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BMJ editor in chief raises alarm over drug trial research funded and often controlled by manufacturers themselves

Thailand’s institutions want to develop joint degrees with the UK, but hurdles remain in visa red tape and political instability

Drug company hopes to provide a new home for studies that try to replicate previous experimental results

A focus on basic cell biology and statistical population health studies means that understanding how living systems operate has been neglected, they claim

Subra Suresh fears that business short-termism, increasing research costs and worries over cybersecurity are undermining the incentives to invest

Dave Sayers shares his tips on how to boost productivity

Analysis suggests higher selectivity fails to increase journals’ impact factors

Center for Open Science hopes initiative will make results more reproducible

Committee of MPs hears that effort to conduct vaccine and treatment trials during outbreak in West Africa was ‘uncoordinated’

Warning comes after stories about Coca-Cola’s spending on science hit the headlines last year

Authors argue this means universities should spend less on senior academics and give promising younger scholars more of a chance

After a man dies following a clinical trial in France, Christopher Roy-Toole asks whether lessons were learned after a similar incident in the UK

Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative billed as a ‘grassroots’ response to concerns over reproducibility

Analysis of seven prominent medical journals finds randomised controlled trials are far less likely to receive a press release than weaker observational studies

Despite mission statements proclaiming importance of ‘third stream’ activity, scholars do not see it as a priority

Plos Biology launches new section looking at how experiments are run and incentive systems for scientists

First analysis of its kind says modern institutions have suffered from creation of research consortia

Narrow science base could hurt ability to meet new challenges, report says

Chair of review into research excellence framework also defends decision to have steering committee dominated by Russell Group

Baron Stern of Brentford has previously raised concerns that the research excellence framework forces academics to focus too much on publishing articles

Senior figures in UK science fear that culture leading to research misconduct has not been changed

New publishing model aims to make research accessible to all without charging authors

A qualified welcome for George Osborne’s real-terms protection of research, but uncertainty over how new overseas aid spending will operate

Survey also finds that women do more work with the general public than male researchers

Unexpected creation of a ‘Global Challenges Research Fund’ means that if they want more money, academics may have to contribute to international development

However, there is confusion over the final value of the settlement, which may include 'tucking in' of Global Challenges fund

New ministerial committee could wield power over research agenda, but support expressed for new pot of interdisciplinary funding

Commitment not to merge the research councils appears to contradict plans for a bonfire of the quangos in BIS

Analysis of top-ranked groups also finds they have ‘accountable autonomy’ from the university

Green Paper recommends use of metrics, despite July report’s reservations

Science and Technology Committee raises fears that resource spending has not kept up with new infrastructure

Author of new book The Cunning of Uncertainty fears pressure for scientific certainty is leading researchers to make promises they cannot deliver

Iain Foulkes on how scientists can win part of huge grant to push forward the frontiers of cancer research

The measure of scholarly impact is now being manipulated so much that it has ceased to be meaningful, editorial claims

Universities of Birmingham, Glasgow and York enter top 10 after £120 million grant for quantum technology

Success rates fall at five out of six councils amid warnings that the process could become ‘more of a lottery’ as reviewers are stretched

A new paper finds that more than half of economic studies are unreproducible. But there could be even deeper issues with the discipline, says David Matthews

Cases underscore concerns about use of younger researchers’ work by senior colleagues without permission

Fears that discipline is particularly susceptible to statistical ‘hacking’ of data to gain a positive result

Director Jeremy Farrar argues that current research culture damages scientists’ ability ‘to dream’

Vast majority find position in STEM-related careers, although fewer stay in research over the longer term

Public scrutiny may force up quality of peer review, suggests study

Women with partners who have full-time jobs find it more difficult to get over ‘glass fence’ and move abroad, study suggests

Reports question whether scientists are removing sources of bias in experiments involving animals

Sheer number of online profiles to be filled out a ‘disservice’ to scholars, Amsterdam conference hears

In advance of a conference on ‘education without borders’, Anthony Redmond considers the ethical issues around sending medical students on elective courses in low-income countries

Articles that are free to view are also more frequently shared on Facebook, new research finds

Despite the ironic slips, article sheds light on how journals can tackle flawed science

Money to be set aside for ‘blue skies’ fundamental research

Scientists from Japan, China and Ireland awarded for their work tackling parasitic diseases

Paper claims that medical impact case studies focused on policy impact, not improvement in patient mortality or quality of life

Majority of academics publishing in journals with lax peer review are from Asia, study concludes

Nobel prizewinner makes comments in run-up to November spending review

Inspired by previous movement in 1960s, PhD students say that ‘science is not neutral’ and urge scientists to confront their assumptions

Peer review system ‘lacks capacity’ to deal with ‘flood’ of new papers, meaning some could be unjustly dismissed

It seems unlikely that charity donors will want to pay for university research overheads – but someone will have to eventually

Charities blame widening gap between their grants and full costs of research 

Australian advocates of alternative treatments lobby Canberra for more state funding for research

Physicist warns that the UK’s high scientific output is based on investment made ‘decades’ ago

Just one in 10 researchers has completed an internship away from the academy, a new survey says