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Covid-19 has prompted an explosion in preprints but has curtailed networking and underlined the extra pressures on women and junior academics. Simon Baker asks whether the pandemic era is a dark blip or a bright new dawn

Border hold-ups and complex new rules are causing supply shortages in laboratories that jeopardise research, says Wellcome Sanger Institute

Scholars fear threat of lawsuits is deterring academics from exploring Polish complicity in genocide

Security committee chairman does not want to cultivate a culture of ¡®learned helplessness¡¯ where universities defer judgement to the government

Salary boost might be more effective than legal crackdowns in thwarting international recruiting and funding approaches, argues Oklahoma representative

UK academia¡¯s champion for black postgraduate students, Anne-Marie Imafidon, and others explain how scholars can help diversify graduate education

Paper finds academics are less likely to work together if they focus on very similar areas

Universities have decried the GCRF cuts, but being corralled into promoting justice globalism is not academic freedom, says Bruce Macfarlane

Top-ranked global research institutions shine in many areas but lag on local growth and boosting skills

Too much attention is paid to academic titles and too little to the substantial contribution they should indicate, says Brian Bloch

New president appears to accept Trump¡¯s last-minute rules codification

Experts warn that diverting cash to pay for Horizon Europe association would exert a heavy toll on early career scholars

Concern that Covid and award incentives deter scholars from pooling their skills

Some of the world¡¯s leading universities appear to benefit from having another top-ranked institution in their backyard

Without audit studies, we would have an impoverished understanding of discrimination, say S. Michael Gaddis, Charles Crabtree and nine others

Countries are choosing regional partners over Western giants, Nature Index data show

At the Future of Humanity Institute, early career researchers are given two years to work out which questions are really worth asking

Rich accounts of how we screamed at the television, went swimming and adapted to the ¡®surrealness¡¯ of life during a pandemic fill a new archive

An open letter from academics across more than 20 European countries and Israel

Sector leaders welcome independent review into bureaucracy, which follows Dominic Cummings¡¯ diatribe against ¡®process horror¡¯ in research

Most collaboration will continue, but emphasis on building the EU¡¯s ¡®strategic autonomy¡¯ means academics in Israel, the UK and Switzerland could be shut out of some areas

The shortfall will damage the UK¡¯s reputation and halt projects that are making a real difference to communities worldwide, says Joanna Newman

Internal vetting found nothing wrong with rejected research projects, vice-chancellors tell parliament¡¯s security committee

¡®Ambiguous¡¯ regulations and lack of clarity around national security concerns are keeping universities in the dark, Australian inquiry hears

Former Downing Street guru says UK¡¯s new research agency must be freed from ¡®expensive disaster zone¡¯ of science bureaucracy

UK¡¯s overhaul of defence and foreign policy sees science as ¡®arena of systemic competition¡¯

A year since face-to-face academic conferences were cancelled, Jack Grove hears from scholars on their mixed experiences of digital events

Academics¡¯ desire to help the planet being ¡®lost amid the realities of being a researcher¡¯, survey concludes

We want commercial success but can¡¯t build it on an empty research larder, university lobby tells Canberra

Absence of sector-wide information regarding Sino-British research invites political attack from China hawks, warns study led by prime minister¡¯s brother

Departures of Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell has prompted academics to ask if they should reconsider links with the technology giant

Local and international collaboration will allow institutions to tackle the challenges of sustainable development, says Tawana Kupe

Top scientists say Canada must provide more fulfilling careers for its science graduates

Unlike Dutch universities, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research cannot pay a ransom to attackers because it is a public body

Beijing follows Shenzhen and other cities in seeking to attract laureates, but experts question whether initiative will have trickle-down effect on basic science

Researchers at Scottish university urged to avoid travel ¡®wherever possible¡¯ under new strategy designed to make institution carbon-free within a decade

Government encourages shift away from reliance on international student revenue, but expert questions whether this is possible

Authors of Leiden Manifesto and Hong Kong principles say plans to use grant income and citation scores to make redundancies is threat to responsible use of metrics around globe

Data from study pinpoints first years after childbirth as biggest hit to women¡¯s research productivity

Australian reviewer who proposed benchmarks before the crisis must now decide how and when to apply them

Until the pandemic forced teaching to go online almost overnight, universities were widely considered impervious to major change. But if one age-old practice can be flipped on its head, why not others? We ask six academics where they would direct their efforts first 

Evidence shows that universities outside the golden triangle are among the best at creating successful companies, says Brian McCaul

As Netflix¡¯s film on Sutton Hoo illustrates, collaboration between academic and commercial research enriches understanding of history, says Susan Greaney

mRNA pioneers, Oxford vaccine scientists and Bill Gates are potential contenders for science¡¯s top prize

Growth in collaboration and larger teams could mean that PIs and senior researchers reap citation rewards  

Katalin Karik¨®¡¯s struggle with mRNA gives universities mandate ¨C if they want ¨C to tackle persistent barriers

Major scholarly publishers warn that some titles will become unviable unless open access scheme changes tack on compliance

The ¡®feel¡¯ for a person that comes from encountering them in their home is difficult to replicate in depth online, says Graham Crow

With scientists forced to work from home, many now conduct experiments from a distance, and the continent¡¯s biggest research facilities think this change is here to stay

Percentage of papers with female authors rose markedly in latter part of 2020

¡®No-cost¡¯ administrative changes would save money and heartache, Australian researchers tell new minister

Researchers should campaign with the public to build back better, say Stephen Bradley, Jessica Butler and Chris Chambers

Executive chair says scholarship from non-medical subjects will be vital for post-pandemic society

Only losers focus on excellent science. Better to cook the books, spin the wheel and trust to cronies, say Robert de Vries and John Jerrim

Establishing clear performance goals can be crucial for the success of young researchers and research groups alike. Jack Grove speaks to laboratory leaders about taking a more enlightened approach to this task in difficult times

OECD finds science rose to the challenge of coronavirus, but this led to cancelled projects elsewhere and academics working outside their expertise

While arresting scientists, US slides on funding and misses commitment on rules consistency

Gang Chen, respected nanoengineering professor, faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted

Reassessing operations through an institutional mission lens will prove more palatable than business-driven decisions, says ex-Adelaide boss

Thousands of PhD dissertations by Durham University available on Kindle services following mass scraping of online repository