientific Integrity
Reverting SI policies to what they were in 2021 will unquestionably weaken them. By undoing the work of the past four years, federal agencies will abandon the benefits of all of the public consultation, careful consideration, and evidence gathered to develop Biden-era SI policies.
Pathways to gender equality in academia. National factors shaping women’s early career progression across Europe
Pathways to gender equality in academia. National factors shaping women’s early career progression across Europe
Throughout Europe, women remain underrepresented at the top of the scientific career ladder. Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis, we show how different combinations of science, gender equality, and social policies interact to constitute five distinct national pathways for gender-fair early career progression.
RFK Jr Has Slashed Vaccine Research. You Need To Know How Perilous That Is For The World
How Africa-led Clinical Trials Are Shaping Vaccine Science
African scientists are now designing clinical trials, steering analysis and defining the questions that matter. Africa is not just at the table; it is building it.
Fake Science, Faulty Methods, Misleading Testimony
How a rogue forensics lab in Chicago got people wrongfully convicted for driving high.
Stop the University Ranking Circus - Intervention
In June 2024, a study called for an end to use of ranking to validate research. The researchers gave their reasons. Others have followed even while the ranking industry seems to be coming off more and more popular with students, parents and recruiters. Below is an additional voice against the practice. There is no knowing […]
The Dangerous Precedent of Political Interference in Medical Research in Canada
Conspiracy Theories As Engines of Connection for Enriched Public Debates on Emerging Technologies
Conspiracy Theories As Engines of Connection for Enriched Public Debates on Emerging Technologies
Debates on contested emerging technologies illustrate how publics make sense of science and technology by making unexpected connections between scientific insights, values, hopes and fears.
Advancing transdisciplinarity through library–academic collaboration
Advancing transdisciplinarity through library–academic collaboration
Libraries are a central part of the academic system, which is increasingly embracing a range of approaches for tackling complex societal and environmental problems, including transdisciplinarity.
Scientists’ role in defending democracy
We know from other countries and contexts that aspiring authoritarians often target scientists, elevate loyalists, and suppress or sideline any who might have the knowledge, expertise, or power to challenge government transgression and failures to make science-based policy decisions. In response to such threats, the US scientific community can work to rebuild critical elements of the federal science enterprise now being dismantled or compromised, including science advisory committees and scientific assessments, which for decades have helped ensure that the best available science informs policy decisions.
Ask a Scientist: How Does Documenting Attacks on Science Stop Authoritarians?
Last month, UCS published Science and Democracy Under Siege: Documenting Six Months of the Trump Administration's Destructive Actions, a report that catalogs 402 attacks on science between January 20 and June 30, 2025.
Even Honest Research Results Can Flip - a New Approach to Assessing Robustness in the Social Sciences
Even Honest Research Results Can Flip - a New Approach to Assessing Robustness in the Social Sciences
When academic studies get things wrong, it is often blamed on misconduct. Yet even good-faith research can produce contradictory conclusions.
As Science Faces External Attacks, It Needs to Look Within to Defend and Reform
AI-based Fake Papers Are a New Threat to Academic Publishing
As an editor, I am receiving submissions from spurious authors consisting of previously published papers altered by AI. But why, asks Seongjin Hong
Why being open about science can make people trust it less, and what to do about it
Why being open about science can make people trust it less, and what to do about it
When people trust science, they can make better decisions, follow helpful rules and work together on big problems like health, climate change and new technology. But if people stop trusting science, it's easier for false information to spread, and harder to solve those problems.
What's Driving UK Universities to Set Up Campuses in India in a Changing Global Education Order?
Male Researchers Retract More Papers Than Their Female Peers
A new global study reveals that male researchers have higher paper retraction rates than their female peers. We spoke to the lead author to find out why this could be the case.
Universities Must Lead in Reclaiming Scientific Sovereignty
Africa's limited control over its own research priorities, publishing platforms, and funding streams has left the continent vulnerable to external i...
A Massive Fraud Ring Is Publishing Thousands of Fake Studies and the Problem is Exploding.
A Massive Fraud Ring Is Publishing Thousands of Fake Studies and the Problem is Exploding.
Organized misconduct is rapidly poisoning the global scientific record.
PLOS Responds to PNAS Study Detailing the Growth of Peer Review Integrity Issues
PLOS Responds to PNAS Study Detailing the Growth of Peer Review Integrity Issues
A new PNAS study uses openly available articles to map the scale of paper mill and peer review ring activity across scholarly publishing.
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