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Europe “needs to do more” to protect scientific data threatened by the Trump administration, the president of the European Research Council has said. Speaking at the Metascience 2025 conference in ...

An experimental peer-review system more than halves the time taken to review grant applications, according to results from a small trial. The system could help research funders to process more quickly ...

Benjamin Steyn is the co-head of the UK Metascience Unit, a joint team spanning the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and UK Research and Innovation. Novelty is often espoused as a ...

The XXIX Brazilian Congress of Nutrology – CBN 2025 (link: https://abran.org.br/cbn2025/) promises to be a milestone in the health sector, being the main event ...

John Ioannidis, the leader of the metascience discipline that researches the causes of the scientific irreproducibility crisis, recently has been the subject of a series of attacks from one Jonathan ...

Sanford School professor David Hoffman and Fuqua professor Ronnie Chatterji will lead the initiative called Deep Tech at Duke Read more about Duke’s efforts to promote responsible use of artificial ...

The UK government’s metascience unit, launched last year, released its first results on June 30. The findings include a successful trial of so-called distributed peer review. Distributed peer review ...

The laugh-out-loud workplace comedy “30 Rock” (2006–2013) averaged more than seven jokes per minute, using the gamut of gags to get guffaws. Beyond a spectacular cast (Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy ...