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A Nature editorial argues that Europe and other regions need to formulate a coordinated response to changes in US science strategy. The piece does not detail specific US policy actions but frames the issue as an urgent strategic gap for global research funding and collaboration.
A research team has developed a methodology to compare how countries fund and organize scientific research, drawing on data from 25 nations through a project called the China Fundamental Research Report. The approach goes beyond standard output metrics like publications and patents, aiming to capture harder-to-measure factors such as how funding structures affect researchers' careers over time.
Vita is a new English-language, open-access biology journal jointly funded by China's Higher Education Press and Westlake University, with its first print issue released in July. It waives article-processing charges for authors and is fully Chinese-owned and Chinese-published, unlike many past China-based journals that partnered with international publishers.
A university president outlines six principles meant to help institutions resist political pressure on research funding, peer review and academic autonomy, citing examples from the United States and Hungary. The piece traces how funding cuts, shifting grant priorities and legal campaigns against institutions like Central European University have already eroded independent scholarship in some countries.
Stefano Cataldi, a neuroscientist at Columbia University studying serotonin's role in cognition, is weighing whether to leave bench research entirely to focus on science policy work. He is a delegate for the United Auto Workers union representing postdocs and research scientists, and last year he founded SCOPE, a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory-backed program that teaches scientists about policy, communication and career resources.