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NIH Plans to Cap Publisher Fees, Dilute ‘Scientific Elite’
Director of the National Institutes of Health says that capping research journals’ open-access fees will help rein in the $19 billion academic publishing industry and bolster scientific debate.
Europe Must Do More to Protect Data Under Trump, ERC Head Says
Disappearance of U.S.-hosted data should be “wake-up call” for scientific community, conference hears.
Nobelist: U.S. Scientists Took Support ‘For Granted’ Before Trump Cuts
Frances Arnold, who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry, says U.S. science is “paying the price” for not explaining the benefits of research funding for “far too long.”
Researchers ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ NIH Will Restore Grants
A judge ruled last week that the NIH unlawfully terminated hundreds of research grants and ordered the agency to restore them. Internal rumblings suggest the NIH will comply, but researchers have yet to get their money.
Trump Admin. Cuts NIH’s Springer Nature Subscriptions
Writing Advice for Interesting Times
Here are five techniques for refocusing your mind and getting motivated to write this summer, K. Anne Amienne and Daniela Blei write.
Preserving the Federal Data Trump Is Trying to Purge
For months, the research community has been racing to download and store thousands of demographic data sets the government wants to delete because they don’t align with the Trump administration’s ideological views.
Please Plagiarize My Work
In an AI era, a preoccupation with issues of credit and citation limits the reach of our research, Kevin Frazier writes.