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Liberal Arts and Sciences After Bologna: What's Next?
Liberal Arts and Sciences After Bologna: What's Next?
Times have changed, and the conditions that fostered the rise of liberal arts and sciences programs after the start of the Bologna reforms no longer obtain. This raises the question of how the liberal arts and sciences movement will continue in the near future. Can it still have any relevance in a changing context?
NIH advisers seek tighter oversight of risky pathogen experiments
Biosecurity advisers to the federal government are calling for tighter scrutiny of experiments with potentially dangerous viruses and other pathogens, reflecting an ongoing debate within the scientific community over the benefits and risks of such laboratory research.
Role of Scientific Advice in Covid-19 Policy
This article discusses why scientific advice must be separate from government decisions and evaluate the autonomy and transparency of the UK's system.
There's a Simple Fix for Skewed Pandemic Estimates
Demographers must work together so that officials can produce numbers all can trust.
How Social Media Influences Public Attitudes to COVID-19 Governance Policy
How Social Media Influences Public Attitudes to COVID-19 Governance Policy
Examining how social media affects the public cognitive and affective factors further influences their attitudes towards COVID-19 governance policy.
Will Anti-Vaccine Activism in the USA Reverse Global Goals?
In the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-vaccine activism in the USA accelerated, forming an alliance with political groups and even extremists. An organized, well-funded anti-science movement now threatens all childhood immunizations.
COVID-19 Tracking Experts: Better Data Needed to Defeat Misinformation
Scientists can reclaim public standing with better communication.
Who to Vaccinate First? A Peek at Decision-Making in a Pandemic
Faced with the challenge of advising the World Health Organization on who should be the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines, an advisory group used an approach it hadn't tried before.
A Call for Citizen Science in Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Beyond Data Collection
A Call for Citizen Science in Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Beyond Data Collection
The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the need to partner with the community in pandemic preparedness and response in order to enable trust-building among stakeholders, which is key in pandemic management.
How Common is Long COVID? Why Studies Give Different Answers
Enormous databases do not necessarily allow scientists to solve long COVID mysteries, such as how well vaccination protects against the condition.
Muting Science: Input Overload Versus Scientific Advice in Swiss Policy Making During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Muting Science: Input Overload Versus Scientific Advice in Swiss Policy Making During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article explores why the Swiss Federal Council and the Swiss Federal Parliament were reluctant to follow the majority views of the scientific epidemiological community at the beginning of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Pfizer to Offer All Its Drugs Not-for-profit to 45 Lower-income Countries
Pfizer to Offer All Its Drugs Not-for-profit to 45 Lower-income Countries
Firm launches 'healthier world' accord in Davos and speaks to other drugmakers about similar steps
Are COVID Surges Becoming More Predictable? New Omicron Variants Offer a Hint
Omicron relatives called BA.4 and BA.5 are behind a fresh wave of COVID-19 in South Africa, and could be signs of a more predictable future for SARS-CoV-2.
Half of Covid-Hospitalised Still Symptomatic Two Years On, Study Finds
Research on Wuhan patients reveals effects of long Covid, with 11% still not having returned to work.
Dismantling the Ivory Tower's Knowledge Boundaries
How has the pandemic changed public access to journal articles?
The Pandemic Revolutionized Disease Surveillance. Now What?
The Pandemic Revolutionized Disease Surveillance. Now What?
Covid forced the world to develop some of the best epidemiological surveys ever done. Now they're being cut back, even as the threat of the virus lingers.
One-Way Masking Works
If you're vaccinated, boosted, and wearing an N95, you're protected-no matter what others are doing.
Global Vaccination Must Be Swifter
Speeding up development of new vaccines won't help much in the next pandemic, unless world leaders work faster to roll out vaccination globally.
Long Covid Could Create a Generation Affected by Disability, Expert Warns
Prof Danny Altmann, immunologist at Imperial College London, says UK's approach fails to take the impact of infections seriously
This is No Time to Stop Tracking COVID-19
To live with the coronavirus, we cannot be blind to its movements.
WHO Blames Rising Covid Cases in Europe on Curbs Lifted Too Soon
Regional director says several countries lifted restrictions 'brutally'
Meta-Research: Individual-level Researcher Data Confirm the Widening Gender Gap in Publishing Rates During COVID-19
Meta-Research: Individual-level Researcher Data Confirm the Widening Gender Gap in Publishing Rates During COVID-19
Publications are essential for a successful academic career, and there is evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified existing gender disparities in the publishing process. This study demonstrates the importance of reinforcing institutional commitments to diversity through policies that support the inclusion and retention of women in research.
The Limits of "Following the Science"
Two years into the pandemic, the idea of "following the science" has oversimplified what's actually a complex array of factors that policymakers must weigh in formulating a response. Many other factors play into making pandemic policy.
