The landscape of grant funding in North America has recently, rapidly, evolved, leading to a sense of nervousness and even pessimism within academia. However, remarkable technological advancements emerging from foundations and companies are counteracting this trend and fostering a renewed sense of optimism.  In the last week, we have seen

AI agents have the potential to revolutionise how researchers approach complex problems and manage information in academic research. These intelligent systems can automate tasks, analyse vast datasets, and even generate hypotheses, significantly accelerating the pace of discovery and innovation. AI agents can be categorised into different types, based on their

A Preprint was published on Preprints.org at the end of November by SciHub founder Alexandra Elbakyan. From Black Open Access to Open Access of Color: Accepting the Diversity of Approaches towards Free Science - [v2][v2] It describes an interesting idea—using more OA colors to replace illegal OA,

ResearchHub is a platform for open science that has been building an impressive tech stack since 2020, where users can review, publish, and collaborate on scientific research. The primary novelty that seems to interest and terrify researchers in equal measure is the fact that it is a crypto based project,

Policy Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information More than 40 organisations have committed to being more transparent about how they share information about their research processes and outputs. The Barcelona Declaration, released April 16, calls for open research information—or metadata—to be the norm. Signatories include funders and higher