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Money always seems tight for university scientists. A sociologist conducted hundreds of interviews to see how they think about funding sources and profit motives for basic and applied research.
When high income researchers take their unethical methods abroad it’s the poor who suffer.
Africa has recorded a tremendous growth in its output of academic engineering research over the past 20 years. Greater collaboration can increase this growth even more.
Science isn’t cold, hard facts uncovered by emotionless robots. Acknowledging how and where values play a role promotes a more realistic view and can advance science’s reputation for reliability.
South Africa’s National Research Foundation will dramatically scale back “incentive” funding to rated researchers, both those who already have a rating and those who will be rated in the future.
Surveying the bottom of the ocean turns out to be far from easy. But there was something wonderful about seeing animals we have only read about in old books.
The research community tends to assume advocacy doesn’t mix with objectivity. One study suggests there’s room for scientists to make real-world recommendations without compromising their trusted status.
Our need for unbiased, well-researched information has never been greater.
Academics worldwide are calling for the US president to reconsider the executive order on immigration, which many say is damaging to research collaboration.
Promises made by researchers to participants to elicit the truth may not be worth the paper their written on if the courts can bulldoze though them.
There is mounting evidence to show scientists and researchers why public engagement is worth their while.
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Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria
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Senior Curator of Marine Invertebrates, Museums Victoria Research Institute
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Tshwane University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Higher Education, Georgia State University
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Director of Centre for Professional Ethics, University of Lancashire
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Vice-Chancellor, Deakin University
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Professor in Lyman Briggs College, Fisheries & Wildlife, and Philosophy, Michigan State University
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Président, European Research Council
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Universities Australia
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Science Communication Researcher, Stellenbosch University
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Vice-Chancellor, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in Bioethics, Australian National University
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Marie-Curie Research Fellow, Institut Català de Recerca de l'Aigua (ICRA)
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President and Vice-Chancellor, UNSW
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Professor and Vice-Chancellor, Edith Cowan University