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Articles by David Matthews
High APCs are a barrier to academics in low- and middle-income countries, says Coalition S
Silence of academics allowing politicians to abandon pledges to back Horizon Europe funding in crunch talks, observers warn
Brussels wants to create centre hosting ‘the best talents in the field’, but some researchers doubt that a single organisation can tackle all the challenges
Researchers warn country is among the most hostile in Europe to experiments involving animals, and restrictions could get even tighter
Academics and students at the Higher School of Economics forbidden from disclosing affiliation when engaging in politics
Contract reveals the Free University of Berlin is bound by Chinese law, which critics fear gives Beijing influence over teaching content
Joybrato Mukherjee says Chinese researchers ‘not always on the same page’ over IP – and looks forward to a VR-enabled ‘entirely virtual semester abroad’
Hundreds of complaints are passed to regulator, including claims that punishing hours and pressure have contributed to divorces and estrangement from children
Ahead of a new law that critics fear will reduce tenure rights, French scientists have opposed CNRS chief’s full-throated support for competition
Richard Horton says periodicals can no longer sit ‘passively waiting’ for submissions and should instead focus on issues such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Gender quotas have improved female representation on internal panels, but researchers have highlighted that the loss of research time slows career progression
Universities are relieved the Greens have replaced the far right, but see challenges ahead over their management and comprehensive subject mix
Critics claim that only ‘congenial’ researchers get access to ride-hailing company’s data, while academic co-authors have potential conflicts of interest
Later this year, Florida State University students will move into the Renaissance-era Palazzo Bagnesi Falconeri, and programme directors insist the cost will be worth it
Germany’s research ministry wants academia to provide the public with ‘answers’, but scholars say it’s not that simple
Pioneer of ‘movement ecology’ explains how the new-found ability to track individual animals is leading to fresh insights about their behaviour and societies
Study finds that overseas scholars in former communist countries work there not out of deliberate choice but often due to ‘happenstance’, love or to escape poor job prospects at home
Proposals include new job classifications, a rolling back of metrics, and shorter publication lists in a bid to end excessive ‘emphasis on research performance’
Critics fear initiative could widen social inequalities
The EU’s next framework programme, Horizon Europe, is due to start in just over a year. But while its broad shape is settled, political wrangling over budget and participation rights means researchers are still unclear over their future funding prospects. David Matthews reports from Brussels
If periodicals hit open access targets, they could avoid being blacklisted by major European research funders in 2021
Elsevier could sell Dutch universities a bundle of journal access rights and software, raising concerns that universities could become stuck in one publisher’s software ecosystem
One institution has 26 vice-presidents, research finds, following calls for the number of senior managers to be radically cut
Caught up in a national anxiety about falling behind technologically, universities have recruited hundreds of new professors including data experts and digital humanities professors
