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More than 1,100 research leaders from 77 countries told Nature about where and how they recruit scientists — and who makes the cut. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Large-scale evaluation permeates the UK university system, but some countries are rejecting harsh judgements and emphasizing strategic development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Efforts to join the global ecosystem depend on greater diversity and a more open culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In an age of geopolitical tensions, researchers need to be realistic and think beyond fundamental science to chart a safe path for collaboration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One UK institute has produced a dozen Nobel laureates and biomedical breakthroughs across the board. How does Cambridge’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology do it? Our study found out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Artificial intelligence could help speedily summarize research. But it comes with risks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Will a growth in postdoctoral positions across Africa cause bottlenecks, replicating the career-progression challenges faced by scientists elsewhere? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How universities, respected for their position at the apex of learning, employ competency frameworks in order to increase learning impacts is acknowledged by the authors as a researchable problem. The respective natures of universities and professional work, the latter, which is often intensely integral to universities, means that universities have to take on board managerial as well philosophical means of learning. This article explores how staff at six universities employ a Professional Competency Framework for Research Management and Administration (PCF-RMA) to bring about organizational learning. Participants provide qualitative data which are condensed into six narrated cases to show how a PCF-RMA, created through action research, enters into the university systems and translates into individual and organizational systems thinking towards applied outcomes. Using the theoretical lenses of Senge's five disciplines and core competencies for competitive advantage, we argue that systems thinking is not essentially about the system as an abstracted entity, but about sensitized individuals who actively 'think through' using the PCF-RMA to improve their own work and career prospects, while also improving the work of the research support offices for university research purposes. In short, systems and funding impacts. As such, the PCF-RMA, while initially carried through individuals, has a systems opportunity to change not only individuals but also set up a trajectory for generative holistic changes as articulated within organizational learning theories. The study recommends future research to employ a diverse and broadened scope in the domains of theory, context, and methodology. Aside from prompting ongoing research, this study offers an opportunity to demonstrate increased research impact, an area which stakeholders of research, including the funders, increasingly emphasize. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Management and organization researchers are being called to conduct research that is more caring, yet the concept of care and how to practice it within the profession is undertheorized. Adopting a feminist epistemology and methodology, we develop the concept of care by weaving the personal, ethical, and political into the research process. First, we reflect critically on how aspects of care—attentiveness, responsibility, competence, and responsiveness (Tronto, Moral boundaries: a political argument for an ethic of care, Routledge, 1993; Tronto, Caring democracy: markets, equality, and justice, New York University Press, 2013)—unfolded in our personal research experiences, and secondly, we conduct a review of articles published in management and organization studies and analyse expressed or concealed conceptions of care in scholars' accounts of research purpose and ethics. We find three ethical sensibilities at the heart of enacting care: encountering the 'other', interpreting roles and responsibilities, and deliberating needs and resources. We contribute to a feminist research ethics by highlighting issues related to care that are concealed in dominant ethos guiding management and organization research. Further, we develop methodological insights for implementing an ethic of care as an alternative ethical standpoint in business research ethics. Finally, we provide suggestions for how to embed more care within research ethics practices in academic institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A collective of researchers in South Korea, working on the genetics of immune diseases, share the lessons they’ve learnt about harnessing regional knowledge to support large-scale research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researchers have tried a bunch of strategies to get more negative results into the literature. Nature asks whether they are working. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

National statistics systems should recognize the researchers whose ideas drive artificial-intelligence applications, not just machines and factory outputs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the exponential increase of interdisciplinary research, identifying accurate disciplines of scientific documents has become increasingly important in various research management tasks. Interdisciplinary classification, which classifies documents into multiple disciplines, is essential for multidisciplinary research development. Due to the scarcity of labeled multidiscipline data, existing scientific document classification methods can't solve the interdisciplinary issue. Most of them also have the problem of explainability with curtly providing classification results. This study proposes an explainable transfer-learning-based classification method for interdisciplinary documents. First, we trained a single-discipline classification model using existing labeled single-discipline documents. Then, we transfer the knowledge learned from single-discipline classification to interdisciplinary classification to address the scarcity of labeled interdisciplinary data. We also added discipline co-occurrence information into our proposed model. Finally, we obtained our final model by training the transferred model with interdisciplinary data. In addition, keyword-based explanations for classifying texts are provided by employing layer-wise relevance propagation. Experiments on real-life NSFC data show the effectiveness of the proposed method, which can promote interdisciplinary development by constructing an efficient and fair classification for interdisciplinary review systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recruitment challenges and limited resources are among the challenges faced by scientists who live and work off the beaten track. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Five clinicians describe how their research is contributing to the United Nations goal to boost good health and well-being in children, and the challenges ahead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At small or minority-serving institutions, time and resources that are needed to draft successful grant proposals are often in short supply. But help is available. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Neuroscientists have reconstructed the first complete wiring map of the fruit-fly brain, including 140,000 neurons and more than 50 million connections. This resource has already begun to revolutionize the field.A connectomic map of the entire fly brain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several organizations are vying for the contract to manage Fermilab, after it received failing grades from the US Department of Energy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many researchers support open science, but how can they translate this view into behaviours to boost sharing? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Three researchers who went out on a limb to bridge a gap in their field talk to Nature about how and why they went about designing their own, unique devices — and the challenges involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies to tackle air quality in Delhi and solve the mystery of an emerging pathogen are among those helping to raise the profile of Indian science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Successes in life sciences and international collaboration could be key to boosting the country’s high-quality output. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

But collaborations are still hampered by bureaucracy and underfunding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An array of spreadsheets, courses and online resources are available to support principal investigators leading their first research groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The group behind Plan S has already accelerated the open-access movement. Now it is proposing a more radical revolution for science publishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In some areas of social science, around half of studies can’t be replicated. A new test-fast, fail-fast initiative aims to show what research is hot — and what’s not. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Confused about promotion opportunities after moving to industry? Here are some pointers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cost-of-living pressures, a dismal job market and stagnant US federal budgets are leaving lab leaders scrambling to balance the books. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An overview of the country’s research landscape highlights the strengths and weaknesses of a nation that has invested heavily in science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ERROR project offers researchers a bounty for spotting mistakes in published papers — a strategy borrowed from the software industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some products are perfectly fine to use after their expiration date — if quality-control tests check out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hackers are targeting universities and research institutes with ransomware, leaving staff and students without the ability to work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Three scientist mothers call for a change in how conference childcare costs are reimbursed, drawing on their personal experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Uncertainty is a core tenet of science — researchers should be supported so they can communicate it with confidence to the public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Fieldwork can be deadly: heads of expeditions must be taught how to cope in a crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Letter to the Editor [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Letter to the Editor [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many scientists credit teenage jobs and university or summer side roles for imparting important transferable skills and valuable life experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researchers and policymakers often exist in different worlds and speak different languages. Here are three ways to bridge the divide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Struggling to get a good night's rest after a long day in the lab? Sleep specialists offer some advice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Workshops and training programmes tackle failure and how to recover from it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From firearm suicide and homicide to unintended harm, a public-health approach can establish the knowledge and know-how needed to reduce suffering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Funders and publishers are increasingly asking researchers to account for the role of sex in experiments — a requirement that’s contentious and hard to get right. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some scientists think the decision regarding EcoHealth Alliance is fair; others say it might negatively affect virus surveillance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]