India overtakes Germany on research output
The South Asian country is now fourth in the world for science productivity but experts say quality issues remain
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Women are falling behind
Large-scale study backs up other research showing relative declines in women's research productivity during COVID-19.
UK universities sign deal to waive Plos publication fees
Three-year deal will allow researchers to publish papers without paying additional article-processing charges
Major US funder joins Plan S with 2022 open access deadline
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the biggest private US funder of biomedical research, seeks to push adoption of European-led standard
Funder got just five large grant bids from female PIs in 12 years
Success rate by award value also consistently lower for women, EPSRC report finds
Right-wingers much less likely to trust scientists
Overall trust in scientists higher than in governments, media and business, global survey finds
Far-right networks ‘sizeable’ Twitter audience for some pre-prints
Study says findings are ‘concrete evidence to support concerns about racist and sexist misappropriation of research’
Covid-19 is a chance to create a new model of knowledge transfer
A coalition of US universities is freely sharing technology and intellectual property related to coronavirus, but this approach must not stop at the pandemic
‘Book a scientist’: academics find a new way to engage public
German researchers let members of the public fire questions at them in 20-minute slots, and the result is a deep, albeit narrow, form of science communication
US scientists protest advanced computing focus for top grants
National Science Foundation’s new emphasis in postgraduate funding seen as backsliding on diversity
