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Research England hopes transparency pilot could lead to more accountability but critics fear bureaucracy and government control

Research England to use REF pause to consider whether institutions must meet baseline performance measures as a condition of receiving funds

Vibrant academic communities in all parts of the UK will allow rising stars of humanities and social sciences to shine, says Alex Lewis

Many fear algorithms will displace academics but the technology is already eating itself and its long-term business model remains unclear, says Martin A. Mills. Here he explains why bots will not wipe out universities and why we must resist their damaging features for the good of students, society and AI itself

Excluding academia from the main discussions at recent national productivity summit is short-sighted and complacent, says Shamit Saggar

Omission of UCL, Manchester and the Francis Crick Institute from international talent scheme ‘looks just plain odd’, claims researcher

Setting UK’s main research funder clearly defined objectives can bolster the case for R&I investment, finds Public Accounts Committee

Without foreign research talent pouring into leading US institutions, America will fall further behind in tech race, says former US energy secretary Steven Chu

Boris Johnson-era messaging about ‘UK greatness’ in science annoys and alienates potential research partners, says report from major funder

Leading light of Cambridge biotech industry Greg Winter says country should seize ‘once in a lifetime’ chance to poach American scientists fleeing Trump cuts

New funding model an example of ‘top-down’ research planning that will harm scientists’ careers, fears Nobelist

Much-anticipated package for recruiting foreign researchers follows similar moves by France and the European Union to snap up US scientists

Success from social sciences and humanities scholars helps end slump in advanced grant winners

Calls for funders to launch ‘random draws’ and offer mentorship to promising applicants who fail to receive grants

The task of reading and rating the thousands of outputs submitted to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework is notoriously Herculean. Could AI ease the burden – or would its use undermine the whole point of having REF panels? As Jisc consults on that question, four writers offer their views

Pilot exercise will gather information on how quality-related funding is used to address EDI, according to new action plan

Spending money on ‘hugely expensive Americans’ not a good use of limited resources when talent development structures at risk, warns report author

Even extreme interest in Covid-19 science was not enough to overcome citation loss associated with switching to a different research track, say US economists

Science department will publish specific objectives with ‘corresponding key performance indicators’ for the £9.6 billion research funder this summer, reveals NAO report

Leading research institutions endorse experimental non-profit journal as it loses its impact factor

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen steps up efforts to attract American academics while taking aim at Trump’s ‘miscalculation’ of failing to support research

After the furore of Oxford’s election, no obvious frontrunner has emerged to take the high-profile role at Cambridge. Some say the institution needs a politically engaged figurehead, others want someone who can sort out internal fractures

With US academia under siege from the Trump administration, universities elsewhere are contemplating offering ‘asylum’ to disaffected researchers. Here, four former US academics now established abroad reflect on the potential culture shock that awaits US émigrés

Recently published jobs data shows difficulties of securing Oxbridge role, plus characteristics of those most likely to be successful

Total of £8.8 billion given to UK’s main research funder a real-terms cut but likely to be viewed favourably amid Whitehall spending reductions

New consortium will seek to ‘supercharge’ efforts to address lack of black researchers in UK academia

UK research funders and philanthropists must step up efforts to incentivise disaffected academics to cross Atlantic, says Venki Ramakrishnan

Eminent scientists express dismay after UK science academy reportedly confirms Tesla mogul will not by investigated

Digital fashion founder will head up £1.1 billion innovation funding agency after a year-long search for new executive chair

Board minutes show research council leaders assessing options including ‘NHS Catapult’ as they seek to meet government priorities

Subscribing to nearly everything published by journals is no longer feasible in these financially straitened times but librarians can provide creative workarounds to ensure journal access, says Liam Bullingham

Lack of transparency over how excellence-based allocations are spent makes them vulnerable as Russell Group makes case for flexible research funding

Provocative paper claims boycott of feminist title left early career scholars high and dry while others profited from ‘moral entrepreneurship’

Plagiarism accusations that led to the downfall of black US academics and politicians have sparked criticisms of ‘sloppy’ writing practices. But these controversies actually reveal how academics are struggling with the many writing technologies now essential to their jobs, argues Genevieve Creedon

With its focus on breakthrough research and innovation, Manuel Heitor’s plan for European research should be commended, says Jan Palmowski

Few physical sciences researchers are sharing their results in a way that can be easily used by other scholars, analysis finds

Forcing UKRI-backed researchers to publish their papers as preprints would save £40 million annually and ‘accelerate scientific progress’, says thinktank

Rethink on Research Excellence Framework’s demand that submitted monographs should be freely available follows fierce condemnation of a policy described as ‘unaffordable’ and ‘excessively bureaucratic’

Fed up with a lowly position on the author list? If so, getting creative with surnames could be the solution, a study suggests

Ever-expanding numbers of doctoral students may suit universities, but one’s twenties should be a time for broad learning and professional development, not for burying oneself in detailed research, says Lincoln Allison

Having brokered some of the world’s biggest pacts on global warming, MIT climate scientist Susan Solomon tells Matthew Reisz why she is optimistic that environmental damage can be reversed

Scale of research precarity at top UK university and its effect on staff laid out in new report

Poll finds most researchers are using AI but only a tiny number trust technology companies on data privacy

India’s surge in patent applications and awards resembles China’s pathway towards becoming a knowledge economy, says Pushkar

University of Miami president Julio Frenk explains how his institution is reaping rewards from the tech and finance influx to south Florida

The redundancies and course closures proposed at many struggling UK universities follow a decades-long drift away from the idea of higher education institutions as charities whose non-commercial public benefit needs to be supported by profit-making activity, argues Martin Mills

Debate risks legitimising dehumanising ideologies, but rebutting such views is how progress has always been made, says Eric Heinze

Scholarly inquiry is already improving UK society, but its full impact won't be felt until researchers better engage with policymakers, says Rita Gardner

The weaponisation of plagiarism allegations to remove Harvard’s president is no cause for celebration, says research fraudbuster David Sanders

Leading cell biologist says outstanding young researchers are missing out on funding as panellists are focusing excessively on open science contributions

Researchers will work with faculty co-led by Sir Tony Blair at huge new multidisciplinary institute funded by Oracle software magnate Larry Ellison

Nobel-winning scientists are now using large language models, but experts say their impact on research is only just starting

Barack Obama’s favourite political thinker Yascha Mounk has made his career attacking right-wing populism. His latest target – identity politics fostered on US campuses – will surprise many of his acolytes, he tells Matthew Reisz

Cedars poll highlights toxic working environments in British universities that REF’s focus on research culture aims to tackle

Affordable AI-powered writing software offers some hope to scholars unfairly criticised for their imperfect English, but more radical change is required, says Natalia Kucirkova

If Stanford’s now-departed president had fully faced up to dubious practices in his lab and insisted on corrections, his infractions of research integrity could have been forgiven, says David Sanders

At the heart of the debate about the global competitiveness of EU-funded research is the question of whether science should be a tool for industrial policy or a global power for good, says Jan Palmowski

Independent centre should be empowered to follow up high-profile findings and promote good practice, says Social Market Foundation report

Studying flocks of starlings helped Giorgio Parisi crack some of physics’ deepest mysteries. The Nobelist talks to Matthew Reisz about his unconventional methods, missed eureka moments and being Italy’s most in-demand scientist

Universities could be marked down on research culture if a handful of researchers dominate submissions, says research assessment officials